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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing. ’ Since these boxed informational sections are not listed in the table of contents, this is the only way to find them apart from browsing. I also love the design of the book itself, credited to Kate Basart of Union Pageworks.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. Ted Floyd took the title How to Know the Birds from a 1949 book by Roger Tory Peterson, but the content is uniquely and wonderfully his own.

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From the Mailbag

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Dear Professor Burgess-Jackson, The Michigan Law Review ’s companion journal First Impressions this week published an online symposium on Agricultural Animals and Animal Law. Best regards, Bradley Moore Executive Editor of First Impressions Michigan Law Review

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From Today's New York Times

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2): We disagree with your contention that the First Amendment protects animal “crush” videos. Stevens , the Supreme Court last year overturned a 1999 law banning depictions of animal cruelty on the grounds of overbreadth. The justices were legitimately concerned that the law could impede valid speech. In United States v.

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Leonard Nelson (1882-1927) on Duties and Rights

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For every person, being a subject of interests, has rights, i.e., has a claim to respect of his interests under the law of equality of persons. Under the moral law, all beings who have interests are subjects of rights, while all those who in addition to having interests, are capable of grasping the demands of duty, are subjects of duties.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. As the Newsweek story indicates, 38 states have passed laws giving women the right to breastfeed in any public or private place she’d otherwise be allowed to be. How sick and twisted have we become?

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