彼得·辛格（Peter Singer） 澳大利亚著名道德哲学家，现代效用主义代表人物，全球动物解放（保护）运动的倡导者，曾任国际伦理学学会主席、美国普林斯顿大学生物伦理学教授、澳大利亚墨尔本大学应用哲学与公共伦理中心荣誉教授，专事应用伦理学的研究。 他于 1946年6月6日出生于澳大利亚墨尔本。父亲和母亲是奥地利被纳粹攻占后的犹太移民。1938 年他们从维也纳逃到澳大利亚。彼得 · 辛格的父亲是位成功的茶与咖啡进口商，祖父曾与弗洛伊德共同发表多篇文章。他有三位祖辈死于大屠杀。 他师从英国道德哲学家理查德 · 麦尔文· 黑尔（RichardMervyn Hare）教授，于1971年获得了牛津大学博士学位。他先后在牛津大学、纽约大学、莫纳什大学及普林斯顿大学等高校执教，曾在莫纳什大学成立人类生物伦理学中心。 1971年，《饥荒，富裕与道德 》（ Fami...(展开全部)

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal communities, Animal Life explores and explains every aspect of animal behavior, including courtship and mating rituals, family relationships and defense mechanisms, hunting techniques and feeding habits. Now in paperback!

If animal behavior is mostly instinctual, why do animals need to communicate? Is it possible that there is a universal language spoken and understood by all animals on earth, including humans? Do barks, growls, rumbles, chirps, yips, and meows have communicative meanings?"No matter what species," writes acclaimed science journalist Tim Friend, "we're all concerned with the same...(展开全部)

If animal behavior is mostly instinctual, why do animals need to communicate? Is it possible that there is a universal language spoken and understood by all animals on earth, including humans? Do barks, growls, rumbles, chirps, yips, and meows have communicative meanings?"No matter what species," writes acclaimed science journalist Tim Friend, "we're all concerned with the same...(展开全部)

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal communities, Animal Life explores and explains every aspect of animal behavior, including courtship and mating rituals, family relationships and defense mechanisms, hunting techniques and feeding habits. Now in paperback!

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

Come and join the fun as a group of creatures from the Indian jungle shows children from all over the world how to dance to the animal boogie An elephant, a sloth bear, a vulture, and a snake are some of the characters who will help you boogie your way through this playful book. A lively, rhyming text, a musical score, and an easy-to-learn dance routine teach children coordina...(展开全部)

Newly revised and up-to-date, this edition of The Social Animal is a brief, compelling introduction to modern social psychology. Through vivid narrative, lively presentations of important research, and intriguing examples, Elliot Aronson probes the patterns and motives of human behavior, covering such diverse topics as terrorism, conformity, obedience, politics, race relations,...(展开全部)

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviti...(展开全部)