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Book Review: In the Temple of Wolves by Rick Lamplugh

February 4, 2014 by Beckie Elgin

Imagine. Three months in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, the place known as America’s Serengeti, lush with bison, elk, bear, coyotes, wolves and other wild beasts. This is where writer Rick Lamplugh …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Wolves

Book Review: Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World by Oliver Houck

January 14, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Oliver A. Houck’s Taking Back Eden is one of those books that can offer great hope during tough environmental times. Published by Island Press in 2011, this book’s relevance is only going …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Oceans

Book Review: We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

January 9, 2014 by Shel Graves
We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

Contributors to the Indiegogo campaign received We Animals, photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur’s beautifully designed coffee table book, just before the New Year. Published by Lantern Books, it features photos of individual …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: Stung! by Lisa-ann Gershwin

December 27, 2013December 26, 2013 by JoeAnn Hart

Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, by Lisa-an Gershwin (The University of Chicago Press, 2013)   They’re here, and we’ve not just cleared out the guest …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Oceans

Book Review: The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

December 12, 2013December 12, 2013 by Shel Graves

The Snow Leopard (1978), a beautiful true account of a wildlife research trek into the Himalayas, reads like a novel. It’s rich with sensory detail — capturing the sights, tastes, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction

Book Review: Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

November 29, 2013November 28, 2013 by Shel Graves
Animal Liberation

Firstly, in March, you can take a free online course on Practical Ethics taught by Peter Singer author, ethicist and professor of bioethics at Princeton University — how fantastic! — …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review — Collared: Politics and Personalities in Oregon’s Wolf Country

November 17, 2013 by Beckie Elgin

Wolves–will they ever cease to create controversy and incite emotion? After all, they are just another four-legged, fur-covered predator–powerful, but certainly not the “beast of waste and desolation,” that Teddy …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Wolves

Book Review: Countdown by Alan Weisman

October 22, 2013 by Midge Raymond

Alan Weisman’s Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? follows his fascinating book The World Without Us, this time asking the question: What will become of the …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Veganism

Book Review: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

September 27, 2013 by Midge Raymond

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is a meticulously researched and fascinating look at what would happen to our planet if humans were suddenly to disappear. It is at …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

October 17, 2013September 17, 2013 by Shel Graves
Farm Sanctuary by Gene Baur

Are you going to do the Walk for Farm Animals this month because you read this book? Read this book and you might find yourself there next year. Of all …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: The Secret World of Red Wolves: The Fight To Save North America’s Other Wolf

September 12, 2013September 7, 2013 by Beckie Elgin

Considered functionally extinct in 1980, the much-misunderstood red wolf (Canis rufus) has made a tenuous but promising comeback. In The Secret World of Red Wolves, T. Delene Beeland relates the …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction
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