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Abandoned: Chronicling the Journeys of Once-Forsaken Dogs uses fine art photography to chronicle the lives of abandoned dogs. Striking, emotionally charged images document each dog´s journey from a shelter or rescue to a loving, permanent home. The photographs illustrate the profound benefits of animal adoption for both dogs and owners.   Katherine Carver pursued Abandoned: Chronicling th

Censored Landscapes is a compelling long-term photographic project that unveils the hidden reality of animal agriculture. Photographs, essays, poetry, and research together tell a factual story about the most abusive industry of the 21st century.   Isabella La Rocca González´s lens captures the haunting beauty of landscapes that portray the animal agricultural industry. A number di

You Had to Be There is an unconventional, interdisciplinary reconsideration of established themes surrounding climate change. Alternating between the academic and the personal, Jess Bugg reaches a unique, and ultimately hopeful, conclusion.   Operating at the crossroads of memoir, academia, and literature, You Had to Be There offers a fresh, hopeful perspective on the seemingly hopeless s

Albert Bandura´s ideas about the methods people use to avoid feeling guilty about harming others have led to valuable insights about many forms of mass violence, from wartime atrocities to terrorism and genocide. Happy Meat, Humane Animal Research, and Other Myths applies these insights to another form of mass violence: the many ways people harm animals. Each of the first eight chapters discusses

This book highlights significant contributions to animal studies and animal rights activism regarding the total liberation of all life on Earth for more peaceful non/human coexistence. Contributors push the concept of coexistence to include not merely existing but for all to thrive in a multispecies world.   Exploring Topics in Non/human Coexistence serves as a unifying platform for indivi

Based on a true story, Free Bird: Flaco the Owl´s Dreams Take Flight is an inspiring picture book for children ages four to eight chronicling the adventures of Flaco the owl as he escapes from a zoo to follow his dreams of flying and enjoying freedom in the wilds of NYC.   Embark on an exciting journey with Flaco the owl in Free Bird: Flaco the Owl´s Dreams Take Flight! This captivating pi

Amidst the challenges of our times, many of us yearn for transformative healing in our personal lives and in the world. Through a simple, compassionate change in what we eat, we have the power to uplevel our emotional and spiritual well-being, find greater purpose and connection, and heal our planet.   Many of us long to create healing and transformation in our lives—to thrive in mi

In this revised and updated edition, Krissy Pozatek teaches parents to examine their own patterns and build new skills to help teens and young adults in crisis and treatment to become more self-aware, build new skills, regain confidence, and learn how to safeguard the emotional work their child is doing in treatment.   The bestselling The Parallel Process revised and updated new edition c

Muzzling a Movement is an honest analysis of and reflections on the evolution of the animal rights movement over the past half decade. Featuring wisdom from activists spanning multiple generations, we learn what a newer generation of changemakers have implemented, leaving us to conclude that change doesn´t always mean progress.   Corporate greed and politics drive lawmakers to suppress th

Did you know that cows have best friends? That after giving birth, cows and their calves form powerful, lasting bonds? Voices of the Herd takes you inside animal sanctuaries, where cows are cherished as unique beings with deep emotions. This stunning coffee-table book features breathtaking photography and moving rescue stories that reveal the hidden lives of cows, as told by the people who know th

Vegan Made Easy is an essential guide for transitioning to plant-based living. It highlights the benefits for personal health, the environment, and our fellow sentient beings while addressing social challenges. This book offers practical strategies to help readers navigate obstacles, making the journey to veganism easier and more enjoyable.   Vegan Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Plant-Bas

What about plants? Don't animals eat other animals? There are no perfect vegans, so why bother? If you're vegan, how many times have you been asked these, and other similarly challenging, questions from non-vegans?Using humour and reason, Sherry F. Colb takes these questions at face value and, also, delves deeply into the motivations behind them, coming up with answers that are not only intelligen

In recent years, endurance athletes, bodybuilders and long-distance runners such as Ruth Heidrich, Scott Jurek, Rich Roll, Brendan Brazier, Robert Cheeke and many others have destroyed the notion that you cannot be a top-flight competitor on a plant-based diet and upended the stereotype that veganism means weakness, placidity and passivity. But are there deeper connections between veganism and run

Through the lens of Rowe's relationships with two Kenyan conservationists - Wangari Maathai and Daphne Sheldrick - THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM surveys a number of prejudices that many of us who are fortunate to be born with the privileges attached to our skin colour, sex and access to resources don't like to deal with: race, misogyny and the legacy of empire. By examining the two women's memoirs (Un

A cancer survivor, an Ironman Triathlete and widely decorated marathon runner, Ruth Heidrich has long been a role model to athletes of all ages. But over the years even Ruth herself has encountered the various, commonly held misbeliefs about running, from "women shouldn't run" to "you need to change your diet to run," that prevent people from lacing up their shoes and getting off the couch. In thi

In THE POLAR BEAR IN THE ZOO, Martin Rowe studies a photograph by the Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur in the context of her series 'We Animals' and the portraits of several other photographers of captive animals. Rowe looks at how we come to the window to stare at the creatures and the ways we frame our ideas about them within the exposure and capture provided by the photograph and the z

Foreword by Brian May.For four decades, Kim Stallwood has had a front seat in the animal rights movement, starting at the grassroots in England and working his way up to leadership positions at some of the best-known organisations in the world, including Compassion In World Farming, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Yet, as Stallwo

When The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams was published more than twenty years ago, it caused an immediate stir among writers and thinkers, feminists and animal rights activists alike. Never before had the relationship between patriarchy and meat eating been drawn so clearly, the idea that there lies a strong connection between the consumption of wom

For fans of The Vegan Family Cookbook - and anyone who is concerned about animals, the environment and their health – Chef, Brian McCarthy, is back with a cookbook that shows that international vegan food is not only good for the planet and good for you, but it's easy and fun to prepare too. THE GLOBAL VEGAN FAMILY COOKBOOK contains more than 300 simple, nutritious recipes, such as Turkish Bean So

In 2006 the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was passed in the USA with the intention to equip law enforcement agencies with the tools to apprehend, prosecute and convict individuals who commit "animal enterprise terror." But, as many have come to realise, this act does not concretely define what is meant by that phrase, leading to the interpretation that anyone interfering with a company's