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Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson
Category: Culture | Series: The\Terry Lectures Ser.
In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought--science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern athe ...Show more
Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Terry Lectures Ser.
In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought - science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern ath ...Show more
Ad Nauseam : A Miscellany of Latin Words and Phrases by Lorna Robinson
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Join Lorna Robinson as she introduces you to the fascinating (and humorous) world of the Latin language. Explore ancient Rome through familiar and not-so-familiar words and concepts - from the more classic Latin of the upper classes to the insults and the everyday 'vulgar Latin' straight from the seedy ...Show more
Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer by Fiona Robinson
Category: Graphic Novels
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron's "mad" love of poetry, but Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered m ...Show more
Adoption and Loss - the Hidden Grief by Evelyn Robinson
Category: Health
Based on the author's personal experience as a mother who lost a child through adoption and her experience as a social worker who has worked extensively in the area of post-adoption counselling with adults, this resource graphically describes the disenfranchised grief associated with adoption and sugges ...Show more
Aftermath by Peter Robinson
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The Inspector Banks Series
Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two police constables are sent to the house following a report of a domestic disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A scene which leaves one of them dead and the other fighting for her ...Show more
Aftermath by Peter Robinson
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Inspector Banks Ser.
'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' - Stephen KingThe Sunday Times bestseller, Aftermath, is the twelfth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Cold is the Grave.A house of horror. A despicable serial kill ...Show more
Aftermath by Peter Robinson
Category: Fiction
A call to an alleged domestic dispute leaves a woman injured, a policeman dead, and a policeman fighting off an attack. A search of the house reveals the bodies of missing girls, the victims of a serial killer called The Chameleon.
Aftermath by Peter Robinson
Category: Fiction
The number 35, the Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two police constables are sent to the house following a report of a domestic disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A scene which leaves one of them dead and the other fighting fo ...Show more
Aftermath by Peter Robinson; Simon Slater (Read by)
Category: Audio Books | Series: Inspector Banks Ser.
Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two police constables are sent to the house following a report of a domestic disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A scene which leaves one of them dead and the other fighting for her ...Show more
Aftermath (20th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Robinson
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Inspector Banks Ser.
'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' - Stephen KingThe 20th Anniversary edition of Sunday Times bestseller, Aftermath, is the twelfth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Cold is the Grave.A house of horr ...Show more
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights by Robinson
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's library children's classics
For the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in which the everyday mingles on an equal footing with the uncanny and the miraculous. Accompanying the text are illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, wh ...Show more