This book is about one of the most extraordinary phenomena of our times, one which raises fundamental questions about the nature of altruism, about the character of humankind ...

Dr Richard Ryder has played a creative role in developing new ethical ideas for over 30 years and was part of a small group of Oxford writers in the early 1970s who revived ...

This book, written by leading academics and activists, examines the development of animal rights over the past two decades and asks where the issue goes from here. The ...

Richard Ryder created the term speciesism in early 1970 and shared the idea with Peter Singer, who popularised it in his classic work Animal Liberation (1975). A key figure in ...

Contains a collection of primary source documents by a variety of authors that illustrate all sides of the debate over the rights of animals.