AWI Quarterly Term Archive

Review

Dirt: The Erosion Of Civilizations

Farmed Animals

Painstakingly, Montgomery, a geomorphologist and professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, leads us on a verbal journey spanning millennia and the globe to give us...

Freedom Moon

Terrestrial Wildlife

For 10 years, the Animals Asia Foundation has made it its mission to rescue and rehabilitate majestic moon bears from cruel bear bile farms in China and Vietnam. In celebration...

See It Through My Eyes

Companion Animals, Equines

See It Through My Eyes is a revealing documentary produced by three Girl Scouts on the horrific practice of “soring.” Soring achieves an exaggerated gait in Tennessee Walking horses and other...

Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare In Disasters

Companion Animals

In her book Filling the Ark, the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Associate Professor of Sociology, Leslie Irvine, asks the question “When a disaster strikes, who should enter the ark?” Indeed,...

The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals

Terrestrial Wildlife

In the Wizard of Oz there is a scene in which Dorothy is in her house as it swirls in the tornado. She stands before her window and a cast...

Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species

Terrestrial Wildlife

In her new book, Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species, Laurel Neme, PhD, tells the true story of a group of...

Roots of Human Behavior

All Programs

Roots of Human Behavior is a vibrant photo documentation of the parallels between animal and human expressions, emotions and psychology. It is another book in a series of AWI publications whose...

The Cove is a highly suspenseful documentary that introduces viewers to Ric O’Barry, the dolphin trainer from the 1960s hit television series Flipper. O’Barry, who has 10 years of experience training dolphins, has...

Righteous Porkchop

Farmed Animals

Righteous Porkchop begins with author Nicolette Hahn describing her first exposure to the realities of industrial pig “production” as senior attorney for Waterkeeper Alliance. Nothing she had read prepared her for...

The Inner World of Farm Animals

Farmed Animals

Amy Hatkoff makes clear in her new book, The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Capabilities, that these animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment,...