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Books
Science
Philosophy
26
Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & H...
35 min
27
Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife...
61 min
28
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value...
An interview with Joshua Duclos
64 min
29
Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic ...
49 min
30
Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Pre...
61 min
31
Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal H...
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles...
56 min
32
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...
98 min
33
Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion...
37 min
34
Graeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Her...
54 min
35
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
25 min
36
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for Mor...
61 min
37
Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural Histor...
45 min
38
Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Pre...
61 min
39
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota P...
An interview with Ron Broglio
46 min
40
Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Sc...
56 min
41
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Yoga and Animal Ethics" (Pa...
40 min
42
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
29 min
43
Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural Hist...
44 min
44
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Ta...
Why do Americans eat so much beef?
27 min
45
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans an...
Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...
41 min
46
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Mach...
An interview with Paul Thagard
57 min
47
Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoo...
85 min
48
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: ...
43 min
49
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishi...
An interview with Emma Marris
50 min
50
Julia Brock, "Closed Seasons: The Transformatio...
47 min