Jerry Roberts: 13 books
Catalina A to Z
A Glossary Guide to California's Island Jewel
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Santa Catalina Island is one of the West Coast's great nearby escapes, an hour's boat ride from Los Angeles and Long Beach for one million annual tourists. The island's seventy-six square miles contain two communities--Avalon and Two Harbors--and extremely rugged seashores and interior wild lands. Here,...
The Connecticut River from the Air
An Intimate Perspective of New England’s Historic Waterway
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The Connecticut River from the Air is a collection of extraordinary aerial images and an adventure chronicled by historian Jerry Roberts and photographed by Tom Walsh. The book provides an intimate perspective, exploring New England’s greatest river from Long Island Sound, where its waters mingle...
Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football
A History to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America’s most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game...
Lorenz
Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of World War II, and highlights the crucial work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers which shortened the war by several years. But there was another code machine used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top commanders in the...
by Jerry Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age...
The Hollywood Scandal Almanac
Twelve Months of Sinister, Salacious and Senseless History!
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
A “this day in Hollywood history” reference that recounts the scandals of the stars—from Charlie Chaplin to Charlie Sheen.
The real-life scandals of Hollywood’s personalities rival any drama they bring to life on the silver screen. This book provides 365 daily doses of high and low...
by Jerry Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
From live productions of the 1950s like Requiem for a Heavyweight to big budget mini-series like Band of Brothers, long-form television programs have been helmed by some of the most creative and accomplished names in directing. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors brings attention to the directors...
School House Diary
Reflections of a Retired Educator
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Every teacher knows that a day in the classroom is always full of surprises, successes, failures, and inspirational moments. In the poignant memoir School House Diary, longtime educator shares anecdotesboth tragic and humorousthat detail his nearly thirty years as a social studies teacher, coach,...
by Ray Riechert, Jerry Riechert, Kathy Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Local Businesses can no longer rely on traditional advertising or marketing strategies alone to generate business and compete effectively with local competitors.This is why Local Business Associates put together a strategic marketing book for local business owners just like you.Your...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
Notes from the Underground, #4
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....
In Principle, In Practice
Museums as Learning Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from...