These newly collected essays talk parents through child care issues, sleep and bed chances, illnesses, nutrition, and much more.

From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script..

Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the script that will succeed.

-Why are the first ten pages of your script crucially important?
-How do you collaborate successfully with someone else?
-How do you adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay?
-How do you market your script?

Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor

Some say that the apocalypse swiftly approacheth, but that simply ain't so according to Chuck Palahniuk. Oh no. It's already here, living in the head of the guy who just crossed the street in front of you, or maybe even closer than that. We saw these possibilities get played out in the author's bloodsporting-anarchist-yuppie shocker of a first novel, Fight Club. Now, in Survivor, his second and newest, the concern is more for the origin of the malaise. Starting at chapter 47 and screaming toward ground zero, Palahniuk hurls the reader back to the beginning in a breathless search for where it all went wrong. This time out, the author's protagonist is self-made, self-ruined mogul-messiah Tender Branson, the sole passenger of a jet moments away from slamming first into the Australian outback and then into oblivion. All that will be left, Branson assures us with a tone bordering on relief, is his life story, from its Amish-on-acid cult beginnings to its televangelist-huckster end. All of this courtesy of the plane's flight recorder.

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When kids begin reading, one of the first things they learn is how sounds are connected to letters. This small, sturdy board book is a simple but entertaining way for kids to start learning phonics. Each page, illustrated in DK's engaging visual style, teaches a single sound--some are single letter sounds like e, and others are combinations like oo. The book features 33 sounds in alphabetical order. Each sound appears in a small box at the top of the page, and three photos of items whose names contain those sounds help kids make the connection. Whether a child reads this book alone or with a parent, the straightforward presentation makes My First Phonics Board Book a useful introduction to a lifetime of reading adventures.