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Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £4.28Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince,... -
JUDGES Volume One: The Avalanche, Lone Wolf & When the Light Lay Still Michael Carroll 9781781086391
RebellionSciFier: £9.09United States of America, 2033 A.D.In a time of widespread poverty, inequality and political unrest, Special Prosecutor Eustace Fargo's controversial new justice laws have come into effect.Protests... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 9780198829195
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.67'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.' 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions... -
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.11The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer... -
The New Extremism in Cinema by Tanya Horeck
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £25.21This is an exploration into the darkest side of cinema. Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have... -
Hollywood and After by Jerzy Toeplitz
SciFier: £117.34First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought... -
Warlords of Appalachia by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Boom! StudiosRRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.64Following the controversial election of an enigmatic dictator, the United States were plunged into a Second Civil War, in the aftermath of which only Kentucky refused to acknowledge the fascist... -
Folklore and Zoology by Floe Foxon (Folk Zoology Soc., PA)
SciFier: £32.46A scientific excursion into folklore, zoology, and cryptozoology; the field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised... -
Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds Gary Alan Fine 9780226249445
SciFier: £32.73This classic study still provides one of the most astute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine... -
Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s Arnold McMillin 9780367721947
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great changes in the cultural life of Russia when the controls... -
The Philosophy of Werner Herzog by M. Blake Wilson
SciFier: £103.99Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a... -
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 9780141199047
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.94The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners... -
Refocus: the Films of Steve Mcqueen Thomas Austin 9781399510936
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £88.18Explores British director Steve McQueen's diverse output, from video installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC The first full book-length study of McQueen to be published in... -
Fellini On Fellini by Federico Fellini
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74One of the greatest Italian filmmakers, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) created such masterpieces as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon , and Amarcord. His prodigious... -
The Films of Oshima Nagisa by Maureen Turim
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.49This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For... -
The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire Nina Cornyetz 9780415474603
SciFier: £44.60This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new... -
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Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide Richard Appignanesi 9781840468496 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.69What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly... -
Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries: Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks Shuk-ting, Kinnia Yau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9780415666244
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £44.60Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical... -
The Company: the chilling gothic thriller J.M. Varese 9781399802635
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.48'[A] stunning Gothic chiller' Irish Times'Diabolically good . . . J.M. Varese's gothic tale is sinuously elegant and claustrophobic as deadly Victorian wallpaper' Kate Griffin, author of... -
The Company: the chilling gothic thriller J.M. Varese 9781399802659
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'[A] stunning Gothic chiller' Irish Times'Diabolically good . . . J.M. Varese's gothic tale is sinuously elegant and claustrophobic as deadly Victorian wallpaper' Kate Griffin, author of... -
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74The issue of video games and their harmful/helpful effects on children and young adults is a hot topic. The Hardback sold very well. The book does not shy away from controversy, even finding good... -
Tricks Of The Mind Derren Brown 9781905026357
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42Derren Brown's television and stage performances have entranced and dumbfounded millions. His baffling illusions and stunning set pieces - such as The Seance, Russian Roulette and The Heist - have... -
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Tricks Of The Mind Derren Brown 9781905026357 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £1.97Derren Brown's television and stage performances have entranced and dumbfounded millions. His baffling illusions and stunning set pieces - such as The Seance, Russian Roulette and The Heist - have... -
Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary in theTwenty-First Century Helen Hughes 9781783201839
SciFier: £41.64During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the... -
A Fairytale for Everyone Boldizsar M Nagy 9780008508203
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.35The inclusive LGBTQ+ fairytale collection that has grabbed headlines across the world! Powerful princesses that slay giants,and beautiful princes that find true love.Heroes come in all... -
Stars from Another Sky: The Bombay Film World of the 1940s Sa'adat Hasan Manto 9780143415367
SciFier: £12.22The famous and the unknown inhabit these pages: Ashok Kumar emerges as a shy, brilliant actor, forever looking to flee the eager advances of his female fans; Nargis is just another young girl looking... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories H.G. Wells 9781840227406
SciFier: £3.99With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University 'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this... -
Mr Underbed by Chris Riddell
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48When Mr Underbed keeps him awake at night, shaking the bed and snoring loudly, Jim reaches for his earmuffs... only to get more than he bargained for! Sparking controversy in 2017 when it was... -
The Unquotable Trump by R. Sikoryak
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24R. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Comics or even using comics to visualize the iTunes Terms and Conditions contract. Now... -
Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics by Jane Arthurs
SciFier: £46.99Russell Brand is one of the most high profile and controversial celebrities of our time. A divisive figure, his ability to bounce back from adversity is remarkable. This book traces his various... -
Introducing Shakespeare by Nick Groom
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £4.99Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every... -
Introducing Darwin by Jonathan Miller
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £4.99Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He... -
A Modern Utopia H. G. Wells 9780141441122
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In many ways the same as our own - even down to the characters that... -
Masters Of Doom by David Kushner
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.21Masters of Doom is the true inside story of the Lennon and McCartney of the video game industry: John Carmack and John Romero. Together they created an empire, ruled a multibillion-dollar industry,... -
The Art of Studio Gainax by Dani Cavallaro
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Formed by a small group of university students in the early 1980s, Studio Gainax is now one of the most adventurous and widely esteemed anime companies on the scene. Although the company's immense... -
No Other Way to Tell it: Docudrama on Film and Television Derek Paget 9780719084478
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new... -
The Rise of the Roman Empire: An Alternative History, AD 375-641 Timothy Venning 9781399034395
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.85An alternative history of success rather than decline anf fall. The actual history is set out and the alternative history with Old Time Lines (OTL) for reference. It is a vivid narrative, deeply... -
Alan Clarke Richard T. Kelly, II 9780571196098
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.50An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the... -
Michael Reeves by Benjamin Halligan
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating... -
Marooned! by Brad Strickland
SciFier: £6.99There's no turning back. The year is 2085, and a new teen has arrived at Mars Experimental Station One, a colony built to test humans' ability to live self-sufficiently in an alien and hostile...