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Frank Thompson Frank Thompson i(A60782 works by) (a.k.a. Frank W. Thompson)
Born: Established: Los Angeles, California,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: American
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1 Case-study : Government Publishing Frank Thompson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 340-343) ‘ Governments have always been prolific publishers. Much of our knowledge about the Sumerian civilisation, for example, comes from clay tablets in cuneiform produced by government scribes...’(Introduction 340)
1 Case-study : University Presses Frank Thompson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 329-336) ‘Universities by their very nature are involved in publishing. From exam papers through faculty handbooks and calendars to academic papers and books, they have since their beginnings been reliant on the written word. Australian universities have been no exception. Their activities were confined essentially, however, to producing printed material for a small audience of their own students and a handful of academics in other institutions. There were no university presses as such in nineteenth-century Australia. Instead, the four universities which then existed had to rely on local printers for student materials. Since the academic focus was on the classics, theology and European subjects, their research and book needs were largely satisfied with imports from England. ’(Introduction 328)
1 Case-study : UQP Frank Thompson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 73-76) 'The protests against the Vietnam War were reaching their peak in 1970, a turbulent year for Australian universities. Students were finding a new, more creative voice which was not always well received in the hitherto sleepy groves of academe. The University of Queensland had, perhaps, awakened a bit sooner than most with the appointment of a relatively young and dynamic vice-chancellor, Zelman Cowan, and it had the added zest of confronting a deeply conservative state government committed to censorship and the elimination of dissent.' (Introduction 73)
1 Sixties Larrikins Frank Thompson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 31-34) ' In 1960 the membership of the Australian Book Publishers Association (ABPA) was made up of thirty- seven publishing firms. Australia's population was then ten and a half million English-speaking people, and most of their books came from Britain and to a lesser extent the United States. Only twenty-five of the AB- PA's member firms actually published any books in Australia, and only nine could be said to have had a national profile. Of those, three were chiefly education- al publishers and two were academic presses, leaving just four - Angus & Robertson, FW Cheshire, Ure Smith and Horwitz - primarily interested in books for the general public. Compared with the others, Angus & Robertson and Horwitz were giants among pygmies, particularly since they both had substantial educational lists as well, Angus & Robertson under its own imprint and Horwitz under the Owen Martin imprint.' (Introduction 31)
1 Creating a Press of National Value Frank Thompson , 1998 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: UQP : The Writer's Press 1948-1998 1998; (p. 39-68)
1 Legends in Their Own Lunchtime : Australian Publishing Since 1960 Frank Thompson , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Publishing Studies , Spring no. 1 1995; (p. 29-36)
1 1 Olga More Compelling Than Her Biographer Frank Thompson , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , Wet Season vol. 15 no. 2 1992; (p. 114-115)
— Review of Olga Masters : A Lot of Living : The Compelling Biography of this Much-Loved Writer Julie Lewis , 1991 single work biography
1 Downhill all the Way : Publishing in the 80s Frank Thompson , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Library Journal , vol. 30 no. 1981; (p. 55-58)
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