Don Thompson: 18 books

Book cover of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics...
Book cover of The Supermodel and the Brillo Box

The Supermodel and the Brillo Box

Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art

by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed...
Book cover of Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #2
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., R. A. Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our 'Worlds of If' series, with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. '2BR02B'...
Book cover of The Telenizer
by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014

The Telenizer by Don Thompson.
Book cover of La supermodelo y la caja de Brillo

La supermodelo y la caja de Brillo

Los entresijos de la industria del arte contemporáneo

by Don Thompson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 3, 2015

«Esto es arte porque yo soy un artista y digo que lo es». Así de tajante se muestra Grayson Perry a la hora de valorar su obra. Ejemplos como éste salpican este nuevo libro de Don Thompson  quien, como ya hiciera en El tiburón de 12 millones de dólares, se introduce en el mundo del arte contemporáneo ...
Book cover of High Dragon Bump
by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014

High Dragon Bump by Don Thompson.
Book cover of Places Not Here
by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008

Places Not Here is the concluding book of the Stellar Woods trilogy. In this final adventure, young adults Tom and Katie Morrison are called back to Seattle for the reading of the will of their departed mentor, Dr. Spencer Blankenship. When the facts of Dr. Blankenship's demise don't add up,...
Book cover of The Telenizer
by Don Thompson, Vidmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. Langston had technicolor delusions; inanimate objects came alive in his hands; THEY were persecuting him, out to get him . . . what a relief it was to know he wasn't going insane!
Book cover of The Telenizer
by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017

Langston had technicolor delusions; inanimate objects came alive in his hands; THEY were persecuting him, out to get him ... what a relief it was to know he wasn't going insane!
Book cover of High Dragon Bump
by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

That was the way the aliens spoke: confused nonsense. If it took reduction or torch hair, the Cirissins wanted a bump. Hokum, thistle, gluck.
Book cover of Second Nature
by DON THOMPSON
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011

Allison Walker is an enigma. It seems that the bright young owner of Rain City Yachts has another side to her personalityone 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...
Book cover of The Telenizer
by Don Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016

Langston had technicolor delusions; inanimate objects came alive in his hands; THEY were persecuting him, out to get him ... what a relief it was to know he wasn't going insane!
Book cover of Zones of Control

Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming

by Jon Peterson, John Curry, Tetsuya Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Book cover of Wild Men: The Playboy Interview

Wild Men: The Playboy Interview

50 Years of the Playboy Interview

by Playboy, Hunter S. Thompson, Mickey Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The bad boys who were constant sources of controversy and pushed the term “living” to its absolute extreme are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the founder of gonzo-journalism Hunter S. Thompson to rock ‘n roll’s most dangerous...
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