Rubin: 435 books
Almost a Princess
My Life as a Two-Time Cancer Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Its been said that cancer is a disease that steals away the feeling of perfection. Author Jane Loeb Rubin is all too familiar with this feeling. In Almost a Princess, she presents a collection of essays that document her twice-fought battle with cancer.
In this memoir, Rubin, a hospital administrator...
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Oil and the End of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American–a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book...
by Susan Goldman Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Since the early nineteenth century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In the only photo-essay book about the quilts of Gee’s Bend for children, award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin explores the history and culture of this fascinating group of...
Better Than Before
What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
New York Times Bestseller | Washington Post Bestseller
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**The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change? **
Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture...
The Carbon Bubble
What Happens to Us When It Bursts
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
As the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil.
For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the...
by Anele Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“The voice [in Anele Rubin’s poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest—there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me! . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas...
Budapest Diary
In Search of the Motherbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman (71,000 words and 2 photographs)
Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth — where...
The Last of the Doughboys
The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
“Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who...
by Joan Shelley Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise...
Hating America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Reviled as an imperialist power, an exporter of destructive capitalism, an arrogant crusader against Islam, and a rapacious over-consumer casually destroying the planet, it seems that the United States of America has rarely been less esteemed in the eyes of the world. In such an environment, one can...
by Howard A. Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
In 2010, global technology spending exceeded $4.2 trillion, equivalent to the world’s fourth largest economy—and its growth rate is substantially outstripping GDP growth in advanced economies. Virtually overnight, a massive “global technology economy” has emerged—and it’s gained far more...
by Lance Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
"Denton and his quirky friends are laugh-out-loud funny, even as their riotous adventures raise deeper questions about science, government control, life, and death." -- SLJ
You only live once—unless you’re Denton Little!
Denton Little lives in a world exactly like our own except...
by Jay Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Arriving in Seattle on the eve of World War II, Japanese-born Mitsuko falls for Tom, a widowed pastor, and becomes surrogate mother to his fair-haired American toddler, Bill. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor strains the newly formed family as U.S. government mandates and Tom’s growing discomfort...
by Barnett R. Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin has dedicated much of his career to the study of this remote mountain country. He served as a special advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke during his final mission to the region and still serves the Obama administration...