Experience the colorful cats of Malta as you journey through cat colonies, meeting locals and artists who embrace and look after the huge population of stray cats in this Mediterranean Island.

Bertrand Tavernier’s César-nominated three-and-a-half-hour tour through French film history, was too short to introduce audiences to all that he wanted to share. In this new eight-part series, the acclaimed director guides us through a roster of filmmakers both influential and forgotten.

Leo Baldwin is the most lovable kid you could ever meet. His brain was wired differently from birth which gave him the label of being handicapped. But no one told him, so he sees the world differently and everyone who knew him loved him to bits, including his beautiful big sister Suli.Mark Batchelor is married and works for The Big Media Agency buying advertising space for his clients in the West End. His life changes dramatically when he meets and...

Set against the backdrop of true, world events, "Dallas" and "I Claudius" unite, resulting in a deeply engaging and richly entertaining experience. The protagonists in this passion-fuelled saga of our times are members of two rival banking dynasties – the Villon Family in Europe and the Ravenscroft Family in the U.S.A. – who are arch-enemies. But it was not always so. Around the mid-nineteenth century, both families were members of a secret cabal,...

The complete playtext for use in schools and youth theatres. Imagine swapping places with a monster for the day. Ben has a BIG problem. His mum is acting grumpy, his best friend Vince has stolen his precious binoculars and his Dad is far, far away… Oh, and there's a monster under his bed. But when Ben swaps places with the underbed monster, Ben's life – and his school – is turned inside out and upside down. A funny and thrilling play for children...

"Winner of the 1993 Translation Prize, American-Scandinavian Foundation" Göran Sonnevi has written twelve books of poems and assembled and revised collections of his poems (most of which are in print in Sweden in mass-market paperback editions). Rika Lesser is a poet and has translated numerous works of poetry, including a selection of the poems of Rilke, Rilke: Between Roots (Princeton). For a group of poems from A Child Is Not a Knife, she received...

The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic. Paris...

Inspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking literary feats-including Michel de Montaigne and John Milton-conceived of their writing in surprisingly modest and domestic terms. In contrast to the monumental...

The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions...

Unlock the principles of visual harmony with Denman W. Ross's Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance and Rhythm. This foundational text delves into the core elements of design, offering timeless insights into the creation of aesthetically pleasing and structurally sound works of art. Denman W. Ross, a distinguished artist and educator, meticulously articulates the fundamental concepts that underpin successful design. His exploration of harmony,...