This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She was a measure of human ambition against the merciless air, a ledger of speed, altitude, and calculation where every mile gained demanded the surrender of certainty—and sometimes, life itself.If you think aviation history is a list of takeoffs and landings, you haven’t felt the vibration of the Electra’s engines under a night sky, watched the horizon shrink to black nothingness, or traced the meticulous calcu...

Take a dive into the history and story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster!In The Story of Chernobyl, an international tragedy is examined after three decades of study and investigation. Michael Robinson provides an educated lens on the background and context of the Chernobyl explosion through exposition, analysis, and testimony. Each chapter addresses the what, where, when, who, how, and why of a significant stage in the emergency. Through thorough and approachable explanation, Robi...

Students often approach math the same way they approach other courses. Read the book, take some notes, look them over, then hope for the best when the test comes. And, if the test doesn't go well, very little is approached differently the next time around. Math Study Strategies is an easy-to-use resource that helps students learn and implement strategies that are useful during each part of the class 'cycle': choosing a class (in college), preparing for class, participating in class, doing ...

The book was written to give children and grandchildren an account of the life of their father/grandfather. It is divided into four parts that chronologically follow the author's life. Part One; The Early Years, dwells on recollections of events and stories surrounding parents, brothers, other relatives and friends in different locales from California to Hawaii to Texas. Scouting, selling encyclopedias, the Marines, going to college and Peace Corps were all very formative in this period. P...

By studying the early splits within Korean nationalism, Michael Robinson shows that the issues faced by Korean nationalists during the Japanese colonial period were complex and enduring. In doing so, Robinson, in this classic text, provides a new context with which to analyze the difficult issues of political identity and national unity that remain central to contemporary Korean politics.

Zakan and Zana embark on an incredible adventure across the Universe after they are gifted superpowers by a mysterious presence. Can Zakan and Zana bring peace to the Planets. This book is perfect for beginner readers with vivid imaginations and makes for great bedtime reading.

The Tiger in the Vineyard is a collection shaped by wide personal experience of pressing social issues. The poems reflect a commitment to verse that is lucid, structured, accessible and vivid and draws on its tradition, and a deeply felt concern for the disadvantaged and traumatised. Written in a range of variations on traditional forms and free structures, the poems are grounded in a sense of the dignity and worth of human nature, whatever its circumstances. 'Combines serious social conce...

Cardinal Newman died on August 11, 1890 at the age of 89.Although his mind remained lucid to the end, his body declined to the point that in the summer of that year it became evident to all that the end was near.However, on the evening of August 9 he staged a remarkable rally which was recorded by Father William Neville, his secretary and caregiver in his final years. Not recognizing his youthful step he was surprised when Newman entered his room, and he was-unbent, erect to the fu...

This book is an attempt to reduce the barrier to entry for the key tools of homological algebra and develops the basic notions of homological algebra by emphasizing concrete, elementary, and computational examples in finite dimensional vector spaces. Linear algebra is the study of linear maps between vector spaces.The broad success of linear algebra in applications is due to the dimension theorem and the algorithms that exploit it, like Gaussian elimination and QR factorizations.

Having returned home from wandering the nearby moors, Justin’s fear soon becomes realized. There on the floor lays a letter postmarked Dundee. Only one person he knows lives there, and that is Tom. They haven’t spoken to each other for three years—and for a good reason. The letter is asking Justin to make contact again. Initially unsure, he agrees to meet. Thirteen days is that journey. It is a story about the loss of friendship. It examines the consequences for Justin and Tom after having...

The Music of the Streets is Michael Robinson's second collection of poetry. His first, The Tiger in the Vineyard, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2015. Poems in this collection (or earlier drafts of them) have appeared in the following print and online journals: Poetry Matters, Studio, Uneven Floor.

You have been referred!: My life in Applied Anthropology, is a career memoir spanning the period 1969 - 2014, and detailing the process whereby the author combined his philosophical grounding in both Anthropology and Law to find fulfillment in several Canadian non- governmental organizations (NGOs). The organizational structure of the book follows the development of a career thesis, its exploration in antithesis employment in for- profit corporations, and its ultimate success in the synthe...