Search results for “[Subject: animals]”

• Author(s): Roberto Marchesini • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Veterinary Medicine - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world, conceived as a basic function...

• Author(s): Jennifer Parker-Starbuck • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismPerforming Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and...

• Author(s): R. Malamud • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: AestheticsA fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Writt...

• Author(s): C. J. Barnard • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralThe study of animal behaviour, particularly from evolutionary and ecological viewpoints, has been one of the major growing po...

• Author(s): Colin Burgess • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyThis book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nation...

• Author(s): G. Sales • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralIn recent years there has been a rapid increase in the understanding of communication between animals and this is perhaps especially true of bio-acoustics. ...

• Author(s): Ashley Ward • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (Animal Behavior)From the Back CoverThe last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal...

• Author(s): K. Peggs • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAnimals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; h...

• Author(s): Kendra Coulter • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Animals - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn this thought-provoking and innovative book, Kendra Coulter examines the diversity of work done with, by, and...

• Author(s): Robert Garner • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn this thorough, yet accessible, book, Robert Garner explores the character of animal protection policy making in Brit...

• Author(s): Alison Langdon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: MedievalFrom the Back CoverThe essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation ...

• Author(s): Natalie Thomas • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverThis book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are...

• Author(s): Paul E. Nachtigall • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralThe first meeting on biosonar that I had the opportunity to attend was held in 1978 on the Island of Jersey in the Engli...

• Author(s): Damiano Benvegnù • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFrom the Back CoverSituated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remark...

• Author(s): A. Harden • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalThis sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the pl...

• Author(s): A. Ratelle • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureExamining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, ...

• Author(s): Jennifer Bloise • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Teaching - General

• Author(s): T. Ryan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophySocial Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It...

• Author(s): Sabrina Brando | Sarah Chapman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Veterinary Medicine - GeneralMany wild animals in human care live longer than their wild counterparts because of modern care and wellbeing pr...

• Author(s): Graham Taylor • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Mechanics - FluidsThe physical principles of swimming and flying in animals are intriguingly different from those of ships and airplanes. The study of animal ...

• Author(s): Helen Mellanby • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebratesby Professor L. E. Eastham Formerly Professor of Zoology in the University of Sheffield Most books are written with th...

• Author(s): Edward N. Eadie • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Ichthyology & HerpetologyFrom the Back CoverThis book examines the contents, influence, and potential of a personal selection ...

• Author(s): G. Habermehl • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ToxicologyVenomous Animals have been a threat to man at all times, in the warm and wilder regions more than in the temperate areas. People in especially danger...

• Author(s): Claire Molloy • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyHow do mainstream film, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with topics such as vivisection, hunt...

• Author(s): C. S. Elton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralTHE ECOLOGICAL SURVEY on which this book is based began to be planned in 1942, and since 1945 has been mainly centred upon Oxford University's estate at ...

• Author(s): R. Moss • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThis text on animal pollution dynamics should be of interest to those studying ecology, population dynamics and pest control.

• Author(s): Shigeru Watanabe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robo...

• Author(s): M. Dawkins • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Generalthe oleic acid on a live and wriggling sister or mother and refrain from evicting her from our hive. But does the occur- rence of unintelligent behavior s...

• Author(s): Tia Hoffer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Forensic PsychologyThis book presents results from a BAU study including 259 active, animal cruelty cases. In addition, there were a total of 495 animal victims ...

• Author(s): Franz Pirchner • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralThis book attempts to outline population genetics and quantitative ge- netics as they pertain to animal breeding and to disc...

• Author(s): Anja Heister • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Veterinary Medicine - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"Anja Heister's Beyond the North American Model for Wildlife Conservation is an informed and passiona...

• Author(s): T. Dougherty • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAnimal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations t...

• Author(s): S. Rajamannar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: FeministDiscusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played int...

• Author(s): Judith Korb • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverResearch on the evolution of social behaviour has been dominated by genetic relatedness for a long time; however, both recent empirica...

• Author(s): John E. Whalan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: PharmacologyFrom the Back CoverThis guide provides an easy-to-use desk reference for diagnostic information on commonly used hematology, clinical chemistry, ...

• Author(s): David B. Peakall • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralEcotoxicology is a relatively new scientific discipline. Indeed, it might be argued that it is only during the last 5-10 y...