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The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803261549
RRP: £16.50SciFier: £15.09One of the most popular and influential science fiction tales of all time, The Land That Time Forgot was first published in book form in 1924. Set on the lost island of Caspak in the South Pacific,... -
Celluloid Indians by Neva Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about "that old... -
That's All Folks? by Robin L. Murray
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £33.75Although some credit the environmental movement of the 1970s, with its profound impact on children's television programs and movies, for paving the way for later eco-films, the history of... -
World of Viruses by Judy Diamond
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.67We live in a world of viruses, biological entities to be confronted not by superheroes in capes but by scientists and informed citizens during their everyday lives. From the bustle of the airport to... -
Iwein by Hartmann von Aue
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Few stories were as widely known during the Middle Ages as the account of Iwein and Laudine, which appeared in French, Welsh, English, Norse, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and two German variants. The... -
Salish Myths and Legends by M. Terry Thompson
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16The rich storytelling traditions of Salish-speaking peoples in the Pacific Northwest of North America are showcased in this anthology of story, legend, song, and oratory. From the Bitterroot... -
Cinema in an Age of Terror by Michael F. O'Riley
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59Cinema in an Age of Terror looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial... -
Smoke Signals by Joanna Hearne
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Smoke Signals is a historical milestone in Native American filmmaking. Released in 1998 and based on a short-story collection by Sherman Alexie, it was the first wide-release feature film written,... -
The End of the Dream by Philip Wylie
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.19In The End of the Dream, venerated science-fiction author Philip Wylie trains his sights on the ultimate catastrophe-the destruction of the world through human beings' unheeding and willful poisoning... -
Yoruba Trickster Tales by Oyekan Owomoyela
SciFier: £29.79Yoruba Trickster Tales come out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. A favorite genre among these folktales is the trickster... -
Northern Tales by Howard Norman
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £16.29With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and retold during months-long winter nights, Northern Tales gathers together a rich... -
The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults by C. L. R. James
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £10.39After more than a decade in the United States, the Caribbean writer C. L. R. James ran afoul of McCarthyism in 1953 and was deported. In exile in London, he began to write stories in the form of... -
The Chase of the Golden Meteor by Jules Verne
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45The discovery of a falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the master of science fiction, Jules Verne. An asteroid wanders into the earth's... -
The Queen's Mirror by Shawn C. Jarvis
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £25.68This exciting and comprehensive anthology-the first anthology of German women's fairy tales in English-presents a variety of published and archival fairy tales from 1780 to 1900. These authors of... -
American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940 by Marin F. Hanson
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £61.74Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, "Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than... -
The Meteor Hunt by Jules Verne
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £12.89The Meteor Hunt marks the first English translation from Jules Verne's own text of his delightfully satirical and visionary novel. While other, questionable versions of the novel have... -
Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground Randolph Lewis 9780803238411
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one of the earliest and most controversial works of Native cinema. It is a documentary by Los Angeles filmmaker Arlene Bowman, who travels to the Navajo... -
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz by Jules Verne
SciFier: £13.99Widely rumored to exist, then circulated in a corrupt form, Jules Verne's final and arguably most daring and hauntingly beautiful novel-his own "invisible man"-appears here for the first time in a... -
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film Michelle H. Raheja 9780803211261
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £34.45In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous... -
The Cinema's Third Machine by Sabine Hake
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £40.78The improvements in the technology, artistry, and distribution of motion pictures coincided with the traumas of modern Germany. It is hardly to be wondered that filmmakers frequently turned their... -
Screening Integration by Sylvie Durmelat
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.75North African immigrants, once confined to France's social and cultural margins, have become a strong presence in France's national life. Similarly, descendants of immigrants from Morocco, Algeria,... -
Koasati Traditional Narratives by Geoffrey D. Kimball
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £43.93Koasati Traditional Narratives is the first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley... -
Magellania by Jules Verne
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.09Magellania-the region around the Strait of Magellan-is the home of Kaw-djer, a mysterious man of Western origin whom the indigenous people consider a demigod. A man whose motto is "Neither God nor... -
Carnival of Contagion by Judy Diamond
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60Measles is a highly contagious, serious disease caused by a virus. Spread by physical contact or through the air, it is a leading cause of death globally among young children. Carnival of Contagion,... -
The Front by Journey Herbeck
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.39For one family living on the very western edge of the Great Plains, life runs parallel to the forces that had always endangered its existence. There was a price to obtain this parallel life, of... -
Mosquitoes SUCK! by Katherine Richardson Bruna
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60Using a science comic format to engage readers of all ages, Mosquitoes SUCK! conveys essential information about mosquito biology, ecology, and disease transmission needed for community-based control... -
Contemporary Comics Storytelling by Karin Kukkonen
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £36.91What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York City? What if a superhero knew he was a fictional character? What if you could dispense your own justice with one hundred untraceable bullets? These... -
America's Digital Army: Games at Work and War Robertson Allen 9781496201911
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military... -
America's Digital Army: Games at Work and War Robertson Allen 9780803285293
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £43.23America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military... -
C'RONA Pandemic Comics by Bob Hall
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60C'RONA Pandemic Comics is a collection of short comics and essays developed to help youth understand the complexities of living through a viral pandemic. Each focuses on a different theme: the... -
Memories from the Jungle by Tristan Garcia
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Memories from the Jungle is set in an unspecified future in which Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and war. Most humans live in orbital stations surrounding the globe, while only... -
Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds Sara Humphreys 9781496224217
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys's Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so... -
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre Christopher Conway 9781496231642
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.462023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture One of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few... -
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre Christopher Conway 9781496218995
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £65.082023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture One of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few... -
Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds Sara Humphreys 9780803268470
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £65.08At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys's Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so... -
Who Would You Kill to Save the World? by Claire Colebrook
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Who Would You Kill to Save the World? examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world-and who is left out of the narrative of... -
The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics Matthew Levay 9781496237620
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £25.19The New Old Style explores how the deliberate use of cartooning styles that mimic those of the early twentieth century has paradoxically become one of the most significant vehicles for formal... -
Omega by Camille Flammarion
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £13.29Omega, written by astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), is no less than an epic history of our future-a startling and unforgettable vision of the end of the world. Reasoned scientific... -
Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 Hugo Gernsback 9780803270985
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.29By the year 2660, science has transformed and conquered the world, rescuing humanity from itself. Spectacular inventions from the farthest reaches of space and deep beneath the earth are available to... -
Before Adam Jack London 9780803279933
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.09A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of...