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Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature C. C. Tsai 9780691008820
RRP: $38.92SciFier: $32.72During a period of political and social upheaval in China, the unconventional insights of the great Daoist Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.) pointed to a way of living naturally. Inspired by his fascination... -
The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century Gian Piero Brunetta 9780691119892
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $44.31The History of Italian Cinema is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented here for the first time in English, this... -
Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters
RRP: $19.45SciFier: $17.36Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that... -
1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $25.42A beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline's bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis FawkesEric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's... -
The Atlas of World Embroidery: A Global Exploration of Heritage and Styles Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood 9780691261911
RRP: $83.40SciFier: $50.53A richly illustrated history of embroidery and needlework, showcasing the glorious range of styles, motifs, and materials used around the worldEmbroidery is one of the world's most widely shared... -
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany Francois-Marie Luzel 9780691252698
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $23.48Twenty-nine Breton tales, as told over a series of long winter nights, featuring an ingenious miller, a Jerusalem-bound ant, a mad dash at midnight, and moreIn the late nineteenth century, the... -
The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir Christopher Faulkner 9780691610986
SciFier: $57.67Reinterpreting twelve of Renoir's best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director's unified sensibility but to varying social and historical circumstances. ... -
The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir Christopher Faulkner 9780691639024
SciFier: $118.14Reinterpreting twelve of Renoir's best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director's unified sensibility but to varying social and historical circumstances. ... -
Neshat-isms Shirin Neshat (artist) 9780691254630
SciFier: $16.76A vivid and compelling collection of quotations from the influential contemporary artist and filmmaker Shirin NeshatNeshat-isms is an exciting collection of quotations from award-winning... -
Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943 Marcia Landy 9780691610900
SciFier: $94.51Through her study of the narrative themes and strategies of Italian commercial sound films of the fascist era, Marcia Landy shows that cultural life under fascism was not monopolized by official... -
The Notebooks by Jean-Michel Basquiat
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $38.63Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images... -
Film Essays and a Lecture Sergei Eisenstein 9780691614359
SciFier: $49.11Sergei Eisenstein's greatness lies not only in his films, such as Potemkin or Ivan the Terrible, or his contributions to the technique and art of the cinema but also in his contributions as a... -
Pharrell-isms by Pharrell Williams
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.94An essential, inspiring collection of quotations about creativity, social justice, and more from musician, producer, artist, and designer Pharrell WilliamsRising to global fame with his hit single... -
Mists of Regret by Dudley Andrew
RRP: $83.40SciFier: $71.63Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable actors like Jean Gabin and Arletty, directors such as... -
The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece Andrew James Hamilton 9780691256955
SciFier: $55.59The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its... -
Sketchbook by Daniel Arsham
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $36.65Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative mindSketchbook reproduces... -
Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat - Crossing Lines Dieter Buchhart 9781925432725
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $56.10An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s... -
Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema by Chih-p'ing Chou
RRP: $80.62SciFier: $67.35Most Chinese-language textbooks today cater to beginners and intermediate-level students, but virtually none address the unique needs of advanced students seeking to expand or reinforce their... -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers Sarah Iles Johnston 9780691239873
SciFier: $24.23An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency... -
Ulises Carrion: Bookworks and Beyond Sal Hamerman 9780691973890
SciFier: $50.08A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what the book could look like, mean, and doUlises Carrion (1941-1989) was one of... -
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images Sara Blair 9780691172224
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $44.77How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible... -
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images Sara Blair 9780691202877
RRP: $30.58SciFier: $29.52How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible... -
The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales by Professor Cristina Mazzoni
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $22.09A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most in English for the first timeThe Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and... -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers Sarah Iles Johnston 9780691199207
RRP: $51.43SciFier: $30.57An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency... -
Zombies and Calculus Colin Adams 9780691173207
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $23.14How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers,... -
Zombies and Calculus Colin Adams 9780691161907
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $24.23How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers,... -
British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960 Marcia Landy 9780691608839
SciFier: $150.11In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre... -
Keith Haring by Jeffrey Deitch
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $45.74A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line... -
The Ways of Zen by C. C. Tsai
SciFier: $26.40From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated collection of classic Zen Buddhist stories that enlighten as they entertainC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and... -
Turkish Kaleidoscope by Jenny White
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $23.14A powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey's descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflictTurkish Kaleidoscope tells the... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition Lewis Carroll 9780691170022
RRP: $30.58SciFier: $24.31Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge... -
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War Anton Kaes 9780691008509
SciFier: $35.82Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg Hal Foster 9780691202600
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $58.02How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how... -
Shot/Countershot by Lucy Fischer
RRP: $69.50SciFier: $67.35Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or... -
Totally Random by Tanya Bub
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $23.14An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanicsTotally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum... -
Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s Alexander Nemerov 9780691145785
SciFier: $38.31Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most... -
Hirst-isms Damien Hirst 9780691239859
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.76A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien HirstHirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated artist... -
The Japanese Film by Joseph L. Anderson
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $58.71Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.39A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil Heinrich Zimmer 9780691279480
SciFier: $26.37A classic book on comparative mythology by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerDrawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their...