Public opinion towards criminal justice has become a critical policy issue and an increasingly visible topic of criminological research around the world. This book uses recent surveys to summarise research findings on British, American and Canadian public attitudes to criminal justice.

Understanding Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice (Crime and Justice)

Politics & Social Sciences

Roberts, MIke

Social Sciences

Open University Press

A post-9/11 novel about the love, self-destruction, absurdity, and ambition that define the millennials
Soulful, gritty, and hilarious, Cannibals in Love is the debut novel from a bold new voice in fiction, and a manifesto for the generation that came of age at the dawn of the twenty-first century. 
Mike is about to graduate from college and inherit a world much different from the one he was promised. The World Trade Center towers have just fallen, the Beltway Sniper terrorizes the nation's capital, and a polarizing president pushes forward a dubious war. Told in eighteen vignettes, Mike's misadventures begin in Washington, D.C., and span Brooklyn, Portland, and Austin as he takes up arms with the overeducated, underemployed millennials who surround him. Nursing writerly ambitions, he works a series of humiliating jobs--counting lampposts, writing spam e-mails, babysitting a teenage boy--while composing a thousand-page novel about cows as an allegory for the invasion of Iraq. And at the center of the book resides a tumultuous, passionate love story that could arise only between two people with nothing to lose.
Like a carefully assembled mixtape, Cannibals in Love weaves tender moments and summer idylls with violent late nights and the frustrations of a generation. From delirious off-track betting to a fateful walk across Kansas, Mike Roberts takes us into the guts of masculinity and identity in the age of the Internet, and joins an emerging group of young writers who are redefining the contemporary novel.

Cannibals in Love: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

FSG Originals

S Club 7

Arts & Photography

Music

Virgin Pub

In 1969, Mike Roberts turned off the light at Split Rock Lighthouse. He was the last duty officer to serve at the iconic landmark. These are his stories of life at Split Rock, of the great Superior, and of making ends meet on the North Shore.

The Last Keeper at Split Rock

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

North Star Pr of st Cloud

A Broncosaurus Rex sourcebook and campaign setting covering everything you need to adventure on the world of Cretasus. It features: history and background of the Main Valley and its settled regions, including New Savannah, Fort Tecumseh, Plesiosaur Bay, and other major areas; more information on the mysterious dinosaurs of Cretasus: their habits, behaviors, and interaction with each other and humans; prestige classes for Dino Warriors and Federal Marshals; GM source material, adventure ideas, town generation guidelines, treasure and encounter tables, and more; d20 stats for 22 more dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, including seven marine monsters, plus the alien Scray; and d20 rules for vehicles and the Union's ironclads. The Cretasus Adventure Guide is the second book in the Broncosaurus Rex series. It requires the use of the Broncosaurus Rex Core Rulebook. This book uses the 3.0 edition of the d20 rules set, and is fully compatible with the world’s most popular role playing game.

DINOSAUR PLANET Cretasus Adventure *OP (Counter Pack Series, 2)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Goodman, Joseph

Bush, Fred

Graphic Novels

Goodman Games

Hacking Classroom Management: 10 Ideas To Help You Become the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About (Hack Learning)

Classroom management is never a problem for the teachers they make movies about! 
Want a class like theirs, no matter what grade or subject you teach or how many students you have? 
Learn the 10 ideas you can use today to create the classroom any great movie teacher would love
Utah English Teacher of the Year and sought-after speaker Mike Roberts brings you 10 quick and easy classroom management hacks that will make your classroom the place to be for all your students. He shows you how to create an amazing learning environment that actually makes discipline, rules and consequences obsolete, no matter if you're a new teacher or a 30-year veteran teacher.
Teachers they make movies about are innovative, engaging, and beloved
Hacking Classroom Management is about putting the F word--FUN--into your teaching, and Mike Roberts shows you how to do this, while meeting your standards and teaching your curriculum. 
Hacking Classroom Management shows you how to
<ul>
<li>Build lasting relationships with your students</li>
<li>Maximize teaching time</li>
<li>Reduce behavior issues</li>
<li>Enhance student ownership</li>
<li>Improve parental involvement</li>
</ul>
Experts love the Movie Teacher philosophy
"No matter what grade you teach, there’s something of great value inside. Two Big Thumbs UP!" -Alan Sitomer, CA Teacher of the Year and Author of Short Writes
"Immensely fun and illuminating to read!" -Jeffery D. Wilhelm, Distinguished Professor of English Education at Boise State University
"Hollywood might not make a movie about you, even if you read and apply every suggestion in this book, but you and your students are much more likely to feel like classroom stars because of it." -Chris Crowe, English Professor at BYU, Past President of ALAN, author of Death Coming Up the Hill, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case; Mississippi Trial, 1955; and many other YA books
Wave Goodbye to classroom management issues Grab Hacking Classroom Management today, become a movie teacher tomorrow, and forget about classroom management FOREVER!

Hacking Classroom Management: 10 Ideas To Help You Become the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About (Hack Learning Series)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Times 10 Publications

Smart, aggressive baserunning will change a game, a series, and even a season. It sets the philosophy and mind-set of the coaches, trainers, and players. It becomes instinctual and contagious. It translates to pressure and, most important, wins. 
Baserunning is the most complete and authoritative guide on this critical yet often-overlooked offensive skill. You’ll go inside today’s game to learn the techniques and strategies for ruling the basepaths. Discover the secrets to leading off, detecting pick-off attempts, improving first-step speed, avoiding tags, and determining the best counts and situations for success in stealing bases. 
 But the art of baserunning is more than just speed and swiping bags—it is effortlessly and efficiently rounding the bases, taking the extra base, tagging up, reading defensive positioning, scouting strengths and weakness, forcing errors, and ultimately scoring runs. Only Baserunning covers it all. 
 With major league advice, skill assessment, the best player and team drills, expert instruction, detailed photo sequences, and proven exercises and routines for speed, agility, and quickness, Baserunning is a must-have for every coach, player, and student of the game.

Baserunning

Sports & Outdoors

Bishop, Tim

Baseball

Human Kinetics

Where did football start? That's one question Mike Roberts fails to answer, coming to the conclusion that it's rather like asking when and where dogs first learned to fetch sticks. But the story of the ancient games that may or may not have had something to do with the modern codes is a fascinating one, and this book explores each of them in detail, drawing on the very latest research while re-examining the original sources to dispel a number of misconceptions and presenting plenty of surprises along the way! The 'true' story of football's ancient origins looks not at what we think we know, but what we know we know. Could football really have started as a fertility rite or with ancient head kicking cults? What is the real story behind the games played by pre-Columbian Americans, Aboriginal Australasians, the Ancient Chinese, the Romans, the Vikings, the Celts and many other cultures? And how much did they really have to do with the way football is played today? Sport and history combine to tell an intriguing story as we explore the medieval folk games, the school traditions and the earliest clubs that played football long before it was ever standardised into the modern forms of soccer, rugby union, rugby league, and Gaelic, Australian, American and Canadian football. From William Web Ellis picking up a soccer ball and single handedly inventing the game of rugby to Melbournian settlers adapting Gaelic football to an Aboriginal game called marngrook it can be hard to separate myth from reality. Which is precisely what this book does.. Visit www.sameoldgame.com for full details and also to learn about The Same Old Game Volume Two: Codification

The Same Old Game: Before Codification: The true story of the ancient origins of football

Miscellaneous

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Although the Football Association was founded in 1863 to draw up simple rules for a game to unite the football community, a unified code was never to be. In the second of two volumes on the origins of football, Mike Roberts tells the story of how and why so many different versions of the same game came into existence. For a start, in Melbourne, Australia, the local footballers had already agreed to their own rules before the FA was even formed, and the game they created is still played today - arguably the oldest and most 'authentic' member of the football family. Back in Britain, the clubs that preferred a more physical game in which the ball could be carried were not convinced by FA's kicking game. Instead, they formed their own association and developed the rival code of rugby. And there was yet more division to come with the infamous schism between rugby union and what became rugby league. But neither soccer nor rugby were always welcomed in Ireland, which was fighting to preserve its own separate identity. In defiance against these foreign games, the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded and devised its own set of rules. The story also takes us to North America, and shows how and why rugby was adopted in the United States but was soon changed into the different sport of American football. And not forgetting Canada, whose own game developed in a similar fashion to the American one, but never quite entirely. Each of these sports have built up their own histories and traditions. But although these are now usually told separately, by treating them all as The Same Old Game, Mike Roberts reveals how each of the codes share a common ancestry. Visit The Same Old Game website for full details and also to learn about The Same Old Game Volume One: Before Codification

The Same Old Game: Codification: The true story of the origins of the world's football games

Football (American)

Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 – 203 BC’. Most studies concentrate on Hannibal’s series of stunning victories in the early stages of the war, culminating at Cannae in 216 BC, then refocus on the activities of his nemesis, Scipio Africanus, in Spain until the two meet in the final showdown at Zama. But this has led to the neglect of some of the Carthaginian genius’ most remarkable campaigns.  By 212 the wider war was definitely going against the Carthaginians. Yet Hannibal, despite being massively outnumbered and with little support from home, was able to sustain his polyglot army and campaign actively across southern Italy for another ten years. His skillful maneuvering and victory in numerous engagements kept several veteran armies of the normally aggressive Romans tied up and on the defensive, until Scipio’s invasion of North Africa pulled him home to defend Carthage. Mike Roberts follows the course of these remarkable events in detail, analyzing Hannibal’s strategy and aims in this phase of the war and revealing a genius that had lost none of its luster in adversity.

Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC

Historical

Pen and Sword Military

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