As Capt. Lorenzo Sitgreaves set out in 1851 to explore the southern portion of the Four Corners region (won in the recent war with Mexico), his party included Dr. Samuel Woodhouse, a thirty-year-old physician and naturalist who kept a journal of their travels from New York to California. Woodhouse recorded three weeks in San Antonio, made daily entries across the Trans-Pecos, and, after a hiatus in Santa Fe, resumed his journal on the march to Zuni Pueblo. Midway into their three weeks at Zuni, he nearly died from a rattlesnake bite and was scarcely recovered when the explorers again started...

Virgil's Schoolboys adds a new layer of complexity to Virgil's already complex pedagogical afterlife. Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of instruction, Andrew Wallace examines the relationship between his serial meditations on teaching in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, and the pedagogical theories and practices that dominated the spaces in which his poems came to be taught in the grammar schools of Renaissance England. Wallace argues not only that Virgil was a keen student of the elusive operations of instruction, but that vitae and scholia from antiquity to the...

Ensayos budistas sobre la atencion plena; una accesible e inspiradora compilacion de ensayos y platicas editadas sobre la practica budista de la atencion plena. Como el autor afirma, "la busqueda del meollo del asunto inmediato es la busqueda de lo que esta mas a la mano, ya que lo que se ve directamente, se oye, se huele, se saborea es la cognicion del presente." Gil Fronsdal aporta la practica de la atencion plena no solo a la meditacion formal, sino tambien a todos los diversos aspectos de la vida cotidiana."