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|  | Animals Like Us by Mark Rowlands
Foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease are but two of the results of treating animals as commodities, subject only to commercial constraints and ignoring all natural and moral considerations. Chickens hanging by their necks on conveyor belts, bloated dead sheep with their legs in the air, mutilated dogs waiting to die after undergoing horrendous experiments in the name of science or even just product-testing--these are some of the images that illustrate the indifference of a consumerist society to the suffering of animals. Few are willing to recognize that the packaged, sanitized supermarket meat that materializes on their dinner tables every day is the result of an industrial process involving unimaginable pain and suffering. In this clearly argued book, Mark Rowlands claims that it is simply unjust to harm animals. As conscious, sentient beings, biologically continuous with humans, they have interests that cannot simply be disregarded. Using simple principles of justice, he argues that animals have moral rights, and examines the consequences of this claim in the contexts of vegetarianism, animal experimentation, zoos and hunting, as well as the animal rights activism that has resulted form the recognition by a relatively small group of political activists that animals cannot simply be considered in their relation to humans. AUTHOR: Mark Rowlands
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | Deer by Lee Jacobs
Description not available.Examines the deer's environment, anatomy, social life, food, mating habits, and relationship with humans. AUTHOR: Lee Jacobs
PUBLISHER: Gale Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Way of Compassion by Martin Rowe
In a world filled with what seems only bad news, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the extensiveness of environmental degradation, violence to other species, and our collective suffering. The Way of Compassion offers inspiring, thoughtful, and practical wisdom on sustainable living, nonviolence in all its forms, and a deeper spiritual appreciation of our place in the world. In so doing, the book examines the ups and downs of becoming an activist for change, and offers both timely and timeless advice on how we can create a more harmonious and peaceful planet. AUTHOR: Martin Rowe
PUBLISHER: Stealth Technologies, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Assembling California by John McPhee, Nelson Runger
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee has made geological field trips in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect - in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth - and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona (where Moores grew up in a gold-mining camp), and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. A specialist in such ocean rock and the histories it suggests, Moores routinely works at the applied outer boundary of the theory of plate tectonics, reconstructing ancestral worlds. Presented here in global dimension is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands. In 1978 and 1979, John McPhee also began his wider series of related journeys, traversing North America at about the fortieth parallel, using roadcuts of interstate 80 as windows into regional geologies, and incidentally profiling the lives of the geologists with whom he travelled. A continental tetralogy, gathering underthe title Annals of the Former World, began with Basin and Range (1980), and continued with In Suspect Terrain (1982) and Rising from the Plains (1986), and is now completed by Assembling California. In the overall structure of these compositions, the controlling element has been not a AUTHOR: John McPhee, Nelson Runger
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Star Lore Handbook by Geoffrey Cornelius
This handbook combine a practical guide to the night sky with fascinating accounts of the myths and symbols associated with each constellation. AUTHOR: Geoffrey Cornelius
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Science in Early Islamic Cultures by George W. Beshore
As early Muslims conquered parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe, they collected and preserved the writings of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. They studied the information recorded by these cultures and used it as a basis for making scientific discoveries of their own. The methods the Muslims developed for exploring and understanding the natural world are still used by scientists today. AUTHOR: George W. Beshore
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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