From the author of the critically acclaimed England's Dreaming, a landmark cultural history of youth Teenagers—as we have come to define them—were not, award-winning author Jon Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories would begin. Rather, the teenager as icon can be traced back to the 1890s, when the foundations for the new ce...(展开全部)

In 1945, just as the war was ending, 'the teenager' arrived. This is the story of how we got to that moment - the century and a half of ferment, folly, and angst that created a separate Teen Age in Europe and America. Jon Savage goes back to 1875 (when the first bestselling teenage memoir appeared and the first teenage mass murderer was tried), and takes us all the way through ...(展开全部)

In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England's Dreaming , Jon Savage presented the "definitive history of the English punk movement" ( The New York Times ). Now, in Teenage , he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental work of cultural investigative reporting. Beginning in 1875 and ending in...(展开全部)

高校の入学式で凛太と継母のピンチをスマートに助けてくれた一学年上の梶。 凛太は瞬間、その人に恋をした。 それから一年、凛太は親しい後輩として梶のそばにいる。 けれど梶は、誰のものにもならない人気者。 彼の複雑な事情を教えられ、少し近づけた気がしたものの、やはり梶は掴みどころがない。 家にも梶の心の中にも自分の居場所が見つけられず、凛太はついに隠し続けてきた感情を爆発させ……?

Darren Shan has been made a half-vampire by Mr Crepsley, but the Cirque Du Freak holds more unpleasant surprises for the vampire's assistant. Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior and animal lo...(展开全部)

This is an introductory text in astronautics. It contains historical background and a discussion of space missions, space environment, orbits, atmospheric entry, spacecraft design, spacecraft subsyste

'The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that Doreen Massey manages to describe a certain way of perceiving movement in space which I have been - and still am - working with on different levels in my work: i.e. the idea that space is not something static and neutral, a frozen entity, but is something intertwined with time and thus ever changing - also when we are not occu...(展开全部)

'The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that Doreen Massey manages to describe a certain way of perceiving movement in space which I have been - and still am - working with on different levels in my work: i.e. the idea that space is not something static and neutral, a frozen entity, but is something intertwined with time and thus ever changing - also when we are not occu...(展开全部)