Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Korsgaard Christine M.)(Paperback)

Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Korsgaard Christine M.)(Paperback)

Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called ends-in-themselves. Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an

Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Korsgaard Christine M.)(Pevná vazba)

Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called ends-in-themselves. Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an

Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (Korsgaard Christine M.)(Paperback)

Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Korsgaard Christine M.)(Paperback)

Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words, its aim is to identify and corroborate the supreme

Living With Other Creatures (Bauckham Richard)(Paperback)

Richard Bauckham offers a fresh approach to the relationship between humanity and creation and our responsibility before God to steward wisely. Looking carefully at biblical texts Bauckham reads them through an ecological lens which both enriches our own reading of them and encourages us to look

Sharks and Other Creatures of the Deep(Paperback / softback)

Sentient - What Animals Reveal About Our Senses (Higgins Jackie)(Paperback / softback)

An enthralling examination of some of the most remarkable creatures in the animal kingdom, and what they tell us about what it means to be

Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction (Evans Jonathan St B. T.)(Paperback)

Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptibile to bias and error. The study of thinking and reasoning goes back to Aristotle, and was one of the first topics to be studied when psychology

Animals in the Great War (Moore Lucinda)(Paperback)

Animals in the Great War throws a spotlight on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse

Scorpion (Pryke Louise M.)(Paperback)

No creature has quite the sting in our mythology and folklore as the scorpion. From the dawn of human civilization they have been a dangerous figure in our imaginations--poisonous, precise, and deadly quiet--but as Louise M. Pryke shows in this book, their bad reputation has overshadowed many

No More Blood (Harris Peter)(Paperback)

Blood is the life-force of every human being (and other animals). When it leaks out of our blood vessels, we die. When the aorta, the biggest blood vessel in the body, bursts, death usually comes quickly but for a lucky few it's not instantaneous. For them, survival is possible with emergency

Magical Creatures Magic Painting Book (Wheatley Abigail)(Paperback / softback)

Brush water over the black and white illustrations and watch as the magical creatures and animals burst into dazzling colour! Sixteen detailed scenes include unicorns, narwhals, a phoenix, dragon and lots more. With a handy fold-out back cover to prevent colours running through to the page

Menace of the Monster - Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond(Paperback / softback)

In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of `other' are shown in a myriad of forms - beings from other worlds, corrupted lifeforms from our own planet and entities from unimaginable

Christ on Trial - How the Gospel Unsettles Our Judgement (Williams Rowan)(Paperback / softback)

Bringing the gospel accounts of the trial and resurrection of Christ vividly to life, Christ on Trial shows how the words of the disciples still relate directly to us today. The trial, conviction and death of an innocent man 2000 years ago has particular resonance in an era when atrocities from

Cartoon Cute Animals: How to Draw the Most Irresistible Creatures on the Planet (Hart Christopher)(Paperback)

Learn the insider secrets professional cartoonists use to turn regular cartoon animals into completely cute characters Warm and fuzzy characters all have that 'certain something' that makes them so memorable and darling. But what exactly is it? This sought-after, ultra-cute quality is based on

Amazing Animals - More than 100 of the World's Most Remarkable Creatures (Hibbert Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Sentient - What Animals Reveal About Our Senses (Higgins Jackie)(Pevná vazba)

An enthralling examination of some of the most remarkable creatures in the animal kingdom, and what they tell us about what it means to be

Silence of Animals - On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Gray John)(Paperback / softback)

Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap into worlds so far beyond our actual reality? This book explores how we decorate our existence with countless fictions, twisting and turning to avoid acknowledging that we too are

Behold an Animal, 32: Four Exorbitant Readings (Ravindranathan Thangam)(Paperback)

As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings examines incongruous animals in the works of four major contemporary French writers: an airborne horse in a novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, extinct orangutans in ric

Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human (Still Judith)(Paperback)

Analyses Derrida's late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the SovereignWhat is man? This book examines Derrida's contribution to this long-standing philosophical and political debate, which has typically evoked a significant division between human beings and other animals

The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays: 2nd Edition (Hayley Jay)(Paperback)

Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings (De Pizan Christine)(Paperback / softback)

The Coach House Cats (Edwards Marilyn)(Paperback)

'A colourful series that celebrates the many ways animals enrich our relationships and our lives' Karin Slaughter It's become obvious that the time has come to have Pushkin, the Russian Blue tom, and Titus, the ginger moggy queen, neutered. This was indeed the plan for Fannie, the tortoiseshell,

The Cats on Hutton Roof (Edwards Marilyn)(Paperback)

'A colourful series that celebrates the many ways animals enrich our relationships and our lives' Karin Slaughter Marilyn and husband Michael have known many happy years at Moon Cottage, with their cats Fannie, Titus and Pushkin. However, the time has come to make a dream come true, and for the