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  • Thing

    Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

    par Sam Machado, Steven M. Wise, Cynthia Machado ...
    Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices and has a sense of self-recognition. But like all nonhuman animals, Happy is considered a thing in the eye of the law, with no fundamental rights. ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Animal Ethics and Animal Law

    par A. W. H. Bates, Mariah Rayfield Beck, Alice Collinson, Danielle Duffield, David Favre, Angela Fernandez, Robyn Hederman, Lena Hehemann, Stephanie O’Flynn, Maureen O’Sullivan, Solana Joy Phillips, Frances M.C. Robinson, Rebecca Stanton, Kenneth Valpey, Matthew J. Webber, Ruaidhrí D. Wilson, Steven M. Wise, Oliver Langworthy, Randall Lockwood ...
    Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre’s directors, Andrew Linzey and ... En savoir plus

    $47.49 CAD

  • Rattling The Cage

    Toward Legal Rights For Animals

    par Steven M. Wise ...
    The scholar and author of An American Trilogy makes the case to establish legal rights for chimpanzees and bonobos.Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

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  • The Social Conquest of Earth

    par Edward O. Wilson ...
    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Red Queen

    Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    par Matt Ridley ...
    “A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has ... ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    par Frans de Waal ...
    In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Age of Empathy

    Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

    par Frans de Waal ...
    In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival and interests?By studying social behaviors in animals, such as bonding, the herd instinct, the forming ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

    par Stephen Jay Gould ...
    The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so ... En savoir plus

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  • The Moral Lives of Animals

    par Dale Peterson ...
    Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try toprotect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed torescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save anunrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.Theexamples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Science of Good and Evil

    Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

    par Michael Shermer ...
    From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore)A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David DeGrazia ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights ... En savoir plus

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  • Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language

    par Robin Dunbar ...
    Did mankind evolve unusually large brains simply in order to gossip? Primates differ from other animals by the intensity of their social relationships, by the amount of time they spend grooming one another. Not just a matter of hygiene, grooming is all about cementing bonds, making friends and influencing your fellow ape. Early humans, in their characteristic large groups of 150 or so, would have ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD