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The Ethics of Fur
This is the first multidisciplinary book that addresses the ethics of fur. Whatever might have been true of the past, the production of fur is now morally problematic in terms of both necessity and suffering. There is no necessity in killing animals for nonessential purposes, such as adornment, fashion, or vanity. The argument for utility simply doesn’t hold up. Alternative clothing is now readily available, enduring, and less costly. Worse still, since we know that the animals exploited are sentient, causing them suffering or making animals liable to suffering is arguably intrinsically wrong. The purpose of this volume is to open up and advance further the ethical, political, and specifically legislative endeavors now moving at pace and to encourage the anti-fur movement. That said, there is much to learn from this book about the history, culture, and political arguments for and against fur that should interest scholars and students, as well as those engaged on either side of the debate. It is not common for academics to engage with pressing and contentious moral issues, and we pay tribute to our eighteen contributors for leading the way.
Good Company
Good Company is a vivid and compelling story of life in early twentieth-century Alaska. From the lean years of the Depression through World War II and Vietnam, Sarah Isto's family made a home in "company housing" in the small mining town of Fairbanks. With a wry sense of humor and an eye for detail, Isto tells of the courtship and marriage of her parents and her own Fairbanks childhood, weaving rich descriptions of daily life and northern living into her story. With grace and perception, Good Company celebrates the joys and challenges of family life on the Alaska frontier.
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Portuguese Phrasebook
This book follows John, a businessman who lives in Manchester (UK), around for 2 days. In the process you can witness and study basic, everyday conversations he has with his family, his colleagues at work, with taxi drivers, hotel staff, and many others. This will equip you with very useful phrases and conversation patterns you can use right away, be it for travelling, at work, on your language course, with your partner, or just talking to yourself. Enjoy! Day 1 Morning at home Breakfast Taking Sarah to school Going to the supermarket Packing for the business trip Talking to the secretary about an upcoming trip Making a restaurant reservation Having a team meeting Going for lunch Having a ca...
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: “The history is fascinating.” —Anchorage Daily News In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II, covering an immense region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska an...
A Ladder of Cranes
When watching old men releasing their caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba or even willow catkins in Alaska, Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. Here we meet the wolf of Gubbio when he is old and lame and Li Bai chanting to a Yangtze River dolphin centuries ago, but no matter where he takes us we always come back to the landscape and people of Alaska; to cloudberries in a marsh and a wedding in the village of Ninlichik where he held a crown of gold over the head of the bride. Sexton carefully notes it all in his familiar practice of traditional forms and free verse. The tensions of his formal influences, Chinese and European, force the reader to experience these spare lines and tight observations in new ways.
Caos
Abraham é um revoltado contra o mundo cheio de regras em que vive e, em particular, com seus conterrâneos religiosos dogmáticos. Aí ele se encontra com Deus, que atende às suas queixas. Procura-se apelar para um lado humorístico do ceticismo e das crenças. E o caos é estabelecido.
Por entre as sombras
Ele estava empenhado em ajudar aquela viúva. Rocky Waters conhecera Sarah Jones quando ela era apenas uma tímida adolescente. Mas o escândalo tinha perseguido a filha do senador até à Carolina do Norte e Rocky devia preveni-la daquilo que se avizinhava. Sarah protegia com unhas e dentes a sua intimidade, tal como o pequeno que estava a criar em segredo. Mas Rocky estava empenhado em ajudar aquela encantadora viúva que lhe provocava uma invulgar ternura... para além de muitos outros sentimentos...
