Extinction


The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Last Chance to See
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
Dodo: A Brief History
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Migrations
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
The Ends of the World
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. OakesLost Feast by Lenore NewmanThe End of the Long Summer by Dianne DumanoskiOcean of Life by Callum RobertsInheritors of the Earth by Chris D. Thomas
THE 6th EXTINCTION
7 books — 2 voters
The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives by Alan TurnerMammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi AgustíSabertooth by Mauricio AntónDogs by Xiaoming WangThe Cave Bear Story by Björn Kurtén
Prehistoric Mammals in Nonfiction
41 books — 18 voters

Psychotherapy East & West by Alan W. WattsThe Dhammapada by AnonymousWhat the Buddha Taught by Walpola RahulaOn Love and Loneliness by J. KrishnamurtiThe Central Philosophy of Jainism by Bimal Krishna Matilal
Indian philosophy
117 books — 15 voters
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniThe Land of Open Graves by Jason De LeónWriting Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-LughodThe Resonance of Unseen Things by Susan LepselterSwamplife by Laura A. Ogden
MSU Cultural Anthropology
58 books — 4 voters

Gary L. Francione
The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare reforms make animal ...more
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Samuel R. Delany
What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one thing that we are all put on this earth to do: help one another - because it is the only thing that, in the long run, gives us pleasure, as receiving love and friendship and affection is the only thing that gives us joy and ameliorates the dread of our inevitable extinction. ...more
Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

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