Robinson: 2599 books
by LCDR Ted Robinson, USNR
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series. The Pauper Who Helped Save A President. Robinson's memoir of his wartime service as a Naval officer on PT boats and LSTs, including his part in rescuing John F. Kennedy after PT 109 was sunk, which is the first true account told by an eyewitness, as Robinson...
Defending the Spirit
A Black Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Randall Robinson's Defending The Spirit is a personal account of his rise from poverty in the segregated south to a position as one of the most distinguished and outspoken political activists of our time. In 1977, Robinson founded TransAfrica, the first organization to lobby for the interests of African...
by John W. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from...
The Wild Garden
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
First published in 1870, The Wild Garden challenged the prevailing garden style of the day and advocated a naturalistic style, in which hardy plants, both native and exotic, are arranged in groupings that mimic wild landscapes. Thanks to Robinson’s passionate advocacy, the naturalistic style triumphed,...
Myself and Some Other Being
Wordsworth and the Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
As a young writer with neither profession nor money, William Wordsworth committed himself to a career as a poet, embracing what he believed was his destiny. But even the “giant Wordsworth,” as his friend and collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him, had his doubts. In Myself and Some Other...
The Killing Season
A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others...
Cracking the Egyptian Code
The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts--ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic--would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia....
The Terms of Order
Political Science and the Myth of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion,...
by Reuben A. (Bud) Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This is a great collection from Uncle Bud Robinson. It contains a cariety of stories, testimonies, and teachings.
The Table of Contents are as follows: Chapter 1 — IT HAPPENED TO OLD BUD Chapter 2 — THE HARDEST THING BUD EVER DID Chapter 3 — THE BIBLE HAS NEVER LIED Chapter 4 — THE...
The Lost White Tribe
Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda--the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African...
by Jackie Robinson, Wendell Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Autobiography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, beginning with his athletic career and dealing particularly with baseball and the first step toward equal participation by African Americans in this great sport.
“I believe that a man’s race, color, and religion should never constitute a handicap....
by Herb Adderley, Dave Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society.—Vince Lombardi. Winning was not the only thing. Something more important than winning football games occurred during the Lombardi Dynasty. Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers ushered...
Back in 6 Years
A Journey Around the Planet Without Leaving the Surface
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Inspired by travel writer Ted Simon, Tony Robinson-Smith quit his job in Japan, returned home to England, and then set out once more with only a a knapsack, a map, and a dream to travel the world with both feel on the ground. Nearly six years later, he returned home having fulfilled his dream and...
The Best Team Wins
Build Your Business Through Predictive Hiring
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
**Reduce Hiring Risks and Predict Success
New Mindset.** In The Best Team Wins,author Adam Robinson gives you a proven, straightforward, and effective method for hiring new employees. He teaches you how to rethink the process of finding, assessing, and hiring the right people.
New...