Best Selling Books by Ian ROBERTSON

Occasionally, computer manufacturers supply a set of easy to follow manuals but more often than not you are supplied with a vast set of hardware/software manuals that appear to have been written specifically for the computer buff or worse still, there may only be a few photocopied sheets which appear to have been badly translated into English.

Assuming no prior knowledge, Ian Sinclair presents an outline of modern electronics with an emphasis on understanding how systems work rather than on details of circuit diagrams and calculations. Waveforms, graphs and block diagrams are used to show the effect of a circuit on its input. Ian Sinclair is the best selling author of many books on electronics including Practical Electronics Handbook. Clear explanations in plain language Numerous diagrams to accompany the text Covers everything you will need to know to get started

Ian Robertson is 52 years old and works successfully as a chef at the seventeenth century manor house, Llancaiach Fawr in the Taff Bargoed valley. He is a native of the Welsh valleys and this immersion feeds his creativity and obsession with its culture and people. His work although based in reality has a surreal, carnival quality. This selection of lyrical fiction is dark, witty and original. It puts small town valleys life under the microscope and paints vivid portraits of the human condition in 1950/60''s Wales. Ian Robertson explores difficult and sometimes taboo themes and comes out as a champion of ''the other''.

"This book explores the influence and contributions, on and off the airwaves, of a number of high-profile, distinctive and sometimes highly controversial personalities from John Reith to Jerry Falwell, to the shaping of religious broadcasting in the USA and the UK until the mid-1990s. Robertson''s study, interweaving the personal with the institutional, enriches our understanding of how and why religious broadcasting took such very different paths in the two countries." DR. JIM MCDONNELL, Head of Catholic Communications Centre 1990-2002. "Religious broadcasting has received less attention than it deserves in published media history. Ian Robertson''s thoroughly researched book examines its social, economic and religious contexts in Britain and America and highlights the role of the pioneers who made it such a significant part of broadcast output. Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between Christianity and the media." HUGH CHIGNELL, Emeritus Professor of Media History, Bournemouth University. "In this impressively comprehensive survey of religious broadcasting, from radio to television, Ian Robertson maps out the contrasts between the UK and US. Charismatic appeal played an important role in each context, but the personalities were different. Robertson''s balanced approach highlights the ways in which religious broadcasting fits the cultural expectations of both settings and the unexpected ways that religious innovators adapted their message to new technologies." JOHN WIGGER, Professor of Social & Cultural History, University of Missouri and author of PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker''s Evangelical Empire. "Over thirty years of presenting SONGS OF PRAISE has made the value of religious broadcasting on radio and television abundantly clear to me. It brings connection, comfort, inspiration, empathy and intimacy - like a trusted friend that speaks to each of us in our own surroundings. I believe, for all the inspiration and fellowship Christian broadcasting has brought us in the past, its power and significance as reflected in this book is only just being recognised. The best is yet to come!" PAM RHODES, Author, Broadcaster & Songs of Praise Presenter 1987 to Present Day.

This is probably the most detailed guidebook to Austria in English, and it has been thoroughly updated for this new edition. The country is described in forty itineraries, with extensive coverage of Vienna. The guide also includes maps, town plans and ground plans of museums and churches, and a series of specially commissioned articles on history, music, art and architecture, skiing and mountaineering.

Traditional games directed towards adult skills, group activities, played for enjoyment and promoted internal relationships; using traditional games as base for physical education in schools; adapting other games to Aboriginal life style.