As a neuroscientist and horse trainer, my twin lifelong passions are horses and brains. I’ve learned along the way that most people are fascinated by both topics when rendered in plain language, regardless of whether they’ve ever touched a horse or inspected a brain. I worked on horses and brains separately for most of my life. But combining these two passions changed everything, allowing me to apply neuroscience to form a deep insight of the animal I’ve always loved most. I also enjoy translating equine life to those outside it, so everyone can get a stronger understanding of the minds, bodies, and hearts of these magnificent prey animals.
Many books state that horses have built human civilization. But Winegard’s The Horse explains how and why, getting into current details of the importance and rarity of the horse-human bond.
I learned so much from this book and enjoyed reading it.
From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history
Timothy C. Winegard's The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe. When one human tamed one horse, an unbreakable bond was forged and the future of humanity was instantly rewritten, placing the reins of destiny firmly in human hands.
Since that pivotal day, the horse has carried the fate of civilizations on its powerful back. For…
I like Temple Grandin’s Animals Make Us Human because it points the way to improved animal welfare and understanding.
Most animal cognition books and scientific studies focus on predator animals, like dogs, cats, whales, dolphins, and apes. Grandin’s work focuses instead on prey animals, primarily horses and cattle.
Prey and predator brains behave very differently from each other, so it’s important for our safety, pleasure, and love for animals to understand those differences.
How can we give animals the best life—for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life—on their terms, not ours. Knowing what causes animals physical pain is usually easy, but pinpointing emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her…
I love Cowpuppy because it’s about another common prey animal, the cow.
Gregory Berns is well known for his work on the brains of dogs and their ability to love humans. Now he turns his lens to cattle, whose prey brains are akin to horses’.
Berns writes with a beautiful balance between the scientific, scholarly, and everyday—I found this book a joy to read.
From the author of the bestselling How Dogs Love Us, a fascinating glimpse into the cognitive and emotional lives of cows.
"Hilarious, humble, and heartwarming-get ready for the best true story you will read this year." -Dr. Brian Hare, author of New York Times bestseller The Genius of Dogs
"I am a farmer, but Cowpuppy made me feel like a neuroscientist too. It is heartfelt, absorbing, and vivid."? -Rosamund Young, bestselling author of The Secret Life of Cows
When Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife decided to venture into sustainable farming in rural Georgia, they knew that cows…
The day the second atomic bomb was dropped, Clabe and Leora Wilson’s postman brought a telegram to their acreage near Perry, Iowa. One son was already in the U.S. Navy before Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Four more sons worked with their father, tenant farmers near Minburn until, one by…
This book sparked my interest in equine emotion, something I have observed all my life but have rarely seen analyzed in writing.
In addition to offering the science behind animal emotion, Bekoff’s work appeals to me because it includes true stories that illustrate his points. I found them great fun to read.
Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff’s years studying social communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with the latest scientific research confirming the existence of emotions that common sense and experience have long implied. Filled with Bekoff’s light humor and touching stories, The Emotional Lives of Animals is a clarion call for reassessing both how we view animals and how we treat them.
A Horse’s World is narrative nonfiction about the equine mind and its ability to bond with humans. It’s written for anyone interested in horses, not just for those who own or ride them. The language does not assume any prior knowledge of equestrian vocabulary.
The book is structured around the story of one real horse’s development from age 2 as a young naïve colt to age 8 as a mature adult teammate. Along the way, readers discover his personality, achievements, mistakes, foibles, and triumphs. This book is the first in the popular animal cognition genre to explain equine perception, cognition, memory, emotion, communication, social dynamics, and bonding, offering a window into who the horse is rather than what she has done for us.
Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS
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Amy Carney,
When I was writing this book, several of my friends jokingly called it the Nazi baby book, with one insisting it would make a great title. Nazi Babies – admittedly, that is a catchy title, but that’s not exactly what my book is about. SS babies would be slightly more…
What were America's first prisons like? How did penal reformers, prison administrators, and politicians deal with the challenges of confining human beings in long-term captivity as punishment--what they saw as a humane intervention?
The Deviant Prison centers on one early prison: Eastern State Penitentiary. Built in Philadelphia, one of the…
