Alex Cox

Forty years ago, as a graduate student, I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. Thirty years later, I wrote an entirely new book with the same title, about the same subject, from a different perspective— that of a working film director. What...

Learn about all things dinosaur in My First Mini Popedia. T. rex vs Spinosaurus goes jaw-to-jaw with Spinosaurus in this clash of the meat-eaters, with fun first facts and cool pop-out scenes. Cool pop-out scenes on each spread. Simple facts about dinosaurs. Colourful dino artwork and engaging design.

Learn about all things dinosaur in My First Mini Popedia. Triceratops goes face-to-face with Stegosaurus in this clash of the herbivores, featuring fun first facts and cool pop-out scenes. Cool pop-out scenes on each spread. Simple facts about dinosaurs. Colourful dino artwork and engaging design.

Ring! Ring! Who’s there? Interact with the clever sliders, flaps, and mirror in this book to imitate using phone applications! This phone-shaped book encourages imaginative play as children act out zooming into photographs, checking the weather, and more.

Emerging filmmakers need to know the basics of their art form: the language of the camera, and lenses, the different crew roles, the formats, the aspect ratios. They also need to know some bare-bones theory: what an auteur is, what montage is, what genres are. Most important, all filmmakers require serious grounding in film. You cannot be a great artist...