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A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
Category: Film & Tv
From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, e ...Show more
Bette Davis by David Thomson
Category: Fiction | Series: Great Stars
'She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not beautiful ...But it was her edge that made her memorable - her upstart superiority, her reluctance to pretend deference to others'. Be ...Show more
Breaking Bad - The Official Book by David Thomson (ed.)
Category: Film & Tv
One of the most critically acclaimed series ever produced, Breaking Bad won legions of avid viewers who debated its every nuance as they followed the story of how terminally ill high-school teacher Walter White becomes a criminal-mastermind drug kingpin. This one-of-a-kind volume-adapted and expanded fr ...Show more
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
Category: Film & Tv
A deep--and darkly comic--dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world As anyone in the news business knows, audiences swell with the scale of disaster; humans have always been drawn to the rumors of our own demise. In this darkly comic book, note ...Show more
Financial Markets, Institutions and Money by David S. Kidwell; Mark Brimble; Anup Basu; Liam Lenten; Dianne Thomson; Paul Docherty; Paul Mazzola; Paul Mazzola
Category: Fiction
Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 4th Edition provides an overview of all the financial institutions, markets and money that make up the financial system in Australia. Key authorities such as the Reserve Bank of Australia and The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, are also examined.
GUIDE TO WESTERN WOODLANDS by Carolyn Thomson-Dans (Editor); Ian Herford; John Hunter; Penny Hussey; Ian Kealley; David Pearson; Grant Pronk; Cliff Winfield; Kobus Wentzel; Ann Storrie; Joanna Moore (Editor); Andy Chapman; Iain Capp; Aminya Ennis; Tony Friend; David Gleeson; Greg Keighery
Category: Travel Guides
The Great Western Woodlands is a delightful area to visit, with numerous granite outcrops, secluded bush camping areas and historic attractions scattered across this large chunk of Western Australia's heartland. It is also a culturally significant plane for Aboriginal people who continue to have a stron ...Show more
Gary Cooper by David Thomson
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Great Stars
'Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, and ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight'. On screen he was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in "High Noon", or a tough individualist in "T ...Show more
"Have You Seen...?" by David Thomson
Category: Film & Tv
A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films Including Masterpieces, Oddities and Guilty Pleasures (with Just a Few Disasters)This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that ...Show more
'Have You Seen...?' by David Thomson
Category: Film & Television
This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters. The result is probably the most enjo ...Show more
Have You Seen?A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson
Category: Film & Movies
More than one thousand pages in the voice of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian—a generous history of film and an enticing critical appraisal written with as much humor and passion as historical knowledge.Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgo ...Show more
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
Category: Film & Tv
From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has ...Show more