Focusing on the haiku animal kingdom, this book takes you on a journey through a single day with a variety of animal companions. It presents works by some of the great 17th & 18th century poets such as Bash, Buson & Issa, as well as later works by contemporary writers & novelists. ...

Features a renowned poet who shares his experience of haiku & its potential to surprise us again & again into a sudden awakening & thus to a deeper sense of what it is to be truly alive. This book shows us how haiku may be used as a powerful tool for spiritual interpenetration. ...

Rick Priestley is a world-renowned games designer having created Games Workshop's Warhammer & Warhammer 40, 000 game systems amongst others. Following on from his highly acclaimed Horse & Musket rules, Black Powder, he has now turned his attention to the ancient world with Hail Caesar which spans from 3000 BC through to around 1100 AD. ...

High on a cliff above a pulp-mill town on Vancouver Isl&, sixteen-year-old Bill Mac Avoy & his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free. It may be the fall of 1982, but inside the walls of their Benedictine seminary they inhabit a medieval world steeped in ritual & discipline. ...

Classic Hollywood satirical comedy written & directed by Preston Sturges. Patriotic Woodrow Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) joins up to fight in the war, only to be discharged within days because of his chronic asthma. Encouraged by a group of marines who sympathise with his problem, Truesmith decides to lie about his service record & returns to his home town as a war hero. With only his ex-girlfriend unimpressed, Truesmith finds himself being championed as a future mayor after receiving a hero's welcome. ...