Originally serialized in a periodical of boys’ adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man’s journey to discover the heroism within himself.

Less than one hundred and fifty years ago a surgical operation was a sensational event often attended by several hundred curious onlookers. Every surgeon of the early nineteenth century was a pioneer. With no diagrams to guide his operations, no anaesthesia. to kill pain, and no knowledge of the prevention let alone cause of infection, he tackled almost every kind of operation in this specialized field. The casebook of one well-known surgeon dating back to the 1830’s includes records of amputations, operations for breast cancer, circumcisions, the tying of a subclavian artery for the first time in history, and the removal of a plum stone by excision from the trachea of a nine year old girl.

In the fourth century, this symbol appeared in the catacombs of Rome.
In the sixteenth century, it was inscribed
on a scroll in Spain.
Today, it’s about to be discovered beneath a historic building in Boston.

“Emotion-Coaching parents had children who later became what Daniel Goleman calls emotionally intelligent people. These coached children simply had more general abilities in the area of their own emotions than children who were not coached by their parents…. The children were better at soothing themselves when they were upset.