Some we love, some we hate, some we eat : why it's so hard to think straight about animals / Hal Herzog.
"A maverick scientist who co-founded the field of anthrozoology offers a controversial, thought-provoking, and unprecedented exploration of the psychology behind the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways we think, feel, and behave towards animals"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780061730856
- ISBN: 0061730858
- Physical Description: viii, 341, 14 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2011, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2010 by Harper Collins Publishers." Includes section with: Meet Hal Herzog, a conversation with Hal Herzog, and Animals and us: are humans the only animals that keep pets? |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-287) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : why is it so hard to think straight about animals? -- Anthrozoology : the new science of human-animal interactions -- The importance of being cute : why we think what we think about creatures that don't think like us -- Pet-o-philia : why do humans (and only humans) love pets? -- Friends, foes, and fashion statements : the human-dog relationship -- "Prom queen kills first deer on sixteenth birthday" : gender and the human-animal relationship -- In the eyes of the beholder : the comparative cruelty of cockfights and Happy Meals -- Delicious, dangerous, disgusting, and dead : the human-meat relationship -- The moral status of mice : the use of animals in science -- The cats in our houses, the cows on our plates : are we all hypocrites? -- The carnivorous yahoo within ourselves : dealing with moral inconsistency. |
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Subject: | Human-animal relationships. Interdisciplinary research. |
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245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aSome we love, some we hate, some we eat : ‡bwhy it's so hard to think straight about animals / ‡cHal Herzog. |
250 | . | ‡a1st Harper Perennial ed. | |
260 | . | ‡aNew York, NY : ‡bHarper Perennial, ‡c2011, c2010. | |
300 | . | ‡aviii, 341, 14 p. ; ‡c21 cm. | |
500 | . | ‡a"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2010 by Harper Collins Publishers." | |
500 | . | ‡aIncludes section with: Meet Hal Herzog, a conversation with Hal Herzog, and Animals and us: are humans the only animals that keep pets? | |
504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-287) and index. | |
520 | . | ‡a"A maverick scientist who co-founded the field of anthrozoology offers a controversial, thought-provoking, and unprecedented exploration of the psychology behind the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways we think, feel, and behave towards animals"-- ‡cProvided by publisher. | |
505 | 0 | . | ‡aIntroduction : why is it so hard to think straight about animals? -- Anthrozoology : the new science of human-animal interactions -- The importance of being cute : why we think what we think about creatures that don't think like us -- Pet-o-philia : why do humans (and only humans) love pets? -- Friends, foes, and fashion statements : the human-dog relationship -- "Prom queen kills first deer on sixteenth birthday" : gender and the human-animal relationship -- In the eyes of the beholder : the comparative cruelty of cockfights and Happy Meals -- Delicious, dangerous, disgusting, and dead : the human-meat relationship -- The moral status of mice : the use of animals in science -- The cats in our houses, the cows on our plates : are we all hypocrites? -- The carnivorous yahoo within ourselves : dealing with moral inconsistency. |
650 | 0. | ‡aHuman-animal relationships. | |
650 | 0. | ‡aInterdisciplinary research. | |
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