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Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination William Cheng (Postdoctoral fellow, Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) 9780199969975
RRP: $72.06SciFier: $55.10Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and... -
George Cukor's People by Joseph McBride
RRP: $74.20SciFier: $63.37The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood... -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: $91.14SciFier: $83.51Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs... -
Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon Regina M Marchi 9781978821637
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $42.89Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "El Dia de los Muertos," has enjoyed... -
Assassination Classroom, Vol. 12 Yusei Matsui 9781421583242
Viz MediaRRP: $16.94SciFier: $12.93Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had?... -
Small Man in a Book Rob Brydon 9780241954829
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $20.14Rob Brydon tells story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book. A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and inspired... -
YuYu Hakusho, Vol. 2 by Yoshihiro Togashi
Viz MediaRRP: $19.06SciFier: $14.25A delinquent's gotta do what he's gotta do...in the afterlife.Yusuke Urameshi was a tough teen delinquent until one selfless act changed his life...by ending it. When he died saving a little kid from... -
The Eternal Champion Michael Moorcock 9780575092655
GollanczRRP: $27.54SciFier: $22.18Erekose, the Eternal Champion - pulled by the tides of chance through a thousand worlds and ages. In his lonely search for peace and justice all he can trust are his own courage and enduring passion... -
Across the River and into the Trees Ernest Hemingway 9781784872038
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.45A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'Richard Cantrell is an American... -
The Life of Lee Lee Evans 9780718156190
RRP: $23.30SciFier: $20.14Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye. But he was not always such a roaring success. The Life of Lee is an utterly... -
The Animator's Survival Kit: Flexibility and Weight: (Richard Williams' Animation Shorts) Richard E. Williams 9780571358434
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $17.43FLEXIBILITY AND WEIGHTFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form.The Animator's Survival Kit is the essential tool for animators. However, sometimes you don't... -
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.90The literary classic that inspired the iconic film - the story of two sisters and the hell they made their home.Once an acclaimed child star of vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed for adoring... -
The Stricken (Large Print Edition) by Morgan Shamy
RRP: $40.17SciFier: $37.25What if our spirits walk to another life while our bodies sleep? Every day in Clara's world, a dark cloud descends upon her town.. The storm comes like clockwork, erasing everyone's memories... -
The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools David Charles 9781032424064
SciFier: $75.81The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance... -
Stitches by Hirokatsu Kihara
Viz MediaRRP: $31.80SciFier: $22.18Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate collection of fright-filled ghost tales!A tumor shaped like a man's face slowly moves across a woman's... -
Peter Sellers by Michael Seth Starr
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Peter Sellers left behind a rich legacy of film work, some of which is only belatedly recognized for its genius. Especially notable were his numerous crazy accents. Though most widely known as the... -
Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature Tarshia L. Stanley 9780313343896
SciFier: $146.26Hip Hop literature, also known as urban fiction or street lit, is a type of writing evocative of the harsh realities of life in the inner city. Beginning with seminal works by such writers as Donald... -
Screening Schillebeeckx by A. Sison
SciFier: $99.62The book is an exploration of the creative crossings between the liberative stream of the eschatology of Edward Schillebeeckx and the stylistic strategies of 'Third Cinema', political cinema... -
The Giant Jumperee Julia Donaldson 9780241463574 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.82SciFier: $5.45Rabbit was hopping home one day when he heard a loud voice coming from inside his burrow."I'M THE GIANT JUMPEREEAND I'M SCARY AS CAN BE!"When Rabbit's friends Cat, Bear and Elephant come to help they... -
Small Man in a Book Rob Brydon 9780241954829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $2.63Rob Brydon tells story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book. A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and inspired... -
Love Lost Cynthia St. Aubin 9781250407207
RRP: $23.30SciFier: $19.59So now you're the Alpha.For neophyte werewolf Hanna Harvey, life is a wedge of triple creme brie. Sure, there's a group of local Furries aggressively adoring her in the frozen appetizer aisle and the... -
Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon Regina M Marchi 9781978821644
RRP: $127.20SciFier: $103.37Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "El Dia de los Muertos," has enjoyed... -
Designing Movies by Sylvia Townsend
SciFier: $110.22This retrospective on the career of Academy Award-winning production designer Richard Sylbert takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential films of the past fifty years. The... -
Synners: The Arthur C Clarke award-winning cyberpunk masterpiece for fans of William Gibson and THE MATRIX Pat Cadigan 9780575119543
GatewayRRP: $23.30SciFier: $19.53What does it mean to be human when you're part of the machine?Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can... -
Videogames James Newman (Bath Spa University, UK) 9780415669160
SciFier: $90.86In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms. Newman's volume... -
Those Who Helped Us by Kiku Hughes
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $22.18The second installment in the series of graphic novels that began with Washington State Book Award Finalist We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime IncarcerationBasketball-loving... -
Cleo and Cornelius by Elizabeth Nicholson
SciFier: $34.32Courageous Cleo and couch potato Cornelius live in ancient Egypt, where cats lie around all day, being pampered like gods and goddesses. One day Cornelius accidentally boards a boat headed to the... -
Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television Nick Marx 9780253044167
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $36.29In Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most memorable-and controversial-moments from the early days of television to the contemporary... -
Playing with the Guys by Marc A. Ouellette
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.60A lot of work has been done talking about what masculinity is and what it does within video games, but less has been given to considering how and why this happens, and the processes involved. This... -
The British Pop Music Film by Stephen Glynn
RRP: $122.96SciFier: $99.62The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through... -
World Film Locations: Washington D.C. by Katherine Larsen (George Washington University, USA)
SciFier: $51.81Freedom and democracy. Bills and laws. Bureaucracy and red tape. Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, is known for many things, most of them related to the inner workings of the... -
Young-Girls in Echoland by Andrea Jonsson
SciFier: $19.67Who's worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child? Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl is a controversial work of anticapitalist philosophy that has attracted musicians,... -
The Eye of the Cinematograph by Keyvan Manafi
SciFier: $185.69Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of... -
Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft Julia Skelly (McGill University, Canada) 9781472569417
SciFier: $207.74This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered... -
Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music William Gibbons (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Texas Christian University) 9780190265267
RRP: $72.06SciFier: $55.10Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock,... -
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 Richard Abel 9780253046468
RRP: $63.58SciFier: $51.13Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local... -
Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map Jools Gilson (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781350027527
SciFier: $54.34Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores... -
Rainbow Magic: Carmen the Cheerleading Fairy by Daisy Meadows
RRP: $14.82SciFier: $11.62Rachel and Kirsty head to Cove City for a cheerleading competition but it's not long until everything goes wrong! The girls must help Carmen the Cheerleading Fairy to put things right - but can they... -
The Stricken Morgan Shamy 9780744307696
RRP: $38.05SciFier: $28.37What if our spirits walk to another life while our bodies sleep? Every day in Clara's world, a dark cloud descends upon her town.. The storm comes like clockwork, erasing everyone's memories... -
Incorcisms: Strange Short Stories David Hartley 9781913665241
RRP: $19.06SciFier: $15.29"You have to understand," says the woman, "an incorcism is nothing like its counterpart. No bells and whistles, no drama. All it takes is willingness, which you already have in spades."Strange...