Djur & samhälle

I maj 2011 tar två dussin Navy SEAL-soldater sig in i Usama bin Ladins hemliga bostad i Pakistan. Efter den dramatiska operationen var det endast ett namn som offentliggjordes: Cairo, en belgisk malinois och militär tjänstehund. Det här är berätte...

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How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant, di...

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Learn to improve your crochet techniques, working your way up from beginner projects through to more challenging later patterns. Each animal uses only basic stitches and there's step-by-step instructions that mean this is the perfect book to learn...

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" Rapport från ett slakteri är det mest angelägna, uppriktiga och intelligenta jag har läst på länge." Helsingborgs Dagblad Veterinären Lina Gustafsson börjar arbeta på ett slakteri. Hennes uppgift är att kontrollera att djuren är friska och att l...

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This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human-earth relationship. As a complement to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and non-human legal personhood, this book focuses on the other subj...

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DJURET Vid mitten av 1990-talet blev djurrättsrörelsen samhällets fiende nummer ett. Mjölkbilar brann, minkar släpptes ut, ungdomar köttvägrade och vuxenvärlden rasade. I mellanmjölkens land blev varje tallrik plötsligt ett ideologiskt slagfält. I...

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According to the latest figures, the number of vegans in the UK has more than quadrupled since 2014, now representing over 1 per cent of the total population. With the rise in plant-based foods and cruelty-free products showing no sign of stopping...

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Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in dif...

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Explores the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry - particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation - have had on workers, animals, and consumers. This work describes the efforts by the Humane ...

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2018 American Book Award Winner A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation-and the debut of an important new social critic How much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depe...

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In myths and legends squids are portrayed as fearsome sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps waiting to devour humans. Even as modern science has tried to turn those monsters of the deep into unremarkable calamari, squids continue to dominate t...

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Det här är den fantastiska berättelsen om Arthur - gatuhunden som lämnade djungeln och hittade hem. Hem till elitidrottaren Mikael Lindnord i Örnsköldsvik. De utmattade svenska multisportarna befann sig mitt i regnskogen i Ecuador under VM. De sku...

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In their own words, this is the very personal story of the ups and downs of the Nicholson family at Cannon Hall farm spanning almost 70 years. From the death of Roger's beloved dad Charlie to the daily struggle for survival amid farming's rapidly ...

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'One of history's most impressive field studies; an instant animal classic' TIME Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures wi...

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An empowering and deeply informative book - Moby Challenge their beliefs; change the world If you are a vegan, you'll know all too well how provocative it can be - you never know when you'll be challenged or how. But being able to face down and re...

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"A gripping and vital portrait of wolf repopulation. It is impossible not to root for Diane, or for the wolves."-ERICA BERRY, AUTHOR OF WOLFISH "This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces ...

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Cat Body Language looks at all the postures cats are likely to adopt in and around the home, both with other cats and with their owners. Using the psychology of cat behaviour, it explains how a cat is likely to react in stressful situations, such ...

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"This book is fabulous and takes you close inside the wild world, where you feel the creatures whispering your old name."-Craig Foster, My Octopus Teacher Learn how to decode the secret conversations of wild animals all around you. From a Yellowst...

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BBC R4 Book of the Week 'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn fro...

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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017 The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and t...

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The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary societys ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has contin...

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Known as much for their pink curly tails and pudgy snouts as their lowbrow choices of diet and habitat, pigs are prevalent in modern culture - from the Three Little Pigs to Miss Piggy to Babe. Humans and pigs have lived alongside each other since ...

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"The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone's greatest and most famous wolves." -Washington Post "[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional being...

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Djuren har stora genetiska och mentala likheter med oss människor. De har samma behov som oss, nämligen att få leva fritt från psykiskt och fysiskt lidande och att få vara livssubjekt. Men dessa likheter reflekteras sällan i vår behandling av djur...

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The hedgehog has had a close connection with people since the dawn of civilization, and has been an animal of fascination, endearment and cultural significance since the ancient Egyptians. The Romans regarded it as a weather prophet, and modern ga...

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From ancient Babylon to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie-the-Pooh to David Lynch's Twin Peaks, owls have woven themselves into the fabric of human culture from earliest times. Beautiful, s...

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Isaac Bashevis Singer, den judiske författaren och Nobelpristagaren i litteratur, skrev att i förhållande till djuren "är alla människor nazister; för djuren är det ett evigt Treblinka". Kan nazisternas våld mot judar jämföras med vårt våld mot dj...

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