Paul Roberts

Takes a close-up look at the modern food system to reveal how food is made, marketed, and consumed, leading to inequities in the global market.

The End of Food

The author, a regular contributor to New York Times Magazine and Harper's speculates on the role of oil in dominating the world's economy for the last century and the coming scenario that will result when the well runs dry. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

On the Edge of a Perilous New World

The End of Oil

Claude Debussy (20th Century Composers)

Drawing on the fields of economics, psychology, history and political philosophy, Roberts shows how we have become so obsessed with "maximizing returns" that we embrace virtually any means--any technology, personal tactic, or corporate strategy--that can deliver, regardless of consequences. Roberts lays out the history and geography of this new social order and charts a clear pathway toward a different and brighter future.

America in the age of instant gratification

The impulse society

From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device that resulted in all the pictures it took being blurred, to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of example of projects that damaged organisations because they were late, over budget, failed to deliver what they were meant to, or were complete disasters.This guide explains the principles and techniques of project management and how they are interconnected with the day-to-day management of a business. It is an invaluable handbook for helping firms deliver successful project outcomes and achieve lasting benefit through effective change.

Getting it Right and Achieving Lasting Benefit

Guide to Project Management

Brothers Michael and Parker Harriston receive word that their estranged Grandfather has gone missing in the northern Ontario wild. To find him, they must brave the ferocity of a Canadian winter and travel to a place they hoped never to return. Cut off from the outside world, the brothers encounter strange behaviors that have possessed the local wildlife. Rogue wolves stalk them through the snow-covered forest. Weird lights plague the surrounding frozen lakes. But there is something far worse that lies in wait for them in the cold dark.Soon hunted by an otherworldly force, Michael and Parker must reconcile their tragic past if they are to survive the truth, and themselves.

Wintertide Omega

Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony play an increasingly prominent role in modern criminal proceedings. Science produces powerful evidence of criminal offending, but has also courted controversy and sometimes contributed towards miscarriages of justice. The twenty-six articles and essays reproduced in this volume explore the theoretical foundations of modern scientific proof and critically consider the practical issues to which expert evidence gives rise in contemporary criminal trials. The essays are prefaced by a substantial new introduction which provides an overview and incisive commentary contextualising the key debates. The volume begins by placingforensic science in interdisciplinary focus, with contributions from historical, sociological, Science and Technology Studies (STS), philosophical and jurisprudential perspectives. This is followed by closer examination of the role of forensic science and other expert evidence in criminal proceedings, exposing enduring tensions and addressing recent controversies in the relationship between science and criminal law. A third set of contributions considers the practical challenges of interpreting and communicating forensic science evidence. This perennial battle continues to be fought at the intersection between the logic of scientific inference and the psychology of the fact-finder‘scommon sense reasoning. Finally, the volume‘s fourth group of essays evaluates the (limited) success of existing procedural reforms aimed at improving the reception of expert testimony in criminal adjudication, and considers future prospects for institutional renewal - with a keen eye to comparative law models and experiences, success stories and cautionary tales.

Expert Evidence and Scientific Proof in Criminal Trials

Joel Lardner

Explains the principles of digital illustration and shows how to use the most common digital art software programs to create digital images.

The Essential Guide to Creating Digital Illustation and Artworks Using Photoshop, Illustator, and Other Software

Digital Art Technique Manual for Illustrators and Artists

Chris Willmore

Sets out to provide an in-depth account of the collection and presentation of forensic science evidence in criminal proceedings, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses in the way in which forensic science is used in the criminal justice process.

The Role of Forensic Science Evidence in Criminal Proceedings

"This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 28 March to 29 September 2013"--T.p. verso.

Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

Roberts and Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence is the eagerly-anticipated third of edition of the market-leading text on criminal evidence, fully revised to take account of developments in legislation, case-law, policy debates, and academic commentary during the decade since the previous edition was published. With an explicit focus on the rules and principles of criminal trial procedure, Roberts and Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence develops a coherent account of evidence law which is doctrinally detailed, securely grounded in a normative theoretical framework, and sensitive to the institutional and socio-legal factors shaping criminal litigation in practice. The book is designed to be accessible to the beginner, informative to the criminal court judge or legal practitioner, and thought-provoking to the advanced student and scholar: a textbook and monograph rolled into one. The book also provides an ideal disciplinary map and work of reference to introduce non-lawyers (including forensic scientists and other expert witnesses) to the foundational assumptions and technical intricacies of criminal trial procedure in England and Wales, and will be an invaluable resource for courts, lawyers and scholars in other jurisdictions seeking comparative insight and understanding of evidentiary regulation in the common law tradition.

Roberts & Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence

Most projects fail to reach their desired results when an organization views a project as the responsibility of only one individual: the project manager. Experience demonstrates that significant ventures require a great number of people—including those who commission the project, those who finance it, those who carry it out, and even those who use the end product—to be successful. This guide offers an in-depth approach to getting project management right. Guide to Project Management shows why projects of any scale require that an entire organization contribute to achieving results. It focuses on the steps essential for successful management: initiation, planning, delegation, and closing. Author Roberts has successfully managed projects at major companies such as Pfizer and British Airways. In this book, he details how all stakeholders can manage a project properly and successfully.

Achieving lasting benefit through effective change

Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit

The Economist Guide to Project Management 2nd Edition

A Linguistics Program

The Roberts English Series

Change is a powerful force, but one that must be directed if it is to have a positive and calculated outcome. It can be shaped according to the needs of an organisation to grow or contract, respond to competition or threat, or simply to keep pace with the world around it. It is widely understood by leaders and managers that only effective project management has the potential to deliver the transformation they seek. However, many projects have failed to deliver the outcomes that their sponsors anticipated. Too many have produced apps, buildings, processes, products and services that remain on the shelf, unadopted, and a costly reminder that projects are vehicles that can just as easily deliver failure as success. The revised and expanded third edition of this much-admired guide explains the principles and techniques of change and project management. With its clear, structured approach it is an invaluable handbook for helping leaders and managers to be sufficiently informed, equipped and confident to use projects to deliver change, and to realise its benefits.

The Economist Guide To Change And Project Management

HPI International - Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence is known to investigate Fortean paranormal phenomenon from ghosts to demons to Bigfoot to UFOs and more. Discover the adventures of HPI International as they take you to haunted locations in Northern California to international areas of interest!

HPI Case Files Book 1

Follow the adventures of HPI (Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence) as we investigate all things paranormal in Northern California and even internationally.

HPI Case Files Book 2

What do soaring debt, endemic narcissism, road rage, political attack ads and killer drones share in common? All are symptoms of a society that moves, reflexively and relentlessly, to exploit the fastest, most efficient means to any end, without regard to cost. This is the 'impulse society' in which we live. In every facet of postindustrial society – the way we eat, the way we communicate and entertain, the way we work, the way we court lovers and raise children, educate and govern – technology and affluence has let us reach our goals with a speed and efficiency unimaginable even a generation ago. But the result is not all milk, honey, and gold. Companies now reflexively maximise short-term gain at the expense of long-term success. Politicians resort with ever-greater speed to nasty campaign tactics, and can count on their damaging claims to spread before the facts catch up with them. Consumers engage in serial over-indulgence and pursue instant gratification of every whim with speed and greed. The costs of living this way are substantial: financial volatility, health epidemics, environmental exhaustion and political paralysis, to say nothing of a growing, gnawing dissatisfaction. In this epoch-defining book, Paul Roberts traces the roots of this problem, damningly revealing how it has permeated society, and cogently argues how it may, perhaps, still be reversed.

What's Wrong With Getting What We Want

The Impulse Society

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The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel

Reflections

Adrian Zuckerman

Based on Adrian Zuckerman's 'The Principles of Criminal Evidence', this book presents a comprehensive treatment of the fundamental principles & underlying logic of the law of criminal evidence. It includes changes relating to presumption of innocence, privilege against self-incrimination, character, & the law of corroboration.

Paul Roberts

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