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Robert Rowland Smith
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Robert Rowland Smith

Robert spent the first part of his career as a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the second as a partner in a leading firm of management consultants.He has written for The Independent, been profiled in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, contributed to books on philosophy for children, and broadcast for BBC Radio. Robert now divides his time between consulting, writing, and giving talks about the philosophy of life. He lives in London with his wife and has three daughters.

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Driving with Plato will be released on February 14, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Christian Science Monitor, May 9, 2012
...out in the gym – all the commonplace mile markers in our most ordinary days have philosophical implications. Robert Rowland Smith – an Oxford don-turned-management consultant – unwraps these for us. Best of all, he manages to be hip and funny as he...
The Independent, March 10, 2012
...Me records a dancer's memories of Auschwitz. Offering is about a bullfighter preparing for a fight. As Robert Rowland Smith says, Gersht "presents us with self-consciously sublime imagery, while reminding us that the sublimity has come at a cost"...
The Independent, November 13, 2011
...but I'm sorry to have to run for the last train to London. "Never move back here, Robert," Smith says. "Manchester is terrible. Stay down south." What, I ask, are his future plans? "Me? I'm coming to live with you. Tomorrow." I don't...
WHMI 93.5 FM, November 10, 2011
...last part of the library’s series on the book will take place on November 16th, when speaker Robert Smith from Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will discuss the setting of Detroit in the 1920’s. (TD...
Associated Content, October 25, 2011
...office party? Abner's dressed up as the Joker. With glasses. Or is it a scary clown? Trickster? Robert Smith from the Cure? Ronald McDonald? Kind of blends together over time. Every year, a variation on the same ideas. She's dressed up like an angel, she...
WXEL, October 11, 2011
...biscotti. "Now, biscotti were not invented in Seattle to go along with Starbucks," author Michael Krondl tells Robert Smith, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered. Krondl is the author of a new book, Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert. He...
NPR, October 8, 2011
...be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Robert Smith introduces the stories "The Weatherby" by Nicholas Googins of Waltham, Massachusetts, and "Turnover" by Margaret Friedman of Seattle,...
Guitar International Magazine, October 4, 2011
...from his Goth music influences,  Bauhaus’s Peter Murphy, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, and The Cure’s Robert Smith, all which were also heavily drawn into the film realization, as well as Brandon Lee’s wardrobe, look, and acting characterization....
Rikki's Teleidoscope, September 21, 2011
...Dr. Seuss. If you are a fan of The Cure then you want to read this interview with Robert Smith at The Guardian. Steampunk C3P0 and R2D2, storm troopers and other cool robots can be found on the flickr page of Space Boy Robot...
NFL Gridiron Gab, September 19, 2011
...record. As long as he stays healthy, he should shatter the record by end of this year. 1. Robert Smith 6,8182. Adrian Peterson 6,0003. Chuck Foreman 5,887 Again, despite a loss, just wanted to take some time out to congratulate Adrian Peterson for...
BuyZombie.com, September 12, 2011
...Mandi Hidalgo , Chip Fehd , Stuart Conover liked this post Review: The Living End by: James Robert Smith One hundred and Fifty million zombies. Sixty Million Dogs. All of them hungry for warm human flesh The dead have risen, killing anyone they find....
Hill Cantons, July 31, 2011
...Photo of a calligraphy document Political notes on the various princes and princesses 14 pages of art from Robert Smith (and Barker's correspondence about it) Swords & Glory Section 15 with Barker's notes Temple of Qon information Temple of Vimuhla...
Side-Line news feed, July 21, 2011
...More related news : After the rain there is still The Cure Bandmembers and tour manager leave The Cure, Robert Smith starts online quarrel with popular fansite December release for new The Cure live DVD eBay madness for London charity gig The Cure...
Whiskey & Gunpowder, July 8, 2011
...t dare try the more decadent dishes such as the ten-strip bacon-weave gyro-meat artery-clogger known as the Trainwreck. (Robert Smith from NPR’s PlanetMoney podcast visited PorcFest too, and he also sampled George’s cuisine.) Another vendor who...