Thomson, David

Presents a collection of over thirty visual tricks and illusions involving colors, shapes, patterns, and perspective. Includes 3-D glasses, a spinning disk, and an answer key.

Explores movies and media across time, and asks about the role of movies in modern life, from imitations of life to culture changing, as escapes from everyday reality and its responsibilities, or as guides on how to live.

Presents an essay exploring the performing arts, and its attraction for both the artist and the audience. Discusses the casting process, stage versus film acting, the cult of celebrity, and notable actors such as Meryl Streep, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, and Daniel Day-Lewis.

A companion to the television program "Breaking Bad" that features insider secrets and meanings to its unique iconography, stories spanning every season, a complete series timeline, and interviews with creator Vince Gilligan.

The author reminisces about his boyhood in England during the 1940s and late 1950s, and describes how he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and an upstairs tenant; his relationship with his very distant father, and his views of London in the aftermath of World War II.

Biography of actor, director and producer, Orson Wells, with discussion of his life, career and accomplishments.