New Releases by M. Robinson

How to rediscover happiness and reboot your life We are taught that the "right" career, the "right" marriage, and the "right" faith are the blueprints for a joyful life. Yet, for many, the reality is a persistent and gnawing sense that even after we've checked most of the proverbial boxes, something is still missing. So why do we keep doubling down on the scripts that fail to deliver on the promise of happiness? In this provocative and conversational interrogation of modern life, C-suite executive, professor, and advisor Craig Robinson identifies three structural "pundits" that often hold our happiness hostage: career, faith, and relationships. Drawing on his research, years of professional coaching, and leadership experience, The Happiness Reboot explores how societal pressures and subconscious scripts keep us from feeling true fulfillment. Rather than offering a “get happy quick” formula, this book provides simple yet effective frameworks to replace your deepest-held convictions with a spirit of curiosity. It takes you on a self-guided journey through difficult introspective questions to help you discover your authentic truth. For those who have tried to do everything “right” but still feel happiness eluding them, this book is the first step on your new path. Open it up, dismantle the status quo that’s holding you back, and replant your roots in an authentic, sustainable, and fulfilling truth.

Our environmental organizations manifest duties of virtue in pursuit of environmental restoration and preservation. As such, they provide the key political-economic institutions that interact with our government agencies to lead and provide the visions that our environmental movement pursues. Understanding these organizations of collective duty are therefore the key to investigating the economics and politics of our environmental movement. This text examines their role, motivations, and accomplishments thereby elucidating various phases of our environmental movement such as the positive link between environmental restoration and economic development, the movement for environmental justice, the refinement of the aims and methods of environmental regulation, the political difficulties posed by the tragedy of the global commons. Using the conceptions of collective duties of virtue, this text effectively explains the functioning of our environmental advocacy organizations in ways and extents not accomplished elsewhere. Featuring suggested reading lists, review questions, and class discussion/essay questions in each chapter, this book is useful for students and professors in environmental business ethics and sustainability.

From Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author M. Robinson comes a standalone dark romance. All’s fair in love and war… I’m ruthless. I’m feared. I have more enemies than friends. I didn’t just step into my father’s shadow—I’m a Jameson and that last name comes with money and power. I’m never afraid to get my hands dirty, especially when it comes to something I want. Or maybe she’s a need… At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Right and wrong. Good or bad. She. Was. Mine.

A workplace, billionaire, second chance standalone romance from Wall Street Journal & USA Bestselling Author M. Robinson “I need you to let me go…” What was supposed to be only a three-year career choice in London turned into me losing the love of my life. For the past seven years, I became the successful multibillionaire I sacrificed her for. Now after all this time, I made her an offer she couldn’t refuse to have her back in my life. She’s the woman who's haunted my dreams. I can’t wait to show her just how much I’ve changed, starting with how good I am at using my power to get what I want. And what I want is her… From friends to lovers. To enemies. To now I was her boss, and she was my publicist. I did what I needed to do to ensure her future with me. I lied to the world and said we were engaged. She should have known better then to sign her life over to me… The Devil in a Suit.

A Hollywood love story, second chance romance from Wall Street Journal & USA Bestselling Author M. Robinson Lights, camera…action? She owed me a simple favor, and I had an offer she couldn’t refuse. It was supposed to be for show... so what if I’m still in love with her? She’s America’s sweetheart, and I’m Hollywood's bad boy, and action took on a completely different meaning. The director yelling cut did nothing to stop our complicated love story. If anything, it only blurred the line of what was fake and what was real.

We cannot love others well without speaking the truth Loving our neighbors well includes engaging in robust conversations that destabilize false belief systems. In addressing the mind, will, and emotions of actual, complex people, Christian believers must develop various approaches to meet diverse personalities and multiple connection points. In Persuasive Apologetics, pastor and professor Jeffrey M. Robinson explores what's below the surface of intellectual-sounding objections to Christianity. He shows what it means to contend for the truth through real-life examples of communicating with those who hold differing beliefs. Robinson covers foundational and practical issues, such as • the importance of demeanor in being persuasive • various apologetic approaches • the influence of worldview presuppositions • using undercutting defeaters to expose faulty thinking • causes of nonbelief • the historical Jesus compared with figureheads of competing belief systems • the hope that Jesus offers Persuasive Apologetics will challenge serious seekers to peel back the layers of skeptical arguments and equip committed Christians looking to hone their apologetics skills.

This book explores the leadership of state and federal environmental agencies and local environmental groups in restoring the degraded rivers that flow into North America’s Great Lakes and other sites in the northeastern industrial corridor of the US. Robinson examines twenty of the forty-eight sites included in the Areas of Concern Program of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the US. These twenty include heavily urbanized locales such as those along the River Rouge and Detroit River, but also more pristine locales such as the St. Louis River that flows through Duluth. Additionally, Robinson examines challenging river restorations within the northeastern industrial corridor which are led by effective local environmental advocacy organizations: the Penobscot Nation of Indigenous People, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and the Housatonic River Valley Association. All of these river restorations are led and managed by the environmental experts of (i) state and federal agencies, (ii) academia, and (iii) environmental NGOs. Local restorations of industrially degraded water bodies now compose a significant segment of the environmental movement and, ultimately, Robinson demonstrates that local environmental advocacy organizations can help marshal state and local funding for those efforts.

Courage is a choice -- your choice. If you wish, you can design and follow your own personal roadmap for a courageous life. In her powerful new book, visionary business leader Dee M. Robinson shows you how to transform your life by building up the courage to hear your own authentic internal voice. That voice is what points you toward your best self -- and when you have the courage to hear it, that voice can teach you to overcome fear, make brave, bold choices, and find joy in fulfilling your true purpose in life. Strengthening your courage muscle, Robinson maintains, is a matter of learning, practicing, and living the Courage Commandments she has shared with students and audiences around the country: Assume Full Control of Your Thoughts Be the CEO of You Break the Addiction to Fear Harness the Power of Faith Find Your Calling Play to Your Strong Suit Connect with Allies Who Are Focused on Solutions Choose Who You Do (and Don’t) Share Your Dreams With Find Success In Failure Your Secret Weapon: Give, Give and Give Again with Integrity ...and a special eleventh commandment: +1: Win the Race: Make Good Trouble by Putting Your Heart and Soul into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion The book also features Ms. Robinson’s personal interviews with some of the most successful--and brave--leaders on the scene today. Each shares personal insights on using the Courage Commandments to design, and live, a life of bold, tenacious contribution.

This coursebook offers an exciting new approach to teaching criminal law to graduate and undergraduate students, and indeed to the general public. Each well-organized and student-friendly chapter offers historical context, tells the story of a principal historic case, provides a modern case that contrasts with the historic, explains the legal issue at the heart of both cases, includes a unique mapping feature describing the range of positions on the issue among the states today, examines a key policy question on the topic, and provides an aftermath that reports the final chapter to the historic and modern case stories. By embedding sophisticated legal doctrine and analysis in real-world storytelling, the book provides a uniquely effective approach to teaching American criminal law in programs on criminal justice, political science, public policy, history, philosophy, and a range of other fields.

Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Cosmic Saboteur", "You Don't Walk Alone", and "Wanted: One Sane Man", all by Frank M. Robinson.

This book offers students a philosophical introduction to the ethical foundations of business management. It combines lessons from Kant with virtue ethics and also touches upon additional approaches such as utilitarianism. At the core of the book lies the concept of the nexus of imperfect managerial duty: building and reinforcing the virtuous managerial team, engaging in reasoned discourse among all stakeholders, and diligently pursuing business responsibilities, including the creative efforts necessary for modern organizations. Case illustrations of these applications are presented throughout the book, including chapter appendices. Ancillary videos, test and answer banks and sample syllabi are available online via the author’s website.

Black Cat Weekly #12 presents: Mystery / Suspense: “A Thanksgiving Mystery,” by Hal Charles [A Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “The Beacon Hill Suicide,” by Shelly Dickson Carr [Barb Goffman Presents short story] “Model for Manslaughter,” by Paul Chadwick [short story] “Big Talk,” by Kris Neville [short story] “The Good Old Summer Crime,” by James MacCreigh [short story] Speak of the Devil, by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding [novel] Science Fiction / Fantasy “Where Dead Men Dream,” by John Glasby [short story] “On the Rocks at Slab’s,” by John Gregory Betancourt [short story] Cosmic Saboteur, by Frank M. Robinson [novel] The Scheme of Things, by Lester del Rey [novel]

Black Cat Weekly #7 showcases new and classic science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries. Included in this issue: Mysteries “Death of a Light-Hearted Lady,” by Ruth Malone [short story] “The Soul of the Blue Bokhara,” by Frank Lovell Nelson [short story, Carl ton Clarke #7]] “Keys to Success,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “Mysterious Blues,” by Adam Meyer [Barb Goff man Presents Mys tery] A Killing in Swords, by Reginald Bretnor [novel] The Secret of Shangore, by Nicholas Carter [novel, Nick Carter series] Science Fiction & Fantasy Charlie Tells Another One, by Andy Duncan [short story] Cat in the Box, by A.R. Morlan [short story] Sympathy for Mad Scientists, by John Gregory Betancourt [short story] Guaranteed—Forever! by Frank M. Robinson [short story] Tyrants of Time, by Stephen Marlowe [pulp science fiction novel] The Ghost of Guir House, by Charles Willing Beale [Victorian horror novel]

"Covering the first two centuries of the Ming dynasty, this study explores how martial spectacles were represented in poetry, prose, and portraiture, revealing they were highly charged sites of contestation, where emperors and court ministers staked claims about rulership, ruler-minister relations, and the role of the military in the polity"--Provided by publisher.

Preliminary Material --Introduction --The Ming Court --Bestowing the Double-edged Sword: Wanli as Supreme Military Commander /Kenneth M. Swope --The Eunuch Agency Directorate of Ceremonial and the Ming Imperial Publishing Enterprise /Scarlett Jang --The Jiajing Emperor's Interaction with His Lecturers /Hung-lam Chu --Didactic Picturebooks for Late Ming Emperors and Princes /Julia K. Murray --Imperial Agency in Ming Music Culture /Joseph S. C. Lam --Tibetan Buddhism and the Creation of the Ming Imperial Image /Dora C. Y. Ching --The Ming Court and the Legacy of the Yuan Mongols --Index --Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Memories of the Mongol Empire loomed large in fourteenth-century Eurasia. Robinson explores how Ming China exploited these memories for its own purposes.

You do everything right. Graduate high school. Go to college. Meet the man of your dreams. Get married. Have children. Then you drive off into the sunset in your soccer mom mini-van with your stick-figure family decals in the back window. Sounds almost perfect, right? Well, that's exactly how I planned my life to work out. Do you know what I didn't plan? I didn't plan on having infertility. I didn't plan on tears, doctor's appointments, negative pregnancy tests, or miscarriages. Life just didn't work out the way I planned. In Motherhood Interrupted, I will discuss my journey with infertility, but more importantly, my struggle between infertility and faith. Dive into this devotional and discover all of the promises that God has to offer for His daughters going through infertility. I pray that as you read this book, God will meet you right in the season you are in, and give you the encouragement needed to walk through this valley. He made you for this. He called you to live this very life. And while it doesn't seem fair, it is only a stepping stone to the plans He has for you, which are way better than you ever planned.

Not So Good a Gay Man is the compelling memoir of author, screenwriter, and activist Frank M. Robinson. Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) accomplished a great deal in his long life, working in magazine publishing, including a stint for Playboy, and writing science fiction such as The Power, The Dark Beyond the Stars, and thrillers such as The Glass Inferno (filmed as The Towering Inferno). Robinson also passionately engaged in politics, fighting for gay rights, and most famously writing speeches for his good friend Harvey Milk in San Francisco. This deeply personal autobiography, addressed to a friend in the gay community, explains the life of one gay man over eight decades in America. By turns witty, charming, and poignant, this memoir grants insights into Robinson's work not just as a journalist and writer, but as a gay man navigating the often perilous social landscape of 20th century life in the United States. The bedrock sincerity and painful honesty with which he describes this life makes Not So Good a Gay Man compelling reading. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Proven through years of religious, philosophical and psychological studies along with the longitudinal analysis of past and present subscribers of those willing to take heed to the lessons and precepts taught and communicated by Robinson - The Light Within Us All, Life Lessons Through Self-Discovery, an easy to read handbook, summarizes a program designed to help you achieve life goals, unconditional happiness, meaning, purpose, and total freedom. This book is broken-up into a 3-part series in order to promote the application and deliberation of its principles. At the end of this first installment you will have learned how and why to appreciate your origin, invest in yourself, discover and follow your passion, find your purpose, make bold changes, apply new life skills, and so much more. If you have ever wanted an opportunity to be the person you always wanted to be or do the things, you have always wanted to do. Here is your opportunity to get started.

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L. Gold, who rapidly made Galaxy the leading science fiction (sf) magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues rather than technology. Gold published many notable stories during his tenure, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fireman", later expanded as Fahrenheit 451; Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters; and Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. In 1952, the magazine was acquired by Robert Guinn, its printer. By the late 1950s, Frederik Pohl was helping Gold with most aspects of the magazine's production. When Gold's health worsened, Pohl took over as editor, starting officially at the end of 1961, though he had been doing the majority of the production work for some time. Under Pohl Galaxy had continued success, regularly publishing fiction by writers such as Cordwainer Smith, Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Silverberg. However, Pohl never won the annual Hugo Award for his stewardship of Galaxy, winning three Hugos instead for its sister magazine, If. In 1969 Guinn sold Galaxy to Universal Publishing and Distribution Corporation (UPD) and Pohl resigned, to be replaced by Ejler Jakobsson. Under Jakobsson the magazine declined in quality. It recovered under James Baen, who took over in mid-1974, but when he left at the end of 1977 the deterioration resumed, and there were financial problems—writers were not paid on time and the schedule became erratic. By the end of the 1970s the gaps between issues were lengthening, and the title was finally sold to Galileo publisher Vincent McCaffrey, who brought out only a single issue in 1980. A brief revival as a semi-professional magazine followed in 1994, edited by H. L. Gold's son, E. J. Gold; this lasted for eight bimonthly issues. At its peak, Galaxy greatly influenced the science fiction field. It was regarded as one of the leading sf magazines almost from the start, and its influence did not wane until Pohl's departure in 1969. Gold brought a "sophisticated intellectual subtlety" to magazine science fiction according to Pohl, who added that "after Galaxy it was impossible to go on being naive." SF historian David Kyle agrees, commenting that "of all the editors in and out of the post-war scene, the most influential beyond any doubt was H. L. Gold". Kyle suggests that the new direction Gold set "inevitably" led to the experimental New Wave, the defining science fiction literary movement of the 1960s.

Have you ever lied? Held secrets? Betrayed someone? I have. McKenzie and I were best friends, soul sisters. We shared everything...or so she thought. To everyone I was perfect and happy. No one knew the real me. That was until I saw him. Everything changed the second we laid eyes on each other. The world stopped moving and only we existed in it. But it just added to the secrets and lies, it became too much and I couldn't tell apart what was real and what wasn't. This story is for anyone, who has ever lied and lived to regret it... Erotic Romance. Mature Audiences.

Concisely expressed, this is an introductory guide to the invasion and war between civilizations, pitting the rich culture of the Aztecs against soldiers fighting for riches.

The Nag Hammadi Story is not a history of research in the usual sense of a Forschungsbericht, which would report on the massive amount of scholarship that has been devoted to the content of the Nag Hammadi Codices for more than a half-century. Rather it is a socio-historical narration of just what went on during the thirty-two years from their discovery late in 1945, via their initial trafficking, and then the attempts to monopolize them, until finally, through the intervention of UNESCO, the whole collection of thirteen Codices was published in facsimiles and in English translation, both completed late in 1977.

Billionaire Edgar Wilkes and his beautiful wife, Madge, live a charmed life. Edgar is a neurosurgeon, while Madge is a financial writer and talented television personality. They have every luxury money can buy mansions, a private jet, fancy cars, and numerous other material things that come with great wealth. What’s more, they are both Christians. Even so, there is one thing Edgar and Madge don’t have—indeed, can’t have—and that is a child. No matter how hard they try or what science they use, a baby is one dream they never achieve. The same cannot be said for a destitute runaway named Marlene, who lives in the ghetto and struggles to take care of her newborn child. One day, Madge gets lost and finds young Marlene on the porch of an abandoned house in a horrible part of town. Madge initially stops to ask for directions, but her simple question becomes so much more as the women form a miraculous bond that only God could orchestrate. Through a lesson on the true grace of God, Madge must discover there are some gifts that money can’t buy.

This is the dramatic story of the most crucial year in the history of the American West, 1876, when the wars between the United States Government and the Indian Nations reached a peak. Telling a great deal about Indian cultures, history, beliefs and personality, this is the first book to cover the whole year, rather than simply its components. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

Introduction to Crime Scene Photography acquaints the reader with the essentials of basic crime scene photography techniques. It looks at the concepts related to composition and relates them to the types of photographs captured by crime scene photographers. It explains how to capture images based on the exposure settings chosen to produce the effect desired. It considers the techniques used needed to control and maximize Depth of Field (DOF), and reviews how the different lenses will affect an image. Organized into seven chapters, the book begins with an overview of crime scene photography and composition, including the three cardinal rules of good photography. It then proceeds with a discussion of the benefits of bounce flash and how to utilize this technique to properly compose the subject of interest. It also explains how to capture any image necessary at the crime scene by combining the concepts of composition, nonflash exposure, DOF, flash exposure, and the use of various types of lenses. In addition, the reader is introduced to various energy sources and filters, digital processing of evidentiary photography, and legal issues related to photographs and digital images. Examples and illustrations are provided throughout to demonstrate how the concepts examined tend to form a sort of symbiotic relationship. This text will benefit scene investigators and photographers, forensic consultants, forensic scientists, undergraduate students in forensic and/or criminal justice programs, law enforcement professionals, and anyone who wants to acquire the skills needed to be a successful crime scene photographer. - Contains over 350 high-quality 4-color images - Rules of Thumb are included to highlight key concepts

In December 1945, at the base of cliffs that run along the Nile River near the modern-day town of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer discovered a sealed jar containing thirteen ancient Coptic codices. This discovery represented arguably the most significant manuscript discovery of the twentieth century for the study of the New Testament and Christian origins. Of all the texts found none has been more important than the Gospel of Thomas for our understanding of early Christianity. This classic book presents the best text and the best translation of Thomas in user-friendly form. Additional chapters provide a general introduction to the Gospel of Thomas and tell the fascinating story of that discovery itself by one who was directly involved in bringing this new Gospel to light. An annotated list "for further reading" completes the volume. This new edition features updated material which takes account of recent research on the gospel of Thomas. The translation has been refined at points, and the bibliographical material updated.

In December 1945, at the base of cliffs that run along the Nile River near the modern-day town of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer discovered, in a sealed jar, thirteen ancient Coptic codices containing more than fifty separate tracts. This discovery represented arguably the most significant manuscript discovery of the twentieth century for the study of the New Testament and Christian origins. Of all the texts in this Nag Hammadi Library, none has been more celebrated than the Gospel of Thomas--a Gospel that has played a crucial role in the newly emerging view of early Christianity as a very diverse phenomenon and in the recent revival of historical Jesus studies. Now, after more than fifty years of study, the best text and the best translation of Thomas are presented here in user-friendly form by the Berlin Working Group for Coptic Gnostic Writings, with Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson. In addition, two essays have been included for persons who may be unfamiliar with this new Gospel or with events that led to its discovery and publication. The first, by Patterson, is a general introduction to the Gospel of Thomas as it appears fifty years after its discovery. The second, by Robinson, tells the fascinating story of that discovery itself by one who was directly involved in bringing this new Gospel to light. An annotated list "for further reading" completes the volume. Stephen J. Patterson is Associate Professor of New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary and author of The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning (Trinity Press). James M. Robinson is the former director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Professor Emeritus at The Claremont Graduate School, and editor of The Nag Hammadi Library.

Crime Scene Photography is a book wrought from years of experience, with material carefully selected for ease of use and effectiveness in training, and field tested by the author in his role as a Forensic Services Supervisor for the Baltimore County Police Department.While there are many books on non-forensic photography, none of them adequately adapt standard image-taking to crime scene photography. The forensic photographer, or more specifically the crime scene photographer, must know how to create an acceptable image that is capable of withstanding challenges in court. This book blends the practical functions of crime scene processing with theories of photography to guide the reader in acquiring the skills, knowledge and ability to render reliable evidence. - Required reading by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board for all levels of certification - Contains over 500 photographs - Covers the concepts and principles of photography as well as the "how to" of creating a final product - Includes end-of-chapter exercises

This Book, BEHIND THE SCENE, Gods Ultimate Purpose Unfold, is undoubtedly, one of the most unique, Inspirational, Christian Novel of all time. The setting of this Book, begins with a little country girl, eight and a half years old born in South Carolina, which, remained there for the most part, of her earlier years, living first with her Paternal Grandmother and later with both, Paternal and Maternal, an unusual setup, to say the least, prior to rejoining her Parents, brother and little sister, up North. She had already been introduced to tragedy at some point, due to the loss of a sister, who passed away, at a very young age. A terrible time for her family and her. Episodes, experiences that would change her life, a paramount significance, from her experiences, that it would lay a foundation, which would become the base for her life as an adult. Beginning with Chapter(s) 1 through 9, AT A GLANCE, Gods Ultimate Purpose Unfold! LOOKING BACK ONE: Those Teenage Years, LOOKING BACK TWO: The Interim of The 20s and 30s. THE RAILING ACCUSATIONS: The Call To Service, The Awakening, and A Premature Conclusion. As well, THE DECIDING FACTORS: The First Factor and The Second Factor. THE VISIT: A Friends Church. AS WELL, THE FEAR: The Control. THE MINISTRY PHASE: The Follow-Up Aspect AND LASTLY, CONCLUDING WITH, Oh! Give Thanks, The Close of the Book, and Inserts. An intense, dramatic portrait of factual events, the Prelude to synoptic views and experiences, to say the least, only to realize that at its end, a Book would be birthed of such magnitude, setting the tone for all that would follow, for the rest of her life, entitled, BEHIND THE SCENE, Gods Ultimate Purpose Unfold! as well, as the birthing of many other books in the future.