The Compassion of Animals: True Stories of Animal Courage and Kindness The Compassion of Animals, new in paperback, is filled with sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes funny, and always touching stories of the friendship animals have to offer. Each snippet chronicles the amazing acts of kindness animals have showed to human beings when they have been sick, in trouble, sad, or just need a helping hand. They're just the right length to read yourself or aloud to your children before bedtime -- or take them along on your commute to work. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals: A scientist and philosopher, Sheldrak has researched the perceptiveness of pets for the past five years. Discusses a wide variety of unexplained animal phenomena -- including telepathy and premonitions, chicken predicting earthquakes, dogs locating cancer and warning of impending epileptic seizures. A new area to explore. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds The renowned author of A Natural History of the Senses takes readers in search of the "rarest of the rare, " species likely to disappear before most of us have ever seen them. Ackerman shares her concern at the animals' plight, rejoices at the chance to experience them, and cheers those who work to save these fantastic creatures. Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs "Masson looks at the foundation of the human-dog bond, love, loyalty, heroism, submission, dominance, gratitude, fear, loneliness, dignity, humiliation, disappointment, sadness, and aggression. Compellingly argued and compassionately told, it may well be the source of some controversy between animal rights followers who will embrace Masson's message and those who won't believe that animals can actually possess such feelings. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals "A masterpiece, the most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility that I've yet seen".With chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness, all framed by a provocative reevaluation of how we treat animals, When Elephants Weep is the first book since Darwin's time to explore the full range of emotions throughout the animal kingdom, and it features a cast of hundreds. ...will permanently change and enrich the way you look at animals. Animal Liberation The revised and updated edition of the definitive animal liberation text, reports that as many of the abuses of the past have decreased, serious new offenses have taken their place. This book will attract supporters and skeptics alike because of its persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice. Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions ...you will never be the same again. "Please read this book and encourage all your friends to read it too." Albertus Magnus "on Animals": A Medieval "Summa Zoologica" A new copy is not available from Barnes & Noble.com at this time. There is only 1 used two-volume set of this rare title available. This two-volume work seeks to praise Albert the Great by being respectful of his prose and his thoughts, never dragging them out of the 13th century within which they shone so brightly, while at the same time making them comprehensible to contemporary readers and researchers. Although many chapters are scholarly, other parts are simply entertaining, offering useful insights into medieval life not seen elsewhere and drawing one into a real, day-to-day world where the lure and lore of animals are of paramount importance. A new copy is not available from Barnes & Noble.com at this time. There is only 1 copy of this title available. Earth from Above The most revealing and spectacular portrait of our world ever created. Renowned aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand presents nearly 200 striking color images that put our home planet in a whole new perspective. In this case, pictures truly are worth a thousand words. Use this as a tool to teach your children. Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery: ..an in-depth exploration of the similarities between the violence humans have wrought against other humans and our culture's treatment of animals. Using considerable scholarship, she makes a strong case for links between white oppression of black slaves and human oppression of animals. Her thesis is not that the oppressions suffered by black people and animals have taken identical forms but that they share the same relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed. These comparisons include the brandings and auctions of both slaves and animals, the hideous means of transport (slave ships, truckloads of cattle), and the tearing of offspring from their mothers. Library Binding Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery Animal Sacrifices Religious P Religious Practices which consist of killing animals in order to worship the god(s) are responsible for millions of frightening deaths. Since recorded history mankind has viewed animals as scapegoats for our failings. What is it about us that makes us think this is ok?

Animal Grace: Entering a Spiritual Relationship with Our Fellow Creatures In this book, she urges readers to make two basic commitments: to expand their awareness of animals and to take compassionate action on behalf of animals....devotes several chapters to how the world's religions approach human relationships with animals, and she offers comprehensive directions on how to enter and deepen reciprocal relationships with other species. Grace truly does open our hearts and minds, reconnects us to other animals, and by restoring our ties with the natural world enhances and guides our spiritual journey. Stolen for Profit America's pets are disappearing. Reitman rips the veil of secrecy off the animal theft business and shows how profiteers stalk family pets and sell them to unscrupulous labs at universities, drug manufacturers, and cosmetic companies. Stolen for Profit tells the whole story of this industry: the puppy mills, dog-fighting rings and satanic cults who utilize it; the medical research companies who profit from it; the bureaucrats who ignore its existence; the animals who are tortured and exploited by it; and the pet owners who must confront it. A shocking expose'... A new copy is not available from Barnes & Noble.com at this time. There are 107 used copies of this title available. The Case for Animal Rights Tom Regan, the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement feels many animals are not only conscious, but also enjoy a mental life of some complexity--a life that includes perception, memory, desire, belief, self-consciousness, intention, and a sense of the future...defends a general ethical theory, which he calls 'the rights view.'...argues against meat eating, hunting, trapping, and many uses of animals in science." This book is a necessity for any literate being. In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness Donna Seaman has compiled what is perhaps the best collection of short stories to be published this year. If there were a "World Series" for books, IN OUR NATURE would win hands down. Fourteen unforgettable short stories provoke, illuminate, and startle as they explore our perception of nature and the conflict between wildness and civilization within each of us. these compelling short works...remind us how important it is to go where the wild things are. Dead Meat The grisly details of the process by which some six billion warm-blooded creatures find their way onto American plates each year. Political artist Sue Coe spent years visiting slaughterhouses and meat farms in the U.S., Canada and England, all the while drawing and writing about what she saw. The result is a fascinating and revealing portrait..the castrations, debeakings, electrocutions, and decapitations; the skewing, flaying and dismembering; the pathos and tragedy.-- live chicks plowed into the ground as fertilizer! Inhumane Society; The American Way of Exploiting Animals Dr. Fox, Vice President of the Humane Society of the USA, an internationally known defender of wildlife and the environment, states, "This new book is about healing the earth and ourselves in the process ... changing our attitudes to respect and reverence ....Paperback. Food Pets Die for : Shocking Facts about Pet Food "Hidden Hazards in Pet Food: Drugs, Heavy Metals, Pesticides and Pathogens. Mad Cow Disease and how it relates to Our Pets--gets you inside the UNREGULATED world of pet food manufacturers." {*see below} *Legal but not ethical: "Beef By-products" can be obtained from rendering plants- and may legally include dog and cat carcasses, pus and alot of other disgusting things that should be banned. Contact your Senator and Congressman to help get these laws changed! The New Eden: For People, Animals and Nature Dr. Fox, Vice President of the Humane Society of the USA, an internationally known defender of wildlife and the environment, states, "This new book is about healing the earth and ourselves in the process ... changing our attitudes to respect and reverence ..." - the new Eden for man and animals. Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking up to Personal and Global Transformation ..shows both how perilous, and how urgent is the world's current predicament, as we move into a new millennium. Hartmann proposes that the only lasting solution to the crises we face is to re-learn the lessons our ancient ancestors knew those which allowed them to live sustainably for hundreds of thousands of years but which we've forgotten. This is the kind of book which starts movements with millions of people heartfully involved. It's a book every student--and, indeed, every citizen of the world, should read. Souls of Animals Kowalski offers vignettes from the lives of creatures that illustrate the qualities he considers spiritual: playfulness, capacity for love, altruism, and awareness of death. Photos.

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If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in vain.

~ Emily Dickinson

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