Andrea Navagero (1483–1529), among the principal poets of Venice, pioneered the Renaissance pastoral epigram genre. Marcantonio Flaminio (1498–1550), though now better known for his controversial religious writings, began his career as a poet. Latin Pastoral Poetry is the first volume to combine their poetry alongside authoritative Latin texts.

A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century ad) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost.

Children are eager learners, but many find school alienating. How can parents nurture kids’ natural curiosity? Educators Ken Bain and Marsha Marshall Bain show that by creating a “learning household” that encourages creativity and resourcefulness, parents can help bring the joy of learning back to the classroom.

In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal On the Mechanics of Economic Development to his previously unpublished 1997 Kuznets Lectures.

Legal Lessons examines how China's party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advice manuals, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to promote "correct" understanding of laws intersected with the interpretations and practical experiences of the people.

Incisively and stylishly written, this book constitutes an open challenge to reconsider the fundamental question of the relationship of law to society.

In Letter to Melania, Christian philosopher Evagrius of Pontus (345–399) meditates on the power of language, the composition of humanity in light of the three persons of God, and the final restoration when all creatures reunite with their creator. The first complete edition of the Syriac text is presented here alongside a new English translation.

Between 1937 and 1946, Robert Frost reached new heights of literary and personal fame. Volume 4 of his Letters provides an intimate portrait of the poet as he won his third and fourth Pulitzer Prizes, faced family tragedy including the deaths of his wife and son, and secured his towering stature in American literature.

The letters of Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61–ca. 112), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the earliest pagan accounts of Christians. The Panegyricus is an expanded, published version of Pliny’s oration of thanks to the emperor Trajan in AD 100.