This book explores gender differences in math performance--and why males outperform females on high stakes standardized tests but not in the classroom. These differences are important because scores on such tests are generally used in decisions that have important consequences for students such as college admissions and job placement. The contributions in this volume present a variety of theories and research that help to explain the differences, and highlight the consequences. Illustratively, if females receive lower scores on the tests, they are likely to be exposed to fewer opportunities...

Former gladiator Saevius is certain Fortune's smiling on him when a Pompeiian politician buys him to be his bodyguard. That is until his new master, Laurea Calvus, orders Saevius to discover the gladiator with whom his wife is having a sordid affair. In order to do that, Saevius must return to the arena, training alongside the very men on whom he's spying. Worse, he's now under the command of Drusus, a notoriously cruel-and yet strangely intriguing-lanista. But Saevius's ruse is the least of his worries. There's more to the affair than a wife humiliating her prominent husband, and now Saevius...

L'ex gladiatore Saevius e certo che la Fortuna gli stia sorridendo quando un politico pompeiano lo compra per farne la sua guardia del corpo. Almeno finche il suo nuovo padrone, Calvus Laurea, ordina a Saevius di scoprire con che gladiatore sua moglie stia avendo una sordida relazione. Per riuscirci, Saevius deve tornare nell'arena, ad allenarsi insieme agli uomini che sta spiando. Peggio ancora, adesso e agli ordini di Drusus, un lanista notoriamente crudele... eppure stranamente intrigante. Ma l'inganno di Saevius e l'ultima delle sue preoccupazioni. La relazione nasconde ben piu di una...