A collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier fanzine of the same title, photographed by leading Japanese street photographer Shoich Aoki. It comprises 45 portraits of young Tokyo-based teenagers and represents a single documentation of the changing face of street fashion.

An easy-to-understand introduction to the complexities of today's and tomorrow's physics. The author assess what is and what is not actually possible according to the laws of physics, among all the weird and wonderful things that Kirk, Spock and Scottie got up to in their parallel universe.

Science fiction is used to explore moral and ethical issues, here the author explores episodes of STAR TREK, THE NEXT GENERATION, VOYAGER and DEEP SPACE NINE in an attempt to unravel the philosophical questions they raise. Hanley offers an original view of the successful STAR TREK series.

This wickedly funny book sees Queenan back in the movie theatre, heckling the stars, directors, producers - and audiences - that define today's film industry.

Five hundred years in the future, Captain Mal Reynolds and the crew of the transport-for-hire ship Serenity take on two new passengers and soon find themselves in a crossfire between an invincible military force and cannibalistic savages.

Jones chronicles how the success of comics provoked a backlash that nearly destroyed the industry in the 1950's - and how later they surged back, inspiring a new generation to transmute pre-war fantasies into art, literature, blockbuster movies and graphic novels.

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century.

Tyler Johnson is a 20-year-old MTV child. Once a baby raised in a hippie commune, he is now an ambitious Reagan youth dreaming of a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.

A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.

The history of sexually manipulative women from biblical times to today.

Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'.

The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him.

Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers - newly legion - have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. Thi stitle collects issues numbered 1-5.

From the world's most controversial rock star comes his shocking, confessional, and revealing life story. Marilyn Manson will tour Europe in June and July 1998, and media attention surrounding the book is escalating, with serialisation rights in negotiation with a major music magazine.

Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? This title explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, and the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents.

The first in the fantastically successful Harry Potter series

In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created - in the illustrated pages of comic books. It was however beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress. This book retells events from those years.

Combining historical analysis with far-reaching contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a modern America at odds with its heritage of Enlightenment reason and with 21st century knowledge and science. With mordant wit, the author offers an unsparing indictment of the ways in which 'dumbness' and 'junk thought' have permeated throughout American society - both on the political right and the