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• 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): 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): Michael J. Glover • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Veterinary Medicine - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"In an era when the collective human footprint threatens not only the future of other species, b...

• Author(s): Brett Mills • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television. It explores the variety of ways...

• 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): 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): Deborah Cao • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeJust as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactu...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): M. Boyde • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Plants & AnimalsIn 2008 the youtube video documenting the emotional reunion between two men and Christian the Lion became a w...

• 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): 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): Susan McHugh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyFrom the Back CoverThis volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal rela...

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

• 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): 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): 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): Candice Allmark-Kent • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFrom the Back CoverLiterature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length ...

• Author(s): Rodolfo Piskorski • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryDerrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature analyses what has come to be known, in the Humanities, ...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): J. M. Van Den Brink | N. N. Vorontsov • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - General