Roman poet, satirist and dramatist Horace was born in southern Italy in 65 BC. Uncommonly for one born to poor parents, Horace studied literature and philosophy in Athens until he became a staff officer in Brutus' army, where he served as a military tribune until the army was defeated in 42 BC. He soon returned to Rome, purchased the post of scribe, and it was here that he began writing verse and struck up a friendship with the poet Virgil. Horace...

Sidney Alexander is the author of fifteen books on Renaissance history and art, as well as novels, poetry, plays, and criticism. The American Literary Translators Association honored his critical edition of The Complete Poems of Michelangelo as the Outstanding Literary Translation of 1991, and his edition of Guicciardini's History of Italy (Princeton paperback) received the PEN Award for Translation in 1970. His other honors include the Maxwell Anderson...

David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired translation of the complete Odes of Horace, one that conveys the wit, ardor and sublimity of the original with a music of all its own. The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously constructed poems with their unswerving clarity...

An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.
A Sunday Times Bestseller - over 60,000 copies sold.
Even in the most horrifying places on earth, hope still lingers in the darkness, waiting for the opportunity...

"Reminiscences of a Ranger...by Horace Bell...published in 1881...became a classic work of frontier literature. Bell, a gold-seeker, volunteer lawman, soldier, lawyer and journalist, was a masterful story-teller and his colorful book has been aptly termed 'the finest memoirs of early Los Angeles'...accounts of gold rush bandits, gunfights, vigilantes and manhunts." -Tulsa World, Jan. 9, 2000 "Reminiscences of a Ranger...by Horace Bell...is the real...

This 1870 work, by one of the great journalists of the time, aims to teach economics to the student and general reader. Topics include labor, commerce, capital, company, money, slavery, monopoly, agriculture, the state, manufacturing, trade, consumers, iron, sugar, shipbuilding, credit, taxation, wool, immigration, foreign commerce, and more.

Good teachers do much more than instructing children. They develop a relationship built on trust, honesty, humor, and above all love. When two or more students discuss varied ways to solve problems we have the beginnings of a creative dialogue, which is the root of inventiveness and a direct path to successful collaboration skills. Too often we do not recognize the value of friendships that is buoyed up by the brotherhood or sisterhood among children....