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One day in the life of 179212 - notes from an american prison

To a correctional facility in Virginia he is known as Prisoner 179212. But to a legion of journalists and legal reform activists he is Jens Soering, a German citizen who has endured, for the past twenty-six years, the harshest and most unforgiving punishment the USA can offer—a life sentence without realistic hope of release, which some refer to as "the other death penalty." Told with dry humour,
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Polar Bear In The Zoo : A Speculation

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
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Growl : Life Lessons, Hard Truths, and Bold Strategies from an Animal Advocate

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
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Humans, animals, and society - an introduction to human-animal studies

While animals have played a central part in human society over the years, when it comes to the social sciences they have largely been neglected. However, interest in Human–Animal Studies (HAS) has grown exponentially in recent years, giving rise to university and college courses around the world specifically on this compelling and vital subject. Considering topics ranging from the human–animal bon
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Defiant Daughters : 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat

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
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Oxen At The Intersection : A Collision

When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was
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Terrorization of dissent - corporate repression, legal corruption, and the

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
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Entangled Empathy : An Alternative Ethic For Our Relationships with Animals

In ENTANGLED EMPATHY, academic and activist, Lori Gruen, argues that rather than focusing on animal rights, we ought to work to make our relationships with animals right by empathetically responding to their needs, interests, desires, vulnerabilities, hopes and unique perspectives. Pointing out that we are already entangled in complex and life-altering relationships with other animals, Gruen guide
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Changing The Game : Animal Liberation in the Twenty-First Century

Norm Phelps has long been one of the leading theoreticians, historians and strategists of the animal advocacy movement. His new book collects his recent writings on this subject, as well as offers in print for the first time a fully revised and updated version of the e-book he published in 2013. Phelps argues that faced with the overwhelming wealth and power of the animal exploitation industries,
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World becomes what we teach - educating a generation of solutionaries

How can we create a just, healthy and humane world? What is the path to developing sustainable energy, food, transportation, production, construction and other systems? What's the best strategy to end poverty and ensure that everyone has equal rights? How can we slow the rate of extinction and restore ecosystems? How can we learn to resolve conflicts without violence and treat other people and non
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Egypt Code (The) (Q)

Why did the ancients align their monuments so precisely with the stars? What were the practical and symbolic reasons behind these mysterious configurations? From the author of The Orion Mystery, the bestselling book that introduced the revolutionary starcorrelation theory about the Giza pyramids, The Egypt Code reveals an amazing Grand Unified Plan behind the legendary temples of upper Egypt. R
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Terror conspiracy revisited - what really happened on 9/11 and why were sti

The year 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, those history-changing events that have come to be known simply as 9/11. In The Terror Conspiracy Revisited, the world's leading conspiracy writer updates his authoritative dissection of the official story of 9/11.
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Kivas Of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore

Orion dominates the winter sky, flanked by Taurus the Bull on one side and Canis the Great Dog on the other-three key constellations for the Hopi and prehistoric Pueblo People of the American Southwest. When these stars appear in the entryway of the kiva roof, they synchronize the sacred rituals being performed below. Here we see how a complex ceremonial cycle mirrors the turning of the heavens. J
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Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations: The Secret Space Program, Celestial Psyops and Hidden Conflicts

Oxford-educated historian Farrell's sequel to Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops delves into the creation of a breakaway civilisation by the Nazis in South America and other parts of the world. He discusses the advanced technology that they took with them at the end of the war and psychological war that they waged for decades on America and NATO. He investigates the secret space programmes currently go
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THINK LIKE A PUBLISHER: 33 Essential Tips To Write, Promote & Sell Your Book

We all know the publishing world has changed. An explosion in printed book, Ebooks, and self-publishing has contributed to more new titles coming to market than ever before. With so much happening, how does an author stand out from the crowd? Not to mention turn a profit.
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Grid - exploring the hidden infrastructure of reality

The examination of parallel universes, wormholes and extra dimensional portals might sound like the beginning of a Ray Bradbury novel—but this isn't science fiction. In THE GRID, authors, Larry Flaxman and Marie D. Jones, present their theory of The Grid —the pattern by which all of reality is built upon and structured around. Using evidence from quantum theory as well as support from many religio
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Disinformation Guide To Ancient Aliens, Lost Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology & Hidden History

Contributions by David Hatcher Childress, Erich von Daniken, Graham Hancock, Frank Joseph, Robert M. Schoch, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos and othersWas our planet visited by alien astronauts in prehistory? Did it suffer collisions with a comet or asteroid? Do ancient myths and tales describe these visits and disasters in graphic detail? This is an exploration of "hidden history", an area of enquiry that c
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Prison industrial complex for beginners

PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FOR BEGINNERS is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States. As far back as the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system, marked its emergence as a “complex” in a manner comparable to how President Eisenhower mar
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Black panthers for beginners

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the pavement as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leapt from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. The young men surrounded two white police officers who had accosted a black man and had him spread-eagled against a building.The young men did not say a word as the police officers wat
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Freemasonry for beginners

Many people have heard of Freemasonry, but few have any idea what it is, what it does or why it exists. FREEMASONRY FOR BEGINNERS will give you the basic facts about Freemasonry and why it remains active today. Freemasonry is not a religion, but rather a spiritual self-help society whose declared purpose is to help members become better citizens and it has a strong track record in doing just that
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