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You may be blessed to have a child who has a natural acting talent or one who is keen to give it a go. The question that most parents have on their minds would be - "Where do I start to find a Talent Agency that I can trust?"After all, having an Agency is like having a launching pad where your...

British DVD suppliers have now released around 700 classic films. This book details some of Britain’s best. Over 400 movies in all are described in either minute detail or in summary form! And the quality (or lack of same) in the DVD transfer is fearlessly indicated. The author's emphasis is on...

A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the...

Headed "Fascinating Tour of the 1940s for Movie Buffs", the following review by Maria Trefely-Deutch appeared in The Sunday Telegraph: John Howard Reid’s latest offering is every bit as idiosyncratic as his previous books in this series, and equally compulsive reading for film buffs. The...

HOLLYWOOD "B" MOVIES: A Treasury of Spills, Chills and Thrills, focuses on the support features Hollywood produced in that golden era when cinemagoers demanded value for their admittance money. The 250 movies detailed in this book are truly representative of Hollywood's golden age. Hollywood...

Something Out of Nothing . . . A Hollywood Maverick’s Rule Book is an often funny, enlightening insider’s view on how to break into the world of show biz and navigate its shark-infested watersWriter/Director Rick Friedberg brings the politics and pitfalls in the music, acting, comedy, television,...

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world....

A lively portrait of the “Steel City” and its millionaires and workers during the late nineteenth century. Steel portrays the growth of iron and steel in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during America’s industrial age, and what it meant for the people who lived there. This history shares...

The everything you need to give an outstanding speech book, complete with all original material, written by a professional speechwriter.

Have you ever been stitched up to the national press by your best mate? Or unintentionally upset a band with a slip of the tongue on a live TV show? Or ruined a dinner party by transforming everything alcoholic into water? Hello. I'm Richard Bacon and this is A Series of Unrelated...

"How To Run a Successful Neary-New Shop. - With No Stock Costs - From Less Than 200 Sq. Feet - In A Back Street!" This book is based on fact. The quoted income was for 1987 - multiply by 3 or 4 now! For five years I ran this successful business and made it work. Many times it was pointed...

Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery--the city's first brewery--opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an...

From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a history of violent confrontation between geopolitics,...

The petroleum industry is unique: it is an industry without which modern civilization would collapse. Despite the advances in alternative energy, petroleum’s role is still central. Petroleum still drives economics, geopolitics, and sometimes war. The history of petroleum is, to some measure, the...