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The Art of Color Categorization by Kyoko Hidaka
SciFier: $124.61From Newton's prism spectroscopy to modern color science, the study of color has been rooted in the categorization of colors. Building upon this foundation, this book aims to explore the rich and... -
Jane Austen and Vampires by Eric Parisot
SciFier: $49.57Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Seth... -
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 9 Hiromu Arakawa 9781421504605
Viz MediaRRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age Professor Alexandra Palmer (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada) 9781350204591
SciFier: $50.50Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the pulsations of multiple and simultaneous styles, while... -
James Dean by Paul Alexander
RRP: $16.07SciFier: $12.34No more than a promising actor with a handful of films to his name when he died in 1955, James Dean has since been elevated to an iconic status surpassed only by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. ... -
Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution: Film Production and Representing Dissent Ahmed Ghazal 9780755635429
SciFier: $45.55Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship... -
Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground Randolph Lewis 9780803238411
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $26.08Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one of the earliest and most controversial works of Native cinema. It is a documentary by Los Angeles filmmaker Arlene Bowman, who travels to the Navajo... -
Sailor Moon Vol. 1 Naoko Takeuchi 9781935429746 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $6.87The first instalment of a magical adventure series that sees girls fighting evil! Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As... -
Boy's Abyss, Vol. 11: Volume 11 Ryo Minenami 9781974758524
Viz MediaRRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss.Reiji's life is as miserable as the small town he can't escape. The most... -
Primal Nature: Book 1 in a gripping Urban Fantasy series Monique Singleton 9781036701505
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72Immortality comes at a price. Subject 336, once a victim of sinister experiments designed to replicate her extraordinary abilities, now grapples with the consequences of her captors' actions... -
Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead K. J. Parker 9780356520926
OrbitRRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.68Not even the Church of the Invincible Sun is invincible - and somebody has to do its dirty work. Enter Sister Svangerd and her accompanying priest, both accomplished practitioners. Their mission is... -
Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds Gary Alan Fine 9780226249445
SciFier: $50.26This classic study still provides one of the most astute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine... -
In the Aftermath of Trauma: Contemporary Video Installations Sabine Eckmann 9780936316383
SciFier: $34.55Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, In the Aftermath of Trauma presents the work of contemporary video artists from around the world... -
Steve McQueen: In His Own Words Marshall Terrill 9781854432711
SciFier: $81.78The star of some of the most beloved films of Hollywood's golden age--including Bullitt, The Great Escape, and The Magnificent Seven--Steve McQueen's unflappably roguish persona earned him the... -
My Story Marilyn Monroe 9781589793163
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $27.39Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as... -
A Language of Dragons (3) - A Storm of Swallows S. F. Williamson 9780008820664
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $18.08The epic conclusion to the #1 Sunday Times bestselling trilogy, A Language of Dragons Vivien Featherswallow has defended Britannia against a dragon invasion and... -
The Tide Watchers by Lisa Chaplin
SciFier: $13.39In the tradition of Jennifer Robson, comes this compelling debut that weaves the fascinating story of a young woman who must risk her life as a spy to help stop Napoleon's invasion of Great Britain... -
Ash Princess Laura Sebastian 9781509855209 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $3.46From author Laura Sebastian comes Ash Princess, a nail-biting YA fantasy debut full of daring and vengeance.Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Queen of Flame and Fury,... -
Fireside Gothic Andrew Taylor 9780008171254 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $3.46From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a collection of three gothic novellas - Broken Voices, The Leper House and The Scratch - perfect for... -
Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980 Andrew Patrick Nelson 9780806148212
RRP: $25.39SciFier: $19.81By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passe - or so the story goes. Many film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a... -
Meet Me at Blue Hour Sarah Suk 9780063255180
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $15.21Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Past Lives in this gripping, emotional story of two childhood friends navigating the fallout of one erasing their memory of the other, from acclaimed... -
Clint Eastwood's America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, USA) 9780745650418
RRP: $21.43SciFier: $20.38The steady rise of Clint Eastwood's career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only... -
The Legion of Shadow: DestinyQuest Book 1 Michael J. Ward 9780575118737
GollanczRRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.40You have no memory of your past.With only a sword and a backpack to your name, you must discover your destiny in an unfamiliar world full of monsters and magic.As you guide your hero through this... -
BEASTARS, Vol. 8 by Paru Itagaki
Viz MediaRRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.59At this high school, instead of jocks and nerds, the students are divided into predators and prey.At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, friendships... -
Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi (Chronicles of the Avatar Book 1) F. C. Yee 9781419735042
RRP: $18.75SciFier: $13.68An instant USA Today and New York Times bestseller! F. C. Yee's The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom-born Avatar. The longest-living Avatar in this beloved... -
Tetris: The Games People Play Box Brown 9781910593226
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.28It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly coloured... -
Bite Marks: Book six in the Jaz Parks sequence Jennifer Rardin 9780316043823
OrbitSciFier: $19.08Jaz is possessed. After biting the neck of a domyter during a forced visit to his territory, she now has unwelcome voices in her head. While fighting for supremacy in her own mind, she finds... -
River of Ink by Etienne Appert
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $18.13With grace, poetry, clarity, and expert knowledge, artist Etienne Appert brings us a book about the very origins of the art of illustration-what it means and why it exists. "Why do you draw?" A... -
Studies of Video Practices: Video at Work Mathias Broth 9781138548954
SciFier: $66.50The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs. The near ubiquity of devices with video cameras and the rise of sites... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284340
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $87.61The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
Love in the Afterlife by Richard Striner
SciFier: $104.51This is a definitive study of films that have been built around the themes of love, death, and the afterlife-films about lovers who meet again (and love again) in heaven, via reincarnation, or... -
Popular Cinema and Politics in South India: The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth S. Rajanayagam 9780815373179
SciFier: $68.82This work breaks new ground in the understanding of South Indian cinema and politics. Through incisive analysis and original concepts it illustrates the private, public and cinematic personas of MGR... -
Acting for America by Robert Eberwein
RRP: $44.22SciFier: $36.76A captivating cast of 1980s power and talent--John Candy, Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Lange, Steve Martin,... -
Anime Through the Looking Glass by Nathalie Bittinger
RRP: $40.19SciFier: $31.61The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than one hundred and fifty full-color frames. A uniquely powerful form of artistic... -
Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9780520390362
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $31.53In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical... -
Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film by G. Cestaro
SciFier: $62.97Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. While... -
Scenes from the Suburbs by Timotheus Vermeulen
SciFier: $124.63'The spatial sensibility of the suburb in recent US film and TV is brilliantly explored and theorized in this book. Without reducing their complexity, Vermeulen elegantly shows what suburbs do on... -
Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself by Warren Buckland
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including... -
Studying Gladiator by Sandy Irvine
SciFier: $39.91Gladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fascinating example of how an old genre can be resuscitated for a new generation. The film's story is not... -
The Heart of Fire by Michael J. Ward
GollanczRRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.40Return to the world of Valeron in another astounding adventure. Deeper and more complex than THE LEGION OF SHADOW, the options available to your hero are exciting, carefully planned and beautifully...