A Cultural History of Animals (series)
- A Cultural History of Animals (series) A Cultural History of Animals is a multi-volume project on the history of human-animal relations from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers 4500 years of human-animal interaction. Volume 1: Antiquity Volume 2: The Medieval Age Volume 3: The Renaissance Volume 4: The Enlightenment Volume 5: The Age of Empire Volume 6: The Modern Age Each volume explores: the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs), hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations.
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- A Cultural History of Animals (series) A Cultural History of Animals is a multi-volume project on the history of human-animal relations from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers 4500 years of human-animal interaction. Volume 1: Antiquity Volume 2: The Medieval Age Volume 3: The Renaissance Volume 4: The Enlightenment Volume 5: The Age of Empire Volume 6: The Modern Age Each volume explores: the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs), hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations.
- Animal Diversity Web Searchable encyclopedia of animal natural history, distribution, classification. Sponsored by the University of Michigan.
- National Ocean Service: Ocean Life (NOAA) Ocean facts (including about animals) from NOAA.
- A Dictionary of Zoology (5th ed.) This best-selling dictionary covers all aspects of zoology, including terms from ecology, animal behaviour, evolution, earth history, zoogeography, genetics, and physiology. It provides taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, all fully updated to include recent changes.
- Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia is a large comprehensive encyclopedia of animal life.
- Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior This comprehensive work covers not only the usual topics such as communication, learning, sexual selection, navigation, and the history of the field, but also emerging topics in cognition, animal welfare, conservation, and applications of animal behavior.
- The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.
- The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities Topics include the Anthropocene and the domestication of Earth and posthumanism and multispecies communities.
- A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies Exploring the innovative and thriving field of animal geographies, this Research Agenda analyses how humans think about, place, and engage with animals. Chapters explore how animals shape human identities and social dynamics, as well as how broader processes influence the circumstances and experiences of animals.
- The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages
- Superheroes and gods : a comparative study from Babylonia to Batman Each of the first nine chapters examines the heroes and gods of a particular region or country, while the final chapter examines modern descendants of the hero prototype (i.e. Batman and Spiderman) and several infamous anti-heroes (i.e. Dracula and The Hulk)
- A Critical Companion to Zoosemiotics: People, Paths, Ideas A Critical Companion to Zoosemiotics is the first attempt to systematize the discipline that studies animal communication and signification through its most important and/or problematic terms and concepts, and its most representative scholars.
- Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare Human beings' responsibility to and for their fellow animals has become an increasingly controversial subject. This book provides a provocative overview of the many different perspectives on the issues of animal rights and animal welfare in an easy-to-use encyclopedic format. Original contributions, from over 125 well-known philosophers, biologists, and psychologists in this field, create a well-balanced and multi-disciplinary work.
