Best Selling Books by Michael Halperin

The second act is the heart of a film''s story, where the action happens and the characters evolve. This handbook offers advice on writing the second act, and provides discussions on structure, plot devices, and how to keep the action moving.

Nat Fowler, a fifteen year old African-American boy raised on his family farm in a predominately white part of Missouri in the late 1800?s, runs away from home when he?s accused of murder and joins the United States Army. He ends up at Fort Missoula, Montana with the all-black 25th Infantry where a white officer organizes the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps. Nat goes on a historic bicycle trek from Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. During the journey he falls in love, discovers bigotry and hatred, finds friends and comrades but also grows up as he enters the 20th century. "Based on a true story, this novel is a gem?The story is well told and the characters are varied and real?this book will become popular." ----VOYA Magazine The National Education Association selected ?Black Wheels? for its African American Booklist 2005-2010, a booklist in celebration of African American heritage, tradition, and achievement. NEA President Reg Weaver stated: ?Taken together, these titles provide an overview of the civil rights movement and its leaders, as well as the trials, triumphs, and traditions of a heritage that has played ? and continues to play ? a vital role in our nation?s history.? Recommended in Blumenthal?s ?Parent/Teacher Guide to Children?s Books on Peace and Tolerance?.

In answer to his daughter''s questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.

Changes in the economy required business professionals and researchers to learn about new sources of information, as well as to expand their understanding of international business subjects. The sources, language, document coding, and definitions are different -- truly foreign. International Business Information was written to help business ......

This is the definitive sourcebook for collecting information required for corporate merger and acquisition research. A particular strength of the Guide is its focus on time-sharing online databanks for information retrieval. Readers can learn which databanks can be used for M&A research, and search examples and techniques are described. The authors use their research expertise to identify appropriate strategies, provide database tips and techniques, and point out unique features of the many M&A research tools discussed in the Guide. In addition, they discuss issues such as database cost and comprehensiveness and the currency of information delivery by identifying those databases offering current awareness capabilities. Examples of search sessions in electronic databases are provided to illustrate the creation and use of current awareness profiles. Monitoring M&A activity, researching specific deals, using Securities and Exchange Commission filings, researching with specialized M&A transaction databases, using electronic databanks to find acquisition candidates, tracking complex corporate relationships and international M&As are the primary subjects of coverage. The database categories--both print and electronic sources--include: filings databases, transaction databases, directory databases, monitoring databases, financial databases, legal databases and bibliographic databases. The Guide is a tool for the users of corporate change information that include economists, accountants, attorneys, financial analysts and officers, managers, academics, and students of business.

In 1943, four-year-old David and his nine-year-old brother Jacob were forcibly interned with their aunts and grandmother in the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. As news of wholesale execution of Jews became known, the women planned the children''s escape into the arms of Alexander and Mela Roslan, Polish-Catholic merchants, who willingly made their choice at the risk of death.

Writing a script can take months or years. However, a great treatment, a two or three page storyline, can sell your work much more effectively. This book tells you how to write and use your treatment to get your project off the ground quickly.

Fields of Poison recounts the odyssey of Antonio Velasco from a village in rural Mexico to a life of back-breaking labor as an eleven-year old migrant farm worker in America. With determination, foresight, and overwhelming intellect he rose to the heights of the scientific and medical professions. Major corporations fought Dr. Velasco''s determination to investigate and prevent life-threatening pesticide poisoning. Against enormous odds he developed diagnostic protocols and treatment of toxic pesticides that have a long-term impact on public health. Dr. Velasco''s story represents the American ideal that the nation benefits from generations of immigrants."...story of the extraordinary brilliance and tenacity of Dr. Antonio Velasco in overcoming systemic racism and injustice in America. His story reminds us it is possible to bend the arc of history towards justice." Harry Snyder, J.D. Advocacy Leader in Residence, University of California School of Public Health."...relates...the battles encountered by Dr. Antonio Velasco in seeking social and legal justice to protect workers from highly hazardous pesticides?. ." Graham Matthews, PhD., Emeritus Professor of Pest Management, Imperial College, London."[with] burning passion for justice?Antonio converted his anger into achievement." Sen. Bill Monning, California State Senate."...significant portrait of human courage and the potential that lies within us all to learn from personal suffering and to substantively contribute to the larger good." Daniel Rothenberg, Ph.D. Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies.Author, playwright, screen and television writer Michael Halperin served as Executive Story Consultant, 20th Century-Fox and Story Editor, Universal Television, and writer-producer for MCA Television. He authored Black Wheels, National Education Association choice for its African American 100 Best Book List. Best-selling Jacob''s Rescue: A Holocaust Story, Random House, written under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, was named ABA Best Book, Children''s Book Council; Notable Children''s Trade Book, Int''l. Reading Assn. Teacher''s Choice. Writing Great Characters, Lone Eagle; Writing the Second Act, MWP; Writing the Killer Treatment, MWP are staple texts for universities.

This valuable book identifies and solves a major problem for writers -- creating characters who are so real they literally jump of the page. Halperin has developed an easy-to-understand, logical system which gives all screenwriters a foolproof and fail-proof method of developing great characters. Writing Great Characters is a book for all writers, from the expert who is looking to polish his techniques to the novice who wants to learn the craft from an expert.

Study done with teachers and students in Tallahassee, Fla.

5M 2FFull Length ComedyUnit SetBy Michael Halperin1953. Eighteen year-old Jewish college dropout Steve Weisbart travels from Los Angeles to Freedom, Texas for an unlikely job as a disk jockey/announcer with a small, run down, marginally profitable 1000 watt daytime radio station in the Panhandle that specializes in broadcasting to passing semis on their way to deliver cattle in Oklahoma. The small town has its share of greed, lust and even some goodness. Through a misunderstanding the station gives him a non-ethnic name. Steve attempts to fit in to a town where he''s the only Jew except for the pharmacist who doesn''t want to come out of the closet. Steve discovers that not all is as it appears in Freedom whose very name is a clue to its past and future.

1980-talets störste hjälte blev ett populärkulturellt fenomen, med leksaker, en tecknad tv-serie, tröjor, en långfilm - och ser ietidningar. Den här samlingen omfattar alla mini-comics som följde med leksakerna när de såldes i Sverige. Dessutom unikt bonusmateria l som visar bakom kulisserna på fenomenet He-Man.[Bokinfo].

Jacob moet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog onderduiken wanneer Warschau door de Duitsers wordt bezet. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.