Animals, Politics, and Morality, 2d ed.0719066204 Animals, politics, and morality, 2d ed. Garner, Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. . Manchester Manchester, city, England Manchester (măn`chəstər, –chĕs'tər), city and metropolitan district (1991 pop. 397,400), NW England, on the Irwell, Medlock, Irk, and Tib rivers. U. Pr. 2004 285 pages $74.95 Hardcover Issues in environmental politics HV4708 In this review of the literature, including the most recent for this edition, Garner shows how the orthodoxy or·tho·dox·y n. pl. or·tho·dox·ies 1. The quality or state of being orthodox. 2. Orthodox practice, custom, or belief. 3. Orthodoxy a. that humans are morally superior to animals is surprisingly fragile and fraught fraught adj. 1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama. 2. with controversy, that changes necessary to granting a higher moral status to animals has considerable consequences to a culture that has treated animals as commodities, and that such movements as wildlife conservation, animal protection, and animal liberation have increased advocacy, policy and direct action even at the commercial level, such as in consumer demand for cruelty-free products. Distributed by Palgrave. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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