Michael imprint: 765 books
Story Line
Finding Gold in Your Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
"Story Line: Finding Gold in Your Life Story" is a practical and spiritual guide to drawing upon your own story and fictionalizing it into your writing. As a Story Consultant and former VP of Current Programs at CBS/Paramount, most of the author’s work with writers has focused on creating standout scripts by elevating story.
Directing the Camera
How Professional Directors Use a Moving Camera to Energize Their Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The first half of this book is devoted to teaching a systemized approach that can be used to design the very best moving shot for any dialogue scene, no matter how complex or long. Bettman’s “Five Task” approach enables the aspiring director to quickly grasp this difficult element of directorial...
The Language of London
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This beautifully presented and accessible guide is the perfect companion to learning the phrases of London's East End and the interesting origins behind Cockney Rhyming Slang - a language first invented as a secret code among the thieves of London's underworld. Organized thematically, rather than alphabetically,...
The Long and the Short of It
How We Came to Measure Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
We’ve always measured the world around us, from how big things are, to how fast they go, how much they’re worth and practically everything in between. But who decided how we do it, and why? The Long and the Short of It takes us back in time to discover the origins and evolution of a huge variety...
The Mysteries of History
Unravelling the Truth from the Myths of Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon’. Noted down in historical documents, copied and widely repeated, it doesn’t take long for a version of the truth to become accepted as fact. But who invents these false accounts in the first...
One Bloody Thing After Another
The World's Gruesome History
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Ever wondered why Tsar Ivan was the dubbed 'the Terrible' or how King Henri II of France perished in a jousting incident? Grisly and gruesome, this book details the vile history of bloodthirsty kings and queens, savage battles, torture and punishment, as well as deathly locations from the days of the...
The Story of English
How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
The Story of English" illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically...
Plato's Alarm Clock
And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
We all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn’t seem so difficult; self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future … but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow, most of us wouldn’t know how to catch a fish...
Elementary
The Periodic Table Explained
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly...
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
Weird Ways to Remember Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Our memories are mysterious things. One moment we might remember a lengthy poem or the exact street address of a restaurant from our childhood. But the next moment we can struggle to recall where we‘ve put our keys down or the name of the person we have just been introduced to. The human mind is...
by ML. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Zachary Bryant is an All-American All-Pro football player who discovers that he has been living a lie. Allow him to share his side of a deadly story. A story that will uncover the evil of two individuals that he thought could be trusted.
Egyptian Woman
A year in the life of a woman during the reign of Ramesses II
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Following the experiences of Nebetiunet - an Egyptian mother and wife living in the holy city of Waset (Thebes) during the fifth year of the reign of Ramesses II - Egyptian Woman offers a fascinating insight into a year in her busy and remarkable life. When Nebet was orphaned at the age of ten, she...
The 25 Rules of Grammar
The Essential Guide to Good English
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
English grammar is often said to be over-complicated and difficult to get to grips with but the truth is that, while there are certain rules that should be obeyed, the language evolves and develops over time - and quite rightly so. In this book, Joseph Piercy outlines the 25 rules that should be adhered...
by Nur Yilmaz Ruppi
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Love Inside Me is the inspiring story of one woman's journey to become a mother. It is an honest, fascinating account of her life in various countries as she navigates each different culture in her struggle with infertility. Her courage and fear, hope, sadness and, ultimately, joy are echoed in...