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Orpheus by Nazli Eray
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.90Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphee makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Eray's... -
Halo: Meridian Divide by Cassandra Rose Clarke
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.00Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!It's been three months since the colony world of Meridian was invaded by the alien... -
Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 Samson Kaunga Ndanyi 9781793649263
SciFier: $45.55In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to... -
Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation by J. W. Whitehead
RRP: $48.23SciFier: $43.75Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic cabaret team of Nichols and May. He became a Broadway directing sensation, then moved on to Hollywood,... -
Women in Japanese Cinema: Alternative Perspectives Tamae Prindle 9780983299141
RRP: $46.83SciFier: $31.17By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, this book reveals the covert stories of Japanese women of various statuses and time periods in an exegesis of their story versus orthodox... -
The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968126
SciFier: $52.78This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.In order to answer what the mind-game film... -
Celluloid Comrades by Song Hwee Lim
RRP: $75.04SciFier: $50.52Celluloid Comrades offers a cogent analytical introduction to the representation of male homosexuality in Chinese cinemas within the last decade. It posits that representations of male homosexuality... -
Mathematics of Tabletop Games Aaron Montgomery 9781032468525
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $31.07Mathematics of Tabletop Games provides a bridge between mathematics and hobby tabletop gaming. Instead of focusing on games mathematicians play, such as nim and chomp, this book starts with the... -
The Library Suicides: the most captivating locked-room psychological thriller of 2023 from the award-winning author Fflur Dafydd 9781399711074 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $10.64You can get in. But you can't get out. Welcome to the library...Twins Ana and Nan are lost after the death of their mother. Everyone knows who drove Elena, the renowned novelist, to suicide - her... -
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film by Britt Salvesen
RRP: $69.68SciFier: $47.28An essential primer on the history of Photoshop and other tools of digital image manipulation, from the 1970s through to the current day This timely volume, Digital Witness, examines the impact of... -
The Amajurjuk by Levi Illuitok
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17In this faithful retelling of a traditional story from the Kugaaruk region, told by Elder Levi Illuitok, a father must save his infant child from an amajurjuk, an ogress known to steal children. When... -
Manga Workshop Characters by Sophie Chan
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $19.27Create your own manga characters!The manga universe is diverse--full of cute chibis, soulful romantics, cunning villains and sassy schoolgirls. Whether you want to tell love stories, create fantasy... -
Hooked Rugs Today: Holidays, Geometrics, People, Animals, Landscapes, Accessories, and More -- 2006 Amy Oxford 9780764326363
RRP: $37.51SciFier: $28.19A giant high-top sneaker embellished with golden scissors floats in a polka dot sky along with the surprising motto, "Run With Scissors." Hooked rug maker Jill Cooper explains, "The older I get, the... -
Cajun Mardi Gras Masks by Carl Lindahl
RRP: $46.83SciFier: $43.13Every winter a handful of Cajun Louisiana folk artists assembles unlikely mixtures of material to shape masks for their Cajun Mardi Gras celebrations. They use window screens, chicken feathers, yarn,... -
Between Images by Ryan Conrath (Professor, Professor, Salisbury University)
SciFier: $91.07In the early days of moving pictures, filmmakers learned that the montage could be an effective tool to show changes in time or locale. Casablanca's iconic travel montage is mimicked by filmmakers to... -
Charles Bronson by Michael R. Pitts
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $27.08This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of... -
Learn to Play by Matthew M. White
SciFier: $78.34See How to Unobtrusively Incorporate Good Teaching into Your Game's MechanicsLearn to Play: Designing Tutorials for Video Games shows how to embed a tutorial directly into your game design mechanics... -
Cinema at the Margins Wheeler Dixon 9780857281869
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $80.59More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael Curtiz's "Casablanca" (1942) or Victor Fleming's "Gone With The Wind" (1939), are representing the entire film output of an era, to a new... -
A Bloom in Winter J. R. Ward 9780349430683
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Nothing warms a cold heart like true love, and in this newest Black Dagger Brotherhood winter book, a fighter who has never been a savior finds himself falling in love-and trying to rescue-a male... -
The Cold Between (A Central Corps Novel, Book 1) Elizabeth Bonesteel 9780008137809
RRP: $21.43SciFier: $18.08Debut novel of adventure, romance and interplanetary intrigue from a new voice in science fiction. When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps engineer... -
Party Monsters on the Block Sue Ganz-Schmitt 9781662519673
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.84Team Funny or Team Scary: Which team are you on? Find out in this delightful story about community and working together.Monster is so excited about this year's community block party. And even more... -
Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal Derek Lee 9781517918880
RRP: $120.60SciFier: $98.96Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely... -
Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal Derek Lee 9781517918897
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $23.99Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely... -
Identity in Science Fiction: Brain Transplants and Other Misadventures Dr Tom Cochrane (Flinders University, Australia) 9781350499805
SciFier: $33.53In the first science fiction and philosophy anthology to focus on identity, a set of exemplary stories raise deep questions about who and what we are. Featuring classic authors and brand new work, we... -
Cry Havoc James P. Sumner 9781036701178
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72They have lost everything. That's what makes them dangerous. Their allies are scattered and broken, at a time when the world needs them the most. They must unite one more time... for one last... -
All the Best Lies Joanna Schaffhausen 9781789090581 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $3.44The electrifying third novel from the author of the nail-biting thriller, The Vanishing Season FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla... -
Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel Michael A. Chaney 9781496810250
RRP: $117.92SciFier: $96.82Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of... -
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
RRP: $18.75SciFier: $14.95National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA... -
Cloak of War by Rhonda Mason
Titan BooksRRP: $10.71SciFier: $7.87The bloody tournament to determine the new empress of the intergalactic empire may be over, but for exiled princess Kayla Reinumon, the battle is just beginning. To free her home planet from... -
Starfinder Adventure Path: Into the Dataverse (Drift Hackers 3 of 3) Alexander Augunas 9781640785106
PaizoRRP: $30.81SciFier: $21.31The Drift Crisis comes to an unforgettable pulse-pounding conclusion! The heroes insert their consciousnesses into a digital realm that represents all the information about the galaxy collected by... -
Ruling Destiny by Alyson Noel
SciFier: $24.01Following her triumphant return from the past and the shock of finding her best friend Mason newly ensconced at Gray Wolf, Natasha is looking forward to her new assignment in Renaissance Italy where... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822284
RRP: $121.94SciFier: $97.75Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
The Screenwriters Taxonomy by Eric R. Williams (Ohio University, USA)
SciFier: $101.20In The Screenwriters Taxonomy, award-winning screenwriter and educator Eric R. Williams offers a new collaborative approach for creative storytellers to recognize, discuss and reinvent storytelling... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822338
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $26.38Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
Alien Constructions by Patricia Melzer
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $28.15Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and... -
Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood Julie K. Allen 9781804131350
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $44.88Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having... -
Space and Beyond by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: $104.51Although the exploration of space has long preoccupied authors and filmmakers, the development of an actual space program, discoveries about the true nature of space, and critical reconsiderations of... -
Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps Rebecca Jumper Matheson 9781606355015
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $26.79One couple's bold vision for American fashion Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for "slow fashion," William and Elizabeth Phelps, a... -
Conan the Barbarian: Battle Of The Black Stone by Jonas Scharf
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $13.36The legendary roster of characters created by Robert E. Howard, who single-handily forged a whole new genre - sword and sorcery - are about to collide! Spinning out of Titan and Heroic Signatures'... -
Understanding Indian Movies by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $26.08Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world,...