Francis Ford Coppola directs this fantasy drama set in pre-WWII Europe, about a professor who suffers a life-changing experience. When seventy-year-old academic Dominic (Tim Roth) is struck by lightning, his ageing process is thrown into reverse, rejuvenating his intellect & bestowing him with previously unknown mental powers. Now, finally able to conclude his studies into language & consciousness, he becomes the target of a host of foreign powers, all eager to learn the secrets the professor has acquired. ...

Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, & history
- a man who thought his life was over
- lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive & miraculously healthy.

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What does it mean to practice youth work ethically? How does ethical theory relate to the youth work profession? What are the moral dilemmas confronting youth workers today, & how should practitioners respond? This definitive text on youth work ethics examines these questions. ...

Provides an overview of youth crime & youth policy developments in the UK. This work features an analysis of the processes of criminalization & contemporary patterns of youth crime, & seeks to develop a formulation of youth justice for the future. It provides an assessment of contemporary evaluative research. ...

Explores the relationships between the electronic dance scene & drug use for young ravers & clubbers. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ's & promoters, this title also explores the accomplishment of gender, sexuality & Asian American ethnicity & the negotiation of risk & pleasure within these scenes. ...

Discusses how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual & social identities. This book looks at the emergence of genres & forms, from SMS & instant messaging to home pages, blogs, & social networking sites. ...

Offering an exploration of the origins & development of Chicano radicalism in America, this title places the movement in the wider context of the political development of Mexicans & their descendants in the US. It also situates the student protests of the 1960s within the changing political scene of the time. ...