Rubin: 435 books
Federalism
Political Identity and Tragic Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Federalism is one of the most influential concepts in modern political discourse as well as the focus of immense controversy resulting from the lack of a single coherent definition. Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin expose the ambiguities of modern federalism, offering a powerful but generous treatise...
Synthetic Socialism
Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple...
by Rubin Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
By: Alma BuenvistaOakland Public School TeacherWith so much to say about Rubin Scott's book, It Takes a Village, if I had to choose one word to encapsulate the essence I would say: inspiring. Rubin Scott unpacks the harsh realities of growing up in an impoverished community and presents it to you...
by Miri Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became Barbarian...
by Danny Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For everyone who struggles to write about their business......your problem is solved.In his anticipated second book, Wait, How Do I Promote My Business?, communications expert Danny Rubin provides 100+ attention-grabbing templates for website content, LinkedIn, press releases, crowdfunding...
Future Presence
How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection.
Heralded...
The Great Physician's Rx for Health and Wellness
Seven Keys to Unlock Your Health Potential
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2007
At 19 years old, Jordan Rubin was a healthy 6'1" and 180 pounds. Shockingly, his weight fell to just 104 lbs. in a matter of months. His immune system was at an all-time low, as he suffered from Crohn's disease, food allergies, anemia, fibromyalgia, intestinal parasites, and a host of other conditions....
Soul, Self, and Society
The New Morality and the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account...
Deviations
A Gayle Rubin Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing...
Decentering the Regime
Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1997
Since 1989 an indigenous political movement—the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)—has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged an unprecedented...
by Marina Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
"In Stealing Cherries, Marina Rubin offers us a collection of precisely chiseled blocks of soulful, funny, heart-rending fiction."-Ted Jonathan, author of Bones & Jokes
"Part old-fashioned gal who begs airport security to allow through her dearly departed grandmother's eyebrow...
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
A Brief Account of a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank—Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.
Like no other portrait of its...
by Jerry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Jerry Rubin, co-founder of the Yippie movement and a member of the Chicago Seven, traces his personal odyssey from radical activist of the 60’s to a practitioner in the growth potential movements of the 70’s—'Working to change in me the things I opposed externally in the streets.'
Finding...
The Man with the Beautiful Voice
And more Stories from the Other Side of the Couch
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Beautifully crafted stories of psychotherapy-told for the first time from the perspective of the therapist
In her long career as a psychotherapist, acclaimed author Lillian Rubin occasionally encountered patients who demanded a very special, even unorthodox, therapeutic approach. For the first...