| Description |
1 online resource (751 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Executive Summary -- Why are there So Many Pictures of Animals, Plants, and People in this Book? -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Chapter Summaries -- Introduction to the Book -- Summary of Chapter 1 (Introduction and Chapter Summaries) -- Summary of Chapter 2 (Cruel & Compassionate Sides of Humans) -- Summary of Chapter 3 (Speciesism) -- Summary of Chapters 4 -- 6 (Determinants of Human Prejudice Against & Preference for Species) |
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Of Chapter 4 (Size, the Most Important Determinant of Human Prejudice Against and Preference for Species) -- Summary of Chapter 5 (Visual/Beauty Determinants of Human Prejudices Against and Preferences for Species) -- Summary of Chapter 6 (Non-Visual Determinants of Human Prejudices Against and Preferences for Species) -- Summary of Chapter 7 (Symbolic/Representational Creatures as Reflections of Human Prejudices Against and Preferences for Species) -- Summary of Chapter 8 (Indispensable Values of Species for Human Welfare) |
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Of Chapter 9 (Extinction - How Biased Elimination of Species Endangers Humans) -- Summary of Chapter 10 (Bias and Prejudice in Species Conservation) -- Summary of Chapter 11 (Dealing with Dangerous Species) -- Summary of Chapters 12 and 13 (Reforming Agriculture and Urbanization - The Greatest Threats to Species) -- Summary of Chapter 12 (Reforming Agriculture - The Greatest Threat to Species) -- Summary of Chapter 13 (Reforming Urbanization - The Second Major Threat to Species) -- Summary of Chapter 14 (Advancing Technologies and the Fate of the World's Species) |
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Of Chapters 15-21 (The World's Most Despised Species) -- Summary of Chapter 15 (In Defense of the World's Most Despised Invertebrate 'Bugs') -- Summary of Chapter 16 (In Defense of the World's Most Despised 'Lower' Vertebrate Animals) -- Summary of Chapter 17 (In Defense of the World's Most Despised Mammals) -- Summary of Chapter 18 (In Defense of the World's Most Despised Toxic Plants) -- Summary of Chapter 19 (In Defense of the World's Most Despised Agricultural Weeds) -- Summary of Chapter 20 (In Defense of the World's Most Despised Environmental Weeds) |
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Of Chapter 21 (In Defense of the World's Most Despised Urban Weeds) -- Key Messages of the Book -- Chapter 2 The Cruel and Compassionate Sides of Human Nature -- Introduction -- Cruelty -- Background -- Racial Hostility Among Humans as a Model of Hostility to Other Species -- Are Humans Natural Killers? -- Are Humans Natural Slavemasters? -- Bullying -- Compassion -- The Distinction Between Animal Welfare and Animal Conservation -- Genetic Similarity to Humans as a Principal Determinant of Compassion for Animal Species |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Intelligence as a Principal Determinant of Compassion for Animal Species |
| Subject |
Species diversity.
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Biodiversity.
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Nature-Effect of human beings on
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Biodiversity.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Species diversity.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000953121 |
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1000953122 |
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