Product Description: Don Thompson was a fan who worked most of his life as a professional journalist. He was also active in comic book fandom. He was married to Margaret (Maggie) Curtis Thompson, whose mother was SF author Betsy Curtis. Don and Maggie met in June, 1957, at a SF picnic at the home of SF author Basil Wells; they were married in June, 1962...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009. Selected for "The Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Conference, 2010. Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz, 2010...read more

Product Description: Allison Walker is an enigma. It seems that the bright young owner of Rain City Yachts has another side to her personality-one irresistibly drawn to the field of medicine. Allison is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and committed to mandatory participation in a clinical trial at a prestigious psychiatric institute...read more

Product Description: A young and very beautiful girl with golden blond hair and smooth skin the color of creamed sweet potatoes floated in the middle of the windowless metal room into which Wayne Brighton drifted. The girl was not exactly naked, but her few filmy clothes concealed nothing...read more

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark delves into the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world – artists, dealers, auction houses, and wealthy collectors. If it’s true – as so often said – that 85 percent of new contemporary art is bad, why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? The $12 Million Stuffed Shark explores money, lust, and the self-aggrandizement of possession in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work of art valuable while others are ignored. In the style of the bestselling Freakonomics, Thompson uses economic concepts to explain the unique practices employed, to great success, in the international contemporary art market. He discusses branding and marketing and how various strategies are tailored to a wealthy clientele, driving a "must-have" culture. Drawing on exclusive interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a surprising journey of discovery.

Product Description: If only we could all grow older with the clarity of Don Thompson. In Turning Sixty, he focuses his keen eye on aging and offers us incisive and witty poems that reflect the suppleness of a quick mind seasoned by the wisdom of experience...read more

Product Description: Places Not Here is the concluding book of the Stellar Woods trilogy, following Tom and Katie Morrison as they risk their lives to investigate the fate of their mentor.

Product Description: YOUR LIFE IS A MOVIE contains some of the most provocative thinking about media, film and culture you're likely to encounter anytime soon. Drawn from scholars, political pundits, filmmakers and film critics-ranging from the famous to the relatively obscure-this anthology of interviews and essays covers a wide range of topics and issues, and is a must-read for anyone concerned about the direction of film and media in modern culture...read more

Product Description: In this sequel to Steller Woods, Tom and Katie are really into Northwest life. Their family has inherited a 58-foot trawler and they are ready for amazing salt-water adventures.

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Product Description: Young teenagers Tom and Katie Morrison move to a new city, fearing boredom and isolation. But they find just the opposite when two unusual going-away presents and a mysterious forest become the keys to an amazing adventure that defies conventional explanation.

Product Description: Gathering for the very first time on the West Coast, the Association for Core Texts and Courses convened for its Sixth Annual Conference in April 2000, at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco. Organized around the broad theme of Universality and History, participants were invited, first, to address the first term in that title, 'Universality,' by entering the ongoing debate about whether core texts ―be they great books, classics of many different cultures, or simply works used for a brief period of time within liberal and general education programs ― have any universal significance or are always locked into particularities of their production or of their readership...read more

Product Description: Get a feel for the Golden Age of comics with this sequel to the bestselling "All in Color for a Dime". Full of facts about America's favorite reading matter, here is an entertaining excursion into the world of comics. 16 page color section. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the fragmented, diverse world of modern academia, the universal truths have been boiled down into unfathomable, specialized texts no one understands. There are no longer philosophers, but specialists who dissect the works of others until whatever truth they once held is dead...read more

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