Rubin: 435 books
Tomatoes
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In Tomatoes, Miriam Rubin gives this staple of southern gardens the passionate portrait it deserves, exploring the tomato's rich history in southern culture and inspiring home cooks to fully enjoy these summer fruits in all their glorious variety. Rubin, a prominent food writer and tomato connoisseur,...
Eclipse of Man
Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us unprecedented power to redesign our bodies and our world. Futurists and activists tell us that we are drawing ever closer to a day when we will be as smart as computers, will be able...
Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston
Sketches and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Growing up in Charleston in the 1930s and 1940s, accomplished storyteller Louis Rubin witnessed firsthand the subtle gradations of caste and class among neighborhoods, from south of Broad Street where established families, ancestral glories, and traditional mores held sway, to the various enclaves...
by Lilian B. Rubin
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Hoe komt het dat sommige mensen het meest wrede, pijnlijke verleden te boven weten te komen, terwijl het bij anderen hun hele leven beheerst? In Het onverwoestbare kind geeft Lillian B. Rubin antwoord op deze indringende vraag aan de hand van de levensverhalen van volwassenen - waaronder dat van haarzelf-...
To Be and How to Be
Transforming Your Life through Sacred Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Life can be experienced as a great play — sometimes a comedy, sometimes a tragedy, sometimes an epic, sometimes a satire, but always a play. We can think of ourselves as the main character in our own story. Author Peggy Rubin brilliantly uses traditional theatre as a metaphor for living life more...
Qualitative Interviewing
The Art of Hearing Data
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Using in-depth qualitative interviews, authors Herbert J. Rubin and Irene S. Rubin have researched topics ranging from community redevelopment programs to the politics of budgeting and been energized by the depth, thoroughness, and credibility of what was revealed. They describe in-depth qualitative...
Soloing
Realizing Your Life's Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Soloing has two meanings: "going it alone" and being "complete in yourself." . . . But you don't just leave--a company/a career/a paycheck--and cross over to a more satisfying life. There's more to it. There is a mysterious passage to be negotiated, a delicate transition required...
Through the Heart of Dixie
Sherman's March and American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americans, women,...
The Art of Flourishing
A New East-West Approach to Staying Sane and Finding Love in an Insane World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
We all want more love in our lives, especially when the world requires more from us every day. Lasting intimacy—a close and enduring relationship with someone we love who cherishes us—is an indispensable source of strength, resilience, and hope, one that we especially turn to in challenging times....
The Politics of Public Budgeting
Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Using a “power struggles” theme to examine the dynamics of budgeting, Rubin’s classic text shines a bright light on the political jockeying between interest groups, parties, officials, policymakers, and the public. Expert at explaining budgeting changes over time, Rubin sets issues like the...
Essential Scrum
Umfassendes Scrum-Wissen aus der Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Umfassendes Scrum-Wissen auf Team-, Produkt- und Portfolio-Ebene
Kernkonzepte, Rollen, Planung und Sprints ausführlich erläutert
Auch geeignet zur Vorbereitung auf die Scrum-Zertifizierung
Dieses Buch beschreibt das Wesen von Scrum – die Dinge, die Sie wissen müssen, wenn Sie Scrum erfolgreich...
The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes
A Rubes Cartoon Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In his comic strip, Rubes, cartoonist and "sit-down" comedian Leigh Rubin takes a careful look at everyday situations and human nature--and then pokes fun at them. The result is a hilarious and often uncannily accurate exploration of our crazy life and times.Featuring favorite Rubes cartoons...
The Poser
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
**• Named one of the Huffington Post's 2015 Books We Can't Wait To Read •
**“Smart and absorbing. . . . Echoes of Steven Millhauser and Tom McCarthy. . . . Probing, witty.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A masterful debut . . . delivered with vaudeville verve.” —The...
by Lance Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
****The Snapchat Original series, Denton's Deathdate, is coming in September!**
Get ready to die laughing: this is an outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenager’s life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on.**
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Denton Little’s...