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  • Animals and World Religions

    by Lisa Kemmerer ...
    Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive study, Lisa Kemmerer shows how spiritual writings and teachings in seven major religious traditions can help people to consider their ethical obligations toward other ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Animals and World Religions

    by Lisa Kemmerer ...
    Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive study, Lisa Kemmerer shows how spiritual writings and teachings in seven major religious traditions can help people to consider their ethical obligations toward other ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Oppressive Liberation

    Sexism in Animal Activism

    by Lisa Kemmerer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    While explicitly set against a backdrop of sexism in social justice activism more generally, this book exposes causes, pervasiveness, harms, and possible directions for change with regard to sexism and male privilege in the animal activist movement.Employing the work of previous scholars, Dr. Lisa Kemmerer exposes the commonplace nature and causes of sexism and male privilege in social justice ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Eating Earth

    Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

    by Lisa Kemmerer ...
    Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing, and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between earth and animal advocacy. The first chapter (animal agriculture) examines greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, manure and dead zones, freshwater depletion, deforestation, predator control, land and use--including the ranching industries public lands ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Speaking Up for Animals

    An Anthology of Women's Voices

    by Lisa Kemmerer ...
    Speaking Up for Animals highlights eighteen courageous members of a growing international animal advocacy movement that is overwhelmingly powered by women. These remarkable activists take us with them as they lift factory farmed chickens and cows from quagmires of filth, free gigantic sea lions caught in fishing gear and secure undercover footage of dogs crying for mercy on stainless steel ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Primate People

    Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

    Edited by Lisa Kemmerer ...
    In the last 30 years the bushmeat trade has led to the slaughter of nearly 90 percent of West Africa’s bonobos, perhaps our closest relatives, and has recently driven Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey to extinction. Earth was once rich with primates, but every species—except one—is now extinct or endangered because of one primate—Homo sapiens. How have our economic and cultural practices pushed ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Animals and the Environment

    Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground

    Edited by Lisa Kemmerer ...
    Contemporary Earth and animal activists rarely collaborate, perhaps because environmentalists focus on species and ecosystems, while animal advocates look to the individual, and neither seems to have much respect for the other. This diverse collection of essays highlights common ground between earth and animal advocates, most notably the protection of wildlife and personal dietary choice.If earth ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Metamorphoses of the Zoo

    Animal Encounter after Noah

    by Helena Pedersen, Natalie Dian, Matthew Chrulew, Jennifer Wlech, Ralph Acampora, Nicole Mazur, Koen Margodt, Lisa Kemmerer, Chilla Bulbeck, Leesa Fawcett, Traci Warkentin, David Lulka, Gay Bradshaw, Debra Durham, Randy Malamud, Bernard Rollin ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah is a volume dedicated to radically transformative approaches to spaces set aside as zoological parks or gardens. Historically, these establishments served as symbols of power and venues for entertainment, but today, they have taken to portraying themselves as flagships of environmental education, scientific research, and wildlife conservation. ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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    The Emotional World of Farm Animals

    by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ...
    Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even consciousness.Weaving history, literature, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them

    On the Importance of Animals

    by Anna Krien ...
    Series Book 45 - Quarterly Essay
    For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship with animals changed?In this dazzling essay, Anna Krien investigates the world we have made and the complexity of the choices we face. From pets to the live cattle trade, from apex predators to scientific experiments, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    Karen Armstrong explains how to practise the religion of compassion that her last books have preached.In November 2009 Armstrong and TED launched The Charter of Compassion, which states that "We call upon all men and women to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion...to cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings — even those regarded as enemies." To date ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    by Layla F. Saad ...
    The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too."Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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