New Books in Animal Studies
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M. Chaiklin and P. Gooding, "Animal Trade Histo...
An interview with Martha Chaiklin and Philip Gooding
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Louise M. Pryke, "Turtle" (Reaction Books, 2020)
Pryke celebrates the slow and unassuming manner of this doughty creature...
43 min
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Colleen Plumb, "Thirty Times a Minute" (Radius ...
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing...
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Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Livel...
Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade....
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Jim Mason, "An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Ou...
Why are we destroying the planet?
85 min
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Marisa Anne Bass, "Insect Artifice: Nature and ...
At the book’s center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600)...
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Katja M. Guenther, "The Lives and Deaths of She...
Guenther takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters....
81 min
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Filling the Gaps in Animal Ethics: What Has Bee...
An interview with Judith Benz-Schwarzburg
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M. Bekoff and J. Pierce, "The Animals' Agenda: ...
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf.
62 min
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I. Newkirk and G. Stone, "Animalkind: Remarkabl...
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them....
46 min
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Gregory Forth, "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a ...
Based on extensive field research, the book explores the meaning and use of over 500 animal metaphors employed by the Nage...
55 min
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Ernest Freeberg, "A Traitor to His Species: Hen...
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...
59 min
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Morality in Nature: What Honeybees and Flowers ...
An interview with Christopher Ketcham
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Frans de Waal, "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotion...
de Waal offers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals,,.
56 min
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Carl Safina, "Becoming Wild: How Animal Culture...
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human accomplishment. What are those people afraid of?
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Jessica Pierce, "Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of ...
A life shared with pets brings many emotions....
70 min
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Rachel Mundy, "Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beas...
What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?
81 min
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Justice to Man’s Best Friend: The Ethics of Com...
An interview with Candace C. Croney
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Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The ...
Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?
60 min
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Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans an...
Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...
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Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Ta...
Why do Americans eat so much beef?
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Mark Alizart, "Dogs" (Polity, 2019)
Alizart offers us a surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker―a thinker who may perhaps know the true secret of our humanity...
44 min
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Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Anima...
Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...
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Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat,...
Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...
62 min
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T. J. Kasperbauer, "Subhuman: The Moral Psychol...
Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?
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