In the years since publication of the first edition of this book, the field of HAS has exploded.
There are now more courses offered at more colleges and universities than ever before …

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current
scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory …

Animal geographies has emerged over the last 15 years as a lively and provocative area of
current human/non-human geographical research and scholarship. Yet, while the 'animal …

Trying to give an overview of the burgeoning area known as animal studies is, if you'll permit
me the expression, a bit like herding cats. My recourse to that analogy is meant to suggest …

summary This ground-breaking synthesis of evolutionary and cultural theory draws on
theories of complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics in order to argue that–far from being …

Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--
has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare's Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds …

(Palgrave Macmillan 2014). In Better Humans? I focused on the concept of human
enhancement as an enhancement of the human as a human and looked at the normative …

The emerging interdisciplinary field of animal studies seeks to shed light on the nature of
animal experience and the moral status of animals in ways that overcome the limitations of …

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and
moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian …

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early
modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species …