Something strange has happened to the birds of Gotham City. Pigeons are causing traffic jams seagulls are making trouble at a nearby beach & ostriches have escaped from the zoo! The Penguin's fine feathered friends are distracting the DC Super Friends while he swoops in & plucks Gotham's biggest bank clean! Will Batman Superman & the other Super Friends get there in time? This fun & exciting story is perfect for children who are just learning to recognize words basic vocabulary & short sentences. ...

In Joker's Joyride follow the action as the Joker steals the Batmobile & leads the DC Super Friends on a wild ride through Gotham City! Then uncover the cool secrets of Batman's Batmobile Superman's Space Sled & all the other fantastic vehicles that the Super Friends use to bring in the bad guys. ...

Critically acclaimed pop-up engineer Matthew Reinhart celebrates the history heroes & villains of the DC Universe in this ultimate 3-D masterpiece! Bursting with over 25 impressive pop-ups this deluxe format features a variety of unique novelty elements-including a light-up Bat-Signal a cosmic Justice League of America battle scene a twirling Lasso of Truth & a transparent Invisible Jet! Starring Superman Batman Wonder Woman Green Lantern & many more favorite DC characters this momentous pop-up exploration releases just in time for DC Comics 75th anniversary. With vibrant illustrations exciting facts & an eye-catching design this is an absolute must-have for DC Super Hero fans of all ages! ...

As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics
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Hot on the heels of our incredibly successful The Marvel Vault" comes this companion volume detailing the history of DC Comics
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It was 2.47am when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn & saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse & clinically blasted him with a shotgun. Clearly this is a professional hit -- but Keith was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he? For the police investigation soon raises more questions than answers. & who exactly is Robert Calvert? The more Banks scratches the surface the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. & when his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard the case takes yet another unexpected twist.. .' The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative deeply nuanced works of art' Dennis Lehane ' Peter Robinson's cast of characters is vividly drawn. Well written.. .highly entertaining' Scotland on Sunday ...

One foggy night Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind St Mary's Eastvale. She has been strangled with the strap of her own school satchel. But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who moved in the highest echelons of industry defence & classified information. & Deborah it seemed enjoyed keeping secrets of her own.. . With his colleague Detective Constable Susan Gray Inspector Alan Banks moves among the many suspects guilty of crimes large & small. & as he does so plenty of sordid secrets & some deadly lies begin to emerge.. .' The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative deeply nuanced works of art' Dennis Lehane ...

This is a new edition of Robinson's acclaimed novel coinciding with a major new ITV adaptation. In the early hours of a cold January morning two narrow boats catch fire on the dead-end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When signs of accelerant are found at the scene DCI Banks & DI Annie Cabbot are summoned. But by the time they arrive only the smouldering wreckage is left & human remains have been found on both boats. The evidence points towards a deliberate attack. But who was the intended victim? Was it Tina the sixteen-year-old who had been living a drug-fuelled existence with her boyfriend? Or was it Tom the mysterious lonely artist? As Banks makes his enquiries it appears that a number of people are acting suspiciously: the interfering 'lock-keeper' Tina's cold-hearted step-father the wily local art dealer even Tina's boyfriend.. . Then the arsonist strikes again & Banks' powers of investigation are tested to the limit... ...

When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victims pocket scribbled on a slip of paper police discover Banks name & address. Living in Roys empty South Kensington house Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew nor even liked. & as he begins to uncover a few troubling surprises the two cases become sinisterly entwined.. . The Banks novels are simply put the best series now on the market STEPHEN KING ...

Thomas Szasz (1960) suggested that the myth of 'mental illness' functions to 'render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflict in human relations'. The medicalization of distress enables the mental health professions to manage the human suffering that they are confronted with & also the suspicion that there is little that they can do to help. But the medicalization of misery & madness renders people unable to comprehend their experiences in ordinary meaningful terms. In this collection we restore to everyday discourse a way of understanding distress that unlike contemporary psychiatry & psychology recognises & respects the essential humanness of the human condition. De-medicalizing Misery is a shorthand term for this project. The book resists the psychiatrization & psychologization of human experience & seeks to place what are essentially moral & political
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