10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia. Sounds interesting.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently. He is an unabashed speciesist, putting humans on “a different moral plane from that of other animals” (11) due to various reasons, such as our “vastly greater capacity for symbolic language, culture, and ethical judgment” (11). Yes, you read that right.)

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

I'm reading a book about women in the American abolitionist movement. The drive to emancipate slaves was grounded on religious and moral grounds. There was tremendous moral energy, organization, networking, and credibility that came from the involvement of religious organizations and individuals.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.) At no point will we speculate about Martin’s motives.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

and an accountant and an economist and any other "expert" that uses their field to claim a moral authority. It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. It doesn't mean that you have the moral authority to tell me that I must support animal testing because you know better.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2020

Organizations need to understand that while there may be a dip in bookings attainment, there are other metrics that the company can rally around. However, even in the face of this change, we need to do everything we can to keep morale high. Shifting Messaging .

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

It moves society closer to the view that all forms of speciesist exploitation--from dog breeding to commercial fishing--are morally wrong (151). Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism. We must rethink what we were taught in school, on the playground and at home.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Regan devoted his professional life to defending animal rights in his numerous books (including: T he Case for Animal Rights ; The Animal Rights Debate ; Animal Rights, Human Wrongs ; and Empty Cages ), in his countless articles and public lectures, and in his testimony before Congress. In a society (the U.S.)

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Animal Person

APRIL 30, 2009

I haven't read the books and frankly I didn't know much about the film. The good ones are morally superior to the bad ones because they don't eat humans. Of course, she said it was because of the hormones in them, leaving the door wide open for farmers who don't use hormones to say Kathy Freston would approve of their products.

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SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Tom Beener is a securities attorney turned author, known for his book 'It's Better to March in Circles Than Not March at All.' His experiences have given him a deep understanding of the balance between moral integrity and ambition in business. Despite these influences, he pursued a career in law, becoming a securities attorney.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

At least fifty-nine grammar books of the period pounced on "wrote," calling the usage "absurd," "bad," a "barbarism," "colloquial," "corrupt," "improper," "inelegant," "ungrammatical," a "solecism," or "vulgar." Wrong and right are less useful and more fluid in language, but they're not in morality.

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Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. There's no remotely vegan or even vegetarian (though I'm not even sure what the latter would look like) message. We eat animals, and the CAFO system is an evil, filthy, cruel one, but it doesn't have to be that way.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

This is prohibited under German nature conservation laws and a moral no-go. According to the observation book on the tower, even wolves are a – very remote – possibility. From the tower, there should be a few interesting raptors around, and vagrant raptor species are always a possibility during migration periods.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

I don't expect that many readers will be converted to the cause of animal rights by reading this book. I have focused exclusively on moral theory. I hope that this book will help this cause along. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], xvii-xviii)

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In his book, “Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain,” Damasio profiled one of his patients, Elliott, who experienced damage to the area of his brain that controlled emotion. Drew Taylor is the Founder of DTaylor Group , a boutique strategic consulting firm and organic growth authority for wealth advisors and asset managers.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 3, 2008

In setting out to write this paper, my intention was to fill a gap in my book Animal Liberation. I explicitly avoided taking a position on the wrongness of killing animals, for I wanted the book to reach non-philosophers, and the issue of killing cannot be dealt with briefly and simply.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The book that started everything was Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men [(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978); I finished reading this book on 28 December 1980]. My original interest was narrow: animal rights.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

The results of the lectures are written down in this book. It should support a stronger attention in research and teaching and should guide as the latest reference for all those who are dealing with the moral status of animals and related questions. More information on the book can be found here. We really appreciate it!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Black, whose best-selling book “No More Cold Calling,” promotes revenue growth through referrals, says you won’t get introduced to prospective customers unless you have a solid business solution and a means to relay that. The moral of your story is, ‘we did this for that client and we can do this for you, too.’”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

He amassed a copious amount of research on the impact of isolated work for his 2015 book “Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will.” Tackling low morale among remote workers. Working together is better. Colvin is in Kenny’s camp. Sales reps are ideally suited to work from home.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. Mr. Foer's book "Eating Animals" is definitely worth the reading for any individual who has the guts to face the facts of a meat-based diet and the damage it is doing to man and animal alike. Why was a dog more worthy of not being dinner than a pig?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 6, 2019

Joe, our hero would explain the moral to the story and remind the viewers, “And now you know, kids, and knowing is half the battle.”. Sales meetings, inspirational pep talks, posters, clay models, books, team outings.There are an infinite number of ways to gin up emotion. Not the case. Don’t hold back. Help reps build skills. ?Again,

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It’s all too easy for employees to slip through the cracks and feel isolated from their peers, which in turn leads to low morale. The money could be used to book travel in the future or put toward home improvements, which many people who are stuck at home are tackling.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

A fine idea for a nature book is promised by the title and subtitle: Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World. But despite what one might have hoped and expected, the book isn’t about the sounds of nature, not really. Thus the book is a call to arms, and perhaps a necessary one.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

“It’s a sad reflection on how broken our work environments and company structures often are,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, cofounder of the web application company Basecamp and coauthor, along with his Basecamp cofounder Jason Fried, of the book “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2015

Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. In short, this book is pitched solidly at the mid-level birder. Reviews Bird Behavior book review cassowary'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It’s not surprising that I never ran across the book versions of the Green Forest stories, written by Thornton W. As a result, this book will probably be of most interest to those, like me, who have a preexisting interest in Burgess or in the history of nature writing, along with scholars of children’s literature.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

The new hot novelist Jenny Offill was quoted in the Times magazine recently about her first book: “If someone had described this novel to me, I would never have read it.”. Much of the book is devoted to explicating the intertwined relations of Alejandra’s family and Lili’s, about which a review should not reveal too much. By Susan M.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. I was in Africa earlier this year and the universal message I got was that bookings were down down DOWN because of ebola. Booking were down by half in some wildlife tourist sites. But tourism can’t save all of it.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. Serious examination of the national funding paradigm and how it contributes to the conservation choices made on both federal and state levels.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Also, if, like me, you know someone who appreciates the things we do with language to mask the reality of our behavior, this is a great book. Not great, but good.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. "Using who for every creature with a nervous system avoids dismissing any sentient being. Overly generous inclusion? Chance is so close! Please consider a gift.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

In his book, Mind of the Raven , biologist and raven expert Bernd Heinrich observed that ravens remember an individual who consistently raids their caches if they catch him in the act. Is this moral? Amazingly, the dog carried the baby about 150 feet to where her puppies lay after discovering the baby covered by a rag in a field.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

If Smith thinks that plant rights and animal rights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient. Animal rights ideology holds that moral worth comes with sentience or the ability to suffer.

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