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A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University, USA) 9781350157002
SciFier: £97.99The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and... -
Monster by Mark Arnold, QC
SciFier: £14.59Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Book That Changed the WorldMonster: Publishing to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle... -
Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children C. Richard King, Washington State University 9780742560819
SciFier: £92.99Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these... -
Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children C. Richard King, Washington State University 9780742560826
SciFier: £33.99Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking Ernst Cassirer 9781138907201
SciFier: £73.60"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £11.992014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community... -
The President's Dossier by James A. Scott
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £12.79Max Geller: Target of the Kremlin, MI6, and the CIA Fired for bias against the U.S. president, ex-CIA Russia expert Max Geller gets a chance to redeem his reputation and make a fortune when he is... -
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me Ellen Forney 9781472106896
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.41Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she... -
The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume Two by Terry Pratchett
GollanczRRP: £30.00SciFier: £27.19Containing material unavailable for twenty years -- this is a comprehensive guide to the capital city of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, getting to the heart of Ankh-Morpork's secrets, societies and... -
Beyond Bagpuss by Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £27.54Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
The Children Of Bathala: A Mythology Class Reunion Arnold Arre 9780804855433
SciFier: £15.84From the author of The Mythology Class comes the long-anticipated sequel!It's been two decades since the former classmates first met, and the ensuing years have brought their share of changes... -
Gamer's Bucket List by Chris Watters
SciFier: £14.19#1 Amazon Best Seller! Which games are worth playing?The 50 best games: From pixelated pioneer adventures to stunning space odysseys, the boundaries of the video game world are expanding every day... -
A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes by Anthony Moss
SciFier: £91.31A comprehensive study of walking canes from around the world, dating from the distant past to the modern-day. The book presents a historical context on both practical and ceremonial usage. At the... -
Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II Jimmy Kugler 9781496842824
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.14Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the... -
What Is a Western? by Josh Garrett-Davis
SciFier: £34.99There's "western", and then there's "Western" - and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre,... -
Hollywood on Location: An Industry History Joshua Gleich 9780813586267
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking Ernst Cassirer 9781032474304
SciFier: £31.59"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
Peckinpah's Tragic Westerns by John L. Simons
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.40The work of Sam Peckinpah represents a high point in American cinema. This text is the first theoretical and critical attempt to place Peckinpah within the 2,000-year-old tradition of western... -
Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen Michael Moorcock 9780575108868
GollanczRRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.21Gloriana rules an Albion whose empire embraces America and most of Asia. A new Golden Age of peace, enlightenment and prosperity has dawned. Gloriana is Albion and Albion is Gloriana; if one falls,... -
Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Selected as a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness! A young Muslim girl spends a busy day wrapped up in her mother's colorful headscarf in this sweet... -
Yasuke by Thomas Lockley
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.The man who came to be known... -
Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy Leslie Marsh 9780252078736
SciFier: £31.96At most recent count, there are no fewer than forty-five women in Brazil directing or codirecting feature-length fiction or documentary films. In the early 1990s, women filmmakers in Brazil were... -
Polanski and Perception by Davide Caputo (University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.)
SciFier: £30.16A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how... -
Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II Jimmy Kugler 9781496842817
SciFier: £90.99Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the... -
Fellini: The Sixties (Turner Classic Movies) Anita Ekberg 9780762458387
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £39.89Style. Beauty. Passion. Vision.These are just a few of the words often used to describe the films of the single most celebrated director in Italy, and one of the most important directors the world... -
Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning Alisse Waterston 9781487526405
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by... -
A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University, USA) 9781350343757
SciFier: £31.99The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and... -
Scoring Transcendence by Kutter Callaway
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.56Films are the lingua franca of western culture; for decades they have provided viewers with a universal way of understanding the human experience. And film music, Kutter Callaway demonstrates, has... -
The Children Of Bathala: A Mythology Class Reunion Arnold Arre 9780804859714
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10From the author of The Mythology Class comes the long-anticipated sequel!It's been two decades since the former classmates first met, and the ensuing years have brought their share of changes... -
Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture Sandra Eckard 9781475828054
SciFier: £27.99With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the... -
Marx Returns by Jason Barker
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Karl Marx is a revolutionary. He is not alone. It is November 1849 and London is full of them: a bunch of fanatical dreamers trying to change the world. Persecuted by a tyrannical housekeeper and... -
Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture Sandra Eckard 9781475828047
SciFier: £56.99With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the... -
Hollywood on Location: An Industry History Joshua Gleich 9780813586250
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this... -
Twilight Man by Koren Shadmi
HumanoidsRRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.99We recognise him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the 'Angry Young Man' of Hollywood. Before he became... -
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.16'Astonishing . . . Genius . . . A masterpiece' EMMA WATSONChristopher Reese has been through a lot by the age of seven. He will go through much more before he turns eight.All his mother Kate Reese... -
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition Donald Bogle (Lecturer and Author, USA) 9780826429537
SciFier: £52.90This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the... -
Tapwe and the Magic Hat by Buffy Sainte-Marie
SciFier: £14.49"Beautiful, poignant and poetic. This story will weave its way into the hearts and minds of readers for generations." -Monique Gray Smith, author of My Heart Fills With Happiness From beloved... -
Timeless: A Drizzt Novel R. A. Salvatore 9780063391055
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full of swordplay, danger,... -
Brave New World: A Graphic Novel Aldous Huxley 9781784877736
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £13.98The graphic novel adaptation of the classic dystopian masterpiece. From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD graphic novel.Originally published in 1932, Brave... -
Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States Chris Lamb 9780231130677
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies...