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A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.42This Norton Critical Edition includes: Jared Gardner's insightful introduction and explanatory notes.Generous selections from four of Will Eisner's major graphic novels and story collections,... -
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota)
SciFier: £25.10The tales-116 in all-are thematically grouped. Each grouping is introduced and annotated by Jack Zipes, the genre's reigning expert. Twenty illustrations accompany the texts. "Criticism" includes... -
The Poster in History by Max Gallo
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £23.12Posters are found in public places all over the world. They are usually visually striking, designed to attract the attention of passers-by and entice them to purchase a particular product or service,... -
Fabrics by Marypaul Yates
RRP: £59.99SciFier: £53.83This thorough handbook by a textile professional describes and illustrates fibers and yarns, fabric structures, fabric design, dye and printing processes, finishes and treatments, styles and... -
Invisible People by Will Eisner
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £21.39A haunting trio of stories about life's forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville.About the AuthorBorn in New York City, Will Eisner (1917-2005) was the author of the... -
Bad Creek by Peyton June
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.74Iris, Gum and Aidan are holidaying in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris's older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can't seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality... -
The Deadliest: Flower Eleanor Spicer Rice 9781324053774
SciFier: £13.09Meet the deadliest flowering plants on Earth. Whose toxin is the most potent? Is it the beautiful belladonna? The eye-catching angel's trumpet? The infamous wolfsbane? Or someone else? The host of... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff (Yale University)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.34This Norton Critical Edition includes: Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation, marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes.Laura L. Howes's full introduction along with Borroff's seminal essay,... -
Walking Words by Eduardo Galeano
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.89In Walking Words world-renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write." These... -
A Life Force by Will Eisner
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £23.39Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crumb, A Life Force chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics through the depiction of the protagonist,... -
Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction by Danny Oppenheimer
SciFier: £15.59Psychology is the study of our behaviour, of the ways our minds make sense of the world around us. It is a serious endeavour because we value scientific knowledge, for what it tells us about the... -
Roger Ebert's Book of Film by Roger Ebert
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £50.49For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 selections that touch on every aspect of filmmaking... -
The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.39Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith's affinity for animals more apparent than in The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder, for here she transfers the murderous thoughts and rages most associated with... -
The Deadliest: Flower Eleanor Spicer Rice 9781324082743
SciFier: £6.29Meet the deadliest flowering plants on Earth. Whose toxin is the most potent? Is it the beautiful belladonna? The eye-catching angel's trumpet? The infamous wolfsbane? Or someone else? The host of... -
The Mexican Pet by Jan Harold Brunvand (University of Utah)
RRP: £17.00SciFier: £15.79"[The book] captures the spirit of convivial storytelling and even encourages the activity. . . . Many readers . . . will be gratified to know that Brunvand intends to continue this series of... -
Textiles by Marypaul Yates
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £24.39Textiles: A Handbook for Designers is a thorough study of the textile industry and the design processes and techniques used by professionals. With an overview of the textile industry and a thorough... -
One Little Goat by Dara Horn
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.79A family sits at the table, ready to start their Passover seder. There's Grandpa, who's attempting to lead; anxious dad and pregnant mom; Cool Cousin and Uncool Cousin; 98-year-old great-grandma who... -
Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.52Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century's great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic... -
Bad Creek Peyton June 9781324125525
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32Iris, Gum and Aidan are holidaying in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris's older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can't seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality... -
Giants, Monsters, and Dragons by Carol Rose
SciFier: £31.59We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer skunks, as well as fantastic distortions of our own... -
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 9780393089134
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £16.79A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has... -
Emma Jane Austen 9780393544046
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.35Famously described by the author as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," Emma Woodhouse is wealthy and charming, and she delights in interfering with the romantic relationships within... -
Life, in Pictures by Will Eisner
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.43In what will be the closest thing Eisner fans will see to an autobiography, the great master and pioneer of American graphic arts presents the most intimate and personal perspective yet on his life... -
Shylock's Daughter by Erica Jong
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £17.09When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: she has recently lost custody of her daughter, and as an older actress she... -
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 9780393005158
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £17.29The Private Memoirs, first published in 1824, is an early psychological novel, in which the phenomena of the split personality and the obsessed character are described with extraordinary insight. Set... -
Spike Lee by Spike Lee
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £22.19Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films-from Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, and Malcolm X to 25th Hour , Bamboozled, and The Inside Man-helped... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 9780393247879
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.02In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into... -
What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? by Antonio Lobo Antunes
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.39The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Antonio Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's... -
The Bad and the Beautiful by Sam Kashner
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £18.49With "fresh emphasis on little-known stories [and] an impressive number of eyewitnesses" (Chicago Tribune), Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair present "a revealing,...ever fascinating glimpse into the... -
Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields Simon Louvish 9780393318401
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £25.49Man on the Flying Trapeze is the first biography in decades - and the only accurate one - of the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic genius W. C. Fields. Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts... -
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.99In Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, Will Eisner-one of the most influential comic artists of the twentieth century-lays out the fundamentals of storytelling and their application in the... -
The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £13.25The stories of The Arabian Nights (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose... -
A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £16.19With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally... -
We Thought We Could Do Anything Henry Ephron 9780393336252
RRP: £17.00SciFier: £16.79Millions of adult Americans will fondly remember such entertaining movies as Carousel, The Jackpot, and There's No Business Like Show Business. Phoebe and Henry Ephron, who wrote the screenplays for... -
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela
SciFier: £15.29In these beloved stories we meet a Kenyan lion named Simba, a snake with seven heads, and tricksters from Zulu folklore; we hear the voices of the scheming hyena, and we learn from a Khoi fable how... -
Kings in Disguise: A Novel James Vance 9780393328486
SciFier: £13.25This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all... -
The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb R. Crumb 9780393333718
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.98Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation? Yes indeed, there is a... -
Tiger Slayer by Ruby Lal
SciFier: £15.80More than four centuries ago in India, a Muslim woman ruled a magnificent empire: Nur Jahan, whose name means "light of the world." Nur led troops into battle atop an elephant, hunted tigers,... -
The Book of Splendor by Frances Sherwood
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £19.99Frances Sherwood brings to life the experience of the Jewish community during a period of oppression and rebirth. Set in seventeenth-century Prague, The Book of Splendor is an adventure-filled... -
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance Larry Gonick 9780393324037
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.69Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature...