John Roberts
John Roberts studied at London University and went on to work in schools across England and Scotland. At the age of 40 he took a gap year and travelled through India, Nepal, Kashmir and Ladakh, ending up in Alice Springs. Since then he has concentrated his travel in northern lands: Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, the Faroes and Karelia. He lives in the Yorkshire Pennines.
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How the Dice Fell
John Roberts
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)I was inspired by the real life stories of heroic survivors of the 7/7 bombings and wanted to explore how a less heroic person might have reacted. The story gave me a chance, too, to explore some of the issues...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2012
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How the Dice Fell
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John Roberts explores the psychology of a suicide bomber and one of his victims in How the Dice Fell, a topical thriller focused around the 7/7 bombings. Set in London and the north of England, it is a powerful story...
Format: eBook - Released: 02/07/2012-
How the Dice Fell
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Set in London and the north of England, How the Dice Fell is a powerful story about terrorism, love and revenge set within the tensions of a multi-racial Britain. Chance brings three people together in a London Underground train on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012 -
The Necessity of Errors
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Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/09/2011 -
Sod This, I'm Off to Marbella - George Best
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The man who followed him was John Roberts, a newspaper reporter who was given the task of shadowing Best during the most turbulent seasons of his Manchester United career. He was also the first to be told by Best -...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/07/2010 -
Safeguarding the Nation The Story of the Modern Royal Navy
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This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployments conducted around the world from the Cold...
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Intangibilities of Form Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade
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Many people who look at art today decry it for the lack of craft skill in its production, whether it be painting, photography or sculpture. In Intangibilities of Form , John Roberts sheds an entirely new light on this obsolescence...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007 -
The Modern Firm Organizational Design for Performance and Growth
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Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007 -
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
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Authoritative, wide-ranging, and unrivalled in its accessibility, The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World is a concise and lucid survey of life in ancient Greece and Rome, spanning 776 BC - AD 180, from the first Olympic games to the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/03/2007 -
Philosophizing the Everyday
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After modernism and postmodernism, it is argued, the everyday supposedly is where a democracy of taste is brought into being - the place where art goes to recover its customary and collective pleasures, and where the shared pleasures of popular...
Format: eBook - Released: 20/03/2006 -
The Modern Firm Organizational Design for Performance and Growth
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Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are...
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Aircraft Carrier Intrepid
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The Essex class fleet aircraft carriers are famous for their effectiveness and reliability as warships and for the great size of the construction programmes of which they formed a part. Intrepid (CV11) was one of 24 such vessels built during...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/02/2004 -
Optimize Your Cruising Sailboat 101 Ways to Make Your Sailboat Better
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This book includes 100 ways to transform the sailboat you settled for into the one you dream about! Comfort versus performance, seaworthiness versus accommodations, ease of sailing versus appearance - let's face it, you just can't have it all. Or...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2003 -
The Battlecruiser Hood
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The year 2001 witnesses the sixtieth anniversary of one of the most shocking and tragic episodes in the history of the Royal Navy; the loss of HMS Hood. Built during the First World War, the Hood was the largest, fastest...
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The Art of Interruption Realism, Photography and the Everyday
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A history of theories of photographic practices, this text sets out to do a number of things: to recover the critical place of the photographic archive within the avant-garde; to defend the philosophic claims of realism in assessing photography this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/1998 -
Language Teacher Education The Reflective Trainer
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'Language Teacher Education' is an introduction to language teacher training and development for teachers and providers in pre-service and in-service programmes. The text outlines the main theories of human learning and applies them to teacher education. Based on a broadly...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/12/1997 -
Art Has No History! Making and Unmaking of Modern Art
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In this collection of essays, the art critic, John Roberts, draws together studies of key post-war and contemporary artists. Written by art historians and artist-writers, these essays take a critical look at the construction of recent modern art history in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/1994
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