44 títulos para "Xenophon Press Llc"

Equine Osteopathy

Giniaux, Dominique

"This book comes as true information on the existence of an alternative way to experience and conceive medicine, whether animal or human. It is a real testimony of a distinctive quality of the relationship between practitioner and patient, and its authenticity is not its lesser merit." -Jean Josse,...

Dressage in the French Tradition

de Bragance, Dom Diogo;Bacharach, Ren‚;Tavora, Miguel

Nuno Oliveira said of the author: " I have the honor to declare that Dom Diogo de Bragan‡a has been one of my best students and that I consider him as one of the rare riders I know who is capable of taking on the greatest difficulties of Equestrian Art with the greatest finesse." Dom Diogo de Bragan...

Memoir of a Death Angel

Anagnost, Aphrodite

MEMOIR OF A DEATH ANGEL is the coming-of-age story of Persephone Matepas, a mortal who's destined through ancestral lineage to transform into a winged angel of death. Her whole family is being stalked by an extremist Greek Orthodox sect, whose dark mission is to kill nascent death angels and thus-by...

PRINCIPLES OF DRESSAGE AND EQUITATION

Fillis, James

James Fillis' masterwork, Breaking and Riding has been a touchstone of commonsense training for over a century. Xenophon Press has returned to the original French language manuscript entitled Principe de dressage et d'equitation and re-translated some of M.H.Hayes' tr...

H. Dv. 12 German Cavalry Manual

Reinhold, Stefanie;von Fritsch, Baron;Williams, Richard

The Riding Regulation H. Dv. 12 in its last edition of 1937 is the foundation of German classical horsemanship. Authored by the German cavalry experts and issued by the German army commander-in-chief, these guidelines governed all training of remounts and recruits with the goal of creating a sound,...

Classic Show Jumping

de Nemethy, Bertalan

Classic Show Jumping: The de Nemethy Method?is an exposition of this gold-medal technique, illustrated with more than 100 photographs of riders and horses that Bertalan de N?methy has personally trained. Covering all aspects of horsemanship, it is the?only?book to detail de N?methy's proven method f...

Ecole de Cavalerie Part II Expanded Edition

Guérinière, François Robichon de la

François Robichon de la Guérinière (1688-1751) was born in Essay, a small town near Alençon, where his father was a lawyer; he was also an officer at the court of the Duchess of Orleans. La Guérinière was a pupil of Antoine de Vendeuil, who was "Écuyer ordinaire de la grande ecurie" in Versailles be...

Gymnasium of the Horse

Steinbrecht, Gustav

Gustav Steinbrecht's Gymnasium of the Horse is one of the great milestones of equestrian literature, alongside Xenophon, de Pluvinel, Newcastle, and de la Guérinière. It forms a connection and transition between two eras.    On one hand, it is the culm...

Divide and Conquer Book 1

Lemaire de Ruffieu, Francois

    Calm, Forward and Straight must always serve as a guideline during the training and the order should not be interchanged. On this subject, all Riding Schools worldwide agree. These schools diverge only in their style due to the culture of their own country.     In...

Austrian Art of Riding

Poscharnigg, Werner

This book, is the anticipated English translation of "MEILENSTEINE OSTERREICHISCHER REITKUNST" Find out how Austria came to be the safe hold of such a wealth of equestrian tradition: Dr. Werner Poscharnigg eloquently answers this question by chronicling the development of the classical p...

To Amaze the People with Pleasure and Delight

Walker, Elaine

William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle’s passions included women, music, writing, theatre and, perhaps above all, the finest horses. He was a widely acknowledged expert in the art of the riding horse, and his works laid the foundation for classical dressage. Mastery in horsemanship was the...

'Spanish Riding School' and 'Piaffe and Passage' by Decarpentry

Decarpentry, General Albert

Originally published in 1947, The Spanish Riding School in Vienna: Home of the Art of Riding in Jeopardy was written by General Decarpentry to pay homage to this unique institution. After World War II, the viability of the Spanish Riding School was in question. Published in both French and English t...