Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism
10 best books like Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (Mark Hawthorne): Bunny, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money, The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0525559736 |
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique...
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0143194798 |
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows...
| Author | Karen Dawn |
| ISBN | 0061351857 |
The animal rights movement has reached a tipping point. No longer a fringe extremist cause, it has become a social concern that leading members of society endorse and young people embrace. From Michael Vick's dog fighting scandal to the incredible success of the bestselling Skinny Bitch veggie diet...
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
| Author | Melanie Joy |
| ISBN | 1573244619 |
This groundbreaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by VegNews Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote themselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for consumption.
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| Author | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |
| ISBN | 0345452828 |
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling,...
Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
| Author | Erik Marcus |
| ISBN | 0975867911 |
Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal agriculture's cruelties and its far-reaching...
The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
| Author | Will Tuttle |
| ISBN | 1590560833 |
Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our culture's values and paradigms at the most...
| Author | Gary L. Francione |
| ISBN | 1566396921 |
Well, I guess have to give this book 5 stars because the information and philosophy contained in the book is so worthy and is an important addition to the subject of animal rights.
I almost didn’t give it 5 stars though because:
It was a bit of a slog to read, which is a shame because the...
| Author | Marjorie Spiegel |
| ISBN | 0962449334 |
Spiegel, executive director of the Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness, has revised her 1989 book to present 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,...
The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator
| Author | Joakim Palmkvist |
| ISBN | 1503904806 |
A chilling true crime story of poisonous family secrets, love gone wrong, and a cold case that refused to stay buried…
In late summer of 2012, millionaire landowner Göran Lundblad went missing from his farm in Sweden. When a search yielded nothing, and all physical evidence had seemingly...
