Describing the basic anatomy and physiology of the horse, this book by an experienced veterinarian identifies widely-used incorrect training methods—especially in dressage—that can undermine a horse's health and well-being. Starting with the question Who is responsible for this? the book looks at breeders, ...

Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life
Author: Ronald Potter-Efron, Patricia Potter-Efron
ISBN: 0894866354
Recommended Retail Price: $14.95
Letting Go of Shame explains what shame is and how it can negativeley impact self-image. Exercises and a personalized action plan help readers identify their feelings of shame and build their self-seteem

The N.D.D. Book: How Nutrition Deficit Disorder Affects Your Child's Learning, Behavior, and Health, and What You Can Do About It--Without Drugs (Sears Parenting Library)
Author: William Sears
ISBN: 0316043443
Recommended Retail Price: $12.99
The Sears Parenting Library's latest addition is an exploration of how nutrition affects the brains and behavior of youngsters. N.D.D., or Nutrition Deficit Disorder, as coined by Dr. Bill Sears, is based on the idea that if "you put junk food into a child's brain, you get back junk behavior and learning."

Dr. S...

Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
Author: Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie, Sarah Dopp
ISBN: 0307397122
Recommended Retail Price: $30.81
Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us.

Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes - now, it's personal.

The most dangerous pollution has alw...

The Invisible Partners: How the Male and Female in Each of Us Affects Our Relationships
Author: John A. Sanford
ISBN: 0809122774
Recommended Retail Price: $12.95
An examination of the feminine and masculine qualities in every person.

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
Author: Steve Goodman
ISBN: 0262013479
Recommended Retail Price: $35.00
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambiance of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or "sound...

Ordinary Affects
Author: Kathleen Stewart
ISBN: 0822341077
Recommended Retail Price: $18.95
Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capa...

A Change of Pastors: ...and How It Affects Change in the Congregation
Author: Loren B. Mead
ISBN: 1566993091
Recommended Retail Price: $13.00
A revised edition of Critical Moment of Ministry: Change of Pastors.

Twenty years after Critical Moment of Ministry was first published, Loren Mead returns to his groundbreaking work on one of the most important times in a congregation’s life—the time between one pastor’s leaving and another’s arrival. In this re...

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Series Q)
Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
ISBN: 0822330156
Recommended Retail Price: $21.95
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she ca...

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Author: Brian Massumi
ISBN: 0822328976
Recommended Retail Price: $23.95
Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor oaf concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body a...