Jennifer T Roberts: 3 books

Book cover of The Plague of War

The Plague of War

Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece

by Jennifer T. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece....
Book cover of Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction
by Jennifer T. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011

Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more narrowly, he determined...
Book cover of Performance Standards for Restaurants

Performance Standards for Restaurants

A New Approach to Addressing the Obesity Epidemic

by Deborah Cohen, Rajiv Bhatia, Mary T. Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

This report presents the results of a conference of 38 national experts in nutrition and public health who met to develop performance standards that could guide restaurants toward facilitating healthier choices among consumers and that local communities or states could use as a model for developing and implementing either voluntary or mandatory certification programs.
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