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Wildlife trafficking : a deconstruction of the crime, the victims, and the offenders
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ISBN: 303083753X 3030837521 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

Savages and Beasts : The Birth of the Modern Zoo
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ISBN: 0801898099 9780801898099 9780801869105 0801869102 9780801889752 0801889758 0801869102 Year: 2002 Publisher: Baltimore, MD, USA Johns Hopkins University Press ,

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Rothfels provides both fascinating reading and much-needed historical perspective on the nature of our relationship with the animal kingdom.


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Cultivating commerce : cultures of botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815
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ISBN: 9781107126848 1107126843 9781316411339 9781107565685 1107565685 1108515223 1108513735 1108506283 1108518206 1108516718 1108524168 1316411338 9781108518208 9781108524162 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants who sold botanical specimens in the decades around 1800. These merchants were not professional botanists, nor were they the social equals of refined amateurs of botany. Nevertheless, they participated in Enlightenment scholarly networks, acting as intermediaries who communicated information and specimens. Thanks to their practical expertise, they also became sources of new knowledge in their own right. Cultivating Commerce argues that these merchants made essential contributions to botanical history, although their relatively humble status means that their contributions have received little sustained attention to date. Exploring how the expert nurseryman emerged as a new social figure in Britain and France, and examining what happened to the elitist, masculine culture of amateur botany when confronted by expanding public participation, Easterby-Smith sheds fresh light on the evolution of transnational Enlightenment networks during the Age of Revolutions.


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The Animal Game : Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo
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ISBN: 0674972767 0674972759 9780674972759 9780674737341 0674737342 9780674972766 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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The spread of empires in the nineteenth century brought more than new territories and populations under Western sway. Animals were also swept up in the net of imperialism, as jungles and veldts became colonial ranches and plantations. A booming trade in animals turned many strange and dangerous species into prized commodities. Tigers from India, pythons from Malaya, and gorillas from the Congo found their way—sometimes by shady means—to the zoos of major U.S. cities, where they created a sensation. Zoos were among the most popular attractions in the United States for much of the twentieth century. Stoking the public’s fascination, savvy zookeepers, animal traders, and zoo directors regaled visitors with stories of the fierce behavior of these creatures in their native habitats, as well as daring tales of their capture. Yet as tropical animals became increasingly familiar to the American public, they became ever more rare in the wild. Tracing the history of U.S. zoos and the global trade and trafficking in animals that supplied them, Daniel Bender examines how Americans learned to view faraway places and peoples through the lens of the exotic creatures on display. Over time, as the zoo’s mission shifted from offering entertainment to providing a refuge for endangered species, conservation parks replaced pens and cages. The Animal Game recounts Americans’ ongoing, often conflicted relationship with zoos, decried as anachronistic prisons by animal rights activists even as they remain popular centers of education and preservation.


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The Illegal Wildlife Trade : Inside the World of Poachers, Smugglers and Traders
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ISBN: 331942128X 3319421298 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade. The illegal wildlife trade has become a global criminal enterprise, following in the footsteps of drugs and weapons. Beyond the environmental impact, financial profits from the illegal wildlife trade often fund organized crime groups and violent gangs that threaten public safety and security in myriad ways. This innovative volume covers several key questions surrounding the wildlife trade: why is there a demand for illegal wildlife products, which actors are involved in the trade, how is the business organized, and what are the harmful consequences. The author performed ethnographic fieldwork in three key markets: Russia, Morocco, and China, and has constructed a detailed picture of how the wildlife trade operates in these areas. Conversations with informants directly involved in the illegal business ensure unique insights into this lively black market. In the course of his journey the author follows the route of the illegal wildlife trade from poor poaching areas to rich business districts where corrupt officials, legally registered companies, wildlife farms and sophisticated criminal organizations all have a share. A fascinating look inside the world of poachers, smugglers and traders.


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Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases-Novel Challenges in Today's World
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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It is known today that more than 61% of human pathogens are zoonotic, representing 75% of all emerging pathogens during the past decade, presenting an increasing a matter of concern, particularly in modern days where global warming keeps is causing climatic conditions conducive to the introduction of exotic infectious agents or disease vectors in new territories. This book compiles studies that approach a myriad of zoonotic infectious diseases and their complex mechanisms. This is a brief but in-depth collection that showcases the need to address health at the animal–human–environment interface, in a One Health perspective.


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Regional Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment: East Asia and the Pacific
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ISBN: 9210541642 9789210541640 9789211303148 9211303141 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Publications

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Human trafficking and smuggling of migrants: Four of the 12 illicit flows reviewed in this report involve human beings. The first two concern movement between the countries of the region, one for general labour and one for sexual exploitation. The third concerns the smuggling of migrants from the region to the rich countries of the West, and the last focuses on migrants smuggled through the region from the poor and conflicted countries of South and Southwest Asia. Drug trafficking: The production and use of opiates has a long history in the region, but the main opiate problem in the 21st century involves the more refined form of the drug: heroin. In addition, methamphetamine has been a threat in parts of East Asia for decades (in the form of yaba tablets), but crystal methamphetamine has recently grown greatly in popularity. Virtually every country in the region has some crystal methamphetamine users, and some populations consume at very high levels.Resources: Resource-related crimes include those related to both extractive industries, such as the illegal harvesting of wildlife and timber, and other crimes that have a negative impact on the environment, such as the dumping of e-waste and the trade in ozone-depleting substances. In all cases, the threat goes beyond borders, jeopardizing the global environmental heritage. These are therefore crimes of inherent international significance, though they are frequently dealt with lightly under local legislation.Counterfeit goods: The trade in counterfeit goods is often perceived as a "soft" form of crime, but can have dangerous consequences for public health and safety. Fraudulent medicines in particular pose a threat to public health, and their use can foster the growth of treatment resistant pathogens.


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Tigers of the world : the science, politics, and conservation of Panthera tigris
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ISBN: 9780815515708 0815515707 9786612541131 0080947514 1282541137 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press,

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The second edition of Tigers of the World explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast changing world of conservation, there is a great need to summarize the vast and current state-of-the-art, to put this into historical perspective, and to speculate in what yet remains to be

Rape and ritual : a psychological study
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ISBN: 0585147884 9780585147888 0919123090 9780919123090 Year: 1982 Publisher: Toronto, Canada : Inner City Books,

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Rape --- Psychosexual disorders. --- Men --- Jungian Theory. --- Mythology. --- Psychoanalytic Theory. --- Rape. --- Mythology --- Jungian Theory --- Psychoanalytic Theory --- Literature --- Psychological Theory --- Sex Offenses --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Crime --- Humanities --- Criminology --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Kidnapping --- Poaching --- Crimes --- Kidnappings --- Criminal Behavior --- Psychologic Processes --- Psychologic Processes and Principles --- Psychological Processes --- Phenomena, Psychological --- Processes, Psychologic --- Processes, Psychological --- Psychological Phenomenas --- Psychological Processe --- Sexual Abuse --- Sexual Violence --- Abuse, Sexual --- Abuses, Sexual --- Offense, Sex --- Offenses, Sex --- Sex Offense --- Sexual Abuses --- Sexual Violences --- Violence, Sexual --- Violences, Sexual --- Intimate Partner Violence --- Paraphilic Disorders --- Domestic Violence --- Psychologic Theory --- Psychological Theories --- Theories, Psychological --- Theory, Psychological --- Social Cognitive Theory --- Cognitive Theories, Social --- Cognitive Theory, Social --- Psychologic Theories --- Social Cognitive Theories --- Theories, Psychologic --- Theories, Social Cognitive --- Theory, Psychologic --- Theory, Social Cognitive --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Literatures --- Psychoanalytical Theory --- Theory, Psychoanalytic --- Oral Character --- Character, Oral --- Characters, Oral --- Oral Characters --- Psychoanalytic Theories --- Psychoanalytical Theories --- Theories, Psychoanalytic --- Theories, Psychoanalytical --- Theory, Psychoanalytical --- Theory, Jungian --- Disorders, Psychosexual --- Psychology, Pathological --- Paraphilias --- Sexual disorders --- Assault, Criminal (Rape) --- Assault, Sexual --- Criminal assault (Rape) --- Nonconsensual sexual intercourse --- Sexual assault --- Offenses against the person --- Sex crimes --- Rape myths --- Psychological aspects. --- Folklore --- Psychology. --- Wildlife Trade --- Forced sexual intercourse --- Forced sexual penetration --- Penetration, Forced sexual --- Sexual intercourse, Forced --- Sexual intercourse, Nonconsensual --- Sexual penetration, Forced --- Psychological Phenomena --- Psychiatry --- Literature. --- Psychological Theory. --- Sex Offenses. --- Psychological Phenomena. --- Crime. --- Humanities. --- Criminology. --- Psychiatry. --- Social Sciences.

Soul murder revisited: thoughts about therapy, hate, love and memory
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ISBN: 0585373892 9780585373898 9780300149128 0300149123 0300086997 0300075944 9780300075946 0300075944 Year: 2000 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Yale University Press

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Since the publication of Dr. Leonard Shengold's highly acclaimed book Soul Murder in 1989, issues of child abuse have become the subject of much public debate. Now Dr. Shengold offers his latest reflections on the circumstances in which the willful abuse and neglect of children arises and on the consequences of this abuse, providing compelling examples from literature and from clinical material.Dr. Shengold describes various types of child abuse as well as techniques of adaptation and denial by soul murder victims. He explores the psychopathology of soul murder, addressing such issues as instinctual drives, aggression and sexuality, love, and narcissism. In a chapter on sadomasochism, he relates the story of Algernon Swinburne-who may have been a victim of soul murder-and he tells about Elizabeth Bishop, who, like Swinburne, has been able to use artistic creativity to transcend the damage sustained by early childhood trauma. Finally he offers suggestions about therapy for the abused and neglected, emphasizing the need to restore the power to care about and love others in order to ameliorate soul murder's narcissistically regressive effects.

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Adult child abuse victims --- Psychoanalysis --- Child abuse in literature --- Domestic Violence --- Child Welfare --- Psychiatry --- Persons --- Social Welfare --- Violence --- Named Groups --- Behavioral Sciences --- Social Problems --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Sociology --- Crime --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Criminology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Child Abuse --- Child of Impaired Parents --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Psychodynamic Analysis --- Analyses, Psychodynamic --- Analysis, Psychodynamic --- Psychodynamic Analyses --- Impaired Parents' Children --- Children of Impaired Parents --- Offspring of Impaired Parents --- Children, Impaired Parents' --- Impaired Parents Offspring --- Impaired Parents Offsprings --- Parents Offspring, Impaired --- Parents Offsprings, Impaired --- Parents --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Child Maltreatment --- Child Mistreatment --- Child Neglect --- Abuse, Child --- Maltreatment, Child --- Mistreatment, Child --- Neglect, Child --- Battered Child Syndrome --- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy --- Shaken Baby Syndrome --- Kidnapping --- Poaching --- Crimes --- Kidnappings --- Criminal Behavior --- General Social Development and Population --- Labor Exploitation --- Social Exploitation --- Exploitation, Labor --- Exploitation, Social --- Exploitations, Labor --- Problem, Social --- Problems, Social --- Social Problem --- Proxemics --- Behavioral Science --- Proxemic --- Science, Behavioral --- Sciences, Behavioral --- Assaultive Behavior --- Atrocities --- Behavior, Assaultive --- Structural Violence --- Violence, Structural --- Biological Warfare --- Riots --- Warfare --- Crime Victims --- Community Services --- Services, Community --- Community Service --- Service, Community --- Welfare, Social --- Public Assistance --- Person --- Psychiatrists --- Psychiatrist --- Adolescent Welfare --- Welfare, Adolescent --- Welfare, Child --- Child Health --- Child Health Services --- Social Work --- Family Violence --- Violence, Domestic --- Violence, Family --- Sex Offenses --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mental health --- Wildlife Trade --- Interpersonal Violence --- Violent Crime --- Crime, Violent --- Interpersonal Violences --- Violence, Interpersonal --- Violences, Interpersonal --- Violent Crimes

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