Robert Rowland Smith: 7 books

Book cover of Driving with Plato

Driving with Plato

The Meaning of Life's Milestones

by Robert Rowland Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let history’s greatest minds illuminate life’s turning points. In Breakfast with Socrates, Robert Rowland Smith brought the power of philosophy down...
Book cover of Breakfast with Socrates

Breakfast with Socrates

An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

by Robert Rowland Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010

Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith thought he would, and so with dry wit and marvelous invention,...
Book cover of The Reality Test

The Reality Test

Still relying on strategy?

by Robert Rowland Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational...
Book cover of Colazione da Socrate
by Robert Rowland Smith
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010

La filosofia è una materia astratta, ostica, in una parola noiosa? Assolutamente no: anzi, proprio da ogni nostra azione quotidiana possono nascere profonde (e divertenti) riflessioni filosofiche. In queste pagine, diversi geni del pensiero vi accompagneranno passo per passo nelle vostre faccende, in...
Book cover of In viaggio con Platone
by Robert Rowland Smith
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2012

Che effetto farebbe se, prima di affrontare la vita vera, ognuno di noi potesse salire a bordo di un'auto immaginaria per intraprendere un viaggio di scoperta del significato reale dell'esistenza, traendo insegnamento dalle riflessioni dei pensatori più illustri di ogni epoca? Per saperlo, leggete questo...
Book cover of On Modern Poetry

On Modern Poetry

From Theory to Total Criticism

by Dr Robert Rowland Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012

All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line, 'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.   Drawing on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory,...
Book cover of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine
by Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kevin J. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2019

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude,...
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