Best Selling Books by J. Torres

The Titans try in vain to teach the ill-tempered Hot Spot anger management! Cyborg makes a containment suit that keeps Hot Spot''s temperature and temper in check. But when a villain strikes, Hot Spot is completely useless.

Cyborg seems down in the dumps after fans still consider him ''freaky'' and ''scary'' despite his heroism. However, thing might start looking up for the cybernetic hero when he meets Sarah!

Nightwing returns from the future to warn the Teen Titans of an evil that could destroy them, but is that evil Robin himself?

Arkham Asylum prison break! Batman is out of town, so it''s up to Batgirl and Robin to clean up the mess. But with Killer Croc, Clayface, and Man-Bat on the loose, our two favorite sidekicks need the help of Batman--by thinking more like him--"What Would Batman Do?" part 1 of 2.

Mr. Freeze bids farewell to Gotham City via a permanent deep freeze. Both Batman and Bruce Wayne must determine Freeze''s motives in order to stop him from icing all of downtown Gotham!

Mad Mod returns to offer the Teen Titans fame and fortune. Will their new superstar status distract the Titans from finishing off MM once and for all?

The Doom Patrol makes its debut in the pages of TEEN TITANS GO, as we learn some secret details of Beast Boy''s life before he joined the Titans.

Raven''s going to pieces! Her multicolored Emoticlones have broken free and are on the run. How will the Teen Titans get all of them back together?

Beast Boy stumbles on an ancient spell book in Raven''s room. When his snooping goes too far, how can he get rid of the horrible creature he''s unleashed from pages of the book? Meanwhile, one of Robin''s training exercises goes awry when he comes face to face with Slade!

ÒMARS.Ó With the Man of Steel a thousand years away, Brainiac 5 takes the time to complete his records of SupermanÕs time with the Legion, including a never-before-seen adventure on Mars. One of SupermanÕs future allies has a legacy at stakeÑcan the Legion help Superman set it right?

The team has expanded, there are Titans East, West, North and South with even more new recruits being trained...but when the Hive 5 resurfaces, only Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven can take them down.

During the war between the Amazons and the U.S., Sarge Steel was abducted, and Nemesis is determined to find his missing boss! But with Wonder Woman still reeling from the battle, will she have time to rescue Diana Prince''s commander?

The Teen Titans battle a slew of new female villains--Marionette, Joy Stick, Pink X and Mad Maud--all modeled after some of their deadliest villains. Can Robin and the gang discover the secret behind them?

Introducing Geo-Force! He''s Terra''s big brother and he looks like big trouble--especially when he thinks the Teen Titans are the enemy.

The Teen Titans thought they were the only team in town...so who are all these new teen superheroes popping up all over Jump City?

The Teen Titans are going on a ÒPicnicÓ! Well-everyone but Raven, who doesnÕt quite understand the invitation/riddle and is about to explode from frustration.

Batgirl and Robin have to channel Batman''s detective skills in order to catch Clayface and Man-Bat, who are still on the loose‹but how do you follow in the footsteps of The Dark Crusader, who''s always two steps ahead of everyone‹--What Would Batman Do?'' part 2 of 2.

True Patriot, the anthology of Canadian superheroes, returns as an ongoing bi-monthly series! In the premiere issue, Jay Stephens (Jetcat) continues the amazing adventures of Arrowhead. Fred Kennedy (Fourth Planet) and Rob Armstrong (Redhill Billy) give us the origin of Gull Girl. Plus, J. Bone (Rocketeer) and J. Torres (The Mighty Zodiac) tag team a True Patriot team-up featuring Grey Owl and Tundra from the Family Dynamic.

Illustrated by Eric Kim Spinner makes a pact with God: he promises to be a good boy and never cheat on Darcy again if God brings them back together. But as he finds himself surrounded by temptation, Spinner struggles to define cheating. Eventually, Spinner decides that seeing Darcy will set him straight, so he plans a trip to the bible camp. When his car breaks down, he reluctantly relies on Jay to get him there. Liberty spends most of the summer melancholy and moping about. Her family is concerned that she may be going through post-adoption postpartum depression. They even suspect she may be planning to run away to Seattle to see the baby. However, we eventually discover that on top of coming to grips with the adoption, shes also still carrying a torch for J.T.

Terry Highland isn''t like other kids. Or is she? Sure, Terry is the daughter of an ex-superhero sidekick and, yeah, she has powers of her own, too, but when you''re a new student at a school like Shuster Academy that''s hardly out of the ordinary! Terry has a pyromaniac firestarter in homeroom, a werewolf in Geometry, killer robots in gym—and that''s just before lunch! Sounds like a superteen''s dream come true, doesn''t it? There''s just one catch: In order to make the grade at this school, you can''t use your powers. So when three new vigilantes burst on to the scene calling themselves “Biff,” “Bam,” and “Pow,” it has the whole student body buzzing and the administration on the lookout for the kids that would dare to break the Academy''s most essential rule. Can Terry and her friends solve the mystery without getting caught in the middle? SIDEKICKS turns the superhero genre on its head, following powered kids who would rather start food fights than fist fights and are more worried about what to do on a Friday night than the next contrived evil plot.

The book traces Manny''s elaborate career of deviance: from his early experiences with gang life, to encounters with gambling, experiences in New York City, with Synanon and finally with the California Department of Corrections. The book provides descriptions that illustrate many key issues touched by the more abstract concepts of formalized theories of criminal behavior.

Hollywood in the 1950s is a place of big glamour, small talk, and medium cool. The studios control everything, managing their actors'' careers and massaging the image they present to the public. To do this, they need the press onboard, and the one aspect they can''t control—gossip! This means the most powerful woman in Hollywood is Paige Turner, the celebrity columnist for one of America''s most-read papers. Known for her outrageous headgear, Paige is often called “The Mad Hatter”—a nickname with a double meaning, since everyone wants to be invited to her publicity party. When a more salacious tabloid mentality creeps into the newsstands, though, Paige sees some of her ground being threatened. And the studios see a roguish new element that might not want to play ball. At the top of this salacious new art form is Harry Richards, “The Tabloid Dick,” the guy with the snooping peepers who keeps getting the scoop. What begins as a war of words ends up being a knock-down, drag-out fight for the number one slot as the biggest rumor monger in entertainment!

Joel hates Korea. Why he agreed to teach there defies his comprehension. He can''t wait to return to normal life. His year of teaching is almost over and then he''ll finally be free. But Joel''s life is about to go from dark dreams to cotton candy kisses and it''s all because of Hana. The very sight of this girl sends him flying straight to cloud nine, but won''t another year in Korea send him crashing back down?

Jason''s daring rescue of his hometown, Shimmer City, has made him a hero and local celebrity. But while the press may be enamored with Jason and his giant robot, Jason''s little sister Juni and their grandpa are decidedly unimpressed. Jason doesn''t have time to bask in his newfound fame and glory, though. A mysterious beam of light is closing in on the Shimmer City Museum and similar columns of energy are appearing in other locations all over the world. It''s up to Jason and his cybernetic pal, Chiron, to discover the shocking truth about these weird rays and their connection to visitors from another world.

Bring on The Batman! When night falls, the caped crusader comes out to fight crime in Gotham City. Join Batman as he rounds up the city''s worst criminals in this book with thirty-two pages of crime-fighting activities and coloring pages. And, best, of all, the book comes with a tube of glow-in-the-dark paint!

Using extensive practical examples, the Practitioner''s Handbook for User Interface Design and Development illuminates today''s best practices for user interface design, usability, and user-centered development. Robert J. Torres introduces user interfaces from three points of view: the user, the developer, and the system. Next, he introduces a complete user-centered UI development process, beginning at the highest level and then drilling down to each phase of the lifecycle. For every stage, Torres offers clear principles, specific guidelines, and practical heuristics for self-assessment.

Alison Dare is back in this new collection of stories! Thrill as Alison and her boarding school friends journey into the "Heart of the Maiden!" Shriek with girlish glee at the adventures of the costumed avenger The Blue Scarab! And laugh and learn as world renowned archaeologist Dr. Alice Dare teaches a thing or two about museum mayhem! All of your favorite adventurers are here in tales by the dynamic duo of J. Torres & J. Bone!

"By drawing on local productive histories, producers throughout the European Union (EU) and in parts of the United States have banded together and come up with unique and creative strategies for distinguishing their products in a market-place which is dominated by standardized and homogenized food products. One of these strategies, place-based labeling draws on the uniqueness of products that can only be produced in a certain geographical area, and only under certain conditions..."--Introd. p. 2.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they''ve traded in their playhouse for sun hats and desert boots. Explorers Chirp, Squawk, and Tweet get into trouble as they cross the hottest desert on the planet. Not

Phase Transitions in Grey Matter: Brain Architecture and Mind Dynamics relates the complex systems that we know as ''mind'' and ''brain'' to simple concepts in physics such as ''phase transition'' and ''criticality'' and establishes a close mathematical link between them. A serious review of live issues in science--from interaction and correlation to emergence, scale invariance, attractors, noise and chaos--this book demonstrates their relevance to intelligence and consciousness.

Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother - a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town in the Philippine countryside. The same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse''s heard about. Man-eating ogres in trees. Farmhouses haunted by wraiths. Even pigs possessed by the devil. Upon his grandmother''s passing, Jesse has more and more supernatural experiences leading him to believe that he''s cursed. But he has no choice but to face his demons and whatever else might be awaiting him at grandma''s house.