Includes advice about riding and caring for horses and their tack, finding a riding school, and preparing for a career with horses.

Practical guide to horse health for the horse-owner, emphasising prevention over cure and covering common ailments and injuries.

Assessing the horse's suitability for outdoor living, fencing, shelter, feeding and watering facilities, nutrition day-to-day care, common ailments, and safety and insurance.

Proceedings from a seminar held at the Equine Research Centre at Guelph University. Papers and seminar notes include: Considerations for Deworming, Considerations for Vaccination, Providing Optimal Pasture, Sowing Your Own Hay, Housing the Horse, Epidemiology of Equine Colic, Special Needs of the Breeding Farm, Management Approaches to Avoiding Rhodococcus equi Pneumonia in Foals, Lower Airways and the Equine Athlete, Understanding Pasture Plants, Poisonous Weeds, Build Your Own Run-In Shed, Better Horse Keeping, Guidelines for Fire Safety in Facilities Housing Racehorses at Racetracks.

An excellent, straightforward guide to riding. Good photo illustrations are quite helpful.

Mnemos Nine, a computer used by the State Department for predicting catastrophes that is also an intelligent being with human emotions, shares a relationship with nuclear strategist Nicholas Tejada.

Paperback original.