Animals & Society

This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our way...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...

Created in honor of the work of Professor Tova Forti, this collection considers the natural world in key wisdom books - Proverbs, Job and Qoheleth/...

This pioneering study introduces readers to key themes from animal studies, as a frame within which it examines the representation of animals and a...

The wolf evolved into the Pekingese, the wildcat into the tabby cat and the auroch into the milk-producing cow. This happened through the process c...

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concep...

An eye-opening volume of research and photographs exploring one of North America’s most persistent—and misunderstood—predators. The coyote. Even it...

An empowering and deeply informative book – MobyNEW UPDATED EDITIONChallenge their beliefs; change the worldIf you are a vegan, you’ll know all too...

From the familiar to the improbable, the gross to the endearing, The Modern Bestiary is a compendium of curious creatures. It includes both animals...

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespre...

Fear and fascination set wasps apart from other insects. Despite their iconic form and distinctive colours, they are surrounded by myth and misunde...

The Sunday Times top ten bestseller'Lost Dog is already one of my books of the year. Spicer writes like a dream...You will love it.' India Knight, ...

Common and exotic, glamorous and ferocious, sociable and sullen: zebras mean many things to many people. The extraordinary beauty of their striped ...

What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All...