The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World
10 best books like The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World (Matt Ball): The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter, The Water Dancer, Animal Liberation, 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, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach, The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments, Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
| Author | Marc Bekoff |
| ISBN | 1577315022 |
Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff’s years studying social communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with...
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
| Author | Peter Singer |
| ISBN | 0060011572 |
The Book That Started A Revolution
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation...
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 | Gene Baur |
| ISBN | 0743291581 |
Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry. Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens as friendly creatures who live happily within...
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...
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
| Author | Chip Heath |
| ISBN | 0385528752 |
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up? Chip and Dan Heath, the best-selling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a ground-breaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and...
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach
| Author | Tobias Leenaert |
| ISBN | 1590565703 |
In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals,...
William Bridges' lifelong work has been devoted to a deep understanding of transitions and to helping others through them. When his own wife of thirty-five years died of cancer, however, he was thrown head-first into the kind of painful and confusing abyss he had known before only in theory. An honest...
Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals
| Author | Steven M. Wise |
| ISBN | 0738204374 |
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 the cognitive,...
Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
This book is about a revolution--a revolution of the heart.
The exploitation of animals is pervasive, entrenched, and horrific. In this book, the authors reject the idea that animal use is morally acceptable if we treat animals “humanely.” They reject the campaigns for “compassionate”...
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
| Author | Francis Weller |
| ISBN | 1583949755 |
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective...
Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal
| Author | Tim Hayes |
| ISBN | 1250033519 |
Riding Home:The Power of Horses to Heal is the first and only book to scientifically and experientially explain why horses have the extraordinary ability to emotionally transform the lives of thousands of men, women and children, whether they are horse lovers, or suffering from deep psychological...
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
| Author | David Livingstone Smith |
| ISBN | 0312532725 |
A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today’s headlines
“Brute.” “Cockroach.” “Lice.” “Vermin.” “Dog.” “Beast.” These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans—for...
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals,...
