Animals & Society

A humorous and informative book, debunking a range of commonly held myths about animals. Camels store water in their humps and magpies love to stea...

Office Dogs: The Manual is the guide to dogs in the workplace. As the popularity of taking our canine companions to the office continues to grow, t...

The bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being humanIn this highl...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The sapiens of the sea, whales are the o...

'A love story, a meditation on meat eating, on farming animals, on the relations between man and beast. Yallop writes with great tenderness' Daily ...

Animal testing is a controversy that has raged for hundreds of years. Some people view experiments on dogs as necessary for human medical progre...

What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and po...

Polar bears are truly majestic animals: the largest land-dwelling carnivore on earth, they can measure up to 3 metres in length, and weigh up to 70...

Barby Keel is used to all manner of creatures arriving at the door of the Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary where she lives and works, deep within the Su...

If you're longing for the pitter-patter of four furry feet, you have some homework to do. When new dog owners aren't prepared, it's the dog who suf...

Kingfishers are a sight to behold. The dash and verve of this cosmopolitan bird has been admired for millennia, appearing in creation myths, imperi...

Lizards stimulate the human imagination, despite generally being small, soundless and hidden from sight in burrows, treetops or crevices. They can ...

Woodpeckers are among the most remarkable birds in the avian world, having evolved a unique anatomy that enables them to peck and bore into solid t...

Meet the inspirational dogs who went from being rescued to becoming rescuer, in these incredible true stories. You'll read all about...- Toby, the ...

#1 New York Times bestseller and USA Today bestseller The more we know about the animals in our world and the better we care for them, the better o...

The vulture is commonly thought to dwell outside the community of living beings. These birds are seen to have no real relationship with humans; ins...

Curly tails, snouts, trotters, 'oinks', mud and unpleasant smells - these are the cliches of the pig. With their varied roles as sources of food, a...

From giving rides to children at the British seaside to pulling a plough in the poorest of countries, donkeys have served humans faithfully since t...

It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began.