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Books
Science
Philosophy
1
Beth A. Berkowitz, "What Animals Teach us About...
66 min
2
Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Ca...
55 min
3
Nancy Castaldo, "Squirrel: How a Backyard Forag...
38 min
4
Oren Harman, "Metamorphosis: A Natural and Huma...
35 min
5
Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Sc...
52 min
6
Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gend...
An interview with Sara Petrosillo
47 min
7
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: Wha...
An interview with Justin Gregg
27 min
8
Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, "Feminism in t...
67 min
9
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People an...
An interview with Marcy Norton
56 min
10
Danielle Alesi, "Eating Animals in the Early Mo...
40 min
11
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution ...
An interview with Kevin J. Mitchell
32 min
12
Yossi Yovel, "The Genius Bat: The Secret Life o...
60 min
13
Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & H...
35 min
14
Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife...
61 min
15
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value...
An interview with Joshua Duclos
64 min
16
Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic ...
49 min
17
Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Pre...
61 min
18
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
19
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
20
Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion...
37 min
21
Graeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Her...
54 min
22
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
25 min
23
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for Mor...
61 min
24
Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural Histor...
45 min
25
Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Pre...
61 min