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  • Dog's Best Friend?

    Rethinking Canid-Human Relations

    Edited by John Sorenson, Atsuko Matsuoka ...
    In almost 40 per cent of households in North America, dogs are kept as companion animals. Dogs may be man's best friends, but what are humans to dogs? If these animals' loyalty and unconditional love have won our hearts, why do we so often view closely related wild canids, such as foxes, wolves, and coyotes, as pests, predatory killers, and demons?Re-examining the complexity and contradictions of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial

    Averting Our Gaze

    by Reingard Spannring, Karen Lykke Syse, Kristian Bjørkdahl, José De Giorgio-Schoorl, Joe Gray, Helen Kopnina, Opi Outhwaite, John Piccolo, Adam See0, John Sorenson1, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann2, Craig Taylor3, Haydn Washington4, Katja Maria Hydle5, Martin Lee Mueller6, Arne Johan Vetlesen7, Tomaž Grušovnik8, Atsuko Matsuoka0 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent decades alternative explanations of social and political inaction have emerged, including denialism. Challenging the information-deficit model, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Critical Theory and Animal Liberation

    by Aaron Bell, Ted Benton, Susan Benston, Christina Gerhardt, John Sorenson, Dennis Soron, Vasile Stanescu, Zipporah Weisberg, Renzo Llorente, Carol J. Adams, Carl Boggs, Karen Davis, Josephine Donovan, Victoria Johnson, Eduardo Mendieta ...
    Series series Nature's Meaning
    Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. The ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Dog's Best Friend?

    Rethinking Canid-Human Relations

    Edited by John Sorenson, Atsuko Matsuoka ...
    In almost 40 per cent of households in North America, dogs are kept as companion animals. Dogs may be man's best friends, but what are humans to dogs? If these animals' loyalty and unconditional love have won our hearts, why do we so often view closely related wild canids, such as foxes, wolves, and coyotes, as pests, predatory killers, and demons?Re-examining the complexity and contradictions of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Critical Animal Studies

    Towards Trans-species Social Justice

    Edited by Atsuko Matsuoka, John Sorenson ...
    Series series Rowman and Littlefield International – Intersections
    This important book charts new territory by showcasing some of the newest developments in the rapidly-growing field of Critical Animal Studies. Critical Animal Studies presents a radical ethical and normative challenge to existing systems of power in the context of neoliberal capitalism and to the existential structure of speciesism. The essays in this book link activist and academic approaches to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Animals and War

    Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex

    by Ian Smith, Justin Goodman, Raj Ramanathapillai, Shalin Gala, John Sorenson, Bill Hamilton, Ana Morron, Julie Andrzejewski, Elliot M. Katz, Colman McCarthy ...
    Series series Critical Animal Studies and Theory
    Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Constructing Ecoterrorism

    Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights

    by John Sorenson ...
    Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial complex understand the animal rights movement as a threat to their profits and have mobilized to undermine it ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Defining Critical Animal Studies

    An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation

    Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha, Atsuko Matsuoka ...
    Series Book 448 - Counterpoints
    This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement that intersects with other movements for positive change. Written by a collection of internationally ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Ape

    by John Sorenson ...
    Series Book 29 - Animal
    Apes - to look at them is to see ourselves in a mirror. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behaviour and social personalities. In Ape, John Sorenson delves into our contradictory relationship with the ape, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does about the apes themselves.From bonobos and chimpanzees to gibbons, gorillas and orangutans, Ape ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

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  • Ship of Fools

    How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution

    by Tucker Carlson ...
    The #1 New York Times bestsellerfrom FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers “a targeted snipe at the Democrats and Republicans and their elite enablers” (New York Journal of Books) in a funny political commentary on how America’s ruling class has failed everyday Americans.“Informal and often humorous…an entertainingly told narrative of elite malfeasance” (Publishers Weekly), Tucker Carlson ... Read more

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 USD