Animals & Society

A political scientist goes undercover in a modern industrial slaughterhouse for this twenty-first-century update of Upton Sinclairs The Jungle This...

In the last 30 years the bushmeat trade has led to the slaughter of nearly 90 percent of West Africas bonobos, perhaps our closest relatives, and h...

Horse-drawn cabs rattling through the streets, terrified cattle being herded along congested thoroughfares to Smithfield market, pigs squealing and...

The RSPBs Book of the Season The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ...

The RSPB''s Book of the Season The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 ye...

The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people...

Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonder...

Most people agree that animals count morally. But how, exactly, should we take animals into account? According to a prominent position in contempor...

'This wonderful book is essential reading for all children with furry best friends, written in a way that is very easy to follow and great fun!' - ...

''I knew dogs could make a difference to the children''s lives. I knew it the moment I watched a little boy, exhausted by pain and sickness, stretc...

A Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing 2020 ''Remarkable, and so profoundly enjoyable to read ... Its ...

Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the ess...

Mans best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and walkers, equally happy curle...

Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army w...

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we re providing them wi...

Greyhounds were bred to be the fastest dogs on earth. Yet for decades tens of thousands were destroyed, abandoned and abused each year when they co...

We have come to regard nonhuman animals as beings of concern, and we even grant them some legal protections. But until we understand animals as mor...

In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: lea...

The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central ethical issues focu...

Rain is lashing down when Barby Keel is called out to an emergency unfolding at the gates of her animal sanctuary, deep in the Sussex countryside. ...

'Killing It combines three popular, profound topics: where our food comes from, how to achieve purpose in life and how to find lasting love' - Sund...

Throughout the 19th century, animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale r...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Bracing and enlightening Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isnt it? Not so, says int...

George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at ...

'Clever, compelling, canine and utterly mesmerising' - Helen LedererStupendo the dog has died. But that's just the beginning of his story.To love a...

Casting a critical gaze over the exploitation of animals in agriculture, fashion, and entertainment, this manifesto investigates Canada`s antiquate...

Literary transformations from human to animal have occurred in myths, folklore, fairy tales and narratives from all over the world since ancient ti...

We have come to regard nonhuman animals as beings of concern, and we even grant them some legal protections. But until we understand animals as mor...

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follo...

Very few of the 2.5 million people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America's only continuously wild and genetically pur...

The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsAs concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical imp...

'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a z...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Bracing and enlightening Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isnt it? Not so, says int...