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IFIAAR believes reading is one of most valuable places to start in understanding the intricacies of the world around us. These titles do not directly reflect all ethical beliefs of IFIAAR but provide conceptual support and critical roots to forming ones own ideas.
These books will be available to the public at the future location. Until then IFIAAR encourage you to search for these titles in your own local library or used book store.
Email if you have recommendations for additions or want to donate a book.
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology | Graeber, David | |||
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Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism | Frederichi, Silvia | women's studies | political science | |
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EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels | Dobrin, Sidney I. (editor) | ecology in literature | nature in literature | comic books, stips, etc. - History and criticism |
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Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives | Herman, David (editor) | comic books, strips, etc. - History and criticism | graphic novels- History and criticism | animals in Literature |
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom | hooks, bell | critical pedagogy | critical thinking - Study and teaching | feminism and education |
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The Lost Zoo | Cat, Christopher and Cullen, Countee | |||
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Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu | Ito, Junji | |||
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Companions an Anthology/Earthbound an Anthology | Dreisinger, Olivia (editor) | |||
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Return to Seward Park: A Story for the Right Brain | Tsutakawa, Tom | |||
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None | Yusoff, Kathryn | |||
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Animal's Vegan Manifesto | Coe, Sue | |||
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet | Tsing, Anna, Swanson, Heather, Gan, Elaine, Bubandt, Nils (editors) | |||
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans | Barnett, Cynthia | |||
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Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale | Hern, Matt and Johal, Am | oil sands- Environmental aspect-Alberta- Fort McMurray Region | petroleum engineering- social aspects- Alberta- Fort McMurray Region | Alberta- Social life and customs |
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants | Kimmerer, Robin Wall | |||
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Cannibal Metaphysics | Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo | |||
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Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question | Boisseron, Bénédicte | animal rights | animal welfare | human-animal relationships |
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Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man | Bennet, Joshua | blacks in literature | American literature-African American authors-history and criticism | literature in race- United States |
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Spiral Dance: Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess | Starhawk | witchcraft | goddess religion | |
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Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods | Wilson, Shawn | Indigenous peoples- research- methodology | Native peoples- research- Canada- methodology | Indigenous peoples- research- Australia- methodology |
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The Wilder Heart of Florida | Davis, Jack E. and Poole, Leslie, K. | literary collections- nature | ||
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry | Dungy, Camille T. | nature- poetry | American poetry- African American authors | American poetry- African American authors- history and criticism |
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Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism | Agamben, Giorgio | art- philosophy | philosophy | |
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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors | Finney, Carolyn | African Americans- social conditions | human ecology- United States | |
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Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters | Ko, Aph and Syl | African Americans- social conditions- 1975 | feminism | veganism |
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Biophilia | Wilson, Edward O. | interspecies | nature conservation | philosophy |
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Primates of Colombia | Defler, Thomas Richard | primates | field work | classification |
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The Postmodern Animal | Baker, Steve | postmodernism | animals in art | animals in literature |
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Why Look at Animals? | Berger, John | animals | ethics | cultural critique |
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The Third Chimpanzee | Diamond, Jared | human evolution | social evolution | nature conservation |
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When Species Meet | Haraway, Donna | companion animals | theory | |
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Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism | Morris, Brian | anthropology | ecology | anarchism |
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The Power of Animals: An Ethnography | Morris, Brian | anthropology | ethnography | Malawi |
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Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expedition | The Drawing Center | art | field work | tropical research |
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Zoo Story | French, Thomas | zoos | ethics | |
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The Chimpanzees of Gombe/ Patterns of Behavior | Goodall, Jane | chimpanzees | behavior | field work |
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First Contact | Connolly, Bob and Anderson, Robin | anthropology | ethnography | New Guinea |
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Decolonizing Nature | Demos, T.J. | contemporary art | ecology | decolonization |
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The Backyard Naturalist | Tufts, Craig | wildlife attracting | birds, attracting of | naturalism |
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Anthrozoology | Tobias, Michael Charles and Morrison, Jane Gray | anthrozoology | theory | coexistence |
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Guide to Native Rock Carvings of the Northwest Coast | Hill, Beth | indigenous art | Pacific NW | |
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Saga of Chief Joseph | Howard, Helen Addison | Nez Perce Indians | indigenous history | |
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A Long and Terrible Shadow | Berger, Thomas R. | Indians-government relations | indigenous history | self-determination |
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The Complete Fables | Aesop | allegory | fables | |
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The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Heirarchy | Bookchin, Murray | anarchism | civics & citizenship | ecology |
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The Mushroom at the End of the World | Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt | human ecology | economic development- environmental aspects | environmental degradation |
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Zoopolis | Kymlicka, Will and Donaldson, Sue | ethics & professional responsibility | animal rights | ethics |
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Earth's Insights | Callicott, J. Baird | environmental ethics | world religions | philosophy |
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The Meaning of Human Existence | Wilson, Edward O. | soil science | agriculture | philosophy |
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Staying Alive | Shiva, Vandana | women in development- India | human ecology- India | patriarchy- India |
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Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners | CrimethInc | |||
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The Hylaeus Project | Schonberg, Lisa | entomology | ||
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If a Lion Could Talk | Budiansky, Stephen | animal intelligence | consciousness in animals | |
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Second Nature: Origins and Originality in Art, Science, and New Media | Hughs, Rolf & Sundén, Jenny (editors) | |||
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The One Straw Revolution | Fukuoka, Masanobu | no-tillage | organic farming | no-tillage- Japan |
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Love Among the Butterflies | Fountaine, Margaret | |||
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Animals in Translation | Grandin, Temple | animal behavior | autism | |
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Animals Make us Human | Grandin, Temple | emotions in animals | animal behavior | |
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Frog &. Others. | Shimpei, Kusano | poetry | ||
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Wet Earth | Albert, Lauren | |||
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The Churchville Nature Center Columns | ||||
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The Ecology of Others | Descola, Phillipe | |||
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Butterfly Cooing Like a Dove | Rothschild, Miriam | Butterflies | Butterflies in literature/ Doves in literature | Columbidae |
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Fishermen Slaves: Human Trafficking and the Seafood We Eat | Mendoza, Martha & McDowell, Robin & Mason, Margie & Htusan, Esther, and the Associated Press | |||
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The Peregrin | Baker, J.A. | peregrine falcon- England- anecdotes | ||
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache | Basso, Keith H. | Western Apache language- etymology- names | Western Apache language- discourse analysis | names, geographical- Arizona |
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Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh | Norberg-Hodge, Helena | rural development projects- India- Ladakh | appropriate technology- India- Ladakh | Ladakh (India)- rural conditions |
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Life Force: The World of Jainism | Tobias, Michael | religion/philosophy | ||
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Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs: Are Animals Conscious? | Tye, Michael | philosophy | ||
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When the Animals were People | Sanger, Kay | |||
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Children & Other Wild Animals | Doyle, Brian | |||
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature | Ridley, Matt | science | ||
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You are Not a Gadget | Lanier, Jaron | information technology- social aspects | technological innovations- social aspects | technology- social aspects |
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Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm | Tree, Isabella | biodiversity conservation- England- West Sussex | nature conservation- England- West Sussex | land use, rural- England- West Sussex |
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape | Savoy, Lauret | United States- race relations- history | United States- history- philosophy | memory- social aspects- United States |
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An Introduction to Southern California Birds | Clarke, Herbert | birds- California, Southern | garden fauna- California, Southern | |
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American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists | Bonta, Marcia Myers | natural history- United States | women naturalists- United States- biography | naturalists- United States- biography |
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work | Brown, Jenny | |||
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Mal a journal of sexuality and erotics No3 Plantsex |
Dimitrova, Maria & Pietroiusti, Lucia & Ramos, Filipa & Stasinopoulos Kostas | |||
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All Creatures Great and Small | Herriot, James | |||
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Ishi Last of His Tribe | Kroeber, Theodora | |||
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H is for Hawk | MacDonald, Helen | |||
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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America | Anderson, Virginia DeJohn | livestock- United States-history | livestock-social aspects- United States- history | human-animal relationships- United States- history |
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Genetics and the Extinction of Species | Landweber, Laura F. & Dobson, Andrew P. (editors) | conservation biology | population genetics | |
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Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats | Belanger, Jerry | goats | ||
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Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science | Hessler, Stefanie (editor) | |||
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American Indian Myths and Legends | Erdoes, Richard & Ortiz, Alfonso (editors) | Indians of North America- legends | Indians of North America- religion and mythology | |
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Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots | Bullard, Robert D. | environmental policy- United States | hazardous waste sites- United States | Afro-Americans- politics and govermental |
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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect | Chen, Mel Y. | grammar, comparative and general- animacy | ontology | perception |
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American Wildlife & Plants A Guide to Wildlife Food Habits | Martin, Alexander C. & Zim, Herbert S. & Nelson, Arnold L. | |||
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Animal Tracks & Signs of the Northwest | Sept, J. Duane | animal tracks- Northwest, Pacific- identification | animal tracks- Canada, Western- identification | animal tracks- Alaska- identification |
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Earth Democracy | Shiva, Vandana | social justice | environmental justice | sustainable development |
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Emergent Strategy | Brown, Adrienne Maree | self-help | social science | |
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After the Future | Berardi, Franco "Bifo" | |||
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Among Flowers | Kincaid, Jamaica | travel- Nepal | Nepal- description and travel | |
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Providence of a Sparrow | Chester, Chris | English Sparrows- anecdotes | ||
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Cows | Davis, Lydia | cows | ||
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Itch Corridor | Tchida, Gunner | poetry | ||
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How Forests Think: Towards an Anthropology beyond the Human | Kohn, Eduardo | Quichua Indians | Quechua Indians- social life and customs | indigenous peoples- ecology- Amazon River region |
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The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 | Gillespie, Kathryn | animal welfare- Washington State | animal welfare- California | animal welfare- moral and ethical aspects |
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These Wilds Beyond our Fences | Akomolafe, Bayo | Nigerian- correspondence | fatherhood | body, mind & spririt |
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Radical Ecology | Merchant, Carolyn | ecology- philosophy | ecology- political aspects | environmental ethics |
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Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals | Singer, Peter | |||
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In the Shadow of Man | Goodall, Jan van Lawick | |||
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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be Born | Fraser, Nancy | |||
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Globalization: A Very Short Introduction | Steger, Manfred B. | |||
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The Coming Insurrection | The Invisible Committee | |||
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The Making of the Indebted Man | Lazzarato, Maurizio | |||
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The Communist Manifesto | Marx, Karl & Engels, Frederick | |||
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The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: The Lost History of Europe's Animal Trials | Evans, E.P. | animals, prosecution and punishment of- Europe | ||
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene | Haraway, Donna J. | human-animal relationships | human-plant relationships | human ecology |
ladybug by Jessica Butler