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Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin |
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Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson |
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| Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Have a logical look at human motivation - Forget your image of an economist as a crusty professor worried about fluctuating interest rates: Levitt focuses his attention on more intimate real-world issues, like whether reading to your baby will make her a better student. |
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The story is captivating and the prose is the best I've ever read. Here's an excerpt:
"A tiny woman was perched in the bed, old and birdlike, with a blackberry face. Her mouth opened when she saw us, and her tongue curled out like a misplaced comma."
A wonderful look into the world of black and white in the south at the time of the Civil Rights Act. |
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Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan
This man is my hero! Dog behaviorist with an excellent show on National Geographic channel, The Dog Whisperer. It's the human, not the dog - sound familiar to you horse folks?? Watch his TV show and videos, and read his book. You will learn as much from watching him as you will from watching me - even though he's playing with dogs, not horses! |
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| Beautiful Jim Key : The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World This a MUST READ for all horse folks and history buffs. |
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
by Mark Bittner A wonderful autobiographical report of how a flock of wild parrots living in San Francisco changed a man's life. A charming look into the connection between human and animals. |
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Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time Tells how treating humans with dignity and respect is great for business. |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon A wonderful story with insights into Jewish emigration from Nazi threatened Prague, and Comic Book Heros! Impossible to put down. |
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The Tao of Equus
by Linda KohanovAmazing accounts of the intuitive connection between horses and humans. Theme is horses in healing. |
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