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."

Life seems perfect for beautiful young Charity Freestone. She lives in the wealthiest part of subterranean techno-paradise Diamond City, her beloved older sister Ursula is a hugely popular celebrity and both girls are courted by the powerful elite. However, there is something wrong, something Charity isn't being told. Her suspicions are confirmed by a devastating attack on her parents and the horrible realisation that she and Ursula are next. The wickedly seductive Harlan Akintan might have the answer but what must Charity do to learn it? Pursued by a vengeful sub-class and targeted by an...