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The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are-intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish "sing" underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Newkirk and Stone pair their tour of the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. They show readers what they can do in their everyday lives to ensure that the animal world is protected from needless harm. Whether it's medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to sausage and milk to marshmallows, reap the benefits of medical research that no longer requires monkeys to be caged in laboratories, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics. Animalkind is a fascinating study of why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and moreover, the steps every reader can take to put this new understanding into action.
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• Sadie
• The politics of research
• The smell of money
• Life for sale
• The cow with ear tag #1389
• Seeking sanctuary
• Doublethinking dairy
• "The stamp of dairyness"
• California dreaming
• On knowing and responding.

Take a look at the packaging on a container of milk and you're likely to see bucolic idylls of red barns, green pastures, and happy, well-treated cows. In truth, the distance from a living cow to a glass of milk is vast, and nearly impossible to grasp in a way that resonates with an average person ticking items off a grocery list. To translate this journey into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie had a brilliant idea: to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals-animals like The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. In contrast to the widely known truths of commercial meat manufacture, the dairy industry enjoys a relatively benign reputation, with most consumers unaware of this kitchen staple's backstory. The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 explores how the seemingly nonthreatening practice of raising animals for milk is just one link in a chain that affects livestock across the agricultural spectrum. Gillespie takes readers to farms, auction yards, slaughterhouses, and even rendering plants to show how living cows are transformed into food. The result is an empathetic look at cows and our relationship with them, one that makes both their lives and their suffering real-in particular, the fleeting encounter with the cow of the title, just one animal whose story galvanized Gillespie to write this book. The myriad ways that the commercial meat industry causes harm are at the forefront of numerous discussions today. The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 adds a crucial piece to these conversations by asking us to consider the individual animals whose lives we may take for granted.
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• Part I. Drivers of demand. The hunter ; Her sister's pangolin scale guy ; Rhino horn in the cookie tin ; The holy grail of herpetology ; White gold
• Part II. Inside the trade. The $50,000,000 bonfire ; The CITES circus ; Of prostitutes, poachers, and politicans ; The front line
• Part III. The saving game. A park reborn ; If rhinos could choose ; My tiger wine is corked ; Rising moon bears ; Order ahead for pangolin.

An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against it Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals--for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur--is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Illegal wildlife trade now ranks among the largest contraband industries in the world, yet compared to drug, arms, or human trafficking, the wildlife crisis has received scant attention and support, leaving it up to passionate individuals fighting on the ground to try to ensure that elephants, tigers, rhinos, and more are still around for future generations. As Reefer Madness (Schlosser) took us into the drug market, or Susan Orlean descended into the swampy obsessions of The Orchid Thief, Nuwer--an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology--takes readers on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to ten countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving demand for animals and their parts; the toll that demand is extracting on species across the planet; and the conservationists, rangers, and activists who believe it is not too late to stop the impending extinctions. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation.
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• Introduction.- Jozef Keulartz & Bernice Bovenkerk-- Changing relationships with non-human animals in the Anthropocene.-
• Part 1. Between human and animal.-
• 1. Anita Guerrini-- Deep history, evolutionary history, and animals in the Anthropocene.-
• 2. Sanne van der Hout-- Organisms as teachers? The promise of biomimicry.-
• 3. Eva Meijer-- Interspecies democracies.-
• 4. Michiel Korthals-- Human-animal interfaces from a pragmatist perspective.-
• 5. Simon Burton & Emily Brady-- What is it like to be a bird? Epistemic Humility and Human-Animal Relations.-
• 6. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy: Unfeeling Brutes.-
• 7. Comments: Henk van den Belt-- Between human and animal.-
• Part 2. Between wild and domestic.-
• 8. Clare Palmer-- Climate change, ethics, and the wildness of wild animals.-
• 9. Bernice Bovenkerk-- Animal captivity: justifications for animal Captivity in the context of domestication.-
• 10. Jac. A.A. Swart-- care for the wild in the Anthropocene.-
• 11. Martin Drenthen-- The wolf and the animal lover.-12. Susan Boonman-- Blurred boundaries in wildlife management practices.-
• 13. Comments: Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka-- Between wildness and domestication: Rethinking categories and boundaries in response to animal agency.-
• Part 3. Between freedom and captivity.-
• 14. Jozef Keulartz-- Towards an animal ethics for the Anthropocene.-
• 15. Aaron Simmons-- Animals, freedom, and the ethics of veganism.-
• 16. T.J. Kasperbauer-- Should captive primates have reproductive rights?.-
• 17. Sabrina Brando-- Wild animals in entertainment.-
• 18. Comments: Clemens Driessen.-
• Part 4. Between animal ethics and conservation ethics.-
• 19. Jozef Keulartz-- Captivity for conservation? Zoos at a Crossroads (reprint).-
• 20. Brendon Larson & Stephanie Barr-- The flights of the monarch butterfly: Between in situ and ex situ conservation.-
• 21. Bernice Bovenkerk & Marcel Verwey-- Blurring the Boundaries Between Individualistic Animal Ethics and Holistic Environmental Ethics.-
• 22. Daniel Ramp & Marc Bekoff-- Compassion as a practical and evolved ethic for conservation (reprint).-
• 23. Comments: Hub Zwart-- We all live in a planetary Ark (planetary Ark, planetary Ark....).
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This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are developing. While the target audience primarily consists of animal studies scholars, coming from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and film studies, many of the topics that are discussed have relevance beyond a purely theoretical one; as such the book also aims to inspire for example biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to reflect on their relationship with animals.
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• Introduction: Introducing Animal Work
• 1. The Work Done With/For Animals: Daily Work and Labor Processes
• 2. The Work Done By Animals: Identifying and Understanding Animals' Work
• 3. The Work Done With/For Animals: Political Labour and the Work of Advocacy Anifesto: The Promise of Interspecies Solidarity References Index.
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In this thought-provoking and innovative book, Kendra Coulter examines the diversity of work done with, by, and for animals. Interweaving human-animal studies, labor theories and research, and feminist political economy, Coulter develops a unique analysis of the accomplishments, complexities, problems, and possibilities of multispecies and interspecies labor. She fosters a nuanced, multi-faceted approach to labor that takes human and animal well-being seriously, and that challenges readers to not only think deeply and differently about animals and work, but to reflect on the potential for interspecies solidarity. The result is an engaging, expansive, and path-making text.
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• Introduction: Philosophy and ethics
• Part One. Creating an animal ethic. The need for a new animal ethic ; Social, personal, and professional ethics ; Reminding versus teaching ; The denial of animal mind ; Mattering and telos
• Part Two. Ideology and common sense. Ideology ; Anecdote, anthropomorphism, and animal mind ; Animal telos and animal welfare ; The end of husbandry ; Animal research and telos ; Genetic engineering and telos ; Conclusion.

This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society's moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle's concept of telos.
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• A brief history of the relations between humans and animals
• Out of sight, out of mind
• Everybody loses: the effects of industrial breeding and meat eating on poverty, the environment and health
• The real face of industrial animal breeding
• Sorry excuses
• The continuum of life
• The mass killing of animals
• genocide versus zoocide
• A little side trip into the realm of moral judgment
• The dilemma of animal experimentation
• Illegal trade in wildlife
• Animals as objects of entertainment
• Animal rights, human obligations
• An appeal to reason and to human kindness.

A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans--and an eloquent plea for animal rights. -- Amazon.com Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire. He chronicles the appalling sufferings of the animals we eat, wear, and use for adornment or "entertainment," and submits every traditional justification for their exploitation to scientific evidence and moral scrutiny. What arises is an unambiguous and powerful ethical imperative for treating all of the animals with whom we share this planet with respect and compassion.

• Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1. Nomadic Pastoralism, Ranching, and Violence
• 2. Domesecration and the Americas
• 3. Ranching and Violence in North America
• 4. Domesecration in the Western Plains
• 5. Capitalist Colonialism and Ranching Violence
• 6. Social Construction of the "Hamburger" Culture
• 7. The "Hamburger" Culture and Latin America
• 8. Domesecration and Impending Catastrophe
• 9. New Welfarism Notes Index.
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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 different societies over time, David Nibert reaches a strikingly different conclusion. He finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames "domesecration, " a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and growth-curbing epidemics of infectious disease. Nibert centers his study on nomadic pastoralism and the development of commercial ranching, a practice that has been largely controlled by elite groups and expanded with the rise of capitalism. Beginning with the pastoral societies of the Eurasian steppe and continuing through to the exportation of Western, meat-centered eating habits throughout today's world, Nibert connects the domesecration of animals to violence, invasion, extermination, displacement, enslavement, repression, pandemic chronic disease, and hunger. In his view, conquest and subjugation were the results of the need to appropriate land and water to maintain large groups of animals, and the gross amassing of military power has its roots in the economic benefits of the exploitation, exchange, and sale of animals. Deadly zoonotic diseases, Nibert shows, have accompanied violent developments throughout history, laying waste to whole cities, societies, and civilizations. His most powerful insight situates the domesecration of animals as a precondition for the oppression of human populations, particularly indigenous peoples, an injustice impossible to rectify while the material interests of the elite are inextricably linked to the exploitation of animals. Nibert links domesecration to some of the most critical issues facing the world today, including the depletion of fresh water, topsoil, and oil reserves; global warming; and world hunger, and he reviews the U.S. government's military response to the inevitable crises of an overheated, hungry, resource-depleted world. Most animal-advocacy campaigns reinforce current oppressive practices, Nibert argues. Instead, he suggests reforms that challenge the legitimacy of both domesecration and capitalism.
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• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Animals and Nature2. Animals in Environmental Perspective3. Animal Ethics4. Wild Animals5. Domesticated Animals6. The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy
• 7. Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground8. Being AnimalNotesBibliographyIndex.
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For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are simultaneously parts of both nature and human society. Peterson explores the tensions between humans and animals, nature and culture, animals and nature, and domesticity and wildness. She uses our intimate connections with companion animals to examine nature more broadly. Companion animals are liminal creatures straddling the boundary between human society and wilderness, revealing much about the mutually constitutive relationships binding humans and nature together. Through her paradigm-shifting reflections, Peterson disrupts the artificial boundaries between two seemingly distinct categories, underscoring their fluid and continuous character.
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• Introduction
• Animal liberation on the factory farm
• Animal rights in the wild
• Animal experimentation: in the lab and on the farm
• The death of "the animal": what's in a word?
• Open the cages: animots and zoos
• Feminist contributions to critical animal studies
• Killing and eating animals: perspectives from world religions
• The subject of ethics: cultural studies, art, architecture, and literature
• Turning points.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. How Sherlock Holmes Got His Start
• Chapter 2. Meet the Main Characters
• Chapter 3. Sherlock Holmes: Pioneer in Forensic Science
• Chapter 4. Sherlock Holmes: Chemist
• Chapter 5. Sherlock Holmes: Other Sciences
• Conclusion
• Appendix.
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Arthur Conan Doyle's enduringly popular Sherlock Holmes has his own undeniable place in the public eye. Holmes is often seen applying concepts of some branch of science in his work, discussing scientific matters with Watson, or is involved in situations where the applicability of the formal sciences is apparent. The Scientific Sherlock Holmes connects Holmes' vegetable poisons with concepts in botany, his use of fingerprinting with forensic science, and carbon monoxide poisoning and hemoglobin tests with concepts in chemistry, thus integrating the Holmes stories with all branches of science.
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• ROLES OF ANIMALS IN SOCIETY Perspectives on Emergence of Contemporary Animal Agriculture in the Mid-Twentieth Century: The Decline of Husbandry and the Rise of the Industrial Model Bernard E. Rollin and Paul B. Thompson Contributions of Farm and Laboratory Animals to Society Wilson G. Pond, R. Anne Pearson, Kevin R. Pond, Christian E. Newcomer, Christopher Boleman, Aaron Alejandro, and Cherie Carrabba Contributions of Animals in Human Service Duane Ullrey TREATMENT OF ANIMALS AND SOCIETAL CONCERNS The Opinions and Recommendations of One Particular Study Group: The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production Robert P. Martin Defining Agricultural Animal Welfare: Varying Viewpoints and Approaches Bernard E. Rollin, Donald M. Broom, David Fraser, Gail C. Golab, Charles Arnot, and Paul Shapiro Contemporary Animal Agriculture: Rural Community Concerns in the United States David Andrews Implementing Effective Practices and Programs to Assess Animal Welfare John J. McGlone and Temple Grandin, Animal Welfare: Synthesizing Contemporary Animal Agriculture/Engineering and Animal Comfort and Social Responsibility Bernard E. Rollin, John J. McGlone, Judith L. Capper, Kenneth Anderson, and Terry Engle SUSTAINABLE PLANT AND ANIMAL AGRICULTURE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE Symbiosis of Plants, Animals, and Microbes James Wells and Vincent Varel Food Safety Issues in Animal Source Foods Related to Animal Health and Welfare Jarret D. Stopforth, John N. Sofos, Steve L. Taylor, and Joseph L. Baumert Animal Welfare in the Context of Ecological Sustainability Frederick Kirschenmann Competition between Animals and Humans for Cultivated Crops: Livestock Production and Our Food Supply Fred Owens and Christa Hanson Crop Residues and Other Feed Resources: Inedible for Humans but Valuable for Animals Gregory Lardy and J.S. Caton Welfare, Health, and Biological Efficiency of Animals through Genetics and Biotechnology Fuller W. Bazer, Duane C. Kraemer, and Alan McHughen.
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What constitutes animal welfare? With animals being used for companionship, service, research, food, fiber, and by-products, animal welfare is a topic of great interest and importance to society. As the world's population continues to increase, a major challenge for society is the maintenance of a strong and viable food system, which is linked to the well-being and comfort of food animals. Animal Welfare in Animal Agriculture: Husbandry, Stewardship, and Sustainability in Animal Production explores the pressing issue of farm animal welfare in animal production systems in the United States and globally. A framework for open discussion on animal welfare, this multidisciplinary book brings together the perspectives of 40 highly qualified and recognized experts in their respective fields. Fourteen chapters address a range of topics that includes ethics, sociology, food safety, ecology, feed resources, biotechnology, government regulations, and sustainability, as well as animal comfort, health, and contributions to society. The book also offers a historical perspective on the growth of animal agriculture from family farms to industrial animal agriculture-and the impact this has had on society. Illustrating the diversity of viewpoints, the concept of animal welfare is defined from the perspectives of an ethicist and philosopher, a research scientist, a veterinarian, an industrialist, and an activist, as well as from the perspective of sustainability and product quality. Written primarily for students, but also highly relevant for professionals in varying fields of academia and industry, this timely book reveals important insights into animal welfare and animal agriculture. Unique in its depth, breadth, and balance, it underscores the need for dialogue on wide-ranging and often contentious issues related to animal production systems.
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• Series Preface Acknowledgements The Welfare of Animals and its Relevance to Our Health Victims of Abuse: Making the Connection Lions, Tigers and Bears. The Global Trade in Animals Foul Farms: the State of Animal Agriculture Animal Agriculture: Our Health and our Environment The Costs of Animal Experiments The New Public Health Notes and References Index.
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A compelling argument of how human health is adversely affected by our poor treatment of non-human animals. The author contents that in order to successfully confront the 21st Century's health challenges, we need to broaden the definition of the word "public" in public health to include non-human animals.
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• Pt.
• 1. The making of a hacker
• pt.
• 2. Eric
• pt.
• 3. On the run
• pt.
• 4. An end and a beginning.

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies--and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But for Kevin, hacking wasn't just about technological feats-it was an old fashioned confidence game that required guile and deception to trick the unwitting out of valuable information. Driven by a powerful urge to accomplish the impossible, Mitnick bypassed security systems and blazed into major organizations including Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and Pacific Bell. But as the FBI's net began to tighten, Kevin went on the run, engaging in an increasingly sophisticated cat and mouse game that led through false identities, a host of cities, plenty of close shaves, and an ultimate showdown with the Feds, who would stop at nothing to bring him down. Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escape, and a portrait of a visionary whose creativity, skills, and persistence forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him, inspiring ripples that brought permanent changes in the way people and companies protect their most sensitive information.
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• Swim with dolphins!
• Whale as sushi
• Ted Nugent is my blood brother
• Searching for a Louisiana cockfight
• Cockfighting as sport
• Destroying the village to save it
• The charge of an animal rights brigade
• The cowardice of canned hunts
• Infiltrating cockfights
• Art as animal abuse
• Who would abuse a swan?
• The self-taught lion tamer
• Yes, he really does stick his head in the mouth of a lion
• Dead chickens without a fight
• The nemesis of Cajun cockfighters
• From Central Park horse carriages to ants on the kitchen counter
• Who is abusing whom?
• Saving chickens
• Dominion over every creeping thing that creepeth
• Sea turtle cowboy boots
• Cockfight first responders
• Cricket fighting for science
• A Jordanian princess changes Arabian horses mid-life
• A jailhouse meeting with a militant vegan
• Stoic arson victims reopen their sheepskin business
• Humane meat
• Dairy cow abuse
• The animal lawyer
• Vivisection dissected
• What's right and what's wrong?
• Sit, stay, roll over
• Fighting cocks rescued and euthanized
• The case for a kill-it-yourself dinner
• Las Vegas epiphany.

Investigative journalist Peter Laufer is back with his third book in a trilogy that explores the way we humans interact with animals. The attack of a trainer at Sea World by a killer whale in February 2010 is the catalyst for this examination of the controversial role animals have played in the human arenas of entertainment and sports. From the Romans throwing Christians to lions to cock-fighting in present-day California, from abusive Mexican circuses to the thrills of a Hungarian counterpart, from dog training to shooting strays in the Baghdad streets, Laufer looks at the ways people have used animals for their pleasure. The reader travels with Laufer as he encounters fascinating people and places, and as he ponders the ethical questions that arise from his quest.
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• Introduction.- Experimentation on AnimalsThe priciples of Human Experimental Technique by W.M.S. Russel and R.L. Burch, published 1959.- Intensive Farming IndustryAnimal Machines - The New Factory Farming Industry by Ruth Harrison, published 1964.- Immortality of Man's Treatment of AnimalsAnimal Liberation - Towards an End to Man's Inhumanity to Animals by Peter Singer, published 1975.- History of Challenges to SpeciesismAnimal Revolution - Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism by Richard Ryder, published 1989.- Science of Animal Behaviour and WelfareAnimal Welfare - A Cool Eye Towards Eden by John Webster, published 1995.- Practical Ethics in Achievement of Direct ReformEthics into Action - Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer, published 1998.- Politics of Animal ProtectionPolitical Animals - Animal Protection Politics in Britain and the United States by Roger Garner, published 1998.- Legislative Enactment for Animal Protection, Animal Welfare Law in Britain - Regulation and Responsibility by Mike Radford, published 2001.- Conclusions.
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This book examines the contents, influence, and potential of a personal selection of modern books published over the last fifty years that have been relevant to improving welfare. The works selected comprise three earlier classics that mainly deal with animal experimentation and intensive farming, as well as five that concentrate on specific subject areas, namely history, science, applied ethics, politics and law, that are important to protecting the welfare of animals against suffering inflicted by humans. The books are arranged in the order of their publication date, and for each one a few related works are also mentioned or discussed. This collection provides a broad understanding of animal protection issues, and provides the necessary basis for an informed and comprehensive approach to improving the welfare of animals. The books selected have been influential and they have the potential to improve animal welfare in the future.
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• Forensic Science-- The Crime Scene-- Trace and Contact Evidence-- Marks and Impressions-- The Forensic Examination of Documents-- Fire Investigation-- Explosions-- Firearms-- Drugs of Abuse-- Forensic Toxicology-- Alcohol Analysis-- The Analysis of Body Fluids-- Presentation of Expert Evidence in Court-- Subject Index.
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Forensic science has been variously described as fascinating, challenging and even frightening. If you have only a vague concept of what forensic science is, this book will provide the answer. Aimed at non-scientists, or those with limited scientific knowledge, Crime Scene to Court covers all three main areas of an investigation where forensic science is practised, namely the scene of the crime, the forensic laboratory and the court. Coverage includes details of how crime scene and forensic examinations are conducted in the United Kingdom, the principles of crime scene investigations and the importance of this work in an investigation, and courtroom procedures and the role of the expert witness. The latest methods and techniques used in crime scene investigation and forensic laboratories are reported, cases are presented to illustrate why and how examinations are performed to generate forensic evidence and there is a bibliography for each chapter which provides further material for those readers wishing to delve deeper into the subject. Ideal for those studying forensic science or law, the book is intended primarily for teaching and training purposes. However, anyone with a role in an investigation, for example police, crime scene investigators or indeed those called for jury service, will find this text an excellent source of information.
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