Robert: 5744 books

Confucius says, “Keep your chin up… but beware of dog shit.” Sometimes profound, often hilarious, this collection of quotes by Robert Ma can lighten your day and enlighten your life.

Utilizing the resources of Australia's National Film & Sound Archive where the author was a SAR Research Fellow, Australian Film Tales is a collection of anecdotes covering a century of Aussie cinema. Covering the backstories to many of Australia's oldest and newest, best and worst, boldest and...

“This is the remarkable story of my father, Herbert Henry Miller, who was drafted into the army in August 1942.” So begins this book about an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances during World War II. The writer is Herbert Miller’s son, Robert, who discovered his father’s Red Cross war diary at the back of a drawer in the weeks following his 1994 death.

A Sampler, the opening chapters of the four books in the “Affair” series of seriocomic mystery-thriller novels starring Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner that propelled author Robert S. Levinson onto bestseller lists: The Elvis and Marilyn Affair, The James Dean Affair, The John Lennon Affair,...

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters This book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into...

"The old pacific capital" (1882) is an account of a journey undertaken by Robert Louis Stevenson in Monterey, Mexico, in 1880. The work is written in the form of essay and in the first part describes in detail the flora and vegetation of the area, considered very impressive by the Scottish...

To Robert Chaffin, Roaring River will always remain the garden spot of the universe, the place that God had smiled on in a special way, the most desirable place to inhabit this side of the promised land. In telling the stories about this wonderful community, the author hopes that in some way it will...

Astral Projection, Out of Body Experiences (OBEs) and Near Death Experiences (NDEs): Research, Study and Reflection with a Christian Perspective by Robert Alan King is a book with over 4,600 words. After several decades of study on physic phenomena, the occult and its relevance to religion, King provides...

“Robert Sheppard's exciting new novel, Spiritus Mundi, nominated for the prestigious 2014 Pushcart Prize for Literature, is an unforgettable read and epic journey of high adventure and self-discovery across the scarred landscape of the modern world and into the mysteries beyond. Its compelling saga...

R.S. Pearson, the founder of Telical Books and Creative Virtue Press, is a writer/composer influenced studies of modern art movements, philosophy and spirituality. He is the creator of the popular ParaMind Brainstorming Program and the Virtuism art theories. R.S. Pearson's main concern is to...

Vipassana in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the true nature of reality, and it is one of the world's most ancient forms of meditation. Courses in the technique are offered around the world, and author Robert Crayola describes his experiences at one such course in this detailed essay, providing...

If you are looking for a long-term European travel adventure there is no need to spend years saving first. Whether you want to escape your full-time work, find the spare time to start your own work-from-anywhere business, extend gap year travels on the cheap, or just have a great adventure, ***Budget...

Biographical sketch of George Martin, an immigrant from Poland in the 1920s who became a leader in the U.S. Labor Movement. Tells the story of his life, his family, and his work organizing shoe workers in Ohio in the 1940s and 1950s. With a foreword by Richard D. Wolff.

In FLY LOW FLY FAST, Robert Gandt takes us into the high-risk world of Unlimited Air Racing, following two consecutive championships at the Reno National Air Races. Flying wingtip to wingtip around pylons at nearly 500 mph, just a few feet above the sagebrush, Reno's big throaty warbirds are...