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The Agony of the Ghost by Hasan Azizul Huq
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $29.23Hasan Azizul Huq is known for his stories that bring a powerful social consciousness to bear on the lives of ordinary people in contemporary Bangladesh--but doing so with surprising twists to what we... -
Lengtonghoih by Mercy Vungthianmuang Guite
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $19.97Richly illustrated in color, this book brings a charming folktale from Northeast India to a global audience. A beautiful young girl named Lengtonghoih, dearly loved by her seven brothers, is abducted... -
Giving Offence Martin Rowson 9781906497019
RRP: $31.80SciFier: $28.32Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years-and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer - visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since... -
Ulysses by Nicolas Mahler
RRP: $38.14SciFier: $35.89A twist on the Irish literary classic Ulysses, told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Dublin, 16 June 1904: through a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold... -
Montage by Mrinal Sen
RRP: $42.40SciFier: $37.91One of the greatest ambassadors of Indian cinema on the global stage, Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. Considered the enfant... -
Alice in Sussex by Nicolas Mahler
RRP: $38.14SciFier: $34.41A twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Alice is back in Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her... -
In Search of Lost Time by Nicolas Mahler
RRP: $38.14SciFier: $34.41A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important... -
On the Detective Story by Sergei Eisenstein
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $31.12Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting... -
The Short-Fiction Scenario by Sergei Eisenstein
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $30.21Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting... -
Tales of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: $33.92SciFier: $30.99From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics, and thought. Through the dramatic events of the first half of the... -
Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
RRP: $23.30SciFier: $21.20Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes... -
The Waste Land by Martin Rowson
RRP: $36.04SciFier: $24.95In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"... -
Banker for All Seasons by Tariq Ali
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $25.78During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank..... -
On Disney by Sergei Eisenstein
SciFier: $43.08Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting... -
Partitioning Bazaar Art - Popular Visual Culture of India and Pakistan around 1947 by Yousuf Saeed
SciFier: $21.88Offers insight into the links between the development of print culture and the many dynamic strains of nationalism in dialogue during the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. How did... -
The World Machine by Paolo Volponi
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $37.08A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a... -
General Firebrand and His Red Atlas by Tathagata Bhattacharya
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $36.74A fast-paced and action-packed dystopian novel, addressing the nature of power, the limits of rationality, and the dominance of fear. In a world on the brink of totalitarian rule, one man rises from... -
Bondhu by Kunal Sen
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $32.69A behind-the-scenes look at the life of filmmaker Mrinal Sen through the eyes of his son Kunal, who grew up immersed in the world of Indian cinema. "No one remembers when and why I started calling my... -
24 Hours with Gaspar by Sabda Armandio
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $36.17A breathtakingly imaginative futuristic crime thriller. Decades into the future, Indonesia's crowded capital city is underwater. A mysterious novelist searches what remains of the metropolis for... -
Dog Star Nabarun Bhattacharya 9781803095493
RRP: $44.52SciFier: $32.20Set in the underbelly of Calcutta, a story that reimagines a city's relationship with its abandoned animals, interlacing dark humor and political critique into a fable of resistance. A city on edge... -
The Absence Trilogy by Mrinal Sen
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $35.81An insightful presentation of Indian film scripts that explore alienation and loss in middle-class life. Renowned Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen, celebrated for his pioneering contributions to parallel... -
Beggar's Bedlam by Nabarun Bhattacharya
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $32.46A hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India.Beggar's Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent... -
Gold Sand, Gold Water Nalini Bera 9781803095912
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $36.65A river that once carried gold now bears the weight of memory and the struggles of those who call its banks home. The Subarnarekha River shimmers with legend; once said to carry flecks of gold, it... -
Satyajit Ray: A Film Shyam Benegal 9781803095400
RRP: $50.88SciFier: $35.81A fascinating exchange between two giants of Indian cinema, revealing the inner workings of Satyajit Ray's creative process and the vision that shaped world cinema. Two of Indian cinema's most... -
Herbert by Nabarun Bhattacharya
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $29.23May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is uncertain about their next move, and communism is... -
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand Benedict Anderson 9780857424020
RRP: $27.56SciFier: $25.10In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a...