Sarien yearns for a life of adventure, like his father's. Instead, he's stuck mucking out stables so the nobles don't accidentally get dirt on their polished boots. His chance finally presents itself when a whole village's worth of people suddenly disappears. The noble house's oldest son needs extra men to hunt for whoever, or whatever, is responsible. Under cover of darkness, a ferocious beast attacks the group. In moments, they're all on the ground,...

This pioneering modern treatise on the calculus of variations studies the evolution of the subject from Euler to Hilbert. The text addresses basic problems with sufficient generality and rigor to offer a sound introduction for serious study. It provides clear definitions of the fundamental concepts, sharp formulations of the problems, and rigorous demonstrations of their solutions. Many examples are solved completely, and systematic references are...

What do you get when you take a geomancer with a bone to pick, a secret aeromancer, and a healing hydromancer, and put them in a practice yard with a commoner ranger and a bunch of noble sons of Eldsprak Kingdom? A group of individuals who all need to win The Academy Tournament for reasons of their own! It's up to Goslin to make them work together. If they're to have any sort of chance at coming out on top, they'll need to adapt and change. Can they...

An acacia tree lost in the wasteland. Two men are sitting in its shadow. One of them, an old Bedouin, is telling his European visitor the most extraordinary story ever to happen in the desert. This is a story about friendship and hate, hope and despair, love and death, a tale about the grandiose dream of a man who decided that nothing is impossible. In the middle of nowhere, deep within the moaning wind and void of the desert, the tales of the old...

Poetry There are times when I despair of some poetry written, nice words knitted together for the sake of sounding pleasant the truth of life is made into a Hollywood romance, beautiful and we cry, misspent, sentimental tears over the irrelevant. My almond tree looks spindly like an oversized spiders web, so ugly in its bareness that hadn't it been for love I would have averted my gaze from this grimness called a tree. But I also know, say, a month...

The true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz's time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", a man charged with being complicit in the deaths of more than 300,000 Jews. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordana was still not prepared for what she would see and hear. Listening to Groening's testimony and to the Holocaust survivors who came to testify against him, Jordana felt the weight of being witness...

En su ensayo 'Der psychologische und biologische Untergrund expressionistischer Bilder' (1920)—traducido aquí por primera vez al español—, el psicoanalista Oskar Pfister se propuso penetrar en las raíces inconscientes del expresionismo. Partiendo de un exhaustivo análisis de los dibujos realizados por un joven artista adscrito a este movimiento, Pfister desvela los conflictos mentales que condicionan el peculiar estilo practicado por esta...

Impfungen sind nicht wirkungslos. Sie haben Wirkungen, nur nicht die, die wir uns wünschen. Sachverständige und Virologen stellen fest: `Der Begriff Virus ist im Fluss` und daher nicht genau definiert. Vieles, was wir als gesichert in Bezug auf Gesundheit und Krankheit annehmen, muss neu überprüft werden. Anhand des Themas Impfen gilt es, altes Wissen neu zu überdenken und wieder zu einer ganzheitlichen Medizin im Dienste des Menschen zurückzukehren....

When the school becomes haunted once more - this time by wicked headmistress Stingbeard - it takes Felix, Ella, and their gang, to set the levers in motion to save the school and bring Felix's parents back to their original size!