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The Greedy Dog by Alex Frith
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.29A lively retelling of the classic Aesop fable, where greedy Dog is fooled by his own reflection. Specially written for children just beginning to read, with fun puzzles to complete after the story... -
Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Animation Michael O'Rourke (Pratt Institute) 9780393730838
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £39.88This revised and updated edition of the standard introduction to computer animation reflects the latest developments in 3D computer animation. It clearly explains the basic concepts and techniques... -
Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture Tania Modleski 9780253203953
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Exploring various forms of contemporary mass art and culture, from rock-'n'-roll music to "slasher" films, from women's romances to "retro" fashion style, these innovative and politically engaged... -
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida: The Screenplay and Commentary Martin McQuillan 9781783480050
SciFier: £33.99Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film... -
Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore Rossella Ferrari 9780367515591
SciFier: £39.39Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual... -
Fantasy Rosemary Jackson 9780415847629
SciFier: £46.33First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature... -
Futurism and the African Imagination: Literature and Other Arts Dike Okoro (Harris Stowe State University, USA) 9781032015699
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £42.86This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the... -
Solutions and Other Problems Allie Brosh 9780224101288
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.49*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns... -
The Parallax View Mark Campbell (Royal College of Art, UK) 9781839026300
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by the murders of John F Kennedy... -
Hekate: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from popular poet, Nikita Gill: Volume 1 Nikita Gill 9781398537149
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.19'Atmospheric, engrossing, beautiful and sad, one of those books you find yourself wanting to be back inside when you've had to put it down' NATALIE HAYNES, author of A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind... -
Teaching Fashion Studies Dr Holly M. Kent (University of Illinois-Springfield, USA) 9781350022881
SciFier: £34.24Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both... -
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1 by Alfred Hitchcock
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock... -
Melodrama Unveiled by David Grimsted
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49David Grimsted's "Melodrama Unveiled" explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic... -
Taxation by Andrew Lymer
SciFier: £31.84It is an excellent aid to support a first course in tax, or as a general introduction to this topic. Written in an accessible style with many examples, activities and questions throughout, this... -
Holiday Wars by Scott King
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Holidays reflect the current culture of a society and like a shifting tide they change. Realizing this, The Easter Bunny declares war on the other Holidays in the hopes of gaining the one thing... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563824
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £101.642017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563817
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.682017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Mediating War and Identity by Lisa Purse
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32In state and public discussion about war and conflict, figures of transgression such as deserters, pacifist and emigrants are often marginalised, but they also play a key role in rethinking cultural... -
Grain & Noise - Artists in Synthetic Biology Labs: Constructive Disturbances of Art in Science Markus Schmidt, SJ 9783837665161
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £32.43The collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's work in the laboratory, but also reveal new ways of... -
Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear by Joseph Bruchac
RRP: £11.95SciFier: £9.87Flying With The Eagle, Racing the Great Bear is a continent-spanning collection of sixteen thrilling tales in which young men must face great enemies, find the strength and endurance within... -
Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s Andrew B. Leiter 9780786449606
SciFier: £22.59The representation of Southerners on film has been a topic of enduring interest and debate among scholars of both film and Southern studies. This collection of 15 essays examines the problem of... -
Improvising Cinema Gilles Mouellic 9781041181316
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational... -
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780823297894
RRP: £87.00SciFier: £77.99Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction) The first collection of essays to address Satan's ubiquitous and popular appearances in film Lucifer and cinema have been... -
Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 12 Frank Luna 9781942270065
RRP: £52.00SciFier: £35.98This updated bestseller provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12. The book is divided into three main parts: basic... -
Teaching Fashion Studies Dr Holly M. Kent (University of Illinois-Springfield, USA) 9781350022874
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £59.14Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both... -
A Companion to Digital Art Christiane Paul (The New School, New York, USA) 9781119225744
RRP: £41.95SciFier: £39.20Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today's digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced... -
Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction Robbie McAllister (Staffordshire University, UK) 9781501368608
SciFier: £35.99Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction is a concise and accessible overview of steampunk's indelible impact within film, and acts as a case study for examining the ways with which genres hybridize... -
Arthur: At the Crossing Places by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. This second book in the trilogy from the winner of the... -
Film and Television After 9/11 by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: £41.95SciFier: £24.89In Film and Television after 9/11, twelve distinguished scholars and critics discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of... -
Wonder Woman: 80 Years Later Vera J. Camden 9780367711740
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Through a celebration and critique of the comics character of Wonder Woman, this collection takes up the historical trends that have changed the world of comics, American popular culture, and... -
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality Michael J Fox 9781472278500
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox... -
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780823297900
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £21.01Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction) The first collection of essays to address Satan's ubiquitous and popular appearances in film Lucifer and cinema have been... -
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality Michael J Fox 9781472278463 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £2.88'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox... -
Alison and Her Rock Awesome Robot by Fred Chao
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £9.77Alison has built Robot to simply help her have fun, but it's not so simple. It turns out she has to teach Robot about life, mainly from the point of a 7-year-old girl. Join the cast of Alison, Robot,... -
Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £15.03In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story... -
The Arts of the Grid by Liora Bigon
RRP: £78.00SciFier: £70.05This is the first collection of interdisciplinary scholarship to expand on gridded modalities, with a strong affinity to the arts. It seeks to inspire new avenues of research by exploring a horizon... -
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99Includes: The Tinder-Box; The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina; The Little Mermaid; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Steadfast Soldier; The Ugly Duckling; The Snow Queen; The Little Match-Girl ... -
Fashion Details: 4000 Drawings Elisabetta Kuky Drudi 9788417412685
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £21.54This redesigned and full-colour second edition by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi is an inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques required to render fashion details. It contains all... -
Sandman Volume 6 by Neil Gaiman
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24The critically acclaimed The Sandman: Fables and Reflections continues the fantastical epic of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he observes and interacts with an odd assortment of historical and... -
Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan 9781474431927
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.79Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930sIn the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing...