Andrew Robinson

"The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life--initially by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis. In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein was living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon his Berlin home and go 'on the run'? In this ground-breaking...

I am a 52 year old man who owns his own house and three cars, two of them a Lexus. I have worked at General Dynamics for almost 11 years now and before that I worked at EF Data for 13 years. I have been married to a chinese woman for 21 years now. You might think, "So what?", but I used to be a ward of the State of California, having been through 13 homes in 16 years until I aged out of the system back in 1978. I have been on my own ever since. You...

Do you want to be successful as a team member in a virtual team? Are you one of the Millennials and members of Generation Z that seek remote work due to its flexibility, freedom, and creativity boost? Are you a manager that has to face the new virtual work environment and transform itself into a virtual team manager? A two-year Stanford study, recently released, showed that 16% of the global companies are fully remote working and 66% of the companies...

The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatles-from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth Beatle is an uplifting, tragic, and ultimately inspirational human story about the struggle to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Brian himself died painfully lonely...

When marine biologist Lee Archer is approached by the Department of Homeland Security for help with a new threat, she declines, but quickly realizes they won't take no for an answer. Soon she is plunging to the depths of the Arctic Circle to a secret, underwater oil rig filled with roughnecks and scientists on the brink of an incredible discovery. But when things go horribly wrong, this scientific safe haven will turn into a house of horrors at the...

Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Champollion, widely regarded as the founder of Egyptology. Andrew Robinson meticulously reconstructs how Champollion cracked the code of the hieroglyphic script, describing how Champollion started with Egyptian obelisks in Rome and papyri in European collections, sailed the Nile for a year, studied the tombs in the Valley of the Kings (a name he first coined), and carefully compared the...