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The Monkey Wars
The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as obsessed with the games as any human teenager). And activists have also uncovered widespread and unnecessarily callous treatment of animals by researchers (in 1982, a Silver Spring lab was charged with 17 counts of animal cruelty). It is a complex issue, made more difficult by the combative stance of both...
Brandywine Boy
Brandywine Boy is a memoir that also includes relevant history, social history and explanations of some features of farm animals. It describes life and events that occurred in the mid-twentieth century as seen through a boy's eyes. Most of the book centers on the author's experiences on a small farm in the Brandywine Valley of southeastern Pennsylvania. The author had a number of Tom Sawyer-like adventures, which included building a log cabin after felling trees with friends 11 to 13 years of age, drinking from a swamp out of necessity, and jumping a barbed wire gate while riding his horse without a saddle. And without television a boy had to depend on his imagination while listening to radio shows. The author is a veterinarian so he speaks authoritatively about the inner workings of farm animals, providing for their needs and the nature of farming in the post-World War II era. Artist Gayle Joseph has added eleven evocative illustrations. Both teenagers and adults, particularly those who grew up in the same era as the author, will enjoy Brandywine Boy.
An Odyssey with Animals
Draws from the disciplines of philosophy, history, biology, and animal behavior to argue in favor of the humane use of animals in biomedical research and negotiate the divide between research and concern for animals.
Psychodynamic Neurology
Psychodynamic Neurology: Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Realty presents a novel way of thinking about the value of dreaming, based in solid comprehension of scientific research on sleep and dreams, but with deep understanding of psychoanalytic and other interpretations of dreams. This book: Surveys the remarkable history of sleep research over the past few decades Examines the neurobiology of sleep and its implications for consciousness and well-being Addresses the nature of waking and dreaming consciousness and how they are deeply related Presents the neurogenesis, function, and clinical importance of a brain-based dream theory Our dreams are a mixture of anticipated virtual as well as remembered real experience. This book tells the story of how neuroscience has helped us reach this startling and exciting conclusion and how the new scientific model builds upon and departs from the dream theories of the past.
Free the Animals
This is the true story of how the animal liberation underground started in the US. It is a plea for the rights of animals, and an action-packed story of underground adventure.
Sting of the Honeybee
In this second novel in the ‘Dan Mallett’ series, he finds himself up against a big-time heavyweight criminal. He is trapped in a farmhouse with a pretty girl and two old ladies and has to use all of his countryside skills to avoid violence at the hands of the heavy ‘mob’. This novel is fast moving and the trap is very skilfully worked out.
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Eco-Warriors
Eco-Warriors was the first in-depth look at the people, actions, history and philosophies behind the "radical" environmental movement. Focusing on the work of Earth First!, the Sea Shepherds, Greenpeace, and the Animal Liberation Front, among others, Rik Scarce told exciting and sometimes frightening tales of front-line warriors defending an Earth they see as being in environmental peril. While continuing to study these movements as a Ph.D. student, Scarce was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to divulge his sources to prosecutors eager to thwart these groups’ activities. In this updated edition, Scarce brings the trajectory of this movement up to date—including material on the Earth Liberation Front—and provides current resources for all who wish to learn more about one of the most dynamic and confrontational political movements of our time. Literate, captivating, and informative, this is also an ideal volume for classes on environmentalism, social movements, or contemporary politics.
Neuroendocrinology of Reproduction
The subject of this book is neuroendocrinology, that branch of biological science devoted to the interactions between the two major integrative organ systems of animals-the endocrine and nervous systems. Although this science today reflects a fusion of endocrinology and neurobiology, this synthetic ap proach is relatively recent. At the beginning of the 20th century, when the British physiologists, Bayliss and Starling, first proposed endocrinology to be an independent field of inquiry, they went to great lengths to establish the autonomy of chemical secretions in general and their independence from nervous control in particular (Bayliss, W. M. , and Starling, E. H. , 1902, The mechanism of ...
