This is your chance to get hold of a book that will enlighten you on a huge number of issues regarding animals. If you are interested in animals but have not yet had a chance to study their behavior either at online universities or through other books, this is a great way to get started. Knowledge is an indispensable tool for bringing about social advancement.
Released May 2011: The Exultant Ark - A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle
for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different,
more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal
kingdom. In more than one hundred striking images, The Exultant
Ark celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits
of animal pleasure ranging from the charismatic and familiar
to the obscure and bizarre. These photographs, windows onto the
inner lives of pleasure seekers, show two polar bears engaged in a
bout of wrestling, hoary marmots taking time for a game of chase,
Japanese macaques enjoying a soak in a hot spring, a young bull elk
sticking out his tongue to catch snowflakes, and many other amusements...
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Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals
For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that's all changing. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would have been deemed fantasy a generation ago. The implications make our troubled relationship to animals one of the most pressing moral issues of our time.
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Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
When birds take a dip in the water, is it to clean their feathers, or is it just plain fun? Jonathan Balcombe addresses such questions in a brisk, erudite and enormously entertaining contribution to the growing genre of books about the emotions of animals. By presenting evidence "from both scientific study and anecdote, that the animal kingdom is rich in pleasure," Balcombe balances a general philosophical look at the prevalence of pleasure among animals with detailed anecdotal evidence of how specific animals experience pleasure in play, food, sex, touching and love.

The Use of Animals in Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives, & Recommendations
The Use of Animals in Higher Education is well-researched and annotated and international in scope, with a primary focus on the U.S. It addresses secondary education as strongly as higher education, with quite a focus on elementary education as well.
After reading it, one is left wondering how the practice of dissection, in particular, has survived in our schools for this long. Every possible justification for dissection is held up, examined and found to be fatally flawed. Objections to dissection are also detailed, some that many may have never considered before, such as the dangers of formaldehyde exposure.
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