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The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood Gina Misiroglu 9781578591787
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £32.49Everything you ever wanted to know about the bad guys in comics, film, and television! A must-read for anyone who was ever enthralled with mythic wickedness, The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side... -
Frankenstein: The 1818 Edition with Related Texts Mary Shelley 9781624669132
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £37.26"In this new edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , David Wootton's Introduction gives the reader both a clear and gripping account of the biographical circumstances that led to the novel's writing... -
The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur Philippe Met (French Forum) 9780231188708
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of... -
Crime Uncovered: Detective by Barry Forshaw
SciFier: £23.50For most of the twentieth century, the private eye dominated crime fiction and film, a lone figure fighting for justice, often in opposition to the official representatives of law and order. More... -
The Jolly Roger: A Story of Sea Heroes and Pirates Hume Nisbet 9781513133997
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61The Jolly Roger: A Story of Sea Heroes and Pirates (1891) is a novel by Hume Nisbet. Published at the beginning of his career as a leading ghost story writer of the Victorian era, The Jolly Roger: A... -
Five Weeks in a Balloon Jules Verne 9781513266336
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.99Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne's works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer... -
Ditko Shrugged: The Uncompromising Life of the Artist Behind Spider-Man by David Currie
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £33.39Steve Ditko was the last of a sturdy generation of American comic book artists who produced iconic, modern day mythology and was among the most influential and original creators of the 20th Century... -
Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice Broderick Fox (Occidental College, USA) 9781138677562
SciFier: £73.17In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media-for you, the reader of... -
Moviemakers' Master Class Laurent Tirard 9780571211029
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.29From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard: interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films - and why.Each great film-maker has a secret method to his moviemaking -... -
Debating Truth by Nina Caputo
SciFier: £45.68In the summer of 1263, Nahmanides (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, ca 1195-1270), who was Aragon (1213-1276) to debate with a Dominican Friar named Paul about specific claims concerning the Messiah in... -
The Mysteries by Bill Watterson
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America's most... -
Signifying Female Adolescence by Georganne Scheiner
SciFier: £78.49Motion pictures have been one of the forces that have both shaped and reproduced adolescent femininity. Films not only reflect culture-they help to create it. So it is worth looking at films to see... -
Before Video by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £78.49The video revolution in the 1980s affected all areas of the American entertainment industry; its impact was most dramatic--ultimately devastating--to the non-theatrical film field. Non-theatrical... -
The Lives of Others by Annie Ring (University of Cambridge, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.55This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.55Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the... -
Phoenix Falling by Laura Bickle
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.49Laura Bickle, the critically acclaimed author of Nine of Stars and Witch Creek, returns with a fiery new chapter in her celebrated Wildlands series.In the Yellowstone backcountry, a merciless source... -
A Magic Fierce and Bright Hemant Nayak 9781665921817
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05A young technomancer teams up with a handsome thief to save her sister in this propulsive, magic-filled young adult fantasy that is perfect for fans of Gearbreakers and Iron Widow.Adya wants nothing... -
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1) by Brian Aldiss
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.99Following on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss' short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part one of four. This collection... -
The Lair of Dr MacDeth Adam Britten 9781848123533 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £2.16Super-mum, aka Ms Victory, decides her super-powered family needs to get away from all the saving-the-world stuff for a while and spend some quality time together. A weekend in Scotland seems... -
The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: Tips & Tricks by Christopher Hart
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £11.94The third title in Christopher Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series, Tips & Tricks has over 100 essential drawing techniques for artists who want to fine-tune their anime and manga... -
Wartime Fashion: From Haute Couture to Homemade, 1939-1945 Geraldine Howell (University of Westminster, UK) 9780857850713
SciFier: £37.99A comprehensive analysis of Second World War dress practice and appearance, this study places dress at the forefront of a complex series of cultural chain reactions. As lives were changed by the... -
Finding Birt Acres by Deac Rossell
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £82.49Apparently from Virginia, Birt Acres appeared out of nowhere in Britain aged 35, without a trace of his former life. Yet immediately he became a prominent figure in the late Victorian photographic... -
An Ocean Full of Stories: 50 Folktales and Legends from Around the World Angela McAllister 9780711295902
SciFier: £21.33Sit back, get comfortable and dive into this illustrated collection of folk stories from every corner of the globe, all inspired by water ways big and small.From the bubbling source of a river and... -
Caligula: The Official Story of the Film Thomas Negovan 9781835413869
Titan BooksRRP: £39.99SciFier: £27.24The official retrospective for controversial erotic historical drama Caligula, written by Gore Vidal and directed by Tinto Brass.Tracing Caligula's difficult production and the various cuts released,... -
Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd (Research Fellow, Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9781350435629
SciFier: £74.44If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up? An open access book, Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to... -
Warriors of the Continuum Part Two: Deception Roger P. Heath 9781068413643
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.24"It is my people who suffer at the hand of the Iyes! My people! So when we hear the Warriors have arrived and are preparing for battle against us, what do we do? What do I do? I fight! I fight to... -
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy: Architecture, Innovation, Labour, Politics, 1930-60 Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781839025341
SciFier: £97.23This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime... -
No Man's Land David Baldacci 9781447277491
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34No Man's Land by David Baldacci is an exciting thriller featuring special investigator John Puller, who is pursuing a case that will send him deep into his own troubled past.One man demands justice ... -
Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives Philip Balma 9781557536877
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the... -
Cloverfield: Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema Steffen Hantke 9781496846747
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £72.25Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves's Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001,... -
To Tell a Story John Berger 9781837262960
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Despite their status as intellectual giants of the twentieth century, John Berger and Susan Sontag's artistic collaboration - and intense friendship - remains virtually unknown.Published for the... -
Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts Paul Mason 9781526312891 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.13Bizarre, incredible and downright gross facts about human and animal bodies!In Hair-raising Human Body Facts, you'll learn about some of the most incredible things going on inside you right now! ... -
The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £85.99SciFier: £69.99"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work." Neil Gaiman Over one thousand new entries . . . over four thousand updates . . . over... -
Soldiers of Song by Jason Wilson
RRP: £22.95SciFier: £21.59The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells - concert parties made up of fighting... -
The Great Dune Trilogy: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune Frank Herbert 9780575070707
GollanczRRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56Three of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POSTHerbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the... -
The Red Fairy Book Andrew Lang 9781513132518
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86The Red Fairy Book (1890) is a collection of fairy tales by Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang. Published in time for Christmas, The Red Fairy Book was the second volume out of 25 in the Lang's Fairy... -
Writing the Comedy Movie Marc Blake (Southampton Solent University, UK) 9781628925951
SciFier: £31.99It is often suggested that there are 'secrets' to comedy or that it is 'lightning in a bottle', but the craft of comedy writing can be taught. While comedic tastes change, over time and from person... -
The Time Machine: An Invention H.G. Wells 9781551113050
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £14.66Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on... -
Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes's Birds Daniel Holmes 9781498590761
SciFier: £112.99Aristophanes was clearly anxious about the role of the sophists and the "new" education in Athens. After the perceived failure of Clouds in 423 and its subsequent, unperformed revision, Aristophanes,... -
Royal Hawaiian Featherwork by Leah Caldeira
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £38.90Painstakingly constructed by hand of plant fiber and precious feathers from endemic birds of Hawai'i, feather cloaks and capes provided spiritual protection to Hawaiian chiefs for centuries while...