Michael Shapiro

Creative people have a certain spark: a brightness in their eyes, an inquisitive way of looking at the world, a desire to make things. But that spark doesn't reside solely in people you may view as creators. It's in all of us. The Creative Spark is a collection of interviews with some of the most creative people of our time: musicians, authors, visual artists and chefs. These makers speak about what drives them, what helps them to see the world in...

Shapiro's compelling narrative tells how, 50 years ago, as baseball faced crises on and off the field, two larger-than-life figures took center stage and reinvented the national pastime.

Cars propelled with magnetism. Hologram images of past and present movie stars projected into the room for you to dance with and talk to. Waterless showers. All part of life in Femeron by the end of the century. This humorous scifi satire is a tale that takes the Battle of the Sexes to new heights. We are in the year 2090, the United States long ago allowed California and the other western states to secede from the Union. Inside the re-formed United...

At the apex of the Civil Rights movement in America a young man from New Jersey was deployed to fight in our nation's first fully integrated war. Assigned to the 1st Infantry Division from October 1967 to October 1968, he shared the experience of combat with young men from all ethnic and economic backgrounds. Embracing their differences, they used their diverse backgrounds to draw on strengths and combined wisdom to deal with the dangers and difficulties...

Offers profiles, ranging from Biblical times to the modern era, of the most influential Jewish men and women of all time, in religion, music, science, diplomacy, literature, philosophy, sports, and many other fields.

Johnny Smith attempts to manipulate the events during a hostage situation in a bank but each time he makes a move, the ending changes for the worse.