Tobin: 250 books
Elements of Surprise
Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire...
The Man He Became
How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion, and myth—Franklin Roosevelt’s ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House.
In 1921,...
Hidden in Plain View
A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.
In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard...
The Lull-A-Baby Sleep Plan
The Soothing, Superfast Way to Help Your New Baby Sleep Through the Night...and Prevent Sleep Problems Before They Develop
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
A renowned pediatrician explains her revolutionary new method for training infants to sleep right—from the start
Dr. Cathryn Tobin, pediatrician of 25 years, midwife, and mother of four, reveals a breakthrough discovery that will transform the way that parents put their infants and toddlers...
The Parent's Problem Solver
Smart Solutions for Everyday Discipline Dilemmas and Behavioral Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
IMAGINE HAVING A PEDIATRICIAN ON CALL TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT PARENTING.
From tantrums to sleeping problems, bullying to bed-wetting, The Parent’s Problem Solver offers parents quick, commonsense, and compassionate solutions that work, from an author who is not only a pediatrician...
Phonology as Human Behavior
Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Phonology as Human Behavior brings work in human cognition, behavior, and communication to bear on the study of phonology—the theory of sound systems in language. Yishai Tobin extends the ideas of William Diver—an influential linguist whose investigations into phonology reflect the principle that...
The Good Pope
The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church--The Story of John XXIII and Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
“John XXIII was, in the best possible sense, a revolutionary—a Pope of modernization who kept in continuity with the church’s past, yet made even the most enlightened of his 20th century predecessors seem like voices of another age.”
—Time magazine
“The story of Good Pope John is...
Confessions of a Compulsive Entrepreneur and Inventor
How I Secured Fifteen Patents, Started Ten Companies, and Became a Pioneer on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
The free market system is based on creative ideas: if you have one and know how to sell it, youll make money.Few people have had moreideas or generated more revenue from them than the author of this book.
Confessions of a Compulsive Entrepreneur is a practical, fascinating tale of Bill Tobin,...
by Paul Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A new, standalone Plants vs. Zombies graphic novel by award-winning creators Paul Tobin (Bandette, Mystery Girl) and Brian Smith (SpongeBob Comics, The Stuff of Legend)! Evil mastermind Zomboss is back, hoping to buy the same factory at the center of Neighborville that his nemesis Crazy Dave is eyeing!...
Everyday Piety
Islam and Economy in Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Working and living as an authentic Muslim—comporting oneself in an Islamically appropriate way—in the global economy can be very challenging. How do middle-class Muslims living in the Middle East navigate contemporary economic demands in a distinctly Islamic way? What are the impacts of these...
Beyond Sputnik
U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey...
Motherhood Optional
A Psychological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not a given (much less an instinct), New York psychotherapist Phyllis Ziman Tobin contends that choosing to be or not to be a mother is the defining rite of passage for today's woman. She draws on the composite struggles of real people to show how the...
Picturing Imperial Power
Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1999
This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial...
ExplaNation
Letters to My Grandson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
The work of uncovering wisdom is also like panning for gold. We swish through the streams of experience, and we find a spangle here and there. In Explanation, author Rick Tobin offers those spangles, those nuggets of truth, through a series of letters written to his grandson.
From abomination...