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David Robinson

    August 6, 1930
    Ming China and its Allies
    Chaplin
    Emerson and the Conduct of Life
    Movies of the Seventies
    Text Mining with R
    Movies of the Silent Years
    • Movies of the Silent Years

      • 227 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Paperback in very good condition. Spine lightly sunned and lightly creased. No other faults. AD

      Movies of the Silent Years
      4.5
    • Text Mining with R

      • 194 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Tackle a variety of tasks in natural language processing by learning how to use the R language and tidy data principles. This practical guide provides examples and resources to help you get up to speed with dplyr, broom, ggplot2, and other tidy tools from the R ecosystem.

      Text Mining with R
      4.4
    • Movies of the Seventies

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Offers profiles of important actors, actresses, directors, and producers of the seventies, and highlights influential films

      Movies of the Seventies
      4.4
    • Emerson and the Conduct of Life

      Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work

      • 248 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The book delves into Emerson's significant later writings, highlighting their evolving focus on a philosophy centered around the 'conduct of life.' Robinson examines how these works reflect Emerson's thoughts on personal ethics, self-reliance, and the practical application of philosophy in everyday living, revealing a deeper understanding of his intellectual journey.

      Emerson and the Conduct of Life
      4.5
    • Chaplin

      • 816 pages
      • 29 hours of reading

      A biography examining the extraordinary life of Charlie Chaplin. Writing with full access to the Chaplin archives, the author provides an insight into Chaplin's working methods. Published to coincide with the release of the film Chaplin.

      Chaplin
      4.3
    • Ming China and its Allies

      • 262 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The book is for anyone interested in the Mongol Empire, Chinese history, and the ways politicians exploit historical memory to win legitimacy at home and abroad. David M. Robinson shows that even the world's most powerful rulers such as the Ming emperor needed allies and were willing to pay for them.

      Ming China and its Allies
      3.0
    • Movies of the Sixties

      • 225 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Offers profiles of important actors, actresses, directors, and producers of the sixties, and highlights the most influential films

      Movies of the Sixties
      3.7
    • An Expat's Life, Luxembourg & The White Rose is a refreshing and forthright take on the Englishman Abroad genre. Reading David Robinson's relaxed prose is like sitting down for a drink or two with the author in the pub of the title. Indeed, as the tome progresses, so the reader warms to Robinson's down-to-earth character.The author's very personal view of an expat's life in Luxembourg is not overbearing, and even the most informed reader will learn something new about the history of the Grand Duchy, its bureaucracy and social conventions and attitudes. The book is brimful with little snippets of useful information and trivia for those unfamiliar with the country, and Robinson's anecdotes will spark empathy with readers who live, or have lived, in Luxembourg. -Duncan Roberts, editor of 352 Magazine.

      An Expat's Life, Luxembourg & the White Rose
      2.0
    • Alice in Wonderland

      • 295 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, with illustrations by the author. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit are all now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are the delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody the Jabberwocky. Also included are some of Carroll's miscellaneous pieces of work, of which the best-known is perhaps the mock-heroic Hunting of the Snark which epitomises the author's enormous gift for nonsense verse. --back cover

      Alice in Wonderland
      4.1
    • Business Etiquette

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Shows how to handle a wide variety of business situations, both difficult and commonplace, in which a person is likely to be judged by their command of correct behaviour.

      Business Etiquette
      3.4