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In a galaxy beyond the Milky Way, on a planet called Thoro, a war that he cannot understand tears apart the contented life of Hair, the Elon servant of a Mendor family. When circumstances separate him from Lucy, his friend and fellow servant, and Mara, the only surviving member of his family, Hair embarks upon a journey to find his friends in a place called the Valley of Light, where all the different races on Thoro live happily side by side. Leaving behind the only home he has ever known, Hair's perilous journey leads him into many dangerous situations and shows him just how limited and narrow his life as a servant really was. But such knowledge, as Hair finds, doesn't come without a price, and he is left bewildered and scared when he discovers the shocking truth about society on Thoro.

THE ADVENTURES OF HAIR by CLEMENS SCHLETTWEIN

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"- our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals - inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them.
In Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today´s "factory farms" and product-testing procedures - destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

ANIMAL LIBERATION by PETER SINGER

GAIL A. EISNITZ, 2004 winner of the Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare, is the chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association. Her work has resulted in exposés by ABC´s Good Morning America, Primetime Live, and Dateline NBC, and her interviews have been heard on more than one thousand radio stations. Her work has been featured in such newspapers and magazines as the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press, the Texas Monthly, the Denver Business Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and US News & World Report. Eisnitz was the driving force behind a front-page exposé in the Washington Post documenting slaughterhouse atrocities. The Washington Post reporter later described Eisnitz as "the most courageous investigater I´ve ever seen." The story was one of the highest reader-response pieces ever run by the Washington Post.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE by GAIL A. EISNITZ

Animal lover, researcher, caretaker and activist Jane Goodall has joined forces with co-author Marc Bekoff, a biology professor from the University of Boulder, Colorado, to illustrate the ever-growing need for modern society not only to protect the animal life on our planet, but to endear them to us as well. Concerned with the problems in the world today -- overpopulation, pollution, erosion, global warming, deforestation, etc. -- the authors sat down and made a list of what we can do to help preserve and care for the multitude of species struggling to survive in our modern world.

THE TEN TRUST by JANE GOODALL

A battle is taking place on the frontiers of medicine between rapidly evolving bacteria that threaten our health and the doctors who are struggling to outwit them. These bacteria are everywhere: in and on our bodies, in homes, schools, hospitals, crowded airplanes, day-care centers. And, as this acclaimed book makes frighteningly clear, so far the bacteria are winning. The Killer Within is popular science writing at its best - a report from the front lines at once accessible and riveting.

 

THE KILLER WITHIN by MICHAEL SHNAYERSON & MARK.J. PLOTKIN

Famoso por sus estudios del mundo de los primates y por sus muchas ensayos sobre el comportamiento animal, Jane Goodall hace un alto en el camino para escribir un libro que denuncia las grandes multinacionales dedicadas a la alimentación y nos proporciona unos consejos prácticos para reeducar nuestro cuerpo.
Goodall habla aquí de la modificación genética de los alimentos, de la obesidad infantil, de la contaminación de los mares y de enfermedades que viven a la sombra de los intereses de las grandes multinacionales. Ante tanto disparate, la autora propone una "revolución civil" dictada por el sentido común y por el ejemplo de hombres como Percy Schmeiser, el campesino que tuvo el valor de enfrentarse a la gran empresa Monsanto y salió ganador.
El respeto a la naturaleza y el cuidado de las necesidades reales de nuestro cuerpo son los temas que vertebran Otra manera de vivir, empezando por los gestos que nos acompañan en la vida cotidiana: frente a la comida preparada, alimentos biológicos, que son más caros pero nos ahorran muchas enfermedades; frente al despilfarro esnob de los restaurantes de moda, una frugalidad bien entendida, que sabe apreciar el sabor de un tomate cultivado sin aditamentos, y un pequeño esfuerzo cada mañana para no usar más agua de la necesaria para el aseo. Con palabras claras y contundentes, Goodall nos recuerda lo que deberíamos saber; que la Tierra es cosa de todos.

OTRA MANERA DE VIVER by JANE GOODALL

En una frase: "Cuando los animalistas recurrimos a términos como «derechos para los animales» no nos referimos a derechos que para ellos no tengan sentido práctico (como podría ser el derecho a la educación gratuita o a un mes de vacaciones al año), sino a algo que sí les afecta directamente, como el derecho a ser bien tratados, o dicho de otra forma, el derecho a la integridad física y emocional."

TÚ TAMBIÉN ERES UN ANIMAL by KEPA TAMAMES