Bøger af Mike Robbins

Drafted by the New York Yankees directly out of high school, the author decided instead to postpone his professional baseball career until he finished college. In this book, the author looks at one of the most important and challenging aspects of life - our relationship with ourselves.

In 1987 Mike Robbins, a young journalist in London, felt restless and decided to travel. He never really stopped. In the quarter century that followed he lived and worked in countries as diverse as the world itself.The pieces in this book take the reader from rural Sudan to the headwaters of the Amazon, from Semana Santa in Quito to Buddhist temples in the Himalayas, across Bhutan on a motorbike, into the ancient souk of Aleppo, to the steppes of Central Asia and finally to New York. Along the way there is Ethiopian gin, a sex tourist in Moscow, Kyrgyz women in cycling pants, a surreal toilet in Brussels, echoes of slavery in Brazil, and an encounter with Helen of Troy in Third Avenue. The Nine Horizons is an anarchic snapshot of a troubled but beautiful world in transition.

Así que crees que conoces a tu perro.Bazza es un profesor de universidad de mediana edad de trato fácil al que le gusta la marihuana, el porno, la cerveza y las pelirrojas. Cuando adopta un perro de un refugio no notanada raro en el animal. Entonces, un monje himalayo les hace una visita y este percibe algo extraño.Perro es una intensa historia de amor y pérdida, de pecado, de redención y de excrementos de perro. No volverás a ver a tu mascota de la misma forma.

When Silvia's country falls apart after a coup, she flees to London. Picked up by the police, she is dumped for weeks in a bed-and-breakfast with a crazy landlady, then rescued by cold intellectuals. She finds she is a nuisance to one side and a cause to the other, with no dreams, family or opinions of her own. Until she meets another, earlier, refugee; and then she has a surprise for everyone.The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán is a story of flight, loss and the pain of exile. But it is also a sideways look at liberal London - perceptive, caustic and sometimes very funny.

So you think you know your dog?Bazza is an easy-going middle-aged college lecturer with a taste for weed, porn, beer and redheads. When he adopts a rescue dog, he sees nothing odd about the animal. Then a Himalayan monk comes to visit, and sensessomething strange.Dog is a powerful story of love and loss, sin, redemption and dog mess. You'll never see your pet the same way again.

How will the world see the 20th century a hundred years from now? For many, it was like living right on the edge of a turbulent ocean that threatened to engulf them; and sometimes it did.In this thoughtful book, Mike Robbins looks at the century just past through those who lived it, and the books they left behind. What was it like to crew the last great sailing ships? How did it feel to be an ordinary man-or a Chinese labourer-on the Western Front? How did a popular Jewish writer react to the rise of fascism? Who wrote detective novels in the 1930s, and who read them? And how has it all looked from the saddle of a bike?Come and stand on the edge of the ocean.

Mike Robbins believes that for us to thrive professionally, we must be willing to bring our whole selves to the work we do. This means acknowledging that we're all vulnerable, imperfect human beings doing the best we can. Mike outlines five principles we can use to approach our own work in this spirit of openness and inclusivity.

Three Seasons is a book of three novellas, unconnected with each other, but all set in the south of England in the 1980s. In Spring, a middle-aged Hull trawler skipper, his great days gone, has one last throw of the dice a South Coast port. In Summer, an ambitious young man makes his way in the booming Thames Valley property market, unconcerned with the damage he does to others. In Autumn, the Master of an Oxford college welcomes his two sons home, but they awake difficult memories from half a century before. Three Seasons is about the Thatcher era in Britain, but it is not about politics. These three stories are portraits of a country and its people on the verge of change.

A guide for being a truly authentic (and happy) person by the bestselling author of Focus on the Good Stuff "Authenticity," says Mike Robbins, "is enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who you really are, yourself, natural and without a mask in relationships, work, and life.

Robbins offers a simple but powerful program of seven principles for a world of appreciation, an effective form of positive psychology that reduced stress and increases happiness and productivity by recognizing the value of self acknowledgement and gratitude for loved ones, friends, and co-workers.