 | The Ultimate Vegan Guide: Compassionate Living Without Sacrifice by Erik Marcus
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $35.34 This is my latest book. In a fun, entertaining style, The Ultimate Vegan Guide tells you everything you need to know to become vegan.
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 | Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money by Erik Marcus
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $10.00 This is my thoroughly researched look at animal agribusiness. Part I offers a recent, concise, and thoroughly researched look into animal agriculture's ethical failings. Part II of _Meat Market_ looks at how each of us can play a part in dismantling animal agribusiness.
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 | Vegan Planet: 400 Irresistible Recipes with Fantastic Flavors from Home and Around the World by Robin Robertson
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $9.47 If you're only going to buy one vegan cookbook, this is the one to get. Despite being nearly the size of a Manhattan phone directory, _Vegan Planet_ never sacrifices quality for quantity. Everything I've tried here is outstanding. And, whatever you do, don't miss Robin's "Vermicelli, Chickpeas, and Vegetables with Creamy Curry Sauce" (p. 264).
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 | The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell
Buy new: $11.29 / Used from: $10.04 _The China Study_ is the best book available focusing on the health advantages of a vegan diet. Written by the chair of Cornell University's nutrition department.
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 | Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Buy used from: $3.95 The book that many consider to have inspired the modern animal rights movement. A solid and informative piece of scholarship.
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 | Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights by Tom Regan
Buy new: $16.96 / Used from: $11.58 A well-written guide to animal rights philosophy for the layperson. Together with _Meat Market_, _Empty Cages_ will help strengthen the arguments you are able to make for compassionate eating.
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 | Bizarro and Other Strange Manifestations of the Art of Dan Piraro by Dan Piraro
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $3.49 The ultimate Trojan horse animal rights book to give to your teenage nieces or nephews. A collection of brilliant comic strips and fine art, intermingled with entertaining essays chronicling Piraro's transformation into one of America's most prominent and articulate animal advocates.
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 | No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet by Howard F. Lyman
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $5.60 Better than his first book _Mad Cowboy_, here is some great dirt on animal agriculture's sleazy practices, told by a former industry insider. Also includes a selection of vegan recipes.
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 | Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Brenda Davis
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.80 The most popular book on vegan nutrition. Too many vegans never bother to take a couple hours to read up on nutrition, and end up eating a sub-optimal diet that may cause serious health risks. Get this book to avoid the pitfalls that can accompany a change of diet.
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 | Vive le Vegan!: Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family by Dreena Burton
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $5.40 Disclosure: I wrote the foreword to this cookbook. Dreena's Vive le Vegan is a top notch book full of great recipes, and -- important for a cookbook -- has the most attractive and clearest typography I've ever seen in a vegan cookbook. Her recipes strike the perfect balance between ease of preparation and still being special and innovative enough to serve to guests.
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 | The New Vegan Cookbook: Innovative Vegetarian Recipes Free of Dairy, Eggs, and Cholesterol by Lorna Sass
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.96 Dirt cheap, considering this book is full color throughout and features beautiful food photography. The recipes are marvelous. Lorna's "Broccoli in Coconut-Cilantro Sauce" is one of my all-time favorites. Get this book to put on your coffee table -- your friends are guaranteed to go wild when they get a look at the amazing foods that vegans can eat.
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 | The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer
Buy used from: $9.10 This is one of the finest books yet written about the ethics of modern-day agriculture.
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