I Love Rats More Than Humans
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I Love Rats More Than Humans
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Author : Booki Nova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-14
I Love Rats More Than Humans written by Booki Nova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-14 with categories.
This handy 6" x 9" lined notebook is A great inexpensive gift idea for any occasion.it makes a great birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas or couple anniversary Gift For Rat lovers 6X9 inch, 110 pages, lightly lined, matte softcover
The Infested Mind
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Author : Jeffrey Lockwood
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-25
The Infested Mind written by Jeffrey Lockwood and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with Science categories.
The human reaction to insects is neither purely biological nor simply cultural. And no one reacts to insects with indifference. Insects frighten, disgust and fascinate us. Jeff Lockwood explores this phenomenon through evolutionary science, human history, and contemporary psychology, as well as a debilitating bout with entomophobia in his work as an entomologist. Exploring the nature of anxiety and phobia, Lockwood explores the lively debate about how much of our fear of insects can be attributed to ancestral predisposition for our own survival and how much is learned through individual experiences. Drawing on vivid case studies, Lockwood explains how insects have come to infest our minds in sometimes devastating ways and supersede even the most rational understanding of the benefits these creatures provide. No one can claim to be ambivalent in the face of wasps, cockroaches or maggots but our collective entomophobia is wreaking havoc on the natural world as we soak our food, homes and gardens in powerful insecticides. Lockwood dissects our common reactions, distinguishing between disgust and fear, and invites readers to consider their own emotional and physiological reactions to insects in a new framework that he's derived from cutting-edge biological, psychological, and social science.
The Story Of Rats
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Author : S Anthony Barnett
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2001-08-01
The Story Of Rats written by S Anthony Barnett and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-01 with Science categories.
'Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud.' An English Member of Parliament Are rats still a threat to our health and food? Do they think? Is it true that wild rats sometimes die, unwounded, from social stress? Can studies of rat societies tell us anything useful about our own social lives? Love them or loathe them, everyone has a rat story. Throughout history vast numbers of rats of many species have shared our space, our food and our diseases; and they continue to do so. Yet The Story of Rats is more than a tale about how people and rats live together. It is about science and scientists, the problems they solve and fail to solve, and the scope and imperfections of our scientific knowledge of the world. It is a book for those who love rats or fear them; for the curious, the science literate and non-literate alike. Early in the Second World War, equipped only with firs class honours from Oxford University, Tony Barnett was drafted, not into the trenches (there weren't any), but into the sewers, wharves, food stores and other rat-infested environments offered by a London bombed nightly by the Luftwaffe. Thus began his interest in rats and his academic career in Scotland, India, Australia and North America. He is now Emeritus Professor of Zoology in the Australian National University.
A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy
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Author : Wesley Smith
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2012-07-17
A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy written by Wesley Smith and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Philosophy categories.
Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term “animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animal rights groups do sometimes focus their activism on promoting animal welfare, the larger movement they represent is actually advancing a radical belief system. For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral equivalency between the value of animal lives and the value of human lives. Animal rights ideologues embrace their beliefs with a fervor that is remarkably intense and sustained, to the point that many dedicate their entire lives to “speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves.” Some believe their cause to be so righteous that it entitles them to cross the line from legitimate advocacy to vandalism and harassment, or even terrorism against medical researchers, the fur and food industries, and others they accuse of abusing animals. All people who love animals and recognize their intrinsic worth can agree with Wesley J. Smith that human beings owe animals respect, kindness, and humane care. But Smith argues eloquently that our obligation to humanity matters more, and that granting “rights” to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity. In making this case with reason and passion, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy strikes a major blow against a radically antihuman dogma.
More Cunning Than Man
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Author : Robert Hendrickson
language : en
Publisher: Scarborough House
Release Date : 1983
More Cunning Than Man written by Robert Hendrickson and has been published by Scarborough House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Science categories.
A historical study of the rat and its relationship with man discusses the rodent's impact on history, mankind, art, literature, and folklore, from antiquity to the present day, with a natural historical analysis of the rat and other rodents.
Regarding Animals
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Author : Arnold Arluke
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1996-06-14
Regarding Animals written by Arnold Arluke and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-14 with Nature categories.
Questioning our conflicting views of the role of animals.
How To Love Animals
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Author : Henry Mance
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-04-29
How To Love Animals written by Henry Mance and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with Nature categories.
A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist. This might be the worst time in history to be an animal. But is there a happier way? Factory farms, climate change, deforestation and pandemics have made our relationship with the other species unsustainable. In response, Henry Mance sets out on a personal quest to see if there is a fairer way to live alongside the animals we love. He goes to work in an abattoir and on a farm to investigate the reality of eating meat and dairy. He explores our dilemmas around over-fishing the seas, visiting zoos and owning pets, and he meets the chefs, activists, scientists and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals. A Times Book of the Year
For The Love Of Lab Rats
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Author : Simone Dennis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
For The Love Of Lab Rats written by Simone Dennis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Nature categories.
The movement of research animals across the divides that have separated scientist investigators and research animals as Baconian dominators and research equipment respectively might well give us cause to reflect about what we think we know about scientists and animals and how they relate to and with one another within the scientific coordinates of the modern research laboratory. Scientists are often assumed to inhabit the ontotheological domain that the union of science and technology has produced; to master 'nature' through its ontological transformation. Instrumental reason is here understood to produce a split between animal and human being, becoming inextricably intertwined with human self-preservation. But science itself is beginning to take us back to nature; science itself is located in the thick of posthuman biopolitics and is concerned with making more than claims about human being, and is seeking to arrive at understandings of being as such. It is no longer relevant to assume that instrumental reason continues to hold a death grip on science, nor that it is immune from the concerns in which it is deeply embedded. And, it is no longer possible to assume that animal human relationships in the lab continue along the fault line of the Great Divide. This book raises critical questions about what kinship means, or might mean, for science, for humanimal relations, and for anthropology, which has always maintained a sure grip on kinship but has not yet accounted for how it might be validly claimed to exist between humanimals in new and emerging contexts of relatedness. It raises equally important questions about the position of science at the forefront of new kinships between humans and animals, and questions our assumptions about how scientific knowing is produced and reflected upon from within the thick of lab work, and what counts as 'good science'. Much of it is concerned with the quality of humanimal relatedness and relationship. For the Love of Lab Rats will be of great interest to scientists, laboratory workers, anthropologists, animal studies scholars, posthumanists, phenomenologists, and all those with an interest in human-animal relations.
Rat
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Author : Jonathan Burt
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2006-01-15
Rat written by Jonathan Burt and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-15 with Pets categories.
The rat has been described as the shadow of the human: from ancient times through today, it has followed man via routes of commerce and conquest to eventually inhabit nearly every part of the world. Rats have a bad reputation—they spread disease, destroy agricultural produce, and thrive in the darkest corners of human habitation—but they have recently found credibility as a major resource for scientific experimentation. Jonathan Burt here traces the fortunes of the rat in history, myth, and culture. Central to Rat is the history of the relationship between humans and rats and, in particular, the complex human attitudes toward these shrewd creatures. Burt examines why the rat is viewed as more loathsome and verminous than other parasitic animals and considers why humans have had diametrically opposed attitudes about the rat: some cultures greatly admire the rat for its skills, while others consider the rat the scourge of the earth. Burt also draws on a wide range of examples to explore the rat's role in science, culture, and art, from its appearances in children's literature such as The Wind in the Willows to Victorian rat- and dog-baiting pits to its symbolic roles in folklore. Rat offers an intriguing and richly illustrated study of one of nature's most remarkable creatures and ultimately finds that the rat exists as a perverse totem for the worst excesses of human behavior.
Animals In Our Midst The Challenges Of Co Existing With Animals In The Anthropocene
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Author : Bernice Bovenkerk
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-04-29
Animals In Our Midst The Challenges Of Co Existing With Animals In The Anthropocene written by Bernice Bovenkerk and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with Medical categories.
This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offers the reader insight into the different discussions that exist around the topics of how we should understand animal agency, how we could take animal agency seriously in farms, urban areas and the wild, and what technologies are appropriate and morally desirable to use regarding animals. This book is of interest to both animal studies scholars and environmental ethics scholars, as well as to practitioners working with animals, such as wildlife managers, zookeepers, and conservation biologists.