Best Selling Books by Chris Roberts

An easy-to-read biography of “the most important and compelling popular musician of the twenty-first century,” includes infographics and photos (TheNew Yorker). Beyoncé needs no introduction. Singer, artist, activist and icon, she is worshiped by her many fans around the word. This stunning graphic biography tells the story of how a young singer from Texas transformed into a global superstar, celebrating the highlights and successes of her career through stunning new graphics, photographs and illustrations. Representing so much more than the pop industry, through philanthropy, politics and campaigning, Beyoncé has broken the mould of what it means to be a superstar—and that star just continues to rise. From costume changes to record sales, her impressive vocal range to her work off-stage, this original bio-graphic book charts the success of the icon who came to dominate the charts, our screens and even our wardrobes. An absolute must for any “Beehive” members and Beyoncé fans.

Revealing the seamy and quirky stories behind favorite nursery rhymes, London librarian Roberts traces the origins of the subtle phrases and antiquated references, unearthing religious hatred, political subversion, and sexual innuendo.

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 fields of journalism, advertising, digital media, entertainment, public relations, and social media. Six fundamental decision-making questions—the "5Ws and H" around which the book is organized—provide a path for students to articulate the issues, understand applicable law and ethics codes, consider the needs of stakeholders, work through conflicting values, integrate philosophic principles, and pose a "test of publicity." Students are challenged to be active ethical thinkers through the authors’ reader-friendly style and use of critical early-career examples. While most people will change careers several times during their lives, all of us are life-long media consumers, and Doing Ethics in Media prepares readers for that task. Doing Ethics in Media is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students studying media ethics in mass media, journalism, and media studies. It also serves students in rhetoric, popular culture, communication studies, and interdisciplinary social sciences. The book’s companion website—doingethicsin.media, or www.doingmediaethics.com—provides continuously updated real-world media ethics examples and collections of essays from experts and students. The site also hosts ancillary materials for students and for instructors, including a test bank and instructor’s manual.

(Book). Lou Reed has been art-rocker, iconoclast, contrary noise merchant, and junkie, yet he''s always been fascinating. Only David Bowie, arguably, has re-invented himself as many times as Reed, while ensuring that each image was potent, edgy and dangerous. It''s a tribute to Reed''s standing that even punk rockers, with their scorched earth policy towards all pre-punk music, had a healthy respect and regard for him. Velvet Underground is one of the all-time greats; but in many people''s eyes, Reed has produced his best work solo, after the demise of that band. This groundbreaking book analyzes and celebrates the willful intellect, fierce intelligence, and literary merits of Lou Reed''s post-Velvet Underground music. Chris Roberts has written about music for fifteen years for The Guardian , Melody Maker , Sounds , and Uncut . He was also the editor of Idol Worship (Harper Collins), a collection of writings by pop stars (Bono, Thurston Moore, etc.) that has been hailed in some quarters as "The best book about rock ''n'' roll ever."

Lost English illuminates all these terms and many more. It''s a fantastic gift for all those interested in history and the English language and a fascinating look at times past.

“Back to Basics” is a joint project among twenty one industry leaders coming from security, operations, product, and privacy. The primary theme of this book is that adhering to basic security building blocks creates a strong foundation for cyber resilience.The idea is to share our learnings in small accessible and practical chunks. These tips and tricks can be easily picked up by security leaders and practitioners across the spectrum of organizational maturity. The simple models shared by our contributing authors can become the baseline for how others can efficiently get to an adequate security posture.

From Girl Scout to grocery store clerk, firearms instructor to special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and eventually to freelance writer, Chris Roberts chronicles her true-life adventures and misadventures, courting rituals and second chances, extra heartbeats and lessons learned. In this candid and witty collection of essays, Roberts recaps her first fifty years with wry humor, looking back on her blue-collar upbringing in a troubled home, where she and her brothers banded together to survive a violent father and an alcoholic mother. At the age of seventeen, Roberts fell into a career in federal law enforcement and found herself in a place where women were not welcome and where co-workers could be as hostile as the criminals she investigated. Roberts pinpoints the ridiculous amidst the sublime and the dignified in the downright embarrassing as she recounts a fated meeting with the man who would become her husband, the forty-three-second shortcoming that kept her out of the FBI, a late-in-life introduction to motherhood, and the burial of her mother''s ashes at sea. Whether she''s traveling to Egypt or changing the light bulb on an appliance, Roberts brings us into her world, where anything that can go wrong probably will and where laughter usually saves the day.

A witty and informative look at the history of London''s bridges

Kale is a teenager like any other. He''s rapidly growing out of his clothes, his body is changing in strange new ways and it seems like his life consists of nothing but chores. It''s a fairly normal life, until a strange storm whisks away all that he knows and loves. Riding on the wind is an evil so sinister that Kale can hardly fathom the things he is forced to see. And then, while struggling to make sense of the terror around him, he is charged by an angel of the Lord to find the Armor of Light: a legendary collection of weapons that is rumored to be powerful enough to send the Prince of Wind and his minions back to where they came from.

Poems of a small town kid. About his life and the world around him. Suicide, Love, Faith. Hard choices, And much more you will find in the words of Living Fantasy

Born in 1985 in New York, Johansson has already achieved a cinematic career of stellar proportion. Searching for the essence of her luminous star quality, this book takes a critical look at her work, and traces her transformation from talented child actress to Hollywood icon.

The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history – myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of Charles Bean’s magisterial and much-quoted Australian official history and presents a fresh examination of the evidence from a range of participants. The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 reaches a carefully argued conclusion in which Roberts draws together the threads of his analysis delivering some startling findings. But the author’s interest extends beyond the simple debunking of hallowed myths, and he produces a number of lessons from the armies of today. This is a book that pulls the Gallipoli campaign into the modern era and provides a compelling argument for its continuing relevance. In short, today’s armies must never forget the lessons of Gallipoli.

From the time he first appeared in a school production of PETER PAN, aged just 10, Heath Ledger knew that he wanted to be an actor. His journey from his home in Perth, Western Australia, to international stardom in Hollywood was tragically brief, yet eventful. Ledger lived his entire adult life as a sought-after celebrity in the full and unrelenting glare of the media spotlight. The book follows Ledger''s rise to fame from his early beginnings as a teenager on Australian TV to critical acclaim and international box-office success, detailing his many high-profile romances along the way. Heath ledger was one of Hollywood''s most promising stars, having appeared in the movies 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, THE PATRIOT, MONSTER''S BALL, A KNIGHT''S TALE and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

The media says you should be worried about your pension, the banks and financial advisors say Canadians aren''t saving enough for their retirement, and Ottawa says drastic cuts to the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security lie ahead. Is the future sounding a little ominous? In the face of all this negativity, just what are you supposed to do? Pension experts Robert Drummond and Chris Roberts have nothing to sell, and they aren''t trying to undermine government programs. This means they can provide unbiased and reliable advice, which is what they do in this no-holds-barred book.

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

A visual chronicle of the legendary performance artist''s career demonstrates how he has creatively reinvented himself throughout the decades and includes coverage of his early years in UK clubs through his Las Vegas successes and recent appearances on The Voice.

A richly illustrated, beautifully designed and now updated and extended book celebrating the music and art of the legendary Talk Talk. This edition includes interviews with Paul Webb and Lee Harris as well as the full transcript of Mark Hollis''s final interview about the band.

Many ''rock'' bands are forgotten with time. The legacy of Talk Talk lives on as fresh generations find in their albums a rare level of inspiration, candour and adventure. Combining the incomparable artwork of James Marsh with a retrospective of the band''s career, influence and a discussion of their landmark albums by respected music journalist Chris Roberts, plus heartfelt tributes from many of today''s most admired musicians, the book will finally give one of the UK''s most respected cult outfits the overdue kudos they deserve.

This book has been written to provide college students with 7 keys for spiritual growth. It is a small book that will help you maintain your walk with Jesus throughout your college life; something that can be used as a College Christian manual. The seven keys to spiritual growth relate to our ability to focus in on God, while minimizing those aspects of our lives that might be a distraction to us. Whether we are at college or socializing, none of these activities should ever distract us from our focus on God. Therefore this book will help you to: do things God''s way; trust in God''s guidance; stay focussed on God; overcome a critical spirit; gain God''s peace in your heart; look forward rather than looking back; and recognize that you are God''s key to spiritual growth. Prayer will be a recurring theme throughout this book. Although this is a mini book, I would advize you to read through its pages and meditate on what God is trying to say to you, when it comes to matters pertaining to spiritual growth. And most of all I pray that this book will encourage you on your journey with the Lord during your college years.

Describes the individual members of the hip-hop band, the Fugees, how the group was formed, and the growth of their popularity.

The hotel sector is highlighted by pioneers Conrad Hilton, Howard Johnson, Richard Kessler, J.W. Marriott, Isadore Sharp, Kemmons Wilson in the U.S. and Che-Woo Lui of China and Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh of India (Oberi Group). The food service sector highlights the quick service segment. Also represented are the casino resort segment, the club segment, the cruise sector and the hotel investment segment.

You cannot imagine how difficult it is for a Christian like me to write a book about visiting heaven. Because we are surrounded by so many voices proclaiming the need to be careful, concerning false prophets and false doctrines, it is hard to share something which is completely out of the ordinary. Paul himself said in Galatians 1:8 NIV, "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God''s curse!" I can tell you that, although I have an unusual testimony, God saved me from my sins when I gave my heart to Jesus one Sunday evening; just before my eighteenth birthday way back in the Summer of 1974. Because I was so concerned that no one would ever believe my story about going to heaven, I kept it all to myself for many years. It was only when I became an after dinner speaker that I plucked up the courage to share what had happened to me so many years earlier. But I cannot deny what happened to me, even though it has taken a generation to write a book about my experiences. I fear God so much that I would not dare lie about such an experience; I would not want to say something that I would have to retract once we reach heaven. I have divided this book into short chapters about the various encounters, which I have had with God and his holy angels. I start with a short explanation about my life before I became a Christian, followed by a description of my first visit to heaven. This is followed with an account concerning how God supernaturally led me by his Holy Spirit, and how he sent an angel to rescue me from the middle of nowhere on a cold winter''s night. Finally I share with you events surrounding my second visit to heaven, followed by guidance for those who might want to become a Christian; after reading this book. I pray that you will be encouraged as you enjoy reading what God has done for me since I became a Christian.

This book has been written to give you a taste of the kind of people who have held the office of the President of the United States of America in times gone by. Particularly this book will investigate the religious and Christian views of past presidents to discover whether or not they left a lasting legacy for future presidents to follow. I have also deliberately restricted the research of this book to a time period of about 132 years, between George Washington, who took office in 1789 to Woodrow Wilson, who left office just after World War I in 1921. This helps to avoid repetitiveness if we were to consider presidents from a wider timescale. In order to decide who would be eligible for inclusion in this book, I set up a three-prong test, which is highlighted in more detail in chapter one. Finally, this book has been written to help inform you about the kind of president you would like to see governing the United States from the Oval Office in the future; particularly if you want to base your decision-making, during election times, on the life and experiences of past presidents.

In this book we shall consider the fact that Jesus highlighted deception as being a major sign of the end times. We shall analyse the development of a one world government. We will also discuss whether or not there has been an increase in famines and earthquakes across the earth today. We shall evaluate whether or not persecution is taking place across the globe and we shall discuss the fact that in the last day''s people will turn away from the faith. We will also analyse crime rates across the world and we will encourage ourselves with the fact that the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. We shall consider a short history of events leading up to the revealing of the antichrist in the last days of time; we shall also consider who will be invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb; and how the rapture might relate to this event in Revelation Chapter 19. Finally we shall discuss a warning Jesus gave us in Matthew 24:45-51 that church leaders should not become decided by any delay in christ''s coming.

This book provides you with fifty-two Christian cell group activities; one for every week of the year. It is a vast resource that will save you the trouble of having to plan and prepare your cell group activities every week. Most activities are both practical and spiritual in nature; activities that will help you to develop a deeper walk with God in the days to come. A full list of activities can be found on the contents page, which includes subjects on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, God''s promises, evangelism, mentoring, dealing with church bullies, sermon preparation, works of service, acts of faith, the trials of life, women in the bible, a bible quiz, decision-making, healing, men in the bible, missions and many more interesting topics. This resource can be used in cell groups, bible study classes, as an individual study guide, for sermon outlines or in any way that suits you best; you do not need to be a member of a cell group to use this book. Each week''s activities include an introduction, which the group leader can use to set the scene for each week''s activities. This is followed by a warm up activity, which can be undertaken by the whole group. The main activity can be completed in small sub-groups, and again the conclusion can be used by the group leader to close the meeting with. The two-weekly activities will take about twenty minutes each to complete. It is not necessary to complete all the tasks each week; I have provided more questions for each activity than is probably needed. It is my prayer that in some way you that this resource will be of use to anyone in cell groups; to the glory and extension of God''s kingdom.

Weaving imaginative stories and spectacular poems in the vein of greats like Shel Silverstein and Maurice Sendak, "A Cabin In The Woods" is a whimsical and wonder-filled look at the world and all its eccentricities. There''s a cabin in the woods,it sits beside a lake.Sometimes when I visit there I dream ... awake.If you''d like to join me for a while,you must bring your sense of wonder.And dig deep into your fertile mind,for there''s treasure there to plunder.

100 Days With Jesus, one chapter per page, will encourage you if you are thinking about developing your own ministry in these last days of time. This book considers the events that took place in the gospels, but from Christ''s point of view. That is, the book provides a bird''s eye view of Christ''s life on earth, without getting into too much theology. In other words, 100 Days With Jesus provides a simplified synopsis of events that took place in the life of Christ throughout the four gospels. 100 Days With Jesus does not follow a precise chronology of Christ''s life on earth, simply because events in the four gospels vary from book to book. However, it does attempt to follow a reasonable timeline of Christ''s life, from his birth to his death and resurrection. This book particularly provides you with insights about how Jesus conducted his ministry when he was on earth. These insights will provide you with examples about how you might go about serving God through your own ministry. It does not matter whether you have an established ministry, or whether you are just considering serving God in some capacity, this book will provide you with the encouragement that you need to serve the Lord. If you want to know what Christ''s thinking was behind why he did what he did during his time on earth, then this book is just for you.