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    An expert guide to successful "guerilla” marketing of your child actor to stage, film, television and commercial sdvertising. The book includes many shortcuts, secrets and top access points developed over the years by the author Meredith M. Day during her career as a top talent manager and developer in the entertainment industry. ... Read more

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    Written by Celebrity Talent Management and Development Expert Meredith M. Day, Starmaker Machinery is an insider's guide for actors and musicians who want to learn the secrets of successful self promotion in the film, television and music industries. The book includes top secret “End Runs” and shortcuts for self promotion that are not available to the public. ... Read more

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    Series series Britannica Beginner Bios II
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    Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition. Other ... Read more

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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    by Kelly Roscoe ...
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  • The Italian and Northern Renaissance

    by Kelly Roscoe ...
    Series series Power and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Times
    The modern period of history is often considered to have begun with the Renaissance, one of the rare periods of genius in the world’s history. This volume traces the Renaissance from its beginnings in Italy in the fourteenth century to its spread across the rest of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Along with the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman writing, the Renaissance ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the Roman World and the Rise of Christianity

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    Although once regarded as a time of uninterrupted ignorance, superstition, and social oppression, the Middle Ages are now understood as a dynamic period during which the idea of Europe as a distinct cultural unit emerged. This title dives into late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a time when political, social, economic, and cultural structures were profoundly reorganized. As Roman imperial ... Read more

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