University Writing Program
(Guide created Spring 2007)
Essay: Pollan, Michael. “An Animal’s Place”
Background Information
Oxford Reference Online
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CLIO, Columbia’s catalog
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Encyclopedia of Animal Rights
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Also available in print in the Butler Reference Room
Grandin, Temple. Animals in Translation. 2006.
Articles
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