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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... -
Sindbad by Muhsin Mahdi
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.16Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own... -
A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories Will Eisner 9780393609189
SciFier: £21.19Published in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel. A mesmerising fictional chronicle of a universal American... -
Reel Music by Roger Hickman (California State University, Long Beach)
SciFier: £67.17Reel Music, revised for a new generation of movie lovers, tells the story of film music through iconic scenes. The second edition features more in-depth exploration of international films-from... -
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota)
SciFier: £25.14The 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... -
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... -
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: £6.94Iris, 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... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff (Yale University)
SciFier: £12.99This 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,... -
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,... -
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... -
Walking Words by Eduardo Galeano
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.19In 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... -
Invisible People by Will Eisner
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £21.79A 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... -
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... -
Fight Club: A Novel Chuck Palahniuk 9780393039764
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £16.79THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives... -
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: £5.99Meet 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 Deadliest: Snake Eleanor Spicer Rice 9781324082736
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.99Meet the deadliest snakes on Earth. Whose bite is the most lethal? Is it the dancing spectacled cobra? The fearsome black mamba? The chilling rattlesnake? Or someone else? The host of this stiff... -
The Deadliest: Snake Eleanor Spicer Rice 9781324053750
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.09Meet the deadliest snakes on Earth. Whose bite is the most lethal? Is it the dancing spectacled cobra? The fearsome black mamba? The chilling rattlesnake? Or someone else? The host of this stiff... -
A Life Force by Will Eisner
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £23.59Called "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,... -
One Little Goat by Dara Horn
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.75A 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... -
Giants, Monsters, and Dragons by Carol Rose
SciFier: £32.19We 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: £16.89A 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... -
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: £17.19When 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... -
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela
SciFier: £15.59In 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... -
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 9780393005158
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £17.49The 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... -
Emma Jane Austen 9780393544046
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.58Famously 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... -
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... -
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: £27.79The 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... -
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.20In 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... -
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance Larry Gonick 9780393324037
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.99Larry 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... -
A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £16.59With 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: £16.99Millions 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...