Rubin: 435 books
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
When I realized that nobody had written a comprehensive history of Jewish assimilation, I knew that I had to try doing it myself. It was a remarkable learning experience as I researched a wide range of cultural and historical issues and discovered lots of people and events of which I’d previously...
Looking Back, Moving On
Memoir as Prologue (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2003
It takes courage and perseverance to revisit the days and nights of our lives and write down what we find to make a record of our lives. Looking Back, Moving On provides the guide to begin the adventure and helps us through the pleasures and pitfalls, the joys and the sorrows that may be encountered....
Dante in Love
The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2005
Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. He found a vision...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The evolution of dictatorship is as much a part of history as the development of democracy. In our ear persuasion has become as powerful a force as repression in creating and maintaining such regimes. Debates over the nature of these systems are at the center of the contemporary U.S. and European...
The Muse of the Revolution
The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
Freedom and Order
How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks_and Why Sometimes They Don't
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
The book examines how governments and publics react to terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. It focuses specifically on why civil liberties are abridged in some cases and not in others. The chapters cover the topic by looking at it through a number of different lenses,...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This book is a history of the State Department but, more broadly, of the American foreign policymaking process. It narrates the development of both the decision-making institutions and the content of policy from the founding of the republic through the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Few...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2013
Cauldron of Turmoil was written as a history--that I hoped to present in an exciting narrative way--of the dramatic developments in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s and 1980s and how they made this area the highest priority for U.S. foreign policy. The combination of Iran’s Islamist revolution and...
Eye of the Hurricane
My Path from Darkness to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, this is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a 20th-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully convicted. Exploring Carter’s personal philosophy-born of the unimaginable...
Anti-Semitism
A Disease of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
As a psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin learned that Anti-Semitism and other deep-seated prejudices are non-organic diseases of the mind: malignant emotional illnesses that can be treated by only first understanding the unique psychodynamics involved. Little has been written about this aspect of bigotry. "Anti-Semitism"...
What Your Divorce Lawyer May Not Tell You
The 125 Questions Every Woman Should Ask
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
The 125 Questions every woman must ask!
Helping readers to make rational decisions in an irrational time, this expert guide takes women through the practical issues of divorce—especially the things their lawyer may not reveal. When it comes to divorce, what you don’t know CAN hurt you…and...
The Joseph Blessing
Change the World with Your God-Given Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Step into God’s divine blessing and fulfill your dreams!
Are you ready to see your dreams go from vision to fulfillment? To see God’s promised blessings revealed in your life? Join Jordan Rubin and Dr. Pete Sulack as you discover how Joseph endured incredible opposition and persecution,...
The Rabbi’s Wife
The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought
Long the object of curiosity, admiration, and gossip, rabbis' wives have rarely been viewed seriously as American Jewish religious and communal leaders. We know a great deal about the important role played by rabbis in building American Jewish...
Progress and Confusion
The State of Macroeconomic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”?
What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...