I can't praise enough this book. The First section explain the Basic about Storytelling, the Second section expose The Screenwriting Tools, the Third Section from the page 100 to the end provide an Analyses of 16 Films using the following tools/elements:

Protagonist and Objective, Conflict, Obstacles, Premise and Opening, Main tension, Culmination and Resolution, Theme, Unity, Exposition, Characterization, Development of the History, Dramatic Irony, Preparation and Aftermath, Planting and Payoff, Plausibility, Action and Activity, Dialogue, Visuals, Dramatic Scenes.

My conclusions:
1) The information is clear and concise explaining the essential elements of a script
2) The Analyses Section provides examples in depth
3) The book is cheap

Is a favorite between my 12 books about Writing, you can't go wrong with this bok even if you are a Pro because the analyses of the films provide you a comparative of the central principles of a good movie.

Forget all of the other books out there...or, buy the other books, but make this one first on your list. Howard and Mabley are both accomplished professional writers and they know their tools of the craft, which they now share with you. This book succeeds immensely simply because it lists the elements of a screenplay and tells how each is best used and why. It has all of the basic elements: Dialogue, Dramatic Irony, etc. But ever heard of "Preparation and Aftermath", "Future and Advertising", "Planting and Payoff", or "Plausibility"? If not, then learn how to include them in YOUR screenplay to make it better, more exciting, and more fulfilling in a dramatic and universal way. Absolutely the best book on screenwriting. Period. Buy it now. I have read it a countless number of times and each time I learn something new or it spurs my imagination to create something new in the world of my screenplay. Please do yourself a favor and get a hold of this book. A masterpiece of screenplay instruction.

"Tools" is written by an intellectual with many years under his belt. He starts from the bottom up, and teaches you writing from the most basic levels to the most complex of ideas. This book not only improves your screenwriting skills by leaps and bounds, but enriches your movie-going experience.

A bored little boy discovers the secret to adventure while spending an afternoon at his grandfather's. Excellent detailed illustrations in this picture book, full of activities, creatures, and links to those on the following pages. It will be popular with the "I Spy", "Anno" and "Where's Waldo" crowd. I recommend this book for 2nd grade through the 6th grade, teachers, and for parents to read with their children.

This is a book we have never grown tired of as one can always seeing something new in the incredible illustrations. I hope that we will see more of this artist in the near future. Daniel Page Schallau is very gifted as well as imaginative!

The illustrator, Daniel Page Schallau, has done an incredible job. The drawings are imaginitive, highly detailed, and offer much to discover. I highly recommend this book!

After they see two of their teachers murdered, Sunday and Fred run away from school campus to Sundays summer house. They are surprised when they find Noah there, because he is scared of going home, because well, if you were caught on tape sleeping with a teacher, would you wanna go home? I dont think so. Noah, Sunday, and Fred begin to put pieces of their stories together, and things begin to come into the light. But Allison shows up, demanding to know what is going on, and the murderer shows up, threatening to kill them all if they dont get him his $200,000 soon. Eventually Maczine, and Hobson are dragged in. If they work together, can theystop the scandal at Wessex Academy?

I loved all the books.I was so happy about how at the end Sunday could never decide what her and Fred were. And then the very last page said they both went to Georgetown i was so happy i think i almost cried seriously you must read this whole series

After just witnessing what they believed was a murder, Fred and Sunday are on the run, taking refuge in Sunday's summer house. What comes to them as a great surprise is that someone else has been hiding there too, Noah Percy. It turns out Noah is afraid of confronting his parents after recently getting expelled for having sex with a teacher, and getting caught on tape too. What Noah doesn't know is that it is all a conspiracy called "Operation Time Capsule". As Fred, Sunday, and Noah work together they begin to put the pieces together and everything pretty much comes to light. Unfortnately two more surprises are on their way. One: Allison shows up at the summerhouse too. It turns out after Allison found out Sunday was missing she started looking for her and figured Sunday had to be at the summerhouse. Two: The murderer shows up too and threatnes them to give him $200,000 dollars or else. Deperate the four teens go back to school and devise a plan with the help of Mackenzie and Hobson to catch the thieves with their own game.

I first got interested in these books after reading the excerpt in Payback: Fingerprints #7, another series I love. I must say this series was no disappointment. Though it had some weird humor it was still satisfying to read. You wish all the characters are real, even Allison! My favorite character has got to be Noah, though Mackenzie is a close second. I recommend everyone to read this trilogy as Daniel Parker's way of writing is perfect in a weird way. Her irony works right with this type of story. A must-read!

Simply put, this book changed my life... I was going through a long period (over a year in duration) where I had trouble getting rid of "unwanted thoughts"; basically thoughts that I knew would reduce the level of pleasure I was getting out of any given activity. For example, if I dwelt on X while I was undergoing some otherwise-pleasurable activity - where X is an unwanted thought - my level of enjoyment i.e. my appreciation of that activity would decrease. While I was going through these cycles of unwanted thoughts, the quality of my life was drastically reduced. I'm sure "unwanted thoughts" differ for each person, both in their individual characteristics and implications. According to this book, one should not consciously try to suppress unwanted thoughts, as thereby the thoughts will systematically persist in reemerging. Instead, just "let it be" as it were, and inevitably the unwanted thoughts will start to dissipate. Don't be dissuaded by the above editorial review, as though it is true this is not "light reading" per se, it is very well written and in an easy-to-read format with the layman in mind; and it does not contain a lot of jargon. It reads just like a novel and is quite humorous in parts. I'm not a student of psychology but had no problem with my reading and comprehnsion of this book and gleaned a lot of new information out of it, such as how meta-cognition or "thinking about thinking" works. I hate to say anything negative about this book since I found it a self-help book in the truest sense, but its only feature I didn't fully appreciate was the few charts and graphs it contained, even though they were relevant to the information at hand and supplemented the statistics well. If I were the author of the book I'd have put them in the back. That's trivial, though. In summary, next time someone says "just stop thinking about it" in replying to how you should get rid of an unwanted thought, ignore their advice - then enlighten them.

A wonderfully engaging, cleverly written book about a serious subject. A real delight.

Since graduating high school and moving on to college, I've had significant difficulties concentrating due mostly to what could be described as unwanted thoughts - at least unwanted and the time. This book is the first one I've read that offered scientific evidence supporting the authors points. It didn't solve all my problems, but it has been a great place to start finding solutions.

This book belongs to a rare category: Reference Works of Art. This massive volume not only brings together an amazing mass of information, but does so in a fantastically attractive manner. The coverage is comprehensive: general articles on the relationship of writing to language, linguistics, decipherment, etc. accompany page after page devoted to every script extant from Egyptian and Chinese scripts to Ogham, Cree, and Mandain. If that were not enough, the book goes on to explore other systems for conveying information in written, symbolic form, such as mathematical and musical notations. But enough with the table of contents. I've only used the book for browsing thus far, but this even is a rewarding experience. The price on this book is quite high, but is in proportion to the quantity and quality of the material it contains. If all books were so well done, there would be very little to debate in terms of the effort put forth by writers and the taste exercised by editors. It doesn't get any better than this.

A comprehensive and very reliable reference work on grammatology. It is organized into separate easy-to-find sections, each devoted to a single writing system or a family of related scripts, and written by a specialist in the field. The book covers practically every known writing system, listing the established facts about its origins, variations, and development. Sign tables are presented (in full for alphabets, representative samples for syllabaries and logographic systems), and each section is provided with a priceless bibliography. Good editing work, the sections follow a similar pattern, which makes the book easy to use. The scripts are presented meticulously and are a pleasure to behold (it must have been a staggering job from the publisher's point of view). High scholarly standards are maintained throughout, and the precise technical language is balanced with an unobtrusive sprinkling of interesting anecdotes. This book is as beautiful as the Italian Carolingian Minuscule.

The World's Writing Systems is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in or involved in any of the myriad aspects of language, both as a fascinating browsing book and as an important reference work.

As reviewed by Laurence Urdang, in the Summer 1996 issue (Vol. XXIII, No. 1) of VERBATIM, The Language Quarterly.

I had to read this book for my HRM course at Nyenrode, mr. Tissen is my prof. This book cannot be compared to any studybook I've ever used before. Mr Tissen introduces a lot of difficult terms wich I couldn't directly understand and that are rather vage. His vision of the futere isn't of any use to me, and I think that the autors don't have to try to beat Nostradamus because they can't.

Finally, I've found a book that demystifies knowledge management, offering a perspective that doesn't originate from one of America's ivory towers. It's refreshing and enlightening to read about international companies operating within the global marketspace and how they've met the challenges posed by the Knowledge Economy.

Unlike other KM books I've read, Value-Based Knowledge Management showed me how to recognize "meaningful" knowledge and why it is more important for my company to possess only that type of knowledge. I now have a totally different attitude toward the knowledge of my customers, my associates and my fellow employees.

The companion CD-ROMs are invaluable. The Value Enhancer is helping me to assess my company's abilities and increase its competencies. The tutorial CD-ROM keeps me on track and prepares me for the next bend in the road.

Thanks, Amazon, for offering within your titles a truly integrated approach to knowledge management.

This is the first book I have seen on this subject who looked at knowledge management not from a technical viewpoint but rather from a ' value' based viewpoint. What does it mean, don't look at all information categories but only and the information types which might add value. The CD's are a perfect tool to support you. A perfect management toolkit!

I bought this book last year, and have nearly worn it out!! I am studying towards vet school, and this book is invaluable to me when I work as a vet assistant in an equine hospital. I would reccomend it to people with more than an average interest in equine medicine, and with basic knowlledge of horse anatomy and veterinary terminology.

I received this book as a birthday gift 6 years ago and it has been close at hand ever since! It is helpful for all horse owners from novice to advanced levels of veterinary knowledge.

This book is a must for all horse owners. It is an invaluable reference tool. I bought my first edition of this book 18 years ago, and it is the single most useful book I have ever purchased.

Great Log. Could use some more lines for exercises and you can use the daily planner for meals. In all, fantastic!

This is the best weight training log for the price. I have used others but this one is for a full year where as some logs only go for 6 weeks. I hope that next year they would come out with a stronger cover.

This is certainly the most complete log available. Reader from pa - I log meals in the "daily planner" section. The daily planner does need more blank lines at start and end of day. Also, need a start and stop time for the workout and aerobics sections. That's about it.

"Weightless Wealth is a very important contribution to the development of work on Intellectual Capital. It reviews the historical development of IC as well as addresses how to leverage the potential of your intangibles, competences and talents. It has a very interesting appendix called the Value Explorer Toolkit. It shows how to identify core competences and then calculate the value contribution of these competences. This will give a model and fundamental platform for identifying wealth creating dimensions and sustainable shareholder value cultivation."

Leif Edvinsson, the world's first corporate director of IC at Skandia, now associate professor of IC at the University of Lund

As a full time practitioner and researcher on Intellectual Capital Management since the beginning of the 90's, I am always looking for new useful concepts, methodologies and tools on managing intangible assets. This time in Weightless Wealth of Andriessen and Tissen I have found something unique that breaks the conventional thinking: a new practical method that leads to better strategic decisions focusing on core competencies, as the foundations of present and above all future value creation and as the unique bundle of intangible assets.

A took kit the "Value Explorer" guides the reader through the practical applications of the method. I would like to say, that my experience on the model ICBS (Intellectual Capital Benchmarking System), that follows a similar way, guarantees the effectiveness of this new alternative approach. Weightless Wealth is a well-written book, easy to read, enjoyable and engaging from start to finish.

Finding a workable and practical means of linking the core competence approach to business management with financial measures has been the goal of many researchers. In Weightless Wealth, Andriessen and Tissen suggest an approach and illustrate it with the easily-followed example of a toy manufacturer which runs through the book. Andriessen and Tissen provide practical advice on how to define and test company competencies and link them to the basic intangible assets that underlies them. Their

toolkit, the Value Explorer, is described in the last part of the book and guides the reader through their suggested process. Their linkage of competencies to financial results and the future earning power of the company is new and provides an alternative perspective for managers faced with critical strategic decisions. This is of special importance in a world in which the value of businesses by traditional means has become very difficult. Weightless Wealth is a well-written book, easy to read and engaging from start to finish.

A group of over-the-hill soldiers are called upon to assemble a mercenary army for a single mission: rescue the dissident leader of an embattled African nation. When the current regime proves intractable at the negotiating table, a consortium of British companies hits on the perfect plan to turn things in their direction. By springing the country's popular but jailed former leader out of jail (I guess he was supposed to be a stand-in for Patrice Lumamba, murdered former president of the Congo, but that's just a guess), they'll have the needed leverage. The mercs they hire sound like they're about ready for retirement, but gamely decide on "one-last-mission". The novel lightly but briefly plays up preparations in a way tat suggests the mission will be a walk-over. Eventually, it is - unfortunately, our heroes forget that being mercenaries, they are not the only side that owes no allegiance. When the regime caves in too quickly, the mercenaries' contractors decide that the Wild Geese are now a liability, and abandon them. Now cut off in enemy territory, the mercenary army must fight its way out. It's no easy go.

This was a great story, but it's not told all that well. The real meat of the book is the desperate escape, but the entire story feels rushed, even though there's a great story to be told. When our heroes are first introduced, the book hints at their complex lives ... without ever really fleshing them out. Also, it's hard to believe that our heroes - hardly innocent characters - couldn't see their betrayal coming. Still a great story, and certainly no small consolation for those who can't find the flick.

I read The Wild Geese after seeing the movie and I was not disappointed! The novel covers everything from romance, action, politics and even takes a stab at racism. I truly love the film as it is one of my favorite films ever. The story is easy to follow, engrossing, and one feels for the characters. Terrific for those interested in Africa,military matters, and action. Note: After searching six years for the film on video (out of print unfortunately) I had to go on another trek to find the book also out of print! So my advice to anyone interested is buy it when you see it! Ebay is a good place, thats where I found mine.

The late Daniel Carney (d 1985) was one of Africa's greatest writers and The Wild Geese was his finest book.

Mercenary action and some scary predictions about the Congo. Well structured which makes the story easy to follow.

The film starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris is still available on video and is true to the novel