Bøker av John Roberts

Launched in 1906, HMS Dreadnought was the first ''all-big-gun'' battleship and as such revolutionised battleship design for more than a generation. She was built at Portsmouth in 14 months, a record which has never been equalled, and when she was launched she was superior in both firepower and speed to anything then afloat. Perhaps even more radical than her design was the proposal to adopt Parsons turbines, which at the time had been hardly tested. Though she saw little action during her career, her influence was profound and she gave her name to a class of ship that dominated the high seas for more than a generation. As part of the renowned Anatomy of the Ship series, this book provides the finest documentation of the Bellona, with a complete set of superb line drawings, supported by technical details and a record of the ship''s service history.

Marionettes are loved by puppeteers and audiences for what they can do on stage, but they can be challenging to design, make and perform. This beautiful book clearly explains the process from making the puppets to putting them on strings and bringing them alive. Detailed step-by-step instructions are given to make three marionettes - a walking bird, a dancer and a wooden man - each using different tools and materials, with progressively more tricky techniques. Written by a leading puppeteer, it celebrates the art of the marionette.

The destruction of the HMS Hood by the Bismarck in 1941 was one of the most shocking episodes in the history of the Royal Navy. Built during World War I, the Hood was the largest, fastest and one of the most handsome capital ships in the world. For the first time, this volume in the renowned Anatomy of a Ship series is available in paperback, and features a detailed description of every aspect of the beloved battlecruiser. In addition to analysing the genesis of its design and contemporary significance, this exceptional study provides the finest documentation of the Hood, with a complete set of superb line drawings, supported by technical details and a record of the ship''s service history.

When a London Underground Train makes an unscheduled stop at a disused station, Blake Langford realises that something is not quite right. As he follows the abandoned staircase up into a rundown building above the station, he discovers the body of a young girl. As Blake pursues the case, London's cruel streets provide little explanation of who the girl was or how she was killed until a surprise confession from his sister changes the case completely. When blood runs thicker than water, Blake is left with two women wanting answers and a brother in need of an alibi, but who can he trust?

This Welsh language memorial compilation pays tribute to the late John Roberts of Henllan, a prominent Welsh scholar and literary figure. It features a collection of heartfelt eulogies, poems, and essays from Roberts' friends and colleagues, honoring his life and legacy.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Blake Langford works for the special intelligence branch of the British Government. In 1999, he was assigned to a case in Italy regarding some smuggling of blood diamonds into the country from Africa.Rachael Evans, Blake's fiancée for two years, said goodbye to him at Heathrow Airport and then vanished with no explanation.Eight years later whilst Blake is taking some long overdue leave from the Service, Rachael's sister Paula, pays him a visit at his holiday home in southern England with a message that Rachael is in trouble and needs his help.Blake had never let go of the love he had for Rachael but had learned to live with the reality that she had gone. Now reopening long forgotten deep wounds, Blake travels across America and into Mexico to crack a diamond smuggling ring that he had stumbled upon in Italy all those years ago but this time, for Blake, the stakes are much higher.

Cornelius Cone returns in a three part adventure captured all together here in one book. After Billy Bollard discovers a message in a bottle at Lepe Beach, he rushes to pass the message on to his friend Cornelius Cone. After receiving the letter, against the better judgement of his friends, Cornelius Cone decides to go to Lyndhurst Church to meet Susie Suitcase. When Vicar Vincent returns to his church however, Cornelius Cone is suddenly caught up in the plans of two crooked Vicars, Baz and Jez, the local criminals and Susie Suitcase's very wealthy previous owners Eloise and Laszio Aubergine. Can Cornelius Cone uncover their plans before it's too late? Has Susie Suitcase really changed her feelings towards Cornelius? And how far will Cornelius go to save the people he cares about?

Joey McClane, a precocious twelve year old south Texas boy, has lived with his grandfather ever since he was orphaned as an infant. Paw Paw, an avid classic car and race car enthusiast, has discovered the 1934 Buick coupe that he had fallen in love with as a child—it had been his grandfather’s car, and he had called her Mattie. And now Joey sets out on a restoration project that will drastically change the direction of his life.He finds himself thrust into the car’s history by way of apparitions and dreams. Over the next few years, as he and Paw Paw work on Mattie, Joey embarks on a mental journey through Mattie’s past and soon finds that history creeping in to his present-day existence. His mind is torn between two very different times, and Mattie begins to take control of Joey’s life. Meanwhile, he meets his first girlfriend, develops a friendship with a ghost, and receives visions and understanding of his grandfather’s lifelong secrets. But when he becomes a fugitive engaged in a high-speed chase with the police, he knows he must make a decision in order to prevent his two worlds from colliding.This novel tells the story of a boy’s strange experience with his first car, one that will change his life forever.

In Art, Misuse and Technology: Micheál O'Connell's 'System Interference' John Roberts provides a wide-ranging and compelling analysis of Micheál O'Connell's artistic deflation and subversion of technical systems. Addressing current debates on digital culture, the posthuman and computational reason, Roberts examines the relationship between the power of the technosystem we use and inhabit on a daily basis and the critical demands required to being a technical-literate artist. Artists are no longer simply defined by the tools they use, but by their comprehension and navigation of the ways in which Artificial Intelligence shapes and defines the cognitive and visual parameters of our world. As such artists are as much concerned with what 'thinking machines' delimit as with what they enable. O'Connell operates, Roberts argues, in this gap, through combining a technical understanding of the algorithms that govern our work practices, social relationships and desires, and a robust, comedic, refunctioning of their claims for efficiency and reason. In this Roberts calls for a critique of computational reason that positions artists as part of a wider struggle around the non-dominative and anti-instrumental uses of technology.==========================John Roberts is a philosopher, art theorist and playwright, and Professor of Art & Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of a number of books including: The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade (2007), The Necessity of Errors (2011), Photography and Its Violations (2014), Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (2015), The Reasoning of Unreason: Universalism, Capitalism and Disenlightenment (2018) and Capitalism and the Limits of Desire (2021). He lives in London.

In this unprecedented 'fictive' construction of the work of five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces an exhilarating theoretical encounter between futures past and futures present.

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 culture are indulged, from celebrity magazines to shopping malls.*BR**BR*John Roberts argues that this understanding of the everyday downgrades its revolutionary meaning and philosophical implications. Bringing radical political theory back to the centre of the discussion, he shows how notions of cultural democratization have been oversimplified. Asserting that the everyday should not be narrowly identified with the popular, Roberts critiques the way in which the concept is now overly associated with consumption and 'ordinariness'.*BR**BR*Engaging with the work of key thinkers including, Lukacs, Arvatov, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Gramsci, Barthes, Vaneigem, and de Certeau, Roberts shows how the concept of the everyday continues to be central to debates on ideology, revolution and praxis. He offers a lucid account of different approaches that developed over the course of the twentieth century, making this an ideal book for anyone looking for a politicised approach to cultural theory.

In Cotton Coated Conspiracy, Book One: John McFerren's Word, true-crime enthusiasts are treated to a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most enigmatic players in the MLK assassination, Mr. John McFerren. As the result of a six-year investigation, every detail of what Mr. McFerren saw and heard from 1967 to 1968 is outlined within this compelling narrative. Did James Earl Ray work in Memphis in 1967 for a man named Frank C. Liberto? Who was paying James Earl Ray throughout his year-long journey? Was Memphis or neighboring Fayette County the home to any potential conspirators? In this jaw-dropping first installment in the Cotton Coated Conspiracy book series, readers are given the essential bread crumbs to come to their own incredible conclusions. To download a free sample of Cotton Coated Conspiracy: Book One: John McFerren's Word, visit www.CottonCoated.com.