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  • PSYCHOANALYSIS, CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY DISCONTENTS
    RICARDO ALEJANDRO RUBINSTEIN
    Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its discontents – including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics – through a psychoanalytic lens. Each chapter considers an aspect of modern society and attempts to unpick these complex facets of the world we live in. Psychoanalytic understandings of the triggers and socio-environmental facto...

    $920.00

  • HOW PHOTOGRAPHY CHANGED PHILOSOPHY
    DANIEL RUBINSTEIN
    By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of representation, time, being, light, exposure, image, and truth, this book argues that photography is the visual manifestation of the philosophical account of how humans encounter beings in the present. Daniel Rubinstein argues that traditional understandings of photography are determined by the notions of verisimilitude and r...

    $1,160.00

  • RELUCTANT DISCIPLINARIAN
    GARY RUBINSTEIN
    In this funny and insightful book, Gary Rubinstein relives his own truly disastrous first year of teaching. He begins his teaching career armed only with idealism and romantic visions of teaching—and absolutely no classroom management skills. By his fourth year, he is named “Teacher of the Year.” As Rubinstein details his transformation from incompetent to successful teacher, h...

    $400.00

  • WOMEN IN THE NEW TAIWAN
    CATHERINE FARRIS / LEE ANRU / MURRAY A. RUBINSTEIN / AN EAST GATE BOOK
    Taiwan's rapid socio-economic and political transformation has given rise to a gender-conscious middle class that is attempting to redefine the roles of women in society, to restructure relationship patterns, and to organize in groups outside the family unit. This book examines internal psychological processes and external societal processes as the feminist movement in Taiwan e...

    $1,240.00

  • TAIWAN: A NEW HISTORY
    MURRAY A. RUBINSTEIN
    This book explores Taiwan's development from its beginnings as a political entity to a home for a Mingloyalist regime, to its centuries as a Ch'ing prefecture and province, to its half-century as a Japanese possession, and to fifty years as the home of the Kuomintang-controlled Republic of China. ...

    $1,560.00

  • THE WEST BANK HANDBOOK
    MERON BENVENISTI / ZIAD ABU-ZAYAD / DANNY RUBINSTEIN
    This book discusses social, institutional, legal, cultural and political topics relating to the West Bank to demystify the treatment of the highly contentious subject. It is based on the author's experience of what people want to know when they approach the West Bank Data Project for information. ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF PEACE AND CONFLICT
    ROBERT A RUBINSTEIN / MARY LECRON FOSTER
    This volume shows the importance for international security studies for better understanding the social dynamics of peace and conflict. It illustrates the crucial role that culture and symbols play in facilitating peace or fostering conflict and intended for anthropologists widely. ...

    $1,200.00

  • TALKING ABOUT SUPERVISION
    LAURA E. RUBINSTEIN
    This book offers us the wisdom of a distinguished group of international psychoanalysts about supervision and other aspects of the psychoanalytic training experience. It serves as a stimulus to our thinking about the most important aspect of psychoanalytic education. ...

    $700.00

  • DRESS CODES
    RUTH RUBINSTEIN / RUTH RUBENSTEIN
    Rich with illustrations, this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority, gender, seduction (the sexy look, the alluring look, the glamorous look, the vulnerable look), wealth and beauty, youth and health, and leisur...

    $1,600.00

  • SPORTS ON THE COUCH
    RICARDO A. RUBINSTEIN
    Bringing together concepts from psychoanalysis with an attentive eye and the author's popular wisdom, Sports on the Couch explores the psychology of athletes and those around them. As a product of our culture, sport enables a break for our minds, since it allows us to disconnect from internal as well as external realities. We immerse ourselves in the world of play, managing to ...

    $740.00

  • HAMAS AND IDEOLOGY
    SHAUL BARTAL / NESYA RUBINSTEIN-SHEMER
    Sheikh Yusūf al- Qaraḍāwī is regarded as the most influential contemporary Muslim religious figure. His best-selling book, Al-Ḥalal wal-Ḥaram fi al-Islam ("The Forbidden and the Permitted in Islam") is perhaps one of the most widely read Islamic works, after the Qur’ān. The subject of jihad in Palestine is a salient feature of Qaraḍāwī’s thought and is addressed frequently in h...

    $1,200.00

  • THE TRUTH WILL OUT
    BRENDA JAMES / WILLIAM RUBINSTEIN
    The question of who wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare’s life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. How could a man who left school at the age of 13, and apparently never travelled abroad have authored the incomparable Sonnets or so...

    $1,060.00

  • DOING FIELDWORK
    ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN
    Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934 and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and gu...

    $1,340.00

  • REGIONAL POWER RIVALRIES IN THE NEW EURASIA
    ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN / OLES M. SMOLANSKY
    This text discusses the relationship between Russia, Iran and Turkey since the collapse of the Soviet empire. These nations are the main rivals for influence in the Caucasas and Central Asia, with China a distant factor. ...

    $1,320.00

  • RUSSIA AND AMERICA: FROM RIVALRY TO RECONCILIATION
    GEORGE GINSBURGS / ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN / OLES M. SMOLANSKY
    Compiled against the background of the enormous sociopolitical change in China between 1970 and 1990, this work provides a detailed lexicography of political and social life in China. It includes 1600 entries, each averaging half a page in length. ...

    $780.00

  • PERESTROIKA AT THE CROSSROADS
    ALFRED J. RIEBER / ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN
    The contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or response), the collection surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date in various fields, including culture, economics, ideology, law, politics, federalism an...

    $1,160.00

  • THE OTHER TAIWAN, 1945-92
    MURRAY A. RUBINSTEIN
    Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan's political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations. A complex revisionist portrait of the country emerges. ...

    $1,160.00

  • PEACEKEEPING UNDER FIRE
    ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN
    The international community increasingly responds to civil wars, humanitarian crises, and other intrastate conflicts through the instrument of UN peacekeeping. Nearly all of these interventions take place in non-Western areas and involve interactions among militaries and nongovernmental organizations from all around the globe. In this wide-ranging book, Rubinstein draws on deca...

    $1,200.00

  • THE LEFT, THE RIGHT AND THE JEWS
    W.D. RUBINSTEIN
    First published in 1982, this book examines anti-semitism in the Western world. The author concludes that, fringe neo-Nazi groups notwithstanding, significant anti-semitism is largely a left-wing rather than a right-wing phenomenon. He finds that Jews have reacted to this change in their situation and in attitudes towards them by making a shift to the right in most Western coun...

    $1,160.00

  • CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY READER
    ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN
    An introduction to the main issues of American foreign policy as it has evolved during the first post-Cold War presidency. There are substantive excerpts from major presidential policy statements to illustrate the points and turning points discussed in each chapter. The collection is intended as a supplementary text in American foreign policy and contemporary international rela...

    $1,060.00

  • SHADOW PASTS
    WILLIAM D. RUBINSTEIN
    For many intelligent people, the stuff of history does not consist of the kind of dry-as-dust investigations of diplomatic, economic, or political history that most university historians research and write about, but the famous topics of historys mysteries- who was Jack the Ripper? Was there a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy? Did Richard III murder the Princes in the Tower...

    $1,120.00

  • GENOCIDE
    WILLIAM D. RUBINSTEIN
    Genocide is a topic beset by ambiguities over meaning and double standards. In this stimulating and gripping history, William Rubinstein sets out to clarify the meaning of the term genocide and its historical evolution, and provides a working definition that informs the rest of the book. He makes the important argument that each instance of genocide is best understood within a ...

    $1,120.00

  • A COURSE IN ORDINARY AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
    ZALMAN RUBINSTEIN
    A Course in Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations discusses ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. The book reviews the solution of elementary first-order differential equations, existence theorems, singular solutions, and linear equations of arbitrary order. It explains the solutions of linear equations with constant coefficients, operational...

    $970.00

  • DYING AND DISABLED CHILDREN
    DICK, HAROLD M. / PRICE ROYE JR., DAVID / BUSCHMAN, PENELOPE R. / KUTSCHER, AUSTIN H. / RUBINSTEIN, BORI
    In this sensitive and compassionate look at terminally ill and disabled children, professionals from the medical community examine the stresses faced by their parents and siblings. They address the crucial element of communication--within a family and between health care providers and family members--in dealing with a child’s serious illness. Ethical decision making, learning t...

    $640.00

  • MARX AND WITTGENSTEIN
    D. RUBINSTEIN
    First published in 2005. This book has two primary objectives. The first is to show that there are substantial parallels between the work of Marx and Wittgenstein, and the second is to apply a synthesis of these two thinkers to a variety of philosophical and theoretical disputes over the character of the social sciences. ...

    $1,320.00

  • FAST SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR COUNTING AND OPTIMIZATION
    REUVEN RUBINSTEIN
    A comprehensive account of the theory and application of Monte Carlo methods Based on years of research in efficient Monte Carlo methods for estimation of rare-event probabilities, counting problems, and combinatorial optimization, Fast Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Counting and Optimization is a complete illustration of fast sequential Monte Carlo techniques. The book pro...

    $1,396.00

  • FAST SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR COUNTING AND OPTIMIZATION
    REUVEN Y. RUBINSTEIN / AD RIDDER / RADISLAV VAISMAN
    A comprehensive account of the theory and application of Monte Carlo methods Based on years of research in efficient Monte Carlo methods for estimation of rare-event probabilities, counting problems, and combinatorial optimization, Fast Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Counting and Optimization is a complete illustration of fast sequential Monte Carlo techniques. The book pro...

    $1,396.00

  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
    DAVID RUBINSTEIN / BRIAN SIMON
    Originally published 1969. This reprints the second edition of 1973, with updated reading list and bibliography.This volume sets the movement towards comprehensive education against its historical background and discuss the main reasons for the decision to establish a national comprehensive system. ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE GIRL WHO NEVER MADE MISTAKES
    MARK PETT / GARY RUBINSTEIN
    Every student, teacher, and perfectionist needs to read this book about learning and growing from your mistakes! The perfect introduction to growth mindset, The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes is: A growth mindset book for kids A teacher must-have for classrooms An educational book for ages 4-8 (and for everyone learning growth mindset!) Beatrice Bottomwell has NEVER (not once!) m...

    $344.00

  • THE TRUTH WILL OUT
    BRENDA JAMES / WILLIAM D. RUBINSTEIN
    Motivated by scholarship and driven by curiosity, Shakespeare historian Brenda James applied a sixteenth-century code-breaking technique to the dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What she uncovered led her to the truth behind literature's greatest mystery. For more than 150 years, academics have questioned how William Shakespeare of Stratford, a man who left school at age thi...

    $229.00


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