Robin: 3786 books

This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Robin Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as Peter...

This book asks a big question: can we trust the BBC? As the most famous media brand in the world, the BBC is growing bigger and more powerful every year. Its reputation depends on honest and accurate journalism. But this book argues that the Corporation's own pervasive political culture imperils its...

Leur amour viendra à bout de tout... « Il me manque à un point intolérable, comme un membre fantôme. Je suis incapable de me défaire de mon addiction. Tout en moi brûle de le retrouver, avec une telle violence que j'en perds le sommeil. C'est plus fort que moi, et j'ai peur que ce désir...

November 1972. The Vietnam War is rumored to be drawing to a close, and for sixteen-year-old Paul Landon, the end can't come soon enough. The end will mean his older brother Chris, the family's golden child, returning home from the Army for good. But while home on leave, Chris entrusts Paul with a...

Can you find love online? Susie thinks she can. Will one of her 82 eager candidates be her Mr Perfect? Forty-something divorcee and writer Susie Hamilton joins an internet dating agency under the guise of professional research for a book. With her enhanced profile, she attracts a horde...

The Heritage Highway, the first e-Guide, of a planned series, A Cheapskate's Guide To Exploring Tasmania By Car, concentrates on Tasmania's magnificent, historic Midlands Highway and its surrounds. Starting at the beautiful, heritage listed town of Evandale, it will head off to Longford and Cressy,...

Jerry Walker was cruising through life in a fairytale marriage complimented by an illustrious baseball career. Then without warning it all quickly dissipated, leaving him reeling in disillusionment and despair. In a desperate search to redefine his life, Walker discovers his need to make a difference...

Few things evoke thoughts and memories of the past more than a house from a bygone era, and few places are identified and symbolized more by historic dwellings than the American South. Plantation houses built with columned porticos and wide porches, stout chimneys, large rooms, and sweeping staircases...

Cape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived. Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princess Scargo are as familiar as tales of pirates and explorers, including "Black Sam" Bellamy and Donald Baxter Macmillan. Felines often blocked...

Buddhism points to your mind as a way to understand and transform your experience. But, as Robin Cooper explains, it takes an exploratory approach, it asks you to seek: it is not a revelation of religious truths. The Buddha saw that we are all in a tough predicament. We are constantly anxious about...

The four friends, Chris, Anika, Tippy and Rohan go on a school holiday camping trip and become involved in an illicit wildlife exporting business, meet with the legendary Yowie and end up meeting two new friends.

On 2 December 2010, the body of a 24-year-old woman was found at the bottom of the rubbish chute in the luxury Balencea tower apartments in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, twelve floors below the apartment she had shared with her boyfriend, Antony Hampel. Within minutes, the sound of sirens filled...

Seven authoritative contributions to the emerging field of pedagogy and to comparative, cultural and policy studies in education. A must for those who want to do more than merely comply with received versions of ‘best practice’.   Pedagogy is at last gaining the attention in English-speaking...

The impact and content of English as a subject on the curriculum is once more the subject of lively debate. Questions of English sets out to map the development of English as a subject and how it has come to encompass the diversity of ideas that currently characterise it. Drawing on a combination...