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The Life and Times of Son HouseIn June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin&' the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James "e;Son"e; House, Jr. (1902 - 1988). House pioneered an...

What Everyone Needs to KnowFor nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation&'s ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a...

This collection of papers developed out of a World Bank project on the contentious issue of whether government played any positive role in the success of the so-called high-performing Asian economies. It goes beyond the influential World Bank volume The East Asian Miracle to chart a middle ground that recognizes the diversity among the different...

A Very Short IntroductionFilm is considered to be the dominant art form of the twentieth century. It can be considered many other things; a record of events, a modern mythology, a career, an industry, an art, a hobby, and much else. Michael Wood explores the history of film, its venture into the digital age, and its role and impact on modern...

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Captain Scott's Antarctic SacrificeThe story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest        adventure stories ever told. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers,        Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on        the return trek from the South Pole, starved and...