Dr. Virginia Maxwell is passionate about protecting animals. (Photo courtesy of JP Farm Animal Sanctuary) Virginia Maxwell, D.Phil., was just six months old when she met her first Jersey cow. Her ...
The story of the rise and fall of the Stalinist-era Soviet Union told through a farm animal uprising gone wrong, offers ...
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian." —Paul McCartney Every now and again, a special book comes along dealing with the ways in which so-called farm animals are mistreated ...
When everything locked down around her during the COVID-19 pandemic, Liz Wheeler wanted to buy more books to pass time. Not so fast — her husband said. "Craig suggested very kindly that maybe I get ...
During the early years of the second world war, George Orwell believed that England’s revolutionary moment had arrived. The defeat at Dunkirk had discredited the country’s ruling elite. Their bungling ...
Known as one of the bibles of literary studies, George Orwell’s evergreen book, Animal Farm, on Monday, marked 75 years since it was first published by British publishing company Penguin Books. Animal ...
George Orwell's Animal Farm is being used to help high schoolers identify how AI can be used to influence opinion, build ...
Great images of books from around the world and the Web. A reader writes in: At home, our cats have started playing behind our bookshelves. They chase each other behind the books, and sometimes crouch ...