This title examines the remarkable life of Steven Spielberg. Readers will learn about his family background, childhood, and education, as well as his career as a movie producer and his famous works. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Lives is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.

Prolific director, writer and producer of such films as Saving Private Ryan, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Jurassic Park, and others.

This title examines the remarkable life of Steven Spielberg. Readers will learn about his family background, childhood, and education, as well as his career as a movie producer and his famous works. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Lives is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.

CQ Researcher is a collection of articles on current issues. All articles include background information, statistics, a chronology of significant events related to the topic, and pro / con viewpoints.

The author of The Beatles Book of Lists and more than a dozen other pop culture books provides an entertaining and irresistible look at all the things Tinsel Town is famous for -- the movie stars and movies, Hollywood landmarks, Hollywood scandals, outlandish overspending, and much, much more! Boasting over 100 fascinating lists of Hollywood trivia, facts, and lore, The Hollywood Book of Lists includes . . . -- 9 Rumors About the Death of Marilyn Monroe -- 23 Miscasting Debacles -- 14 Movies With Great Hair -- 6 Great Movie Musical Moments -- 178 Memorable Female Movie Star Nude Scenes -- 19 Movie Stars Who Have Done TV Commercials -- The 20 Most Expensive Movies of All Time -- 34 Directors' Cameos in Movies -- 13 Hidden Jokes in Animated Movies -- 28 Bad Remakes -- 56 Movie Star Burial Spots -- 44 Movie Stars Who Got Their Start on TV -- The 11 Best Movies About High School -- 16 Really Long Movie Kissing Scenes -- 18 Wild Hollywood Rumors -- 34 Terrible Performances by Great Actors -- 34 Great Performances by Terrible Actors -- 18 Hollywood Scandals -- 17 Hollywood Mysteries -- 33 Movies That Destroyed Careers -- Hollywood's 20 Biggest Flops . . . and scores more. The Hollywood Book of Lists takes a headfirst dive into the deep end of the pool, and the results are both hilarious and interesting.

For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century. M. Keith Booker has selected fifteen of the most successful and innovative science fiction films of all time, and examined each of them at length—from cultural, technical and cinematic perspectives—to see where they came from and what they meant for the future of cinema and for America at large. From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Star Wars, from Blade Runner to The Matrix, these landmark films have expressed our fears and dreams, our abilities and our deficiencies. In this deep-seeking investigation, we can all find something of ourselves that we recognize, as well as something that we've never recognized before. The focus on a fairly small number of landmark films allows detailed attention to genuinely original movies, including: Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Robocop, The Abyss, Independence Day, and The Matrix. This book is ideal for general readers interested in science fiction and film.