Robin: 3786 books
by Claire Robin
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Divorce does not always mean giving up. It also means to find the strength to give up on old things; to reach for better things, with the hope of handling the new things even better. In order to regain a sense of balance after a divorce, you have to divorce wisely. Unfortunately, most couples tend...
by Robin G.Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
The Buy To Let Myth could have been called The Buy To Let Con, why ? because it’s virtually impossible for an investor to make a reasonable return from the resi. letting market. Many do not understand the costs and legalities of being a landlord and how these erode income often leaving them worse...
by Robin Dridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Step into the distinctively different and fascinating world of dridge. Unique twists of descriptive poetry and "out of the box" quotes meticulously tapped from the extreme mind of dridge will have you utterly entranced in the superlative logic and imagination beyond traditional boundaries.
The Cradle of Texas Road
A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.
Thoroughly...
Storm Warning
Riding the Crosswinds in the Pakistan-Afghan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands are pivotal to international security. They are often dangerous, strategically crucial and little explored by outsiders. Robin Brooke-Smith provides a new perspective on Northwest Pakistan in this first-hand account of his years in this troubled region. Tracing the...
Shoot the Conductor
Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux...
Experiencing Stravinsky
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Hear the name “Igor Stravinsky” and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, “serious” music. But did you know that Stravinsky lived much of his life in Hollywood? That he collaborated on musical projects with Pablo Picasso and George Balanchine? That his work subtly...
Waltz of the Asparagus People
The Further Adventures of Piano Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2011
The Piano Girl journey continues. Waltz of the Asparagus People follows the hero of Piano Girl, Robin Meloy Goldsby, and her family to Europe, recounting their adventures and frustrations as they learn a new language, adapt to a new culture, and find new friends. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking,...
by Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian...
Racial Innocence
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature
2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
2012...
Musicologia
Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
In Musicologia—meaning "musical reasoning" as distinct from a mere love of music—author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or "auditory cheesecake." Fresh and penetrating insights draw attention to the...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
by Robin L. Rielly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
Lean the techniques, strategies and history of Japanese Shotokan Karate with this illustrated martial arts guide.
Generously illustrated with over 700 clear photos, The Secrets of Shotokan Karate offers an in-depth look at the world's most popular martial art, with strategies, techniques, and...
More Terrible Than Death
Drugs, Violence, and America's War in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis...