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  • The Corrida. The history of bullfighting from its origins to present day.

    by Viviana Ribezzo, Marta Ardesi ...
    History and folklore of Bullfight seen from the bull point of view, with a panoramic on movements, associations and political parties that fight for its abolition.Thousands of bulls, every year, in Spain, France, Portugal and Latin America, are tortured in name of an absurd and out-of-date show that cannot be defended because of art or culture. And yet, the “corrida” endures. For how long? ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Beyond Words

    What Animals Think and Feel

    by Carl Safina ...
    The New York Times BestsellerOrion Book Award WinnerLannan Literary Award Winner“Dr. Safina is a terrific writer, majestic and puckish in equal measure, with a contagious enthusiasm...Dr. Safina draws out haunting resonances between animal lives and our own... " —Gregory Cowles, The New York Times"I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they fe... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rights of Nature

    A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

    by David R. Boyd ...
    Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.“Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” — ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bärle's Story

    One Polar Bear's Amazing Recovery from Life as a Circus Act

    by Else Poulsen ...
    The award-winning zookeeper and author of Smiling Bears shares her account of rescuing and rehabilitating a bear held in a Caribbean circus.When a nineteen-year-old female polar bear named Barle is rescued from the inhumane conditions of a circus in the Caribbean and flown to safety in Detroit, zookeeper Else Poulsen—renowned throughout the world for her work rehabilitating abused bears—is on hand ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Chain on Billie

    How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top

    by Carol Bradley ...
    The "powerful and haunting" biography of a star circus elephant who rebelled against her handlers and finally found freedom (Jane Goodall).Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of Tennessee's Elephant Sanctuary, and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who survived a decade of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Mercy For Animals

    One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals

    by Nathan Runkle, Gene Stone ...
    A compelling look at animal welfare and factory farming in the United States from Mercy For Animals, the leading international force in preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies.Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nation’s leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Animal Rights Without Liberation

    Applied Ethics and Human Obligations

    by Alasdair Cochrane ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Lives of Animals

    by J. M. Coetzee ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Designing Teaching Strategies

    An Applied Behavior Analysis Systems Approach

    by R. Douglas Greer ...
    Series series Educational Psychology
    The US Dept. of Education, in conjunction with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, recently unveiled a $50 million effort to expand research on early childhood cognitive development. A key issue identified requiring more information and research was the education and professional development of educators. Along these lines, Doug Greer has prepared a book discussing how best to teach, how to ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Venomous Animals of The World : Third Grade Science Series

    Poisonous Animals Book for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Animal Encyclopedia For Children
    Stay clear from these animals! Your child will find this educational book extremely interesting. Within the pages are features of animals that contain venom, a powerful toxin that may cause death. Treat this as a more effective warning because children can actually see the animals in full-color, and learn about the danger they bring too. This is the perfect complement to the all-text books at ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Animals and Society

    An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

    by Margo DeMello ...
    Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human–animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of research, featuring a number of distinct positions, perspectives, and theories that require nuanced explanation and contextualization.The first ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Irish Donkey

    by Averil Swinfen, Bill Doyle ...
    The donkey is an integral part of the Irish landscape and tradition. This new, enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1969 traces the evolution of the species from its origins in Africa and central Asia to its arrival in Ireland in the early mediaeval period, and the multiple uses to which it was put in transport and agriculture. The life of the donkey is described with tender insight ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus