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Simone Pheulpin by Christophe Pradeau
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £45.48"I'd like cloth to be recognized as a material as noble as wood, stone or metal", says French artist Simone Pheulpin, referring to traditional sculpture. Her material is quite simple, bands of raw... -
Aesthetics after Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of Art Winfried Menninghaus 9781644690000
RRP: £84.99SciFier: £84.43Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of "art" production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to... -
Aesthetics after Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts Winfried Menninghaus 9781644696101
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £18.53Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of "art" production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to... -
Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870 1930 Nicholas Gebhardt 9780226448695
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £22.08If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying... -
The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema Iain Robert Smith 9780748677467
SciFier: £93.01This is the uncharted history of Hollywood reworkings from a Turkish Star Trek to a Bollywood Godfather. Did you know that there was a Turkish remake of The Exorcist in which Catholicism was replaced... -
Dear Reader Mary O'Connell 9781250077097
SciFier: £13.49For seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School at is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney's AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney... -
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen (University of California, USA)
SciFier: £25.99First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking... -
The Magician's Plot by Sandra Hanna
SciFier: £14.99The Magician's Plot is a fairy story and cautionary tale, written in the style of a narrative poem. The supernatural beings, who control the events and outcome of this story of good versus evil,... -
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life Justine Picardie 9780008595739
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £25.70SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie's definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden beneath the shimmering surface of a... -
Ghostbusters: The Official Cookbook by Jenn Fujikawa
Titan BooksRRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.09From big city bites to small town tastes, feed your interdimensional demon inside with a smorgasbord of paranormal-inspired recipes with the first-ever official Ghostbusters cookbook! Who you... -
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 9781847496171
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as "humbug". One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he... -
Supergirl and the Cinder Games by Laurie S. Sutton
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95Taken prisoner on the planet Apokolips, Supergirl has lost all memory of her superhero life and now serves the evil Granny Goodness and her horrible Female Furies! One day, as Supergirl is polishing... -
Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art, Literature and Music by Mette Gieskes
SciFier: £113.99This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own,... -
Tattoo You by Phaidon Editors
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £29.86A cutting-edge illustrated survey of 75 contemporary tattoo artists from around the world who are pushing the boundaries of their art form With nearly 700 images, Tattoo You: A New Generation of... -
Motion Picture Paradise by David Morton
RRP: £71.00SciFier: £55.88Highlighting Florida's essential, often overlooked role in shaping American film and televisionMotion Picture Paradise is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, featuring the activities of... -
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
OrbitSciFier: £20.49As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone - until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a... -
Cotton by Professor Beverly Lemire
SciFier: £114.99This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and West, of... -
Flatland Edwin Abbott 9780241441572
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.58The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square',... -
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelistsGarin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is... -
The Vanished Kingdom: The War of the Maps by Jonathan Auxier
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Gardener and Sweep, comes an epic middle-grade adventure-companion to Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes and Sophie Quire... -
Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga, Vol. 3 by Katsura Ise
Viz MediaRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Travel back in time to the early days of Magic: The Gathering!It's the nineties at Tokiwagi Middle School. And for gamers like Hajime Kano, after the release of Magic: The Gathering, nothing will... -
The Colour of Clothes by Cally Blackman
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £52.64The story of photography's first practicable colour process is also the story of fashion as it evolved from the Edwardian era to the newfound fluidity and freedom of the 1920s. 'Soon the world will... -
The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen 9780241779156
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50Step into the enchanting world of Hans Christian Andersen with this collection of timeless Christmas tales, capturing both the magic and melancholy of the season. This selection brings together... -
The Boy Who Set Fire to the Moon Harshad Sai 9781836153603
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.74This delightful children's bedtime book follows a curious young boy on a whimsical space adventure sparked by his big questions about day and night. As he explores the mysteries of the universe, he... -
Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema Zhen Zhang 9781041190752
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond. The... -
On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s Matthew I. Thompson 9781517917326
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £73.85Finding strategies for today's environmental movement in classic science fiction filmsWhat can science fiction film tell us about the course of the modern ecological movement? On Life Support traces... -
Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture Lisa Cartwright 9780816622900
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such issues come to be established and accepted sources of... -
New Media Cultures Professor P David Marshall 9780340806999
SciFier: £29.99"New Media Cultures" provides a comprehensive analysis of the value of cultural studies in the face of new media, and the changes necessary for cultural studies to tackle the issues that new media... -
Rooster Fighter, Vol. 10: Volume 10 Shu Sakuratani 9781974716814
Viz MediaRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.92Giant demonic monsters wreak havoc and level Japanese cities! While the citizens flee in terror, it's up to one brave rooster to stand his ground!In a world where terrifying monsters walk the earth,... -
Networked Bollywood by Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.30Networked Bollywood provides interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment industry. The first Indian film was made in 1913... -
Dark Agent Neal Asher 9781035037896
SciFier: £13.76'Balls-to-the-walls levels of exuberance and inventiveness'Locus Magazine on Dark DiamondFORGE A NEW FUTURE. OR BE CONSUMED BY THE PAST.Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had defeated the... -
Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance Marilyn DeLaure 9781479806201
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.26A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s,... -
They Kill Tim Waggoner 9781787582569
RRP: £9.95SciFier: £7.32"They Kill plunges readers deep into the heart of pulse pounding supernatural horror with a story that could only come from the mind of Tim Waggoner." - This is Horror What are you willing to do,... -
Radical Doubt: The Joker System, after Boal Mady Schutzman 9781138210035
SciFier: £37.66Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive prose, Mady Schutzman elaborates on the Joker System,... -
A Hunter Called Night by Tim Waggoner
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £9.19A sinister being called Night and her panther-like Harriers stalk their quarry, a man known only as Arron. Arron seeks refuge within an office building, a place Night cannot go, for it's part of the... -
The Secrets of Silver Clouds: A Booktok Urban Fantasy Magic Adventure: 1: The Secrets of Silver Clouds: Book 1 (The Silver Clouds Series) Silent Silver 9781068727108
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £17.46Imagine if urban fantasy and action adventure had a wild night out in London, stumbled into a comic book shop, and emerged with a hangover and superpowers. Nine months later, The Secrets of Silver... -
Deep Storm: 'Harrowing and brilliantly conceived' - Clive Cussler Lincoln Child 9781472108234
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Former naval doctor Peter Crane is summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to diagnose a bizarre medical condition. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies on... -
First Graphic Readers: Aesop: the Ant and the Grasshopper & the Fox and the Crow by Aesop Aesop
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Discover two fabulous fables in accessible comic book form: The Ants and the Grasshopper shows us why it is good to work hard and prepare when Grasshopper is left with no food for winter; Meanwhile... -
Siberian Haiku by Jurga Vile
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.54One morning in June 1941, a quiet village in Central Lithuania is shaken out of its slumber by the sudden arrival of the Soviet Army. Eight-year-old Algiukas awakes to the sound of Russian soldiers... -
Road Trip Terror Steve Foxe 9781398234857
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64The last thing Louis wanted was to spend summer vacation on a family road trip. They hit the usual tacky tourist stops, and to top it all off is a stay at a hotel boasting a Prehistoric Action Park,...