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Trash Animals

Author : Kelsi Nagy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816686742
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Trash Animals written by Kelsi Nagy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish, even though the trout they hope to catch are often equally non-native. Wolves and coyotes are feared and hunted in numbers wildly disproportionate to the dangers they pose to humans and livestock. In Trash Animals, a diverse group of environmental writers explores the natural history of wildlife species deemed filthy, unwanted, invasive, or worthless, highlighting the vexed relationship humans have with such creatures. Each essay focuses on a so-called trash species—gulls, coyotes, carp, cockroaches, magpies, prairie dogs, and lubber grasshoppers, among others—examining the biology and behavior of each in contrast to the assumptions widely held about them. Identifying such animals as trash tells us nothing about problematic wildlife but rather reveals more about human expectations of, and frustrations with, the natural world. By establishing the unique place that maligned species occupy in the contemporary landscape and in our imagination, the contributors challenge us to look closely at these animals, to reimagine our ethics of engagement with such wildlife, and to question the violence with which we treat them. Perhaps our attitudes reveal more about humans than they do about the animals. Contributors: Bruce Barcott; Charles Bergman, Pacific Lutheran U; James E. Bishop, Young Harris College; Andrew D. Blechman; Michael P. Branch, U of Nevada, Reno; Lisa Couturier; Carolyn Kraus, U of Michigan–Dearborn; Jeffrey A. Lockwood, U of Wyoming; Kyhl Lyndgaard, Marlboro College; Charles Mitchell, Elmira College; Kathleen D. Moore, Oregon State U; Catherine Puckett; Bernard Quetchenbach, Montana State U, Billings; Christina Robertson, U of Nevada, Reno; Gavan P. L. Watson, U of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Garbage and Trash

Author : Holly Duhig
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 1541587057
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Garbage and Trash written by Holly Duhig and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2020 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctant readers will love the gross-out factor these books bring to learning about biological processes.

A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

Author : Jakob von Uexküll
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903798
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans written by Jakob von Uexküll and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within posthumanist philosophy, influencing such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, and, most recently, Giorgio Agamben, who has called Uexküll “a high point of modern antihumanism.” A key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans advances Uexküll’s revolutionary belief that nonhuman perceptions must be accounted for in any biology worth its name; it also contains his arguments against natural selection as an adequate explanation for the present orientation of a species’ morphology and behavior. A Theory of Meaning extends his thinking on the umwelt, while also identifying an overarching and perceptible unity in nature. Those coming to Uexküll’s work for the first time will find that his concept of the umwelt holds new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the framework of biopolitics.

Saving Animals

Author : Elan Abrell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452961921
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Saving Animals written by Elan Abrell and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States In the past three decades, animal rights advocates have established everything from elephant sanctuaries in Africa to shelters that rehabilitate animals used in medical testing, to homes for farmed animals, abandoned pets, and entertainment animals that have outlived their “usefulness.” Saving Animals is the first major ethnography to focus on the ethical issues animating the establishment of such places, where animals who have been mistreated or destined for slaughter are allowed to live out their lives simply being animals. Based on fieldwork at animal rescue facilities across the United States, Elan Abrell asks what “saving,” “caring for,” and “sanctuary” actually mean. He considers sanctuaries as laboratories where caregivers conceive and implement new models of caring for and relating to animals. He explores the ethical decision making around sanctuary efforts to unmake property-based human–animal relations by creating spaces in which humans interact with animals as autonomous subjects. Saving Animals illustrates how caregivers and animals respond by cocreating new human–animal ecologies adapted to the material and social conditions of the Anthropocene. Bridging anthropology with animal studies and political philosophy, Saving Animals asks us to imagine less harmful modes of existence in a troubled world where both animals and humans seek sanctuary.

Trash Revolution

Author : Erica Fyvie
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1525301144
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Trash Revolution written by Erica Fyvie and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know all about how your stuff impacts the environment? Think again! Where did all our “stuff” come from? And where does it go when we’re done with it? Kids find out by tracking the life cycles of typical items in a school backpack — water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals and electronics. Though they all end as waste, there are lots of decisions to be made along the way. And kids will see that there’s an important, constructive role they can play by making choices that are good for them — and for the planet! A cotton T-shirt. A plastic water bottle. A cell phone. Kids will never look at their stuff the same way again!

We the Animals

Author : Justin Torres
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547577001
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book We the Animals written by Justin Torres and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award–winning author of Blackouts. In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become. “A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver’s or Jeffrey Eugenides’s voice did when we first heard it.” —The Washington Post Three brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. “We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful. It resembles no other book I’ve read.” —Michael Cunningham “A fiery ode to boyhood. . . A welterweight champ of a book.” —NPR, Weekend Edition NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Animal Facts to Make You Smile!

Author : Grace Hansen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496613163
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Animal Facts to Make You Smile! written by Grace Hansen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These animal facts are sure to make just about everyone smile and sometimes go "awwwe!" Little readers will learn a cute or funny fact about some of their favorite animals. A colorful, full-bleed photograph will accompany each fact and will certainly attract reluctant readers too. Complete with a table of contents, glossary, index, and even more facts!

Trash Vortex

Author : Danielle Smith-Llera
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756557496
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Trash Vortex written by Danielle Smith-Llera and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds, fish, and other animals, harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle with fear and hope as they work to stop the flood of plastic threatening living organisms across the globe.

Porkopolis

Author : Alex Blanchette
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012048
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Porkopolis written by Alex Blanchette and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals. Corporations' pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig—one that can yield materials for over 1000 products—creates social and environmental instabilities that transform human lives and livelihoods. Throughout Porkopolis, which includes dozens of images by award-winning photographer Sean Sprague, Blanchette uses factory farming to rethink the fraught state of industrial capitalism in the United States today.

Disposable Animals

Author : Craig Brestrup
Publisher : Camino Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780965728591
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Disposable Animals written by Craig Brestrup and published by Camino Bay Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gorgeous Beasts

Author : Joan B. Landes
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061421
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Gorgeous Beasts written by Joan B. Landes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes. This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history, cultural studies, and the visual arts. By approaching animals from such different perspectives, these essays broaden the scope of animal studies to include specialists and nonspecialists alike, inviting readers from all backgrounds to consider the place of animals in history and art. Combining provocative critical insights with arresting visual imagery, Gorgeous Beasts advances a challenging new appreciation of animals as co-inhabitants and co-creators of culture. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Dean Bavington, Ron Broglio, Mark Dion, Erica Fudge, Cecilia Novero, Harriet Ritvo, Nigel Rothfels, Sajay Samuel, and Pierre Serna.

Barf and Poop

Author : Holly Duhig
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 1541587022
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Barf and Poop written by Holly Duhig and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2020 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do animals really eat barf and poop? They sure do! Full-color photography and funny facts will engage young readers in learning about the biological processes of living things"--

Feral Animals in the American South

Author : Abraham Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107156947
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Feral Animals in the American South written by Abraham Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book retells American southern history from feral animals' perspective, examining social, cultural, and evolutionary consequences of domestication and feralization.

Free the Animals

Author : Ingrid Newkirk
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1930051220
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Free the Animals written by Ingrid Newkirk and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of how the animal liberation underground started in the US. It is a plea for the rights of animals, and an action-packed story of underground adventure.

Animal Welfare and Human Values

Author : Rod Preece
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587670
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Animal Welfare and Human Values written by Rod Preece and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find themselves constantly being made aware of the atrocities committed in the Society’s jurisdiction. They have been, in turn, puzzled, exasperated and horrified at humanity’s cruelty to our fellow sentient beings. The issues discussed in this book are the most contentious in animal welfare disputes — animal experimentation, fur-farming and trapping, the use of animals for human entertainment and the conditions under which animals are raised for human consumption. They are complex issues and should be thought about fairly and seriously. The authors, standing squarely on the side of the animals, suggest “community” and “belonging” as concepts through which to understand our relationships to other species. They ground their ideas in Wordsworth’s “primal sympathy” and Jung’s “unconscious identity” with the animal realm. The philosophy developed in this book embraces common sense and compromise as the surest paths to the goal of animal welfare. It requires respect and consideration for other species while acknowledging our primary obligations to our fellow humans.

Ricky the Time Traveling Trash Panda

Author : Kent Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781714325399
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Ricky the Time Traveling Trash Panda written by Kent Golden and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that just might make you question your life - but in a good way! Great for teens to adults, this is an adventure in moral questions surrounding humans and animals sharing the same planet. Lots of quirky humor and fun adventure.***An injured raccoon from the future. . .A shy girl. . .A mission to save the planet. . . But something wasn't right. Ricky thought he was prepared for anything. But he soon learned that a broken leg, an overly protective cat, and vindictive squirrels were the least of his worries. His mission was simple - save three targets in order to change the fate of the world and all of humanity. Those three targets were so important to the future of animals that he couldn't wait to meet them. Only they were the stuff of nightmares. . . A butcher, a hunter, and a scientist, all treating animals in the most horrible ways.Was this really the mission, or was there some kind of mistake? What should he do? The adventure begins!

Animal Rights

Author : Amy Blount Achor
Publisher : Writeware
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Animal Rights written by Amy Blount Achor and published by Writeware. This book was released on 1996 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book/CD-ROM primer for students, professionals, and managers in mapping science, for use in the classroom or as a self-teaching guide. Explains how GPS works, examines software and hardware options, and discusses theory and application in step-by-step and question-and- answer formats, with chapters on automated data collection, differential correction, integrating GPS data with ARC/INFO, and emerging trends. The accompanying disk contains data files for projects, ARC coverages, a program for integrating GPS data digitizer information from USGS topo quads, and answers to exercises. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR