Animals & Society

Veterinarians serve on the front lines working to prevent animal suffering and abuse. For centuries, their compassion and expertise have improved t...

In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and culture in Poland. How can...

The lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue ...

Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen Sunday Times Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping Brilliant New York Magazine ...

This volume explores nonhuman animals involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sailas well as the myriad multispecies connections f...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britains most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd ...

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist.This m...

'An important book on several levels... Read a few sentences out loud, wherever you are.' Rosamund YoungEverybody thinks they know what sheep are l...

Since the early nineteenth century, numerous campaigns have denounced the mistreatment of animals. This book compares the British and French histor...

Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America illuminates the researcher and his lasting contribution to a field that ha...

We're in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volu...

Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book ...

Animal spectacles are vital to a holistic appreciation of Spanish culture. In Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain, Beusterien c...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize'Endlessly fascinating.' - Bill Bryson 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny...

An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De Waal. In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Ugandas first ...

Whats to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the l...

'A little gem of a book' Brendan O'ConnorTom Inglis and his Wheaten terrier Pepe have lived together for eighteen years: countless days of walks an...

Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature an...

Have fun at the farm with this new collection of minis from Kerry Lord and her Edwards Menagerie animals. This is one of the new gift series from T...

For such simple garments, hats have had a devastating impact on wildlife throughout their long history. Made of wild-caught mammal furs, decorated ...

Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated...

Edmund Russell's much-anticipated new book examines interactions between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to make a compell...

Edmund Russell's much-anticipated new book examines interactions between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to make a compell...

While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined...

This volume offers both an insight into the current state of research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to begin to chart the...

'An important book on several levels... Read a few sentences out loud, wherever you are.' Rosamund YoungI look at the Ryeland ewes, white and fat w...

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual ...

Fascinating Why questions about animals, and plenty of new ones, take centre stage in the latest book by Caldecott Honor-winning duo Steve Jenkins ...

This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare;...

Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pync...

'The Patron Saint of Conservation' Sir David Attenborough'Peter Scott was a huge influence on my childhood...Later on in life I had the good fortun...

A WONDERFUL READ Christine's deep love for turtles comes through on each page.CRAIG FOSTER, MY OCTOPUS TEACHER Will appeal to anyone interested in...

'Evocative and beautifully written, it's a deeply immersive read' Observer'Charles Foster is the most original voice in nature writing today - funn...

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching qu...

Recent discoveries about wild chimpanzees have dramatically reshaped our understanding of these great apes and their kinship with humans. We now kn...

'Evocative and beautifully written, it's a deeply immersive read' Observer'Enchanting and emotional...personifies its characters as they navigate t...

This collection posits three questions. 1) What structures of violence and oppression are experienced and shared by human and nonhuman laborers wor...

The animal-rights organization PETA asked Are Animals the New Slaves? in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Human...

A NEW SCIENTIST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination ...

The heartwarming, inspiring final chapter in the life of Max the Miracle dog A dog can be more than ...

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range of ethical i...