Robert Irwin has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 2★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Arabian Nights.
The Arabian Nights
Summary
Martyn Green reads a selection of stories from The Arabian Nights including "Aladdin", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "The Flying Horse", and "The Speaking Bird".
©2011 Saland Publishing (P)2011 Saland Publishing
Ibn Khaldun
Summary
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas. Irwin tells how Ibn Khaldun, who lived in a world decimated by the Black Death, held a long series of posts in the tumultuous Islamic courts of North Africa and Muslim Spain, becoming a major political player as well as a teacher and writer. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin describes how Ibn Khaldun's life and thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. Because Ibn Khaldun's ideas often seem to anticipate by centuries developments in many fields, he has often been depicted as more of a modern man than a medieval one, and Irwin's account of such misreadings provides new insights about the history of Orientalism. In contrast, Irwin presents an Ibn Khaldun who was a creature of his time - a devout Sufi mystic who was obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an often-strange world quite different from our own.
©2018 Robert Irwin (P)2018 Princeton University Press
Tips & Traps for Negotiating Real Estate (Third Edition)
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Fully revised and expanded - the classic guide to negotiating every aspect of any real estate transaction. Real estate guru Bob Irwin breaks down all the common negotiating "tips and traps" when it comes to buying and selling in real estate. Beginning with the golden rule of real estate - everything is negotiable - the all-new third edition of this easy-to-listen-to guide helps homeowners and investors like you maximize profits by avoiding the common pitfalls standing in the way of getting the deal you want. Fully updated for real estate investors in any economic climate, this comprehensive guide delivers useful tools for every step along the way, along with rock-solid advice for sellers and buyers on: Getting a better price in a down market Negotiating a quick sale Dealing with reluctant lenders Keeping the upper hand when buying a foreclosed property Talking a seller into financing your purchase And more... Robert Irwin is a real estate broker, investor, and author. He is a regular guest on many radio and television programs as well as the author of more than 35 books on all aspects of real estate, including the McGraw-Hill best-selling Tips & Traps series, which has sold well over a million copies. Irwin lives in Westlake Village, California.
©2005 Robert Irwin (P)2020 Robert Irwin
Wonders Will Never Cease
Summary
An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of Thrones - For Fans of T. H. White, George R. R. Martin, and Philippa Gregory. Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, Wonders Will Never Cease relates the fabulous adventures of one man and his noble family amid the chaos and political intrigue that beset England during the War of the Roses, when two great houses battled for control of the throne. The young Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales and brother to the future queen, Elizabeth Woodville, seems to die during that battle and be resurrected. While dead, he witnesses the Grail ceremony last seen during the age of King Arthur, before England was cursed by war and Hell so filled with bodies that the dead now walk the land. What he wakes to and witnesses for the rest of his life as he defends his king is a ceaseless stream of wonders: a family rumored to be descended from the fairy Melusine and imbued with her dragon's blood; a talking head that predicts the future; a miraculous cauldron; a museum of skulls; alchemists and wizards; the Swordsman's Pentacle; and plenty of battles, sieges, swordplay, jousts, treachery, murder, beheadings, and horrific torture. And all the while, stories - some so porous that their characters enter history and threaten their maker.
©2016 Robert Irwin (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.