LibGuides: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: All Creatures Great and Small

Books in NSU Libraries

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism by Gary Steiner
ISBN: 9780231153423

Publication Date: 2013
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans B. M. de Waal
Call Number: QL 785 .W127 W111 2016

ISBN: 9780393246186

Publication Date: 2016
Derrida and Other Animals: the Boundaries of the Human by Judith Still
ISBN: 9780748680979

Publication Date: 2015
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Call Number: QL701 .G7913 1989 REF at Watson; also availible online (click the title link).

ISBN: 9780787653620

Publication Date: 2003
Lost Souls, Sacred Creatures [stories] by Juko Nishimura
Call Number: PL 857 .I793 S6413 2013

ISBN: 9780857281289

Publication Date: 2013

How Animal are Humans?
Philosopher Crispin Sartwell writes about rationality as a marker for human-ness.
"Why We Need the Wolf"
An essay by Cal Flyn about the planetary ecosystem's need for apex predators like the wolf..
"A Compassionate Carnivore's Manifesto"
An essay by English farmer John Lewis-Stempel. "Farm livestock are not Descartian flesh-robots but sentient creatures deserving of a good life and a good death — which should come only near the end of a natural lifespan."
In Praise of Ugly Animals
by Margaret Renkl. Even the most unlovely creatures contribute to the ecosphere.
The Moral Status of Animals
A scholarly overview article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Urban Raccoons Can Teach Tolerance
In 2015, Toronto's mayor John Tory said “I have not for a moment, ever, for one second, underestimated the intelligence the ingenuity and the determination of the raccoons."