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In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers by Don Brown
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.07Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistA graphic novel chronicling the immediate aftermath and rippling effects of one of the most impactful days in modern history: September 11, 2001... -
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael Slowik 9780231165822
SciFier: $214.69Many 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: $72.06After 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: $89.04SciFier: $85.31From 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... -
Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture Thomas Baudinette (Macquarie University, Australia) 9781350330689
SciFier: $65.70Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men... -
Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes Alison Gwilt 9781849712422
RRP: $99.62SciFier: $90.86The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile designers are becoming keen to employ more sustainable strategies in their work... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148719
SciFier: $63.37It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
The Kraken Project by Douglas Preston
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $30.19NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system,... -
The Role-Playing Society: Essays on the Cultural Influence of RPGs Andrew Byers 9780786498833
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Since 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: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Prior 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: $32.20In 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: $27.96Alone 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Mehboob 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: $29.66SciFier: $20.84Something 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: $27.54SciFier: $8.37Movie 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: $50.86SciFier: $33.98A 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: $197.14This 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: $86.69Susan 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: $57.22During 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: $21.18SciFier: $16.07London, 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: $52.98SciFier: $42.89Can 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: $14.82SciFier: $14.25Age 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: $36.02SciFier: $25.95Yves 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: $42.40SciFier: $40.11In 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: $14.82SciFier: $11.02Rory 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: $201.40SciFier: $185.69Documentaries 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: $21.18SciFier: $19.06Very 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: $43.23An 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... -
Tank Girl On-Going Volume 2: Tank Girl Forever by Alan Martin
Titan BooksRRP: $29.66SciFier: $19.89Tank Girl and the Gang continue their wacky adventures in Volume 2 of the FIRST EVER Tank Girl ongoing series. What would've Tank Girl and the gang looked like if they'd been created in the Silver... -
Passport Sophia Glock 9780316459006
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $23.66Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American... -
Back in Fashion by Giorgio Riello
RRP: $74.20SciFier: $68.77An engaging survey from the Middle Ages to the present, presenting fashion as a complex process that reflects economic, social, and political changes This engaging volume tells the history of Western... -
Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television Sherry Ginn 9780761832157
SciFier: $99.62In Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television, author Sherry Ginn explores the portrayals of female characters in popular Sci Fi television programs. The programs... -
The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson 9781942483045
SciFier: $27.75The endearing, classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson is brought to life by a charming little boy enjoying the experience of swinging. With his dog by his side, the child believes he can fly. And in... -
The Cain Saga, Vol. 3 by Kaori Yuki
Viz MediaRRP: $14.82SciFier: $11.62Earl Cain Hargreaves investigates the macabre mysteries that haunt eighteenth-century London in this chilling prequel to Godchild!Delve into the tortured past of Earl Cain C. Hargreaves, charismatic... -
Mythology For Dummies by Amy Hackney Blackwell
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $30.21Discover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and... -
Global and Local Televangelism P. Thomas 9781349345298
SciFier: $99.62An exploration of the many faces of televangelism in our world today, including Christian, Islamic and Hindu. The collection analyses the correspondences and major differences between global and... -
British Newspaper Strips by Adam Twycross
SciFier: $239.54This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section... -
Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia Esha Niyogi De 9780252046209
RRP: $218.36SciFier: $173.44Can 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... -
Folklore and Zoology by Floe Foxon (Folk Zoology Soc., PA)
SciFier: $68.82A scientific excursion into folklore, zoology, and cryptozoology; the field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised... -
Nana & Kaoru, Volume 4 by Ryuta Amazume
Denpa BooksRRP: $46.62SciFier: $35.34Kaoru's latest session is easily his most challenging yet. And as it is going places he had never imagined, he was not fully prepared for all the of potential pitfalls that may pop up. The biggest...