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  • A COLOR ROSE!
    CHERONNE ROMY ROBERTS
    The poetry collection titled A Color Rose! takes the reader on an emotional journey of self-discovery and self-worth. The first poem, "A Color Rose" tells the story of the fictitious character Rose, a girl of color who was assaulted by white policemen during the apartheid regime. It explores diverse issues that are not socially acceptable for discussion. The darkest chapter, "W...

    $178.00

  • MARY RUSSELL MITFORD: THE TRAGEDY OF A BLUE STOCKING
    WILLIAM JAMES ROBERTS
    This is a fascinating biography of Mary Russell Mitford, a prolific writer and prominent figure in British literary circles during the 19th century. Roberts explores the complex social and cultural forces that shaped Mitford's life and work, including her gender, class, and status as a 'blue stocking.' The book provides a rich portrait of Mitford's world and is an engaging and ...

    $39.70

  • UN SOLDAT VA AU PARADIS
    JOHN ROBERTS
    Description pour l’éditeur Caleb Carson se réveille avec le visage accueillant de Maria, qui est au ciel depuis que la Nouvelle Jérusalem est arrivée sur Terre trois cents ans auparavant. Il est d'abord très confus et surpris d'être là. Après quelques jours de rencontre avec les habitants du village voisin, il décide de partir à la recherche de ses parents. Avant qu'il ne parte...

    $138.00

  • POSTHUMAN BUDDHISM AND THE DIGITAL SELF
    LES ROBERTS
    In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousness and the phenomenology of self. Across the book’s four main chapters – which range from David Bowie’s long-standing interest in Buddhism, to street photography of 1980s Liverpool, to the ambient soundscapes of Derek Jarman’s Blue, o...

    $1,099.00

  • PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE CRIMINAL PROCESS
    ANDREW ROBERTS, JOE PURSHOUSE, AND JASON BOSLAND
    This collection considers the implications for privacy of the utilisation of new technologies in the criminal process. In most modern liberal democratic states, privacy is considered a basic right. Many national constitutions, and almost all international human rights instruments, include some guarantee of privacy. Yet privacy interests appear to have had relatively little infl...

    $1,099.00

  • DOING YOUR EARLY YEARS RESEARCH PROJECT
    GUY ROBERTS-HOLMES / RACHAEL LEVY / SINEAD HARMEY
    This best-selling guide to undertaking your Early Years research project takes you on a practical step-by-step journey. Breaking down each section into accessible and digestible topics, and accompanied by a multitude of practical examples, case studies, research summaries and key points, the author brings this process to life.The updated and revised edition includes:All chapter...

    $530.08

  • CRITICAL ISSUES IN FOOTBALL
    WILL ROBERTS
    Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping us to better understand the world’s favourite sport. This book sheds critical new light on key issues in contemporary football, with each chapter using a different theoretical lens, drawing on the work of key thinkers from Elias ...

    $1,099.00

  • TRANSPORT RECALLED: NORTH AND MID-WALES
    MARTIN JENKINS / CHARLES ROBERTS
    This book takes readers on a spectacular journey across North and Mid-Wales in the thirty-year period from the mid-1950s onwards. In full color, it features scenic railway main lines and branches; ports, canals and shipping including the Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Company; cable and electric tramways; all manner of connecting bus and coach services in urban and rural set...

    $472.99

  • A TRAMP'S NOTEBOOK
    MORLEY ROBERTS
    Excerpt: “How much bitter experience a man keeps to himself, let the experienced say, for they only know. For my own part I am conscious that it rarely occurs to me to mention some things which happened either in England or out of it, and that if I do, it is only to pass them over casually as mere facts that had no profound effect upon me. But the importance of any hardship can...

    $39.70

  • AN ISLAND HELL A SOVIET PRISON IN THE FAR NORTH
    MORLEY ROBERTS
    I think it's important people don't forget the horrors of communism. They are always brushed over casually in the West right now. There was a mention of this book in The Gulag Archipelago. It's horrible what happened to these people. The author casually mentions so many people getting shot and executed you become desensitized to it towards the end. (Amazon) ...

    $39.70

  • THE PREY OF THE STRONGEST
    MORLEY ROBERTS
    Excerpt: “MY DEAR BAKER, Of all the men I worked with on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the Kicking Horse Pass and on the Shushwap, when you and men like you were hustling to put it through, I am not, nowadays, in touch with one. They are, doubtless, distinguished or have gone under. Some of them, perhaps, lie in obscure graves beside the track of other roads, which, in their...

    $39.70

  • THE LURE OF PIPER'S GLEN
    THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS
    Excerpt: "When the bottoms drop out of the logging-roads, the crews leave the camps about the headwaters of Racket River and return to their scattered homes, leaving the winter's cut on the "brows." A few weeks later, when all the melted snow of the hills is rushing along the watercourses, lifting and bursting the rotted ice, and the piles of brown logs on the steep banks go ro...

    $39.70

  • CARDINAL WOLSEY
    PHIL ROBERTS
    The Wolsey’s of Suffolk date to Anglo-Saxon times. The earliest notice of a Wolsey as inhabitant of Ipswich is Thomas Wolsey’s father, Robert. He was a successful small businessman and married a Joan Daundy. Thomas was probably born in 1471 in an Inn and was almost certainly baptised in St Mary at the Elms church, Ipswich. Wolsey graduated from university and then his climb to ...

    $299.00

  • UNIVERSITY TRENDS
    JONATHAN COULSON / PAUL ROBERTS / ISABELLE TAYLOR
    The campus has a deep-rooted prestige as a place of teaching, learning and nurturing. Conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles, of sunny lawns, of wood-panelled libraries, it is a word viscerally charged with centuries of scholarly tradition. And yet it is also a place of cutting-edge science, vibrancy and energy. It is this dual nature, this concurrent adherence to tradition...

    $2,500.00

  • PRIVACY IN THE REPUBLIC
    ANDREW ROBERTS
    This book rethinks the idea of privacy. It argues that a satisfactory account of privacy should not limit itself to identifying why privacy might be valuable. It also needs to attend to the further question of how it can be secured in those circumstances in which it proves to be valuable. Drawing on republican ideas about the relationship between freedom and self-government, th...

    $1,099.00

  • MAKING MEDIA
    JAN ROBERTS-BRESLIN
    Taking essential media production processes, this book deconstructs them into the most basic components. Students will learn the concepts of media production – frame, sound, light, time, motion, and sequencing – and be able to apply them to any medium they choose, from film and television to fine art and online applications. They will also become well-grounded in the digital wo...

    $1,399.00

  • MINDSET MATTERS
    GEMMA LEIGH ROBERTS
    If businesses can be agile to survive in an uncertain world, so can you. The future of work requires you to move flexibly and quickly to react to change; that's where your mindset matters. Who wouldn't want to know how to best navigate the choppy waters of change? Resilience is the skill to master for the future of work. The capacity to overcome adversity and, crucially, to lea...

    $329.00

  • PROFESSIONAL SKILLS FOR PSYCHOLOGY
    JUDITH ROBERTS
    Professional Skills for Psychology covers key professional, ethical and career development issues. Whether you′re a student or a professional, this book provides you with a thorough grounding in how to develop a successful career in psychology. Written by the module leader of ‘Professional Skills in Psychology’ at Bangor University, and with a strong focus on practical skills, ...

    $679.17

  • BUSINESS RESILIENCE
    DAVID ROBERTS / ISLAM CHOUDHURY / SERHIY KOVELA / SHEILA ROBERTS / JAWWAD TANVIR
    In an increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) business world, it is more important than ever for organizations to build resilience into their everyday practice. Business Resilience is a practical guide to making organizations more resilient and improving current practices by building on what the organization does well. It explains how managers should cons...

    $929.00

  • REFLECTING ON THE GCC CRISIS
    ROBERTS, DAVID B.
    In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt (the quartet) enacted a diplomatic, economic, and physical blockade of Qatar. Gulf politics has always been fractious, but this stunning political gambit took everyone – Qatari leaders, scholars, the international community – entirely by surprise. The quartet assailed Qatar with a litany of charges mostly relating to its s...

    $1,099.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MUSIC WITH PYTHON PROGRAMMING
    MICHAEL S. HORN / MELANIE WEST / CAMERON ROBERTS
    Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming provides a foundation in music and code for the beginner. It shows how coding empowers new forms of creative expression while simplifying and automating many of the tedious aspects of production and composition. With the help of online, interactive examples, this book covers the fundamentals of rhythm, chord structure, and m...

    $979.00

  • DOING ETHICS IN MEDIA
    CHRIS ROBERTS / JAY BLACK
    The second edition of Doing Ethics in Media continues its mission of providing an accessible but comprehensive introduction to media ethics, with a grounding in moral philosophy, to help students think clearly and systematically about dilemmas in the rapidly changing media environment. Each chapter highlights specific considerations, cases, and practical applications for the fi...

    $1,659.00

  • RISKY TEACHING
    JAY W. ROBERTS
    Risky Teaching examines the role of risk and uncertainty in teaching and learning in higher education. Discussing the current landscape of higher education and the challenges and opportunities we face, this book synthesizes a range of evidence-based and high-impact practices both in and out of the classroom, offering practical strategies and thought-provoking ideas on education...

    $939.00

  • ANALYSING SENTENCES
    NOEL BURTON-ROBERTS
    Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. The book covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and uses tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences. The fifth edition of this best-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revise...

    $979.00

  • EXPLORING CONFRONTATION
    MICHAEL ROBERTS
    Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incide...

    $699.00

  • THE BOY QUESTION
    MARK ROBERTS
    Following on from the huge success of Boys Don’t Try? this essential new book answers nine key questions about how teachers and schools can best tackle boys’ academic underperformance. For decades schools have grappled with the most significant barriers to male academic success: a lack of motivation to succeed, poor attitudes to learning, lower literacy levels and a reluctance ...

    $459.00

  • NONLINEAR PEDAGOGY AND THE ATHLETIC SKILLS MODEL
    JAMES RUDD / IAN RENSHAW / GEERT SAVELSBERGH / JIA YI CHOW / WILL ROBERTS / DANIEL NEWCOMBE / KEITH DAVIDS
    This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy. Re-embracing our ancestry as hunter gatherers we gain a new appreciation and understanding of the importance of play, not only in terms of how children learn, but also in showing us as educators how we can lay the foundations for lifelong physical activity. The concept of physical literacy has been recognise...

    $1,099.00

  • NEOLIBERALISM AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
    GUY ROBERTS-HOLMES / PETER MOSS
    Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has ‘sunk its roots deep’ into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon young children, families, settings and the workforce. Through an exploration of possibilities for resistance and refusal, and r...

    $899.00

  • HISTORY OF THE PRESENT
    DAVID ROBERTS
    This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The ‘contemporary’ has replaced ‘modern’ and ‘post-modern’ self-understandings. The times of the past...

    $1,099.00

  • THE MAKING OF CITIZENS
    BRYAN ROBERTS
    Originally published as 'Cities of Peasants', this highly-acclaimed account of the expansion of capitalism in the developing world has now been extensively rewritten and updated. Focusing on Latin America, Bryan Roberts traces the evolution of developing societies and their economies to the present. Taking account of the move towards more 'open' economies, a shrinking of the st...

    $999.00