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Long ago and far away, the great, great grandparents of pugs today lived in Buddhist temples high in the mountains of Tibet. On moonlit summer nights, the little pugs pressed their flat noses to white moon orchids, glowing like moths flying through a moonbeam. At dawn they lay by blue-green ponds where fat little toads leaped and splashed. The loving companions to the monks lived in harmony with everyone and everything around them.

In the Buddhist tradition, The Little Pug's Dreams illustrates the timeless value of mindfulness, compassion, and the awareness of the interconnectedness...

From the time he was a little boy, David Bard loved to make up stories. Even before he could read and write, he drew pictures of the stories he imagined. As he grew older, everything around David sparked his imagination. He wrote about the subjects he was studying and the class trips he took and, of course, his cherished companion, a little pug. David Bard was a good story teller.

Just how much freedom of speech should high school students have? Does giving children and adolescents a far-reaching right of expression, without joining it to responsibility, ultimately result in an asylum that is run by its inmates?

Since the late 1960s, the United States Supreme Court has struggled to clarify the contours of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech rights for students. But as this thought-provoking book contends, these court opinions have pitted students--and their litigious parents--against schools while undermining the schools' necessary disciplinary...