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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ; LNKG; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 108
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626183742
- ISBN
- 9781626183742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.48€ 137.74
€ 198.48
€ 137.74
Paperback. Presents an understanding of the relationship between the welfare of major food animal species and their physiology, and the direct impact this has on meat quality. This book focuses on the research and developments and also looks into welfare in aquaculture. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; KNDF; TDCT; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 176 x 16. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845932152
- ISBN
- 9781845932152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.51
€ 57.51
Paperback. A critical introduction to theoretical approaches to the animal in modern and contemporary philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC; JFFZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748682201
- ISBN
- 9780748682201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.47
€ 40.99
€ 35.47
Hardcover. Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering? Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230283916
- ISBN
- 9780230283916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFZ; JHMC; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 176 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199827039
- ISBN
- 9780199827039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.98
€ 71.98
Paperback. Focuses on the importance of China's investment booms and busts and their effects on the world economy. Num Pages: 243 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; KCB; KCL; KCM; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349296743
- ISBN
- 9781349296743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; TVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Open Gate Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900001437
- ISBN
- 9780900001437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.45
€ 12.45
Paperback. In 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226905143
- ISBN
- 9780226905143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.64
€ 35.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know(r) series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199739967
- ISBN
- 9780199739967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.96
€ 18.99
€ 17.96
Hardcover. In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219441
- ISBN
- 9780230219441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. Exploring the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it, and addressing ethical questions, this book offers perspectives on animal rights and welfare. It shows that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is fundamentally rethought. Editor(s): Sunstein, Cass R.; Nussbaum, Martha C. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195305104
- ISBN
- 9780195305104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.14
€ 49.14
Hardback. Animal rights sounds like a modern idea, but in fact - for over three millennia - philosophers, theologians, and political theorists have grappled with the question of our obligations toward animals. This anthology illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals. It includes writings of authors from ancient Greece onwards. Editor(s): Linzey, Andrew; Clarke, Paul Barry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134200
- ISBN
- 9780231134200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.36€ 80.05
€ 103.36
€ 80.05
Paperback. Animal rights sounds like a modern idea, but in fact - for over three millennia - philosophers, theologians, and political theorists have grappled with the question of our obligations toward animals. This anthology illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals. It includes writings of authors from ancient Greece onwards. Editor(s): Linzey, Andrew; Clarke, Paul Barry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134217
- ISBN
- 9780231134217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.39
€ 36.99
€ 27.39
Hardback. A look at the history of Western "civilization", and the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. David Nibert argues that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand-in-hand with the oppression of women, people of colour, and other oppressed groups. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517752
- ISBN
- 9780742517752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.61
€ 199.61
paperback. This book is both a careful academic study and a disturbing comment on how environmental activity may oppress a whole society, which raises serious questions about the motives and methods of the animal rights' movement in a much wider context than the case here studied. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Trade PB
- SKU
- V9780802068903
- ISBN
- 9780802068903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.50
€ 40.99
€ 36.50
Hardback. Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231158268
- ISBN
- 9780231158268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.58€ 85.37
€ 111.58
€ 85.37
Paperback. Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 364. Applied Ethics and Human Obligations. Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law. 256 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 12. Weight: 344.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231158275
- ISBN
- 9780231158275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardcover. This text offers critical surveys of the main themes in the history of animal rights and some of the more important contemporary positions together with readings of a wide range of literary texts from classical antiquity to the year 2001. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333745144
- ISBN
- 9780333745144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Hardcover. The authors use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim's sociology of morality Series: Protest and Social Movements. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0 black and white; 2 full color. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089647641
- ISBN
- 9789089647641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.36
€ 122.36
Paperback. In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219458
- ISBN
- 9780230219458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.54
€ 71.54
Paperback. Do animals have moral rights? If so what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand their welfare? After addressing these questions, DeGrazia explores their implications in contexts such as food consumption, zoos, and research. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 12 Halftones. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192853608
- ISBN
- 9780192853608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
paperback. Includes essays that address concerns at the intersection of pragmatist philosophy and animal welfare. This title covers such topics as moral consideration of animals, the ethics of animal experimentation, institutional animal care, environmental protection of animal habitat, farm animal welfare, animal communication, and animal morals. Editor(s): McKenna, Erin; Light, Andrew. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216939
- ISBN
- 9780253216939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.17
€ 24.99
€ 23.17
Paperback. Observations of animals playing, solving problems, and behaving fairly toward each other reveal a range of animal behaviors and show that the ethical treatment of animals is a significant issue. Series: Animals, Culture, & Society. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592133482
- ISBN
- 9781592133482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Hardback. Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151887
- ISBN
- 9780231151887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.36€ 79.32
€ 103.36
€ 79.32