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Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,579 ratings — published 1975
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Paradigm)
by (shelved 13 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,191 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,918 ratings — published 1999
The Animal That Therefore I Am (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,115 ratings — published 2006
When Species Meet (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 643 ratings — published 2007
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,939 ratings — published 1990
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.56 — 765 ratings — published 2017
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,650 ratings — published 2009
The Open: Man and Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,194 ratings — published 2002
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,504 ratings — published 2009
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,970 ratings — published 2016
Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 65 ratings — published 2015
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,099 ratings — published 2004
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,590 ratings — published 2010
Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 67 ratings — published 2009
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,275 ratings — published 2022
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,884 ratings — published 2019
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,402 ratings — published 2016
Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance (Counterpunch)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 244 ratings — published 2003
In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 461 ratings — published 1985
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,033 ratings — published 2006
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 17 ratings — published 2011
Case for Animal Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 572 ratings — published 1983
Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.73 — 63 ratings — published 2003
Animal (Focus on Contemporary Issues) (FOCI)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 106 ratings — published 2004
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy Series)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,821 ratings — published 2020
Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 40 ratings — published 2015
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,786 ratings — published 2010
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 488,032 ratings — published 1903
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,760 ratings — published 2016
Pets (The Art of Living)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 52 ratings — published 2008
Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 66 ratings — published 1984
Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 81 ratings — published 2003
Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 568 ratings — published 2007
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 305 ratings — published 1988
The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 78 ratings — published 1987
Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 40 ratings — published 2012
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 352 ratings — published 2000
In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 53 ratings — published 1986
Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 27 ratings — published 2004
What Is Posthumanism? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 206 ratings — published 2009
Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 217 ratings — published 2007
Why Look at Animals? (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,711 ratings — published 2009
On Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,151 ratings — published 2021
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,501 ratings — published 2021
Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published
When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy (Animals in Context, 1)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 73 ratings — published
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,853 ratings — published 1949
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 63,363 ratings — published 2018
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 308 ratings — published 2004
“We are morally required to stop systematically exploiting others, whether chimpanzees or pygmy lemurs, chickens or chinchillas. Nonhuman animals are also persons who fare better or worse depending on the way we treat them, we must begin to give them the respect and dignity that persons deserve”
― Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
― Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”
― Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
― Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice