The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. & from this safe distance the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people & too few resources & they need twelve billion to die before Earth can be stabilised. So corruption is rife people starve & the poor are policed by mechanised overseers & identity-reader guns. Citizens already fear the brutal Inspectorate with its pain inducers. But to reach its goals the Committee will unleash satellite laser weaponry taking carnage to a new level. This is the world Alan Saul wakes to travelling in a crate destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesn't know but he remembers pain & his tormentor's face. He also has company: Janus a rogue intelligence inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope he resolves to annihilate the Committee & their regime. Once he's discovered who he was & killed his interrogator.. .' Full-tilt action sequences.. . Delivers plenty of thrills' SFX ' Fast dramatic stuff.. .definitely not one for the faint hearted' SFFWorld.com 'I had an absolute blast with this book.. .his work really does get better & better' Falcata Times blog ...

Written with the bands co-operation Steve Malins biography throws light on this private frequently misunderstood group & their lives which have been bizarre hilarious extreme & destructive through three decades of success & excessive celebration. Now fully updated & expanded this new edition will coincide with the release of the bands 13th album in 2013. ...

Depeche Mode are one of the UK's most popular global bands a multi-million selling phenomenon
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This Gripping Legal Thriller Is a Perfect Summer Read When Jared Neaton grew tired of the shady ethics of his big law firm andleft to go out on his own he never expected the wheels to fly off soquickly. One big case collapsing on him has pushed him to the brink & it's allhe can do to scrape by. He can't risk another bad loss. Erin Larson is running out of options. In the wake of her father's death shefound a slim piece of paper--a deposit slip--with an unbelievable amounton it. Ten million dollars. Only the bank claims it has no record of the depositand stonewalls her attempts to find out more. This lawsuit her last chance has brought only intimidation & threats. Now she needs to convince Jaredto take a risk to help her because the money is real. & both need to watchtheir backs as digging deeper unleashes something far more dangerous thanjust threats. ...

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience & which enables us to take charge of our life & change it. Dorothy Rowe shows us that depression is not an illness or a mental disorder but a defence against pain & fear which we can use whenever we suffer a disaster & discover that our life is not what we thought it was. Depression is an unwanted consequence of how we see ourselves & the world. By understanding how we have interpreted events in our life we can choose to change our interpretations & thus create for ourselves a happier more fulfilling life. Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison is for depressed people their family & friends & for all professionals & non-professionals who work with depressed people. ...

Based on extensive research this text contains interactive exercises that provide guidance on essential coping skills & help readers make real changes in their lives. This second edition

Includes:: updated Internet resources expanded material on treatment strategies a revised listing of mental health professionals & features a new step-by-step strategy for developing a plan to manage symptoms & stay well.

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This book has helped many thousands of those who have depression. This new edition written by a leading consultant psychiatrist explains that depression tests the strongest of us. Dr Cantopher guides the reader through the nature of depression its history symptoms causes & treatments. He covers the latest information on medications new guidelines as to the management of depression & stresses that no one should be to blame for succumbing to depression. ...

A vigorous immune system is vital to good health both physical & mental. Chronic fatigue endless colds & symptoms of allergy are just some all too common manifestations of a weakened immune system while there is increasing awareness of outright autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis lupus & Sjogrens syndrome. The good news is that there are many ways in which we can strengthen our immune systems. This book looks at: how your immune system works & what can hamper it such as poor diet lack of sleep or exercise stress or depression; warning signs of a weakened immune system; treatments; building & maintaining a strong immune system
- the self-defence plan; nutrition; your attitude & outlook; exercise & skin-brushing; getting enough sleep; & alternative treatments
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Winnicott was a healer with the qualities of a parent a magician a teacher a poet & a friend. The editors of this book have done a great service in collecting & arranging papers dating from the experiences of the evacuation in the Second World War up to some of Winnicotts continued explorations of his own philosophy"
- The British Medical Journal D. W. Winnicott was one of the giants of child psychiatry & psychoanalysis. He argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children their development & their needs. Deprivation & Delinquency is an invaluable collection of his work on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour or more chronically delinquency & childhood experiences of deprivation. Winnicott examines children under stress the nature & origin of antisocial tendency & the practical management of difficult children -- issues which have once again exploded onto the social agenda."
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At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay intended victim of the snowball who fatefully ducks; his lifelong friend & enemy Percy Boyd Staunton angered by their recent quarrel who hurls the snowball; & Paul Dempster prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percys icy missile. Tracing the rich & varied lives of these three individuals The Deptford Trilogy" lures the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth history & magic in one of the most beguiling clever & cunning trilogies ever written." ...