This is a fictional novel based on the true story of four family's and how they went from rags to riches and back again several times over throughout the hundred or so years that the novel covers. It follows them through three wars and into eventual peace times.

The book starts in the near future with the heroine being arrested for a fraud on a massive global scale. During the interrogation, her story unfolds and the story is her revealing her life story and ability. She had always had an interest in gambling but at school she started to get headaches and found that after the headaches she knew what was going to happen. She used this ability to become the richest person in the world and then she started to do good for others. Among other things for good she sets up a trust to fund up and coming inventors who couldn't get funding from other sources. One of these inventors had an idea for a sort of time machine, but it would cost a fortune to build. They built it and the time machine worked but it had unfortunate consequences it gave the heroine terminal cancer due to her being the pilot and genie-pig using it. The heroine died before she could be brought to trial and so escaped justice. But as always there was a twist at the end, especially when you mess with time.

These are the true stories of how strong willed women of influence changed the course of history within the Crown of England. Sometimes for the good of the Kingdom of England and sometimes for their own reasons and advantages. Always however with interesting results. It is a complete history of the last thousand years of the history within the monarchy of England and how the women in the background changed it. Whether through their sexuality, their intellect or through just force of personality.

These are the stories of the women behind the Rulers of France. Its often intimate and personal stories of how famous women controlled their husbands / lovers to change the history of France and therefore Europe in the last one and a half millenniums

Includes material on interpretation methods and presentation of research.

NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic internal romance tropes, the stories of personal affliction, wounds, fears, and personality traits that form obstacles to love inside the hearts and minds of your characters. Written by a working writer for working writers, this is a comprehensive reference guide and brainstorming tool to help you quickly generate ideas, create characters and plot, revise and edit, brand and market your story. You’ll write faster, cleaner, and deliver your audience a story they’ll recognize and love. If you’re writing a novel, script, play, comic, graphic novel, video game script, or any other story format, this book is for you. If you’re writing a love story specifically, or you’re writing any genre of fiction in which you’d like to include a romantic relationship, this book is for you. Each trope entry includes: · a detailed definition and analysis · descriptions of all obligatory scenes necessary to structure this trope correctly · lists of additional key scenes important to this trope · an extensive list of questions to think about when writing this trope · an extensive list of traps to avoid when writing this trope · reasons why audiences love this trope · a list of similar tropes · a list of examples of each trope in action taken from television, film, and novels …every kind of writer in every genre of fiction is going to want these guides in their go-to reference books… …a tour de force how-to on creating stories audiences adore… …the books every writer has been waiting for—a comprehensive walk-through by an industry pro of everything to think about when building a story of pretty much any kind…

The term "culture wars" refers to the political and sociological polarisation that has characterised American society the past several decades. This new edition provides an enlightening and comprehensive A-to-Z ready reference, now with supporting primary documents, on major topics of contemporary importance for students, teachers, and the general reader. It aims to promote understanding and clarification on pertinent topics that too often are not adequately explained or discussed in a balanced context. With approximately 640 entries plus more than 120 primary documents supporting both sides of key issues, this is a unique and defining work, indispensable to informed discussions of the most timely and critical issues facing America today.

This book examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and the independent and experimental films.