Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelationships between moral cause and organizational culture, including the ways in which expert roles such as investigator and lobbyist inform the practice and outlook of animal protect...(展开全部)

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelationships between moral cause and organizational culture, including the ways in which expert roles such as investigator and lobbyist inform the practice and outlook of animal protect...(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)

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)

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)

Alan Mikhail is Professor of History at Yale University.

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's m...(展开全部)

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's m...(展开全部)