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“steven m wise”

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  • Rattling The Cage

    Toward Legal Rights For Animals

    by Steven M. Wise ...
    The scholar and author of An American Trilogy makes the case to establish legal rights for chimpanzees and bonobos.Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Thing

    Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

    by Sam Machado, Steven M. Wise, Cynthia Machado ...
    Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices and has a sense of self-recognition. But like all nonhuman animals, Happy is considered a thing in the eye of the law, with no fundamental rights. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Animal Ethics and Animal Law

    by A. W. H. Bates, Mariah Rayfield Beck, Alice Collinson, Danielle Duffield, David Favre, Angela Fernandez, Robyn Hederman, Lena Hehemann, Stephanie O’Flynn, Maureen O’Sullivan, Solana Joy Phillips, Frances M.C. Robinson, Rebecca Stanton, Kenneth Valpey, Matthew J. Webber, Ruaidhrí D. Wilson, Steven M. Wise, Oliver Langworthy, Randall Lockwood ...
    Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre’s directors, Andrew Linzey and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... Read more

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  • The Red Queen

    Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    by Matt Ridley ...
    “A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has ... ... Read more

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  • The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    by Frans de Waal ...
    In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he ... Read more

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  • The Age of Empathy

    Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

    by Frans de Waal ...
    In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival and interests?By studying social behaviors in animals, such as bonding, the herd instinct, the forming ... Read more

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  • The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so ... Read more

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  • The Moral Lives of Animals

    by Dale Peterson ...
    Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try toprotect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed torescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save anunrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.Theexamples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Science of Good and Evil

    Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

    by Michael Shermer ...
    From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore)A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to ... Read more

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  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David DeGrazia ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights ... Read more

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  • On Human Nature

    Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the ... Read more

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