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Book Reviews

Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.

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August 6th, 2011 Earth & Animal Liberation

Do We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Planet (and Ourselves)?

Environmental groups are trying to build a critical mass around issues like global warming to inspire public action and encourage legislators to get their heads out of the sand. The Sierra Club is working to block new coal burning power plants, a new coalition is organizing actions against a tar sands pipeline, and folks in West Virginia are sitting in trees in an attempt to halt...

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May 1st, 2002 Earth & Animal Liberation

Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust

When I first learned that Charles Patterson was going to write a book about "our treatment of animals and the Holocaust," I had some misgivings. I was aware that some animal rights advocates had made superficial, misleading comparisons between the treatment of animals on factory farms and the treatment of Jews and others in the Holocaust, and I knew that this had hurt the...

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May 1st, 2002 Earth & Animal Liberation

Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust

Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. - Theodor Adorno Parallels between our treatment of nonhuman animals and humans considered to be less than human is what this harrowing book is about. To view such parallels as an insult to humankind merely illustrates its thesis. In her Forward, attorney Lucy Rosen Kaplan says that Eternal...

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