G Roberts: 120 books

China to Chinatown tells the story of one of the most notable examples of the globalization of food: the spread of Chinese recipes, ingredients and cooking styles to the Western world. Beginning with the accounts of Marco Polo and Franciscan missionaries, J.A.G. Roberts describes how Westerners’...

From Icarus to Da Vinci to tomorrow's astronauts, humans have dreamt of flight. Feathered wings. Mechanical wings. Leathery wings. Steel wings. Stories of winged creatures set in graveyards and churches, bustling cities, fantastical worlds, alternate histories, and outer space reveal the shifting...

What was it like in Ancient China? What sort of house would you live in? What sort of clothes would you wear? J.A.G Roberts takes us back in time to see what it was really like in Ancient China, what kind of sights and smells would be around us, and what our daily life would involve.

In his highly debated book centered on investment, M.G. Roberts challenges the traditional principles of “buy and hold” by adopting a different concept. He unlocks the patterns and trends to be adopted to surpass the S&P 500 by 100%. With an easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions backed up by extensive...

This revised edition of Annalise Roberts' popular cookbook is a welcome choice for those allergic to gluten who want to enjoy delicious fresh-baked foods. Roberts presents easy-to-use recipes and techniques for baking everyday basics like bread and cookies as well as classic treats like brownies...

Bread may be the staff of life, but if it contains gluten it can trigger an allergic reaction, and even provoke serious digestive disorders like celiac disease. Consumers who love bread but must avoid gluten have long been at the mercy of mediocre products and high prices. With this timely cookbook,...

From Annalise Roberts, author of the celebrated Gluten-Free Baking Classics, and Claudia Pillow, PhD, comes this new full-scale gluten-free cookbook--a breakthrough in healthier eating, featuring 140 great new recipes. The Gluten-Free Good Health Cookbook is a true departure from other diet cookbooks--learn...

In the context of their war experience in the First World War, the changes and developments of the Executive branch of the Royal Navy between the world wars are examined and how these made them fit for the test of the Second World War are critically assessed.

Today the image born from photography or film is one of the most powerful single elements a brand, label, designer, recording artist, celebrity or manufacturer can possess. In this edition Living Legends Vol 9 we look at the lives and creative work from some of the biggest names working in contemporary/fashion...

Our two Immortals editions detail some of the most enduring and famous names in photography, all of whom are no longer with us.    Great photographs can elicit thoughts, feelings, and emotions when words simply will not suffice. Throughout history, there have been many important people in...

In this we profile the lives and explore the legacies of some of the biggest photography luminaries to have ever lived and worked on the planet. The precursors of fashion photography go back to the 18th century, when images of fashionable clothes were printed in magazines and often hand-coloured....

Some of the most memorable images in the history of photography have come about through the creative tension between art and commerce - creating images that have been able to transcend the time in which they were made, and enabling them to represent that time in perpetuity.  Many of the artists...

MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY - IMMORTALS We have recently witnessed the passing of an era. Several of the greatest image makes of all time have passed away, as Helmut Newton, Corinne Day, Herb Ritts, Norman Parkinson, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Horst P Horst and Richard Bailey are sadly no longer...

The most incandescent example of Bombshells is Marilyn Monroe. Her strange combination of ghostly pale skin, childlike face and innate erotic cunning render her hard to date. Unlike modern actresses we can’t sense the stylist in her clothes, the heavy hand of a makeup artist or a photographer’s...