BOOKS: In The Name of Science

December 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

In The Name of Science:

Issues In Responsible Animal Experimentation

by F. Barbara Orlans, Oxford Univ. Press (200 Madison Ave., NY 10016)

1993, 304 pages, $39.95.

Christine Stevens of the Animal Welfare

Institute describes In The Name of Scienceas being “writ-

ten for scientists by a scientist.” Stevens is technically

right, as Barbara Orlans is certainly a respected scien-

tist––a former heart disease researcher at the National

Institutes of Health, now a physiologist at Georgetown

University––and she is primarily addressing her col-

leagues. But Orlans’ lucid writing is easily accessible to

anyone who might read ANIMAL PEOPLE, and ought

to be read by anyone who wants to be conversant on the

use of animals in science.

BOOKS: Wild Wild West & Vanishing Species

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

Wild Wild West: Wildlife Habitats of Western

North America, by Constance Perenyi. Sasquatch

Books, (1931 2nd Ave., Seattle, WA 98101), 1993, 40

pages, $8.95 ($11.95 Canada).

Vanishing Species: the Wildlife Art of Laura

Regan, written by Michelle Minnich, researched

by Laurie Ann Macdonald. Cedco Publishing (2955

Kerner Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901), 117 pages, $19.95.

BOOKS: Stolen For Profit: How The Medical Establishment Is Funding A National Pet Theft Conspiracy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

Stolen For Profit: How The Medical

Establishment Is Funding A National Pet

Theft Conspiracy, by Jude Reitman. Pharos

Books (New York), 1993.

[Reviewed for Rockydell Resources, a library informa –

tion bulletin; reprinted by permission.]

Books about cats and other pets

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

The Golden Song,

by Jan Brinckerhoff Chase. J.N. Townsend

(12 Greenleaf Drive, NH 03833), 1993.

32 pages. $16.95, hardback.

Pictures and story lilt across the

pages of a sunny picture book about a little

old lady, Mrs. Thackeray, who adores

above all else her canary named Caruso. His

happy music charms every moment of her

otherwise quiet life. She recognizes his

longing to join the wild canary flock that

brightens her garden one day, but she fears

that any avian companionship might end his

singing. She broods about the potential loss,

but finally gratitude and love impell her to

the pet shop to choose a big cage and their

prettiest female canary. When the others fly

that night, and he and the cage come in, is

she wrong to expect a cheerless silence

where there had been joyful song?

BOOKS: The Hidden Life of Dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

The Hidden Life of Dogs, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.

Houghton Mifflin (215 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10003), 1993, 148 pages,

hardcover $18.95. ISBN 0-395-66958-8.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, who

has studied primitive human cultures and

wolves, in The Hidden Life of Dogs casts

an anthropologist’s eye on a species in

some ways related to both. Like all such

experiential narrativeses, hers is less hard

science than informed observation. Her

interpretation of life among a family of

dogs (her own) is unashamedly anthropo-

morphic. She recognizes, too, the influ-

ence of her own emotional bonds and

weighs them in the balance. The result is

both informative and unexpectedly moving.

BOOKS: Animal Welfare & Human Values

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

Animal Welfare & Human Values by Rod Preece and Lorna

Chamberlain. Wilfrid Laurier University Press (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L

3C5), 1993. 334 pages, hardcover, $45.00 U.S.

Early in Animal Welfare & Human

Values, authors Preece and Chamberlain

acknowledge that, “Sometimes the philo-

sophical complexities (of constructing argu-

ments against cruelty) are greater than the

difficulties of making judgements them-

selves.” They then quote Lord Chief Justice

Mansfield, the 18th century head of the

English judiciary, who advised fellow

judges to, “Consider what justice requires

and decide accordingly. But never give

your reasons; for your judgement will prob-

ably be right, but your reasons will certain-

ly be wrong.”

BOOKS: A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

A View to a Death in the Morning:

Hunting and Nature Through History, by

Matt Cartmill. Harvard University Press (79 Garden

St., Cambridge, MA 02138-1499), 1993. 331 pages,

hardcover. $29.95.

A traditional fox-hunting song, “D’ye ken John

Peel,” gave Matt Cartmill his title; it appears in a stanza in

which the hunters follow their dogs “from a find to a check,

from a check to a view, from a view to a death in the morn-

ing.” Despite the title, Cartmill spends little time on fox-

hunting, boar-hunting, bear-hunting, wolf-hunting, bad-

ger-hunting, coon-hunting, fishing, fowling, and falconry.

The theory, practice, myths, and effects on its practition-

ers of deer hunting are the focus of his chapters about hunt-

ing, from the ancient Greeks to Bambi . Those chapters

which concentrate on nature are more diffuse.

BOOKS: The New Complete Guide To Environmental Careers

October 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The New Complete Guide To Environmental Careers, by the

Environmental Careers Organization. Island Press (1718 Connecticut Ave.

NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20009), 1993, 364 pages, paper $15.95. [ISBN 1-

55963-178-3]

Aside from health care, environ-

mental concern will create more employ-

ment opportunities in the near future than

any other service sector of the economy,

according to many career counselors. This

guide––completely updated–– offers an

introduction to the myriad possibilities.

BOOKS: Getting Down To Earth: A Call to Environmental Action

October 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Getting Down To Earth: A Call to Environmental Action, by John

Heidtke. Paulist Press (997 Macarthur Blvd., Mahwah, NJ 07430), 1993, 179

pages, paper $9.95. [ISBN 0-8091-9571-2]

This book is definitely not your

run-of-the-mill environmental textbook for

young adults. John Heidtke is more ambi-

tious and, ultimately, more basic in his

goal. Urging his readers to discover and

define their own moral values, he combines

the emerging personal awareness of adoles-

cence with environmental ethics, and there-

by encourages the development of an inte-

grated ecological conscience.

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