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Books
Science
Philosophy
1
Yossi Yovel, "The Genius Bat: The Secret Life o...
60 min
2
Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & H...
35 min
3
Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife...
61 min
4
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value...
An interview with Joshua Duclos
64 min
5
Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic ...
49 min
6
Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Pre...
61 min
7
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
8
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
9
Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion...
37 min
10
Graeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Her...
54 min
11
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
25 min
12
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for Mor...
61 min
13
Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural Histor...
45 min
14
Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Pre...
61 min
15
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota P...
An interview with Ron Broglio
46 min
16
Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Sc...
56 min
17
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Yoga and Animal Ethics" (Pa...
40 min
18
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
29 min
19
Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural Hist...
44 min
20
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Ta...
Why do Americans eat so much beef?
27 min
21
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans an...
Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...
41 min
22
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Mach...
An interview with Paul Thagard
57 min
23
Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoo...
85 min
24
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: ...
43 min
25
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishi...
An interview with Emma Marris
50 min