This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 2: Manon des Sources.

Stage director Stephen Langridge brings Harrison Birtwhistle's Greek myth-based opera to Covent Garden's Royal Opera House. Recorded live in spring 2008, the production stars John Tomlinson in the title role. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus.

Keeping It Real: When Infidelity Strikes is Dr. Christine Rice-Slocumb's painful, true-life tale of a cheating spouse. It offers hope and inspiration to anyone who has experienced the heartbreak of infidelity -- whether in marriage or in any intimate relationship

"Articles for the Mind" is a compilation of 58 articles on a variety of topics that provide expert advice and objective knowledge to educate you and help you to improve your life. Topics include: beauty, health, careers, education, family, pets, financial planning, frugal living, money, food, holidays, home, psychology, self-help, values, and writing.

"Freelance Writing Guide" is a helpful career guide that will inform you of the experiences the author had, and what she learned, during her first year as a freelance writer. The purpose of the book is to educate you on what you can expect in the beginning of your freelance writing career, so that there are no questions or fear of the unknown. The book is straightforward and realistic. It covers ghostwriting, article writing, book reviewing, book writing, self-publishing, traditional publishing, business and finance, income and types of pay, the lifestyle of a writer, and many other topics. This is a resourceful book, written by an experienced freelance writer, that is for writers who wish to start a freelance writing career.

"Poetry for the Heart" is a collection of twenty-two free-verse poems that reflect emotions and share experience about writing, creativity, careers, childhood, home, dreams, animals, and more. The poems are honest and uplifting, and written with a modern style that is simplistic.

"Essays for the Soul" is a collection of thirteen essays about writing, student life, healthy eating, careers, personal finance, education, and more. These essays are creatively written, and based on thoughtful opinion and life experience. Some of the essays are introspective, while others are informational. Everyone can gain knowledge and insight from the essays in this book.

"My Not-So-Ordinary Life" is an autobiography that tells the author's life story up to age 28. The book reminisces about her innocent times in childhood, reveals the difficult experiences she faced in adolescence, and shows how she persevered and changed her life as an adult. The final message of the book is: Life will have its ups and downs but, ultimately, you will be okay, and maybe even good, in the end.

"Poetry for the Heart" is a book of twenty-two poems that portray emotions and experience about writing, writers, creativity, life, self-awareness, careers, childhood, beauty, animals, and more. I put my heart into these poems and I believe they will touch your heart.

This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 1: Jean de Florette.

"La France contemporaine a travers ses films" is an engaging textbook that combines written documents and films to present a lively and relevant picture of contemporary France. Noted author Anne-Christine Rice employs a three step approach to each chapter of the text. Students first gather information, then draw conclusions, and finally are asked to challenge their conclusions. The inclusion of a single modern French film in each chapter adds listening comprehension and authentic cultural material to the research and readings.

The topics covered in "La France contemporaine a travers ses films" are broad and numerous, pertaining to a wide variety of issues related to contemporary French society. The topics and the films themselves have been carefully selected in order to maximize student interest, foster a better understanding of contemporary France, and provide a balanced view of French society today.

"La France contemporaine a travers ses films" is truly a unique textbook: one that is flexible enough to allow chapters to be assigned in any order. Additionally, activities within the chapters can also stand alone, providing instructors the ability to assign those activities that best suit their time and interests.

Features include: Concise yet thorough, this manageable text can easily be covered in a single semester.Unique, fresh and engaging approach to teaching French culture, accommodating a high interest level course with substantial material for classroom discussion and student interaction.Chapters end with more opportunities for research and study, affording students and instructors alike to further their knowledge of a particular concept, bringing to light the fact that there is always more to know.Flexible design and presentation affords instructors the ability to easily customize the text to fit their particular syllabus.Carefully chosen research opportunities, discussion topics, contemporary articles and interviews with actual French citizens provide students with a meaningful and relevant grasp of current French cultureComprehensive Instructor's Manual, available to qualified adopters, provides valuable teaching aids and suggested classroom activitiesViewing and discussing feature-length French films with strong, meaningful images of what France really looks like, how it operates, and its cultural norms leads students to a better understanding of a world outside their own.

William Christie conducts Les Arts Florissants in this production of Monteverdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid in April 2009. Performers include Kobie van Rensburg, Christine Rice and Cyril Auvity.

This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 3: Cyrano de Bergerac.

Focused on individual films, each Cine-Module includes a teachers manual and student guide with numerous exercises and aids to structure the experience of watching, discussing and writing about the film in French, and understanding the film in a broad cultural context. Each also contains vocabulary, structured exercises (scene study, vocabulary, topics for discussion, essay topics) and an accompanying reading. This series is intended for intermediate level college and advanced level high school students.