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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 9780691165554
SciFier: £12.50In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all... -
The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts Sara Pesce 9781138319745
SciFier: £44.60In the age of "complex Tv", of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance... -
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350198531
SciFier: £90.70How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often... -
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema Richard Abel 9780415778565
SciFier: £49.19The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, now in a new paperback edition, is a unique one-volume reference work which explores the first 25 years of cinema's development, from the early 1890s to the... -
Blood Plagues and Endless Raids by Palumbi Anthony R
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £12.72In 2005, the video game World of Warcraft struck the cultural landscape with tidal force. One hundred million people have played WoW in the twelve years since.But those people did more than play... -
Ghost Stories of British Columbia by Jo-Anne Christensen
SciFier: £13.19It has been called Canada's most haunted province. While such a claim is impossible to prove, British Columbia does abound with tales of the supernatural. Ghost Stories of British Columbia is a... -
Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular Derek Thompson 9780141981598
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person... -
Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences Peter Vorderer 9780805853223
SciFier: £73.60From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross... -
Loba Valentina Cano Repetto 9781836730606
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.99On the run from her abusive husband and desperate for money, Delmira Torres takes a position as a lighthouse keeper at the remote hamlet of Cabo Polonio, the easternmost point of Uruguay. There, she... -
Things from the Flood Simon Stalenhag 9781471194436
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56'Gorgeously creepy and strangely human' - National Public Radio It started on Christmas Day in 1994. Dark water suddenly rose from the land, invading our homes and lives. They say it came from the... -
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350198524
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.87How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often... -
Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars by Gustave Le Rouge
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.82Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic... -
Alien Zone by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: £18.69This is especially true of the science fiction film-a genre as old as cinema itself-which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently,... -
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies Blair Davis 9781138590663
SciFier: £44.60Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole... -
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Forties and Fifties by Daniel Finn
SciFier: £68.49The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses on the major events that shaped and molded the genre: war, alienation, drugs, and organized crime. The... -
Wolf Country by Tunde Farrand
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.12London, 2050. The socio-economic crisis of recent decades is over and consumerism is thriving. Ownership of land outside the city is the preserve of a tiny elite, and the rest of the population... -
Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) (P2) James Case 9781640787551
PaizoRRP: £64.99SciFier: £39.59From the fringes, the unknown beckons. Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) contains secrets that any player or GM can use to reveal the paranormal lurking in their Pathfinder games, all updated to... -
Beasts & Creatures Myths & Tales by Tok Thompson
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82With their weird combination of animal limbs, or distorted visions of human perception, beasts and creatures can be found in all myths and legends of the world, often used to demonstrate moral or... -
Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music Neil Fox (Falmouth University, UK) 9781839023446
SciFier: £91.11In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess... -
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Bevis (Fellow in English, Keble College, University of Oxford)
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that... -
Road of Bones Christopher Golden 9781803361475
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45"Tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell... I loved it." Stephen King Pursued by unknown terrors across the frozen Siberian tundra, a documentary-maker experiences a nightmare journey into... -
Until Death: Neighborhood Nightmares Series London Clarke 9781036711016
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.99Amazon bestselling author London Clarke's new offering weaves a chilling tapestry of suspense where the boundaries between life and death blur, and the bonds of love are put to the ultimate test. ... -
Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music Neil Fox (Falmouth University, UK) 9781839023439
SciFier: £29.90In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess... -
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan Professor Emerita Lynne K. Miyake (Pomona College, USA) 9781350424968
SciFier: £30.99This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga... -
Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Special Edition (P2) James Case 9781640787568
PaizoRRP: £74.99SciFier: £48.86From the fringes, the unknown beckons. Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Special Edition contains secrets that any player or GM can use to reveal the paranormal lurking in their Pathfinder games,... -
Chinese Film Stars Mary Farquhar 9780415690270
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £53.26This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period... -
The Erstwhile: Book Two in the Vorrh Trilogy Brian Catling 9781473636408
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97The Vorrh is a vast unmapped and very mysterious jungle in Africa. No-one comes out of it in one piece. Survivors report strange, mind-bending phenomena and horrific monsters. It is rumoured that the... -
Kerfol Edith Wharton 9781513270630
SciFier: £3.99What begins as an ordinary event quickly shifts into the bizarre after the narrator, a wealthy bachelor, meets their friend, Lanvivain, at an old mansion. Thinking about purchasing the property, the... -
Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender J. Daniel Luther 9781350516762
SciFier: £28.13Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far... -
The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique Christian Avender 9781032728353
RRP: £115.00SciFier: £112.07Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. Incredibly popular and captivating to artists, these... -
The Astounding Jason Hyde by Eric Bradbury
RebellionRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21From the pages of UK comic Valiant - a series of amazing text stories featuring the strangest hero of all time!Accidental exposure to a form of natural radiation had caused scientist Jason Hyde's... -
The Return of Twin Peaks: Squaring the Circle Franck Boulegue 9781789385816
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.76In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television. This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series... -
The Taking by Dean Koontz
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.74On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known... Molly and Neil Sloan wake to find an eerily luminous downpour drenching their small Californian mountain town. As the... -
The Butterfly Assassin by Finn Longman
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32WINNER OF AN ABA AWARD. Innocent by day, killer by night: a dark, twisting thriller about a teen assassin's attempt to live a normal life. Don't miss the second book in the trilogy, The Hummingbird... -
Idols of Modernity by Patrice Petro
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and... -
The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson by Robert Hofler
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.93Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many... -
Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 9780816690992
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a... -
Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 9780816690961
RRP: £78.00SciFier: £62.20Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a... -
The Return of Twin Peaks: Squaring the Circle Franck Boulegue 9781789382778
RRP: £72.00SciFier: £71.90In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television. This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series... -
Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Pocket Edition (P2) James Case 9781640787780
PaizoRRP: £26.99SciFier: £18.51From the fringes, the unknown beckons. Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Pocket Edition contains secrets that any player or GM can use to reveal the paranormal lurking in their Pathfinder games,...