"Rapport från ett slakteri är det mest angelägna, uppriktiga och intelligenta jag har läst på länge." - Helsingborgs Dagblad "Rapport från ett slakteri är lågintensivt omskakande, kväljande läsning." - Arbetarbladet Veterinären Lina Gustafsson börja…
Den 17 juni 2012 klockan 11.18 på förmiddagen hittas en ung kvinna död inne i ett av varghägnen på Kolmårdens djurpark. Den 30-åriga vargguiden hade tidigare samma morgon gått in ensam när vargarna plötsligt attackerade henne.Vad som egentligen intr…
Efter fjolårets succébok om psykisk ohälsa är Therése Lindgren tillbaka med en uppmaning till oss alla att börja bry oss – om oss själva, hur vi lever, vad vi äter, och inte minst: om djuren.Djurrätt är en hjärtefråga för veganen Therése och h…
2016 års bäst säljande författare är tillbaka! Efter fjolårets succébok om psykisk ohälsa är Therése Lindgren tillbaka med en uppmaning till oss alla att börja bry oss - om oss själva, hur vi lever, vad vi äter, och inte minst: om djuren. Djurrätt ä…
Efter fjolårets succébok om psykisk ohälsa är Therése Lindgren tillbaka med en uppmaning till oss alla att börja bry oss – om oss själva, människorna runt oss, djuren och vår planet. Djurrätt är en hjärtefråga för veganen Therése, men hon tar…
I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.' The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strang…
Why do dogs behave in the ways that they do? Why did our ancestors tame wolves? How have we ended up with so many breeds of dog, and how can we understand their role in contemporary human society? Explore the answers to these questions and many more…
How should we treat non-human animals? In this book, the author addresses this simple question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the disturbing evidence of factory farms and laboratories, his answers triggered the birth of the…
Jaktkritik är en unik bok! - den enda bok som ifrågasätter jakten i Sverige.Boken är en förgörande kritik och somtidigt en saklig uppgörelse med det som en del kallar naturupplevelse eller viltvård. Andra kallar det djurplågeri.Författaren menar att…
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with…
Straw Dogs is a radical work of philosophy that sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on a…
Who are we? What do we value? How do we live here?Guided by parents, carers, teachers and siblings, we learn to answer these questions as we grow up. But it's not just us. Many animals must learn to answer them too. In Becoming Wild, Carl Safina rev…
Animal Behavior, Second Edition, covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of combined experience a…
Papegojhållningen romantiseras utifrån korta sekvenser i vardagen, utifrån djurens förmåga att lära sig härma tal och utifrån deras höga intelligens. Papegojhållningen beskrivs sällan i termer av svårigheter, förutom när fågelhållningen generellt ka…
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are t…
Modern society is beginning to re-examine its whole relationship with animals and the natural world. Until recently issues such as animal welfare and environmental protection were considered the domain of small, idealistic minorities. Now, these iss…
Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior highlights, through concise summaries, the most important discoveries and scientific revolutions in animal behavior. These are assessed for their relative impact on the field and their signifi…
Lina Gustafsson utbildade sig till veterinär för att kunna hjälpa och förbättra livet för djur. Efter att ha arbetat några år på djursjukhus och vårdat katter och hundar, var det någonting som gnagde i henne. Hon ville arbeta för de mest utsatta dju…
Alla hundar som passerar Hundstallet lämnaralldeles unika tassavtryck i våra hjärtan. För att hedra de tiotusentals unika individer vi har fått förmånen att möta genom åren har vi nu låtit göra en bokserie om tio livsöden som berört oss lite extra.…
Varför älskar vi djur som hundar och katter? Samtidigt som vi dödar och äter djur som grisar och kor?De flesta icke-vegetarianer har förmodligen sällan ens reflekterat över frågan. Att äta kött av vissa djur har varit och är så självklart i vår kul…
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has inspired a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past. In this newly revised and expanded edition, Peter Sing…
We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the "ah…
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who an…
Relying on a hidden camera, a bluff and a little bit of luck,award-winning investigative journalist Rich Hardy finds imaginativeways to meet the people and industries responsible for the lives anddeaths of the billions of animals used to feed, cloth…
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 with a safe, healthy life. But there s another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as p…
In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice movement marked by a deconstruction of the conceptual…
This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seven…
History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent.
The leopard is the ultimate cat. It makes the lion and the tiger appear overblown and all the other members of the cat family look puny. Whereas lions hunt in the open and then share their kill, the leopard is solitary, stealthy and selfish. This ca…
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the…
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used t…
In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. He asks fascinating questions about animals: Is it…
Now in paperback-the ten things we must do to ensure a safe and peaceful world, from legendary environmentalist Jane Goodall and brilliant animal behaviorist, Marc Bekoff.Combining her life's work living among the chimpanzees with her spiritual pers…
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has contin…
"When Species Meet is a breathtaking meditation on the intersection between humankind and dog, philosophy and science, and macro and micro cultures."-Cameron Woo, Publisher of Bark magazine In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving…
Isaac Bashevis Singer, den judiske författaren och Nobelpristagaren i litteratur, skrev att i förhållande till djuren "är alla människor nazister; för djuren är det ett evigt Treblinka". Kan nazisternas våld mot judar jämföras med vårt våld mot dj…
Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships w…
In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different.--The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures--wha…
När kultur blir natur – när det som egentligen är kulturval blivit till naturlag – samlar ett stort urval av Lisa Gålmarks artiklar med intersektionella perspektiv på djuretik, miljökris, feminism, litteratur, från bland annat Aftonblade…
"This text is long overdue and timely. Carr and Broom have placed the issues firmly in the broader context of the relationship between our species and the others which share this planet with us...As they argue it is possible for tourists and the tra…
Animals are among the most sought after tourist attractions and the impact on them is a matter of concern to an increasing number of people. Tourism and Animal Welfare uniquely addresses the issue of animal welfare within the tourism experience. It…
Most people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discussions is that animals have the same moral status that people do, and so in moral deliberation the sim…
This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect, whether as tourist attractions, wildlife conservation tools, as travel companions or as meat to be eaten. It aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing bo…
Det här är en berättelse om elefanten, tigern och noshörningen, en skrämmande historia om hur dessa djurs överlevnad hotas av tjuvjakt, giriga handelsmän och skrupelfria smugglare.Ola Jennersten och Tom Svensson har följt handels- och smuggelvägar f…
Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency. Yet, its precise meaning is often left unexplored, together with the various obstacles and challenges…
From giving rides to children at the British seaside to pulling a plough in the poorest of countries, donkeys have served humans faithfully since the time of their domestication more than 10,000 years ago. Despite the critical role that they have pl…
Fear and fascination set wasps apart from other insects. Despite their iconic form and distinctive colours, they are surrounded by myth and misunderstanding. Often portrayed in cartoon-like stereotypes bordering on sad parody, wasps have an unwelcom…
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about just how intelligent and emotional animals are--…
All political communities must make decisions about how to regulate the treatment of animals. Most states currently protect animals through outlawing the infliction of 'unnecessary suffering'. But do animals' rights end there? In this book, Alasdair…
