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A study of the Hollywood mainstream addresses the questions which are asked about the world's most profitable film industry. Who are the decision makers Why do they make the films they do and what are the habits of film audiences To provide answers, the book looks at key films from 1977 to 1997.

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This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the second millenium BC to Augustine's City of God . More than that, it considers not only how the ancient world is remembered today but also how the Greeks and Romans perceived and felt the influence of their own past.

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The Birth of the FBI traces the roots of the struggle between President Roosevelt and Congressman Tawney in the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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The true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history

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The true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history

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How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.

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The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquiths Secret Service Bureau to Camerons National Security Council.

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Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president as well as thefirst who rose above the prejudice of his times andcountry. This narrative history of Lincolns personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood.

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The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world.

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The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world.

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In 1887 Government inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol, a notorious slum on the boundary of Bethnal Green parish. The author recovers Old Nichol from the ruins of history and lays bare the social and political conditions that created and sustained this black hole which lay at the very heart of the Empire.

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An illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended 'the Blitz' to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain's defences and civilians responded.

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From the author of Wartime comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population the Blitz.

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A sweeping, action-packed saga of the legendary last stand at the Alamo, by the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory.

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The astonishing lost story of the insane mystic who conquered Mongolia in 1920 and led a cavalry army against the Bolsheviks in Moscow.

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This is the astonishing lost story of the insane mystic who conquered Mongolia in 1920 and tried to lead a cavalry army against the Bolsheviks in Moscow.

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A new analysis of the conflict considered a precursor to the World Wars and the originator of South African apartheid.

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Tells the history of the Blitz in the Second World War. This book examines the well-known parts of the campaign, and the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (and discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities.

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The story of America's forgotten black pioneers, who escaped slavery, settled the frontier, and proved that racial equality was possible even as the country headed toward civil war.

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From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the making of England as a nation, told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral.

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Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is the past How can the past be constructed Is it possible to preserve the past as a vital force for the future