The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of anima

This book describes briefly the numerous forms of life in the animal kingdom, and is arranged by representative species type.

Nature's Second Kingdom charts the concepts and practices of eighteenth-century discourses on 'vegetality, ' the 'whatever it is' which is peculiar to plants."

An all-inclusive catalogue of the world's living diversity, Five Kingdoms defines and describes the major divisions, or phyla, of nature's five great kingdoms -