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Filled with dirigibles and floating cities, penny-farthings and pirate ships, curiosities and robots galore, Steampunk LEGO is an illustrated collection of Victorian-era sci-fi treasures, all built from LEGO. Curated by award-winning LEGO builder and...

In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The...

Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores...

* This book curates new thinking through interviews with designers who are artists, producers, professors, partners, parents, and collaborators. This book is a place to observe how one career can contain many possibilities. * Would be recommended reading...

Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators, he continues to be embraced around the globe as a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444038Author George GrossFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureSeries Men's Adventure LibraryWeight(grams)...

For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up catalogs of Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, or Scott Walker, who...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684059485Author Alex TothFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design WorksSeries Artist Edition

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211620Author Arcadi PochFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing Culture

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951038571Author Mr. Richard BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press

In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father's footsteps by becoming a coach and turning a loveable underdog monster into a champion. From Paramount Animation,...

A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author.An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the...

This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.About the...

Alice was created by British mathematician, photographer, and writer Lewis Carroll, inspired by the daughter of some friends. Carroll fantasized about taking the child to a parallel-reality world which he called "Wonderland". Alice has inspired movies,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647291587Author Kyusaku YumenoFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

Timed for the 60th anniversary, the iconic and influential first issue of the Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, deconstructed by award-winning designer Chip Kidd; with text by novelist Walter Mosley, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, and historian...

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692841853Author Nasty WomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Toppings PublishingPublisher Toppings PublishingSeries F*ck TrumpWeight(grams)...

Lines of Sight-the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga-explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and Japanese art-from scroll paintings to superflat-challenge,...

Instagram Sensation Johnny Wu has amassed a gargantuan following for his photographs depicting action figures starring in glorious, cinematic adventures. This first book collection of Wu's work will take you on a hero's journey through action figure eyes...

In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, ThePost-Work Manifesto,, provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an...

"STRAAT Museum allows a wide audience to discover and understand the DNA of graffiti and street art, through an in-depth and unique contextualization perfectly fulfilled in Quote from the streets, its opening exhibition which is reproduced in this...

Aspiring artists learn all the drawing tips and tricks they need to create laugh-out-loud renditions of their favourite monsters and scary creatures direct from cartooning master Christopher Hart. This jam-packed cartooning guide shows readers how to...

This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and...

A collection of 50 original posters celebrating the most compelling unmade films in the history of moviemaking For most films, it's a long, strange road from concept to screen, and sometimes those roads lead to dead ends. In Underexposed!: The 50...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615988337Author Rob MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Airship 27Publisher Airship 27Weight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999608Author Drew FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

The Talking Cure examines four nationally syndicated television talk shows--Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show,Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael--which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues. Serving as one of the few public forums where...

Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies and comedians in the twentieth century, ranging from the Carry On films to the work of Mike Leigh and...

"Wild Art" refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, from graffiti to performance, self-adornment, and beyond...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423654070Author John BarnesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers...

From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310000Author Mike HunchbackFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 892g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197761Author Elizabeth McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1324g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578865737Author Glenn BarrFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Sympathetic PressPublisher Sympathetic Press

Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing `others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex...

Through an astonishing series of interviews, Gay Men's Style will take you on a dizzying journey through shops, bars, clubs, gyms, workplaces and global city streets. Based on the lived experience of gay men of all ages from the UK, USA, Europe,...

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on...

From Destiny's Child to Lemonade, Homecoming, and The Gift, Beyonce Knowles-Carter has redefined global stardom, feminism, Black representation, and celebrity activism. This book brings together new work from sixteen international scholars to explore...