21st Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1

Author: Naoki Urasawa
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421599724
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. The war is over. The Friend is dead. Finally free from the threat of extinction, peace has come to the people of Tokyo once again. But the mystery surrounding the Friend still remains. Nobody knows who the Friend was or where they came from, and the only clue is hidden deep in the Kenji’s memories. The time has come to open Pandora’s box and see what lies inside.

21st Century Boys

Author: Sue Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409103387
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Examines boys' development from birth to adolescence and the impact of modern life. Discusses how we can help the next generation of young men grow up balanced, happy and able to contribute to society.

20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 6

Author: Naoki Urasawa
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421599663
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. “My father is the Friend?” Kanna asks as she confronts the grim truth. With a heart full of despair, it will take everything for Kanna to continue the fight against the Friends. Meanwhile, Koizumi and Sadakiyo manage to escape the pursuit of the Dream Navigators, but not for long. Can Kanna, caught in an emotional struggle between her fate and the future of the Earth, step forward and head to the rescue of Koizumi? As our heroes continue their fight against the Friends, longtime secrets are revealed and more of Kenji’s friends reunite. The war against the Friends has reached yet another crescendo…

Raising Boys

Author: Steve Biddulph
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 158761328X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
"A guide to the stages and issues in boys' development from birth to manhood"--Provided by publisher.

Boys Becoming Men

Author: Lowell Sheppard
Publisher: Authentic
ISBN: 9781850784739
Category : Rites and ceremonies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The paper in this volume are organized in three parts: scriptural, contextual and theological. The central question being addressed is: how do Christians living in contexts, where Islam is a majority or minority religion, experience, express or think of the Cross? This is, therefore, an exercise in listening. As the contexts from where these engagements arise are varied, the papers in drawing scriptural, contextual and theological reflections offer a cross-section of Christian thinking about Jesus and the Cross.

Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Author: Katsuyuki Hidaka
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113498877X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
Hailed by Japanese critics as a milestone in the study of contemporary Japanese media, this book explores the contemporary ‘boom’ in Japanese media representations of the recent past. Recent years have seen the production of an unprecedented number of films, animation, manga, and television programmes representing a deeply nostalgic longing for the Japanese heyday of high economic growth in the 1960s and occasionally the 1970s known in Japan as the Shōwa ‘30s and ‘40s. Hidaka provides a comprehensive account of an under researched contemporary Japanese media phenomenon by exploring why this nostalgia has been sparked at this particular historical juncture and how that period is represented in the Japanese media today. The book accomplishes this through a detailed textual and narrative analysis of representative films and television programmes, in relation to their social and cultural context. While these nostalgic media renderings are seen by many critics as innocuous, this study demonstrates that they do not show a simple yearning for the period, but reflects a growing discontent with Japanese post-war society. In this regard, this book concludes that the current nostalgia wave is a critical reaction to the recent past as it seeks to revise historiography through a processes of introspection within popular conceptions of the meta narrative of ‘nostalgia’. Winner of the Japan Communication Association 2015 Outstanding Book Award.

21st Century America

Author: John E. Karlin
Publisher: White Owl Books
ISBN: 9780967667201
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
With an eye on the new millennium, the author assesses American life in the last five years of the 20th century. 21st Century America is a powerful book for a powerful and challenging new millennium. It is an invitation to an excitement of thoughts and ideas followed by a rush of desire to question and act. Moving, unsettling, energizing the reader will never be quiet the same again. For the first time, here is a book with real, attainable, and desirable answers to many of today's problems and concerns. 21st Century America honestly and piercingly examines two of the most important relationships among our major social institutions today: the relationship between capitalism and representative government and the relationship between capitalism and religion. The author argues the need of a moral framework in political and economic action.This book raises issues of life and living, of humanity and what it means to be human in the context of American society at the turn of a new millennium. 21st Century America is a well-written, well-researched, readable work that does not read like a textbook and is formatted and written in a smooth journalistic style. A book written for avid readers, college-educated or not, 21st Century America is presented with meaningful data and heavily laced with concrete, familiar examples from everyday American life. The author does not give you a segmented, disassociated single item meal of Chapter One, mush, Chapter Two, fried mush, Chapter Three, mush with butter and syrup and so on. Instead, he gives you a delightful buffet, a veritable smorgasbord of issues and ideas that are absolutely palatable and refreshing! This book presents interesting, unique, andfascinating insights into what would appear to be many disparate, disjointed, and puzzling aspects of life today. It is a serious book laced with enough humor and variety to get you through it and to the realization that you have just possibly read the most important book of your life.

21st Century Jet

Author: Karl Sabbagh
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
The first large passenger jet designed completely by computer, the 777 is more complex and innovative than any other airliner ever built. Sabbagh has been granted virtually unlimited access to the creation of the 777, resulting in a great business story and a clear explanation of the scientific and engineering principles behind jet flight. Published in conjunction with a PBS series airing in January. 16-page photo insert. Illustrations.

Raising Kids in the 21st Century

Author: Sharon K. Hall
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781405158060
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
An easy-to-read guide on raising emotionally healthy children that is based on sound psychological research. The book’s format makes it a good choice for students, parents, or practitioners. Focuses on seven key areas of child development in raising psychologically healthy children Paints an overall picture of the skills children need to become functioning adults through translating the latest scientific research into workable guidelines Explores how early cognitive and social development is linked to universal issues of tolerance, sexism, and racism Written in a language suitable for the student or general reader A useful resource for clinicians to share with families under their care

The 21st-century Brain

Author: Steven Peter Russell Rose
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This is a compelling and authoritative study of the brain - its past, present and future. The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. How it works, the relationship between mind and brain, is one of the most important of scientific questions. Researchers now claim to be able to explain the roots of human personality and behaviour and this new knowledge brings potential new powers; to cure mental illnesses, to control behaviour through tailor-made drugs, to develop human-machine hybrids. But just how seriously should we take these new threats and promises? In order to tackle these issues Steven Rose explores the evolutionary route by which brains emerged, from the origin of life to today's complex societies. He also investigates how brains develop from a single fertilised egg to the incredibly complex organ that each human possesses. Against this background he asks the challenging question: what does the future hold for the human brain?