Adaptation
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan  
Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this...
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
by Robert McKee Publisher Comments 18 Academy Awards...107 Emmy Awards...19 Writers Guild of America Awards...16 Directors Guild of America Awards...Plus, hundreds of nominations... For the first time in book form, Robert McKee's Story reveals the award-winning methods of the man...
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire...
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The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In...
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments Now in paperback comes the wonderfully entertaining, bestselling collection of the "New Yorker" writer's brightest profiles. "A voyeur's delight: expertly framed windows into the cosmology of the human experience . . . (these profiles) reintroduce...
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
by Stefan Fatsis
Publisher Comments Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of "living-room players" there is someone who is "at one with the board." In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful...
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Magnolia (Newmarket Shooting Script)
by Paul Thomas Anderson Publisher Comments The complete Oscar "RM" -nominated screenplay by the writer/director of Boogie Nights, featuring an exclusive introduction by Anderson, and never-before-published interview in which he discusses the themes and relationships explored in Magnolia, plus a...
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
by Mike Dash Publisher Comments In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The...
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Punch-Drunk Love: The Shooting Script
by Paul Thoma Anderson
Publisher Comments Writer/director Anderson follows up his acclaimed Academy Award-nominated "Magnolia" with "Punch-Drunk Love, " winner of the Best Director Award in the 2002 Cannes Film Festival--a film starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson. 25 photos....
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Orchid Fever
by Eric Hansen Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid and the impossibly bizarre array of international characters who dedicte their lives to it. <BR>The orchid is used for...
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The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Screenplay)
by Frank Darabont Publisher Comments Includes Darabont's shooting script, his notes on the scene-by-scene changes made in production and post-production stages written exclusively for this edition, selected storyboards, over 35 stills, with King's comments about the adaptation....
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Adaptation: The Shooting Script
by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In...
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Being John Malcovich (99 Edition)
by Charlie Kaufman
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In...
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
by Jon Ronson
Publisher Comments AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF FRINGE-DWELLERS Islamic fundamentalists, Ku Klux Klansmen, Christian separatists, and certain members of British Parliament would seem to have very little in common, but they do in fact share one crucial...
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magnolia (Newmarket Shooting Script)
by Paul Thomas Anderson
Publisher Comments The complete Oscar "RM" -nominated screenplay by the writer/director of Boogie Nights, featuring an exclusive introduction by Anderson, and never-before-published interview in which he discusses the themes and relationships explored in Magnolia, plus a...
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About a Boy: The Shooting Script
by Peter Hedges and Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz
Publisher Comments "The biggest change from book to script that readers [of the novel by Nick Hornby] will notice is the ending," write the Weitzs (Antz, American Pie) in the introduction to their scriptbook about the movie based on the popular British novel...
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