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Retro Gaming: A Byte-sized History of Video Games - From Atari to Zelda Mike Diver 9781912785865
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.55'Superb coffee table book' - Nintendo Life'A fun read' - Retro Gamer Take a trip down memory lane with Retro Gaming, and relive the glory days (and not so glory days) of your old retro tech... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews Marco Abel 9781496846105
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £72.95Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his... -
Superhero Comics Dr Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University, USA) 9781474226356
SciFier: £97.99A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and... -
Art as Revolt: Thinking Politics through Immanent Aesthetics David Fancy 9780773557291
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12How can we imagine a future not driven by capitalist assumptions about humans and the wider world? How are a range of contemporary artistic and popular cultural practices already providing pathways... -
Behind the Lens: Dispatches from the Cinematographic Trenches Jay Holben 9781138813489
SciFier: £53.96Filmmaker Jay Holben has been battling in the production trenches for most of his life. For the past 17 years, he's chronicled his adventures in the pages of American Cinematographer, Digital Video,... -
Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century D. Radosavljevic 9780230343115
SciFier: £46.99Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West,... -
Windows to Worlds: The art of Devin Elle Kurtz 3dtotal Publishing 9781912843466
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £20.44Illustrator and concept artist Devin Elle Kurtz shares her journey, from childhood ambitions to be an artist and finding the best educational fit, to working in the industry as she continues to... -
Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie by David Rickert
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.18How did a pizza become a pizza? Is a pickle really a cucumber in disguise? Explore fascinating food history, nutrition, and American culture through this middle-grade graphic-format nonfiction book... -
Hollywood Made in China Aynne Kokas 9780520294028
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.39China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on an... -
Polish Cinema Today: A Bold New Era in Film Helena Goscilo 9781793641670
SciFier: £37.99Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry... -
The L Word by Margaret T. McFadden
SciFier: £20.49In January 2004, Showtime debuted The L Word, the first prime-time commercial drama to centre around lesbian characters. Over the course of six seasons, the show depicted the lives and loves of an... -
Under Heaven Guy Gavriel Kay 9780007342105
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.53An epic historical adventure set in an alternate 8th century China, from the author of the 2008 World Fantasy winner, Ysabel. Under Heaven is a novel of heroes, assassins, concubines and emperors set... -
The Scary Book of Valentine's Day Lore by Tim Rayborn
SciFier: £11.99Roses are red, violets are blue, in this book of fear, Valentine's haunts anew. Dare to discover the true lore of Valentine's Day, where love and terror intertwine in the most unexpected ways. With... -
Hush, Hush: Volume 1 Becca Fitzpatrick 9781398538221
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.41A fallen angel. A forbidden love. A town full of secrets. Discover the first book in the gripping New York Times bestselling Hush, Hush saga, with a new introduction from Becca Fitzpatrick."Let's be... -
SideQuested: Book 1 K.B. Spangler 9781524896423
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.55The course of true love never did run straight...For fans of The Owl House and Critical Role comes the first volume in the lighthearted and epic adventure SideQuested!Magic makes the world go 'round,... -
Ladies of the Western: Interviews with 25 Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s [A Large Print Abridged Edition] Michael G. Fitzgerald 9780786439386
SciFier: £30.19This work features interviews with 25 leading ladies who starred in B-westerns, A-westerns, and television westerns. Some were well-known and others were not, but they all have fascinating stories... -
The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350049123
SciFier: £29.99Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and... -
The Amtrak Wars: First Family: The Talisman Prophecies Part 2 Patrick Tilley 9781448213603
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.35Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation - a community living in vast subterranean cities - and the... -
Allan's Wife H. Rider Haggard 9781513208176
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.49When young Allan Quatermain, a boy who would later be known for his heroic adventures, saves a young girl named Stella from a fire, they become quick friends. However, when Stella's mother leaves her... -
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace by Andrea Harriman
RRP: £43.95SciFier: £41.35It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbids. 'Goth' did not gain lexical currency until the... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687152
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £78.62The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games,"... -
Mobius: The Story of the Eighth Stone Emmanuel C Lachlan 9781739139735
SciFier: £12.94Although set many thousands of years before the events recorded in Ocellus: The Story of the Twelfth Stone, Moebius: The Story of the Eighth Stone is the second book in the Ocellus series. It is an... -
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West by Karin Breuer
RRP: £46.00SciFier: £41.14The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American... -
Editing and Special/Visual Effects by Charlie Keil
SciFier: £29.51Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle... -
Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play Diane Carr (University of London) 9780745634005
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £50.51Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one... -
Bad Magic by Derek Landy
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £5.82Experience Skulduggery Pleasant as never before - in this fully original graphic novel brought vibrantly to life in full colour 'A real cracker. Fun, thrilling,... -
Acting Across Borders: Mobility and Identity in Italian Cinema Alberto Zambenedetti (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) 9781474439862
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility... -
The Business of Television: Expanded and Updated Second Edition Ken Basin (Sony Pictures Television; Harvard Business School, USA) 9781032012988
SciFier: £38.96In this updated 2nd edition, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073622
SciFier: £108.33Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Allan's Wife H. Rider Haggard 9781513277646
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £4.86When young Allan Quatermain, a boy who would later be known for his heroic adventures, saves a young girl named Stella from a fire, they become quick friends. However, when Stella's mother leaves her... -
The Giver Boxed Set: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, Son (The Giver Quartet) Lois Lowry 9780008113490
RRP: £31.96SciFier: £17.49THE GIVER is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. Now available for the first time in the UK, THE GIVER QUARTET is the complete... -
The Art of Living Stephen Bayley 9780857526397
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.99With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the... -
Mixed Race Hollywood Mary Beltran 9780814799895
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.89A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and... -
The Invisible College Jeff Wheeler 9781662521867
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.64A mortal sorcerer sets out to defy the dark magic of an ancient race awakening to wage war on mortals in an epic fantasy of adventure and love by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler. ... -
Designing Fashion's Future: Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change Dr Alice Payne (RMIT, Melbourne, Australia) 9781350092457
SciFier: £83.49How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion's future? Designing Fashion's Future responds to these... -
Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas Elizabeth Johnson 9781498524766
SciFier: £44.99This book investigates how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. Since many Nollywood... -
Quinnelope and the Unicorn Utopia by HF Brownfield
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.29Enchanted unicorn horns, pirate prawns, dangerous mega sea creatures, and MORE await Quinnelope and friends as they embark on an iridescent island adventure to prove unicorns are really real in the... -
Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady Dominic McHugh (Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Music, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom) 9780199381005
SciFier: £31.99Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and... -
Infinity Gate: The exhilarating SF epic set in the multiverse (Book One of the Pandominion) M. R. Carey 9780356518046
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS: AN EPIC MULTIVERSE TALE THAT MOVES LIKE A THRILLER' Kirkus'A FASCINATING WINDOW ONTO A DANGEROUS AND MULTIFACETED UNIVERSE' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of...