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Books Published in Human-Animal Studies Aaltola, Elisa. (2012 Books Published in Human-Animal Studies Aaltola, Elisa. (2012). Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Abdill, Margaret N. and Denise Juppe, eds. 1997. Pets in Therapy. Ravensdale, Wash.: Idyll Arbor, Inc. Abram, David. (2011). Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. New York: Vintage Books. Acampora, Christa Davis and Ralph R. Acampora, eds. (2003). A Nietzschean Bestiary: Animality Beyond Docile and Brutal. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Acampora, Ralph, ed. (2010). Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter after Noah. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Acampora, Ralph. (2006). Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip and Rakefet Zalashik, eds. (2013). A Jew's Best Friend: The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History. Sussex Academic Press. Adams, Carol and Josephine Donovan, eds. 1994. Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Adams, Carol J. (2004). Pornography of Meat. New York: Continuum. Adams, Carol J. 1991. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum. Adams, Carol J. 1994. Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals. New York: Continuum. Adams, Carol J., ed. 1993. Ecofeminism and the Sacred. New York: Continuum. Adell-Bath, M., A. Krook, G. Sanqvist, and K. Skantze. 1979. Do We Need Dogs? A Study of Dogs' Social Significance to Man. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg Press. Aftandilian. David, ed. (2007). What Are the Animals To Us ? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press. Agamben, Giorgio (translated by Kevin Attell). (2004). The Open: Man and Animal. Stanford University Press. Aikin, John Dr, Anna Laetitia (Aikin) Barbauld, and Dalziel Brothers. 1879. Evenings at home. London: Frederick Warne and Co. Akhtar, Aysha. (2012). Animals and public health: why treating animals better is critical to human welfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Akhtar, Salman and Vamik D. Volkan, eds. (2003). Cultural Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and its Sublimations. Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press. Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. (2011). The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Aldhouse-Green, Miranda Jane. 1992. Animals in Celtic Life and Myth. Psychology Press. Alford, V. 1978. The Hobby Horse and Other Animal Masks. London: Merlin Press Alger, Janet and Steve Alger. (2003). Cat Culture: The Social World of a Cat Shelter. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Alkhateeb Shehada, Housni. (2013). Mamluks and animals: veterinary medicine in medieval Islam. Leiden ; Boston : Brill. HASResource Bibliography Compiled by Margo DeMello Updated August 12, 2015 Page 2 Allen, Barbara. (2009). Pigeon. London: Reaktion Books. Allen, C., & M. Bekoff . 1999. Species of Mind: The philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Allen, Karen Miller. 1985. The Human-Animal Bond: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. Allen, Mary. 1983. Animals in American Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Allister, Mark Christopher. (2004). Eco-man: New perspectives on masculinity and nature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Alves, Abel. The Animals of Spain: An Introduction to Imperial Perceptions and Human Interaction with Other Animals, 1492-1826. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Ambros, Barbara. (2012). Bones of contention: animals and religion in contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. Anderson, J. K. 1985. Hunting in the Ancient World. Berkeley: University of California Press. Anderson, R. K., B. L. Hart, and L. A. Hart, eds. 1984. The Pet Connection: Its Influence on Our Health and Quality of Life . Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Anderson, R. S. ed. 1984. Pet Animals and Society . London: Bailliere Tindall. Anderson, Stephen R. (2004). Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language. New Haven: Yale University Press. Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. (2004). Creatures of Empire: How domestic animals transformed early America. Oxford , New York: Oxford University Press. HASResource Bibliography Compiled by Margo DeMello Updated August 12, 2015 Page 3 Animal Studies Group. (2006). Killing Animals. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Anthony, Lawrence with Graham Spence. (2009). The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. Appleby, Michael C. 1999. What Should We Do About Animal Welfare? Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell Science. Appleby, Michael C. and Barry O. Hughes, eds. 1997. Animal Welfare. Wallingford, U.K.: CAB International. Aquinas, Saint Thomas. (2007). Compendium of the Summa Theologica of St. Aquinas. London: Gardners Books. Archetti, EP. 1997. Guinea Pigs: Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador. Transl. V Napolitano, P Worsley. Oxford, UK: Berg. Arkow, Phil. (2004). Pet Therapy: A Study and Resource Guide for the Use of Companion Animals in Selected Therapies, 9th Edition. Stratford, NJ. Arluke, Arnold and Clinton Sanders, eds. (2009). Between the Species: A Reader in Human– Animal Relationships. Boston, Mass.: Pearson Education. Arluke, Arnold and Clinton Sanders. 1996. Regarding Animals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Arluke, Arnold and Lauren Rolfe, (2013). The Photographed Cat: Picturing Human-Feline Ties, 1890–1940. Syracuse University Press. Arluke, Arnold and Robert Bogdan. (2010). Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. HASResource Bibliography Compiled by Margo DeMello Updated August 12, 2015 Page 4 Arluke, Arnold. (2006). Brute Force: Animal Police and the Challenge of Cruelty. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Arluke, Arnold. (2006). Just a Dog: Animal Cruelty, Self, and Society. Temple University Press. Armbruster, Karla and Kathleen R.Wallace, eds. (2001). Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticsm. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virgina Press. Armstrong, Philip. (2008). What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity. New York: Routledge. Armstrong, Susan and Richard Botzler. (2008). The Animal Ethics Reader. London, England: Continuum. Arnold, Albert J., ed. 1996. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Ascione, Frank and Phil Arkow, eds. 1999. Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse: Linking the Circles of Compassion for Prevention and Intervention. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press. Ascione, Frank. (2005). Children and Animals: Exploring the Roots of Kindness and Cruelty. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press. Ascione, Frank. (2008). The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research and Application. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press. Asma, Stephen T. (2001). Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums. New York: Oxford University Press. Atkins, P. J. (2012). Animal cities: beastly urban histories. Farnham Surrey: Ashgate. HASResource Bibliography Compiled by Margo DeMello Updated August 12, 2015 Page 5 Atterton, Peter and Matthew Calarco, eds. (2004). Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought. London: Continuum. Auguet, Roland. 1972. Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games. New York, New York: Routledge. Bagemihl, Bruce. 1999. Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. London: Profile. Baird, Robert M. and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. 1991. Animal Experimentation: The Moral Issues. Buffalo: Prometheus Books. Baker, R. 1985. The American Hunting Myth. New York: Vantage Press. Baker, Steve. (2000). The Postmodern Animal. London: Reaktion Books. Baker, Steve. (2013). Artist animal. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Baker, Steve. 1993. Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representation. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Balcolmbe, Jonathan. (2011). The Exultant Ark: A Pictoral Tour of Animal Pleasure. Berkeley: University of California Press. Balcombe, Jonathan P. (2006). Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good. London and New York: Macmillan. Balcombe, Jonathan. (2000). The Use of Animals in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Humane Society Press. Baldick, Julian. (2000). Animals and Shaman: Ancient Religions of Central Asia. New York: New York University Press. HASResource Bibliography Compiled by Margo DeMello Updated August 12, 2015 Page 6 Baraty, Erica and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier. (2004). Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West. London: Reaktion. Barber, Theodore Xenophon. 1993. The Human Nature of Birds: A Scientific Discovery with Startling Discoveries. New York: St. Martin's. Baron, David. (2004). The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature. New York: Norton. Bate, Jonathan. (2000). The Song of the Earth. London: Picador. Baudrillard, Jean. 1994. The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses. In Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: University Michigan Press.129-141. Beard, Peter H. 1988. The End of the Game. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Beck, Alan and Aaron Katcher. 1996. Between Pets and People: the Importance of Animal Companionship. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press. Beck, Benjamin B (ed. and author), Arnold Arluke, Elizabeth
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