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Sustainable Fashion: Responsible Consumption, Design, Fabrics and Materials by Wearme Fashion
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.85The planet has reached a critical point and it is up to us all to innovate and drive change in all aspects of life, including how we design, produce and purchase our clothing. The fashion industry... -
The A List by Jay Carr
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for... -
Global Cinema Networks Elena Gorfinkel 9780813592732
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71Global Cinema Networks investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection's esteemed... -
Framework by Tom Stempel
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text... -
Fifty Key American Films John White (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 9780415772976
SciFier: £31.59Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this... -
Audrey Hepburn: A Bio-Bibliography David Hofstede 9780313289095
SciFier: £83.49Though starring in only some twenty films and two engagements on Broadway, Audrey Hepburn earned her reputation through the quality of her work rather than the quantity of her performances. She was... -
Siegebreakers by Justin Podur
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £16.79Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together, they learn of a plan to unite the... -
Little Book of Vivienne Westwood by Glenys Johnson
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.50Designer, punk, rebel, dame... Vivienne Westwood was all this and more. One of the main architects of the 1970s punk era, the inimitable Westwood refused to take fashion too seriously, finding unique... -
Body Battles: An Alien's Guide Ruth Redford 9798887701462
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Take a journey inside the body-as an alien! Hop aboard a flying saucer and travel alongside your alien guides who are on a mission to understand the wonders of human body systems. High-impact graphic... -
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film Susan McCabe (University of Southern California) 9780521846219
SciFier: £92.70Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and... -
Gendering the Nation by Kay Armatage
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids... -
Green-Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells
OrbitSciFier: £21.49The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. With her sister taken by mysterious captors, the Dark Races on the brink of war and a sinister order manipulating everyone behind the scenes, she's really got... -
Representations of Endymion and Selene by Dr Anna Chiara Corradino (University of Pisa, Italy)
SciFier: £87.99A focused study of an ancient myth and its reception, which provokes new consideration of how myth in general can challenge social norms. Analysing the visual and literary transformations of the... -
Soul Machine Jordana Globerman 9781773219592
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.02A Wrinkle in Time meets Brave New World in this thought-provoking debut graphic novel about one girl's quest to save her family's livelihood-and maybe existence itself.Chloe and her older sister make... -
Manga Muscles: An Artist's Guide to Drawing Powerful Male Bodies [With Over 500 color and B&W illustrations] Tojo Washi 9780804858267
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16A must-have guide to drawing muscular physiques of all types!Manga Muscles teaches you how to draw fit, muscular bodies in every sort-from athletic to bodybuilder to fantasy superhero-in hundreds of... -
Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties Robert Elms 9780571394180
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.11A history of the club that set the '80s alight, by the much-loved presenter, writer and Blitz attendee Robert Elms.The short-lived Blitz club in London's Covent Garden was more than somewhere to hang... -
How Walt Disney Changed Animation Forever Andrew Stanley Kiste 9781399055086
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.79Most biographies of Walt Disney cover the full span of his life and the full history of his studio, from its start in 1923 until his death in 1966. However, these books, while broad, often give very... -
The Role-Playing Society: Essays on the Cultural Influence of RPGs Andrew Byers 9780786498833
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Since the release of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, role-playing games have spawned a vibrant industry and subculture whose origins, characteristics, cultures and player experiences have been well... -
The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games by Patrick Hickey, Jr.
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Prior to the arrival of the Sega Genesis, video games were still largely considered "kid stuff," but with a far more mature and eclectic range of titles, and an understanding of what gamers wanted,... -
Carbide Tipped Pens by Ben Bova
SciFier: £14.99In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as lsaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and... -
Clash of the Totems and the Catastrophe of Callistus by Yonnie Garber
SciFier: £13.19Alone you can make a change, but together we make a difference. Join Ellery in her second year at the Quinton Earth Science School as one by one, another friend goes missing - lost without a trace... -
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee (Independent scholar, Pune, India)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic,... -
Secondhand Daylight by Eugen Bacon
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Something is happening to Green. He is an ordinary guy, time-jumping forward at a startling, uncontainable rate. He is grappling to understand his present; his relationship is wholly tattered; his... -
Movie Movements by James Clarke
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £3.95Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema is a one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It introduces the reader to definitions of... -
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy Rami Kimchi 9780253063427
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.03A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a... -
Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures Natalija Majsova 9781793609311
SciFier: £92.99This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet... -
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film Susan McCabe (University of Southern California) 9780521114837
SciFier: £40.89Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and... -
American Cinema of the 1980s by Stephen Prince
SciFier: £26.99During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations. Blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and The Empire Strikes Back earned huge sums for the studios. At the same time,... -
The Napoleon of Notting Hill G K Chesterton 9780241698631
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58London, 1984. England has given up on democracy and selects its rulers by lottery. This time it is the turn of clerk Auberon Quin, a prankster who decrees that each borough of London become an... -
Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia Esha Niyogi De 9780252088285
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23Can we write women's authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women's creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this... -
Peter Pan J. M. Barrie 9781454959533
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.72Age range 8 to 12All children except one grow up.In 1904, Peter Pan first flew across a London stage and into the bedroom of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling. Ever since, this perpetual youth has... -
Yves Saint Laurent: Style Icon by Dan Jones
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Yves Saint Laurent's enduring impact on fashion and culture is explored through 70 of the fashion house's iconic pieces. Joining the house of Dior at the age of just 18, it was obvious that this... -
Patchwork by Kate Evans
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.92In the later years of her life, Jane Austen created a quilt. Acclaimed graphic novelist Kate Evans takes the fabrics of this patchwork coverlet and uses them to illustrate a beautiful, brilliantly... -
Rory and the Balloon Bicycles by Louisa MacDougall
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.20Rory the dragon and his best friend Flora share a love of flying andbicycles, so they are shocked when they discover a mountain ofdiscarded bikes, and appalled when they realise that rust from... -
Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide Julian Koch 9781399558211
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.59Documentaries are the most common film genre representing genocide and thus significantly shape public understanding of the subject. Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide is a wide-ranging... -
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction Patricia Aufderheide (University Professor of Communication Studies, University Professor of Communication Studies, American University) 9780197798263
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this Very Short Introduction, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively,... -
Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments Paul M. Farber 9780876333105
SciFier: £20.39An exploration of the impact and cultural significance of the legendary Rocky statue located at the foot of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's steps Fifty years after the premiere of the original Rocky... -
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael Slowik 9780231165822
SciFier: £101.27Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926-1934)... -
The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) 9781501373862
SciFier: £33.99After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475126
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £40.24From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic...