Animals & Society

As a Navy SEAL on combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. Ritl...

With an ever-growing body of evidence on the links between different oppressions, never have the debates in Critical Animal Studies surrounding int...

This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform an...

In Climate Crisis and the Kleptocene: On The Commodification of Sentience the author argues that capitalism is not merely a system of economic exch...

A guide to being the best humans we can be for our cats Focus'Fascinating. A must for every cat owner' Philippa Perry A trail-blazing guide to fe...

Everyone's best friend just happens to be your best therapist Move over, Socrates and Plato! In this heartwarming guide to living your best life, a...

The global smash-hit Netflix documentary mini-series, Tiger King, introduced viewers to the weird, crazy and chaotic life of private zoo owner and ...

The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension encompasses the complexiti...

Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology There is a revolutio...

This up-close, captivating look at an iconic animal traces our complex relationship to bears throughout historyand what they can tell us about ours...

In The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II, Dilek Bulut Sari...

Honey bees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal intelligence ha...

Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation, co-edited by Nathan Poirier, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Annie B...

Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative ...

With a new Preface by the authorWhen disasters strike, people are not the only victims. Hurricane Katrina raised public attention about how disaste...

Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Je...

Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Je...

A heartwarming tale of abandoned dogs and their saviours Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgar...

'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' - Sunday Times'I never thought I would se...

This is the first study of historical attempts by anti-animal cruelty groups to prosecute those involved in the killing of animals for food using t...

Images of animals are all around us. Yet the visibility offered by wildlife photography can't help but contribute to an image of the animal as fund...

Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on ani...

WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023. Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horse...

The common cuckoo is a peculiar bird one that has lent its name to the otherworldly Cloud Cuckoo Land in Aristophanes play The Birds, and lent its...

Shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2019Shortlisted for the Mascara Literary Review's Avant Garde Awards 2020The Flight o...

In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s pet boom. Blu...

In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s pet boom. Blu...

This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction...

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe to understand wha...

This book will save lives - human and animals. Victoria Thompson is a passionate advocate for the protection of animals from great harm. She movin...

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on humananimal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step towar...

A heartwarming true animal story, for fans of A Dog's Purpose, A Street Cat Named Bob and Marley & Me. Michelle Clark has loved animals all h...

Left in the wild, Billie the elephant would have spent her life surrounded by her family, free to wander the jungles of Asia. Instead, she was capt...

Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour all in one day. Welcome to the extraordi...