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The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII by Maria Hayward
SciFier: £93.49Accounts providing details of the quantities and cost of clothing and other items manufactured for the first Tudor kings. By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal... -
The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More than Pretty Pictures Lotte Philipsen 9780367878696
SciFier: £42.86How can cartoon images aid in understanding bacterial biological processes? What prompts physicists to blur their images before showing them to biologists? Considering that the astronomer's data... -
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads by Austin Fisher
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film distribution? As this volume illustrates, the... -
Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic Image by Alfred Richard
SciFier: £68.99Between 1936 and 1955, Hollywood significantly changed its portrayal of Hispanics in motion pictures. This change resulted from the demands of the Production Code Administration, which required film... -
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide Dave Robinson 9781840468533 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.42Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as:What is the nature of reality?What are human beings really like?What is special about the human mind and... -
Graffiti Planet: The Best Graffiti from Around the World Alan Ket 9781843172802 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £0.84Graffiti Planet is a collection of work from various artists that celebrates the endless creativity of the medium, and of the artists themselves.Graffiti or 'street art' has become a significant art... -
Internet Culture David Porter 9780415916844
SciFier: £39.39The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and... -
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 9781847498267
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.74The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country's ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist... -
Beauty, Violence, Representation Lisa A. Dickson (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) 9781138098435
RRP: £55.99SciFier: £50.66This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting... -
Werner Herzog Joshua Lund 9780252085048
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world,... -
Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937 by Grant F. Scott
SciFier: £40.26This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development... -
The Seventies by Shelton Waldrep
SciFier: £40.26The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black... -
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature by William Franke
SciFier: £61.06This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle... -
Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema Ben Bollig 9781835537183
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £31.56From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also boasts some of the most exciting contemporary poetry... -
Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
SciFier: £12.43Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes... -
The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent: The Other Saint (Manga) Vol. 1 by Yuka Tachibana
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Aira Misono is a run-of-the-mill high school girl, and never imagined that she'd be summoned to another world, let alone declared its savior. Yet from the moment the handsome Prince Kyle lays eyes on... -
American Carnival by Neil Henry
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.99In this vividly written, compelling narrative, award-winning journalist Neil Henry confronts the crisis facing professional journalism in this era of rapid technological transformation. "American... -
B-Movie Gothic by Justin D. Edwards
SciFier: £93.01Explores the neglected subject of Gothic B-movies in the Americas, Europe, Asia and AfricaFollowing the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and... -
The Horned God by Michael Wheatley
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'...and then the music was so loud, so beautiful that I couldn't think of anything else. I was completely lost to the music, enveloped by melody which was part of Pan.' In 1894, Arthur Machen's... -
Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction James H. Thrall, M.D. 9780367465100
SciFier: £36.79With cutting-edge case studies, discussion questions, lists of key terms, extensive additional resources, and suggestions for projects and essay questions, this textbook is engaging reading for... -
Nightmare: Two Ghostly Tales: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat) Berlie Doherty 9780007307906
SciFier: £8.59Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Two spooky stories from double-Carnegie-winner, Berlie Doherty. Dark and atmospheric these two tales send a... -
Fashion in the Metaverse by Bradley Quinn
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £24.23This book examines a significant moment in fashion's evolution when technological innovations are inspiring designers, brands and consumers to think beyond conventional clothing in the real world and... -
Doctor Who: Dracula! by Paul Magrs
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.48A vampire is on the loose!On what they hope is going to be a holiday, the Doctor and his companions arrive in a quiet, unassuming seaside town called Whitby.The terrible significance of the place... -
The Bin Laden Plot: A Novel Rick Campbell 9781250372109
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72The U.S.S. Stethem, a destroyer, is attacked without warning in the Persian Gulf. Sunk by torpedoes with significant loss of life, the obvious scenario is that the culprit is an Iranian submarine... -
Heartstrings: Melissa Etheridge & Her Guitars - Deluxe Edition Steve Hochman, Frank Marraffino 9798886560114
Z2 comicsRRP: £47.99SciFier: £41.18Melissa Etheridge's Heartstrings takes you on a journey through her growth and life as a musician, as it reveals the untold stories behind some of her favorite guitars - each one of them exciting,... -
Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy Ora Gelley 9781138651517
SciFier: £46.33In this exciting new book, Gelley considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic. This study re-examines the director's postwar works in... -
The Common Reader by H. G. Wells
SciFier: £3.70HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain... -
Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz 9780520239524
RRP: £71.00SciFier: £64.49Though Luis Bunuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little... -
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television M. Stewart 9781137319845
SciFier: £46.99Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and... -
Classic Questions and Contemporary Film by Dean A. Kowalski (University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, USA)
RRP: £42.95SciFier: £40.94Featuring significant revisions and updates, Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd Edition uses popular movies as a highly accessible framework for introducing... -
Media in China, China in the Media - Processes, Strategies, Images, Identities by Adina Zemanek
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.76Mass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect... -
ReFocus: The Films of Lindsay Anderson Will Kitchen (Visiting Tutor at Arts University Bournemouth_x000D__x000D_, Arts University Bournemouth_x000D__x000D_) 9781399537056
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £79.22Following the centenary of Lindsay Anderson's birth (1923-94), this edited collection of original essays re-examines the work of one of British cinema's most iconoclastic and challenging directors... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Spider-Man: Quotes and Life Lessons from Your Favorite Superhero Robb Pearlman 9781400346646
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Swing into Spider-Man's web of wisdom and explore inspirational moments, unforgettable characters, and profound life lessons of Marvel Comics.In the dynamic world of Marvel Comics, no character has... -
Dior in 50 Objects: The iconic fashion house through its finest creations Glenys Johnson 9781035430390
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24The groundbreaking New Look silhouette. The finest couture dresses. The luxurious leather accessories. The bestselling fragrances. These signatures exemplify the craftsmanship of Dior.Dior in 50... -
Playgirl: The Official History of a Cult Magazine Playgirl Magazine 9781419774928
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56A lively, unbelievably fun art book that celebrates Playgirl magazine's 50-year anniversary, including historic articles, spreads, commentary, photography, and extensive artwork from the '70s through... -
The Golden Ass (The Norton Library) Apuleius 9780393428919
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.58The Norton Library edition of The Golden Ass features a new, captivating translation by Ellen Finkelpearl. Finkelpearl provides an engaging introduction that historically contextualizes the... -
Pan Francesco Dimitri 9781250406989
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £17.89The finest modern fantasy you'll read this year.Across the sprawling metropolis of Rome, children dream of an island that doesn't exist.An old god returns. Anarchy, destruction, and extreme emotions... -
Greybeard Brian Aldiss 9780575071131
GatewayRRP: £9.99SciFier: £4.28Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of... -
The Mystic Lamb by Jan Van der Veken
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck is one of Belgium's most significant artists, famous for his early contributions to the Northern Renaissance movement of the 15th century. His polyptych classic, the... -
Georgia O'Keeffe by Maria Herreros
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, was one of the most significant artists of the 20th...