- Title:
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Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals (MP3)
- Series:
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Quarterly Essay #45
- Written by:
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Anna Krien
- Read by:
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Anna Krien
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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2 hours 59 minutes
- MP3 size:
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130 MB
- Published:
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April 01 2012
- Available Date:
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May 28 2012
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743112946
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Current Affairs & Politics
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship to animals changed?
In this dazzling piece of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, from wildness to science experiments, Krien also reveals how animals are faring in this new world order. Examples range from the joyful to the deeply unsettling.
As Krien delves deeper, she finds that animals can trigger primal emotions in us, which we are often not willing to acknowledge. Us and Them is a clear-eyed look at how we do - and should - treat animals, and an original look at everything from animal lawyers to Indonesian abattoirs. It is also a meditation on humanness and animalness, sameness and otherness, that sheds new light on our contemporary obsession with animals.