The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
10 best books like The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson): We Were the Mulvaneys, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Serotonin, Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, Anna, Heir to the Glimmering World, Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più, La straniera
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0452282829 |
The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness,...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0374280002 |
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Enter to win a hardcover copy!
Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional...
| 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...
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 | Frans de Waal |
| ISBN | 0307407764 |
"An important and timely message about the biological roots of human kindness."
—Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape
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? In this thought-provoking...
In una Sicilia diventata un'immensa rovina, una tredicenne cocciuta e coraggiosa parte alla ricerca del fratellino rapito. Fra campi arsi e boschi misteriosi, ruderi di centri commerciali e città abbandonate, fra i grandi spazi deserti di un'isola riconquistata dalla natura e selvagge comunità...
Heir to the Glimmering World
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| ISBN | 0618618805 |
Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimmering World, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe’s ousted dreamers, turned...
Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 8887765561 |
Un capolavoro di comicità e virtuosismo stilistico con cui i lettori italiani hanno conosciuto il genio letterario di David Foster Wallace. Commissionatogli inizialmente come articolo per la prestigiosa rivista Harper's, questo reportage narrativo da una crociera extralusso ai Caraibi - iniziato...
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
| Author | Niccolò Ammaniti |
| ISBN | 0857861972 |
Lorenzo has a few issues. They include the fact that he doesn’t have, or want, any friends. Because this is making his parents unhappy, he tells them he has been invited on a skiing holiday with a group from school. In fact, he is planning to spend the week happily ensconced in the cellar of their apartment...
La profezia dell'armadillo
| Author | Zerocalcare |
| ISBN | 8889021446 |
Nipote:"Oh zi, ma hai già letto qualcosa di Michele Rech?"
La sottoscritta: "Chii?"
"Michele Rech, troooppo figoo!!"
"E chi è?"
"Quello che si disegna sempre con l'armadillo!"
"Aaahhhh ma tu vuoi dire Zerocalcare!! Sì, ho appena finito di leggere il suo primo albo: molte...
