Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals
10 best books like Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals (Karen Dawn): Dry, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, Vegan with a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery, Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism
Author | Augusten Burroughs |
ISBN | 0312423799 |
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when...
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
Author | Charles Patterson |
ISBN | 1930051999 |
The book examines the origins of human supremacy, describes the emergence of industrialized slaughter of both animals and people in modern times, and concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust. ETERNAL TREBLINKA describes disturbing parallels...
Vegan with a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock
Author | Isa Chandra Moskowitz |
ISBN | 1569243581 |
The classic first cookbook from the coauthor of Veganomicon is back with even more tasty recipes, chatty anecdotes, and money-saving tips for easy plant-based cooking, featuring tempting full-color photos throughout.
Ten years ago a young Brooklyn chef was making a name for herself by...
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Author | Matthew Scully |
ISBN | 0312319738 |
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.--Genesis 1:24-26
In this crucial passage from...
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...
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 | Matt Ball |
ISBN | 1590561201 |
Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich take the plight of the world's animals seriously and have dedicated their lives to ending their suffering. The Animal Activist's Handbook argues that meaning in life is to be found, quite simply, in turning away from the futile pursuit of "more," and focusing instead on...
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,...
Author | Mark Hawthorne |
ISBN | 1846940915 |
This is a really good book and I am grateful that Mark Hawthorne has written it. It is such a useful tool for anyone who wants to help animals. Each chapter thoroughly covers a different form of activism such as letterwriting, leafleting and protesting, and goes over the what, how, where, when and why for...
Author | Crescent Dragonwagon |
ISBN | 0761128255 |
Introducing a new voice in vegetarian cooking. Packed with 1,000 recipes that are seductive, sexy, and utterly delicious, Passionate Vegetarian covers all the bases of meatless cooking, from east (Stir Fry of Asparagus with Black Bean-Ginger Sauce), west (Talk of the Town Barbecued Tofu), from...