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Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity by Jing Liu
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68"An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history; ideal for those new to the subject."--School Library Journal (review of volume 1) This latest volume in the Understanding... -
Trouble the Waters by Sheree Renee Thomas
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.28Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction... -
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds John Everson 9781787586260
RRP: $17.35SciFier: $12.31"Passionate, overwhelming, a classic thriller with a rock rhythm." - Ernesto Gastaldi, screenwriter of So Sweet... So Perverse "I read this story with ever-increasing interest. The dynamics and... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: $124.61This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
The Starseekers: A Murder and Magic Novel Nicole Glover 9780063293632
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $11.01Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy set in the world of The Conductors, in which the space race of the mid-20th century will be determined by magic..... -
Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend: A TOON Graphic Noah Van Sciver 9781662665226
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $16.64Did you know that a mainstay of American folk culture was in fact created as an advertising ploy?Few people realize that Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his blue ox are the product of... -
Magic Has No Borders by Samira Ahmed
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $16.01From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience.This fantasy and science fiction teen... -
Division to Unification in Imperial China by Jing Liu
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to... -
Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s Matthew Kennedy (Instructor in Film Studies and Anthropology, Instructor in Film Studies and Anthropology, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA) 9780190262440
RRP: $37.51SciFier: $36.50Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the... -
The Secular Religion of Fandom: Pop Culture Pilgrim Jennifer Otter Bickerdike 9781473907799
RRP: $113.90SciFier: $107.72Media pilgrimage has become a booming business in the 21st century. Fans of television shows, rock groups and books flock to places associated with their favorite series, artist or writer, trying to... -
Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation Lynn Sally 9781978828094
RRP: $64.32SciFier: $52.64The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful... -
Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation Lynn Sally 9781978828087
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $27.11The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful... -
The Ninth Metal: The Comet Cycle Book 1 Benjamin Percy 9781473690080
SciFier: $16.19'Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing' STEPHEN KING It might have been the end of days. Instead it was the beginning of something shockingly new.They called the comet Cain, after the... -
Only a Monster: The captivating YA contemporary fantasy debut Vanessa Len 9781529380101
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.84In every story there is a hero and a monster.'Mind-bending, heart wrenching, and unputdownable!' Stephanie Garber, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Caraval series and Once Upon a Broken HeartIt... -
Empress Game: The Empress Game Trilogy Book 1 Rhonda Mason 9781783295241
Titan BooksRRP: $10.71SciFier: $7.87Power, grace, deadliness defined. Always cunning, endlessly victorious...'One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire's supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled: that of the... -
After Sundown Mark Morris 9781787584563
RRP: $13.33SciFier: $9.81NOMINATED FOR A SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD AND BRITISH FANTASY AWARD "This rich and masterful collection of horror highlights both up-and-coming and established authors in an interesting twist on the... -
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $21.96In the sequel to the Nebula finalist The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of mad scientists from literature embark on a madcap adventure across... -
The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News D. Michael Rivage-Seul 9781433149528
RRP: $52.46SciFier: $48.90D. Michael Rivage-Seul's eye-opening new book, The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News, invites readers to try out what Baba Dick Gregory calls the "magic... -
Homey Don't Play That! by David Peisner
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $21.09"A fascinating inside look at the trailblazing series" (Entertainment Tonight)-discover the behind-the-scenes stories and lasting impact of the trailblazing sketch comedy show that upended... -
The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $5.74'Ridiculously good' (New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a brilliantly dazzling and poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it... -
Some Future Day by Marc Beckman
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $23.60This cutting-edge guide not only shows how AI is transforming our careers, lives, businesses, and more, but also provides easy, actionable steps to make AI work for us. In this groundbreaking book,... -
The Gutter Prayer: Book One of the Black Iron Legacy Gareth Hanrahan 9780356511528
OrbitRRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.68'A ground-breaking and extraordinary novel . . . Hanrahan has an astonishing imagination' Peter McLean, author of Priest of Bones'Mind-blowingly stellar in every respect . . . Fantasy readers, be... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262409
SciFier: $124.61Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History Laurence E. MacDonald 9780810883970
SciFier: $112.55Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response,... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262324
SciFier: $54.93Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott Marsha Gordon 9780520391543
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $29.20"Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure."-The New Yorker"Remind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention."-New York Times The riveting... -
Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema Lawrence Baron 9780742543331
SciFier: $60.29Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of 'the... -
Rouge Mona Awad 9781398504936
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $17.34From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of... -
People Like Her Ellery Lloyd 9781529039382
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.02'Brilliantly original' - Clare Mackintosh, author of After the End'Deliciously dark and devious' - Red 'Highly recommended' - Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange'Gone Girl-esque' - The Times'I... -
It Never Ends by Tom Scharpling
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.52From the comedian, television writer, and host of the Best Show, a revealing and powerful memoir exploring a life of struggle and reinvention "Tom Scharpling possesses more than merely a... -
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $21.96At last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history myths-adapted by the famed National Book Award-winning artist behind John Lewis's March... -
The Atmospherians: A Novel Alex McElroy 9781982158323
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $17.07"Darkly funny and glitteringly satirical, The Atmospherians unforgettably takes aim at wokeness, wellness, and toxic masculinity." -Esquire This "edgy, addictive" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)... -
The Atmospherians: A Novel Alex McElroy 9781982158309
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $18.51Best Book of 2021 by Esquire Book You Need to Read in 2021 by Harper' s Bazaar "Darkly funny and glitteringly satirical, The Atmospherians unforgettably takes aim at wokeness, wellness, and toxic... -
The Unfamiliar Garden: The Comet Cycle Book 2 Benjamin Percy 9781473690158
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.84'Debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal . . . turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing' - International bestselling author... -
Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media Jason Farman (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) 9781138625020
SciFier: $52.78In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a groundbreaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity, community, and place-making practices... -
The Screenwriter's Path: From Idea to Script to Sale Diane Lake 9781138647398
SciFier: $51.63The Screenwriter's Path takes a comprehensive approach to learning how to write a screenplay-allowing the writer to use it as both a reference and a guide in constructing a script. A tenured... -
Eventown Corey Ann Haydu 9780062689818
SciFier: $9.45Kirkus Best Books of 2019 * Kids' Indie Next Pick List * Bookpage Best Books of 2019: Middle Grade"Beautiful, mysterious and deeply satisfying." -Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When... -
The Moon Always Rising by Alice C. Early
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $14.39In 1998, fiery Eleanor "Els" Gordon thought the new century would find her married to her childhood soul mate, rejuvenating her family's Scottish Highlands estate, and finally earning a managing... -
The Apartment Plot by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
SciFier: $31.17Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the "apartment plot," her term for stories in... -
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method Jon Lewis 9780822338215
SciFier: $35.62Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a...