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  • The Gentleman from Finland

    Adventures on the Trans-Siberian Express

    by Robert M. Goldstein ...
    Two days aboard what he believes is the Trans-Siberian Express, the author discovers he’s on the wrong train. It is 1987, and he is traveling in the Soviet Union, holding a train ticket that mistakenly identifies him as a Finn. In fact, he is a short, dark-skinned Mexican-American-Russian-Jew, who speaks only enough Russian to proclaim that he is Bob, the tourist from America. As the trip unfolds, ... Read more

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  • Riding with Reindeer

    A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway

    by Robert M. Goldstein ...
    In the summer of 2007, Robert Goldstein departs Helsinki on a self-supported bicycle epic across Finland with the goal of pedaling to the Barents Sea. Aboard a folding bicycle towing a wagon, he weathers furious storms, survives a near-disastrous accident and obsesses whether he will be eaten by a bear as he makes his way through the remote forests of Eastern Finland. In sparsely populated Lapland ... Read more

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  • Cat's Whisker

    by Robert Goldstein ...
    Cat's Whisker is the story of Samuel Baron, an engineer, inventor, and successful entrepreneur. Trained as a scientist, Baron nonetheless nurtures a lifelong fascination with mysticism and spirituality, investigating themes as varied and interesting as meditation, jiu-jitsu, biology, anthropology, tai chi, BDSM-and the search for the perfect cocktail. His life is a quest-ultimately a successful ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Last Passenger Train

    A Rail Journey Across Canada

    by Robert M. Goldstein ...
    Join author Robert Goldstein and his wife, Melinda Denson, on a seemingly idyllic trip to celebrate his retirement by traversing Canada on the remnants of its once robust transcontinental train service. More than a routine travelogue, the author describes what happens when two individuals marry late in life, then spend a week crammed in a train compartment. Goldstein is determined to cure his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert Hayden

    Essays on the Poetry

    Edited by Laurence Goldstein, Robert Chrisman ...
    Series series Under Discussion
    This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden’s growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century’s most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed “Middle Passage” and “Frederick Douglass.” The essays illuminate the themes and techniques that established Hayden as a modernist writer with affinities to T. S. Eliot, Federico ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative

    Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior

    by Robert G. Goldstein ...
    Series series Explorations in Mental Health
    This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience—an assumption that still widely dominates folk psychology as well as the perspective of many mental health practitioners. This tendency continues despite powerful evidence from the field of behavioral genetics that genetic endowment dwarfs other discrete influences ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Betta Handbook

    by Robert J. Goldstein ...
    Series series B.E.S. Pet Handbooks
    Titles in B.E.S.'s popular series of Pet Handbooks present comprehensive information and helpful advice from breeders, veterinarians, and other pet experts. These full-color books instruct on housing, feeding, healthcare, and more. In The Betta Handbook, those interested in these brilliantly colored beginners' fishes will learn how to keep them well-fed and healthy so they can continue to brighten ... Read more

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  • The Power of Resilience : Achieving Balance, Confidence, and Personal Strength in Your Life: Achieving Balance, Confidence, and Personal Strength in Your Life

    Achieving Balance, Confidence, and Personal Strength in Your Life

    by Dr. Robert Brooks, Sam Goldstein ...
    "Continuing their pioneering work on resilience, they now show how and why it is never too late for adults to find strength and safety in life."--Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction"A uniquely wise guide summarizing a vast amount of research into a practical set of strategies to overcome adversity and live a stress-hardy life."--Jack Canfield, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Golda's Hutch

    by Robert Steven Goldstein ...
    "A scintillating take on marital and workplace dramas with compelling characters and devilish surprises...Goldstein's precise, elegant prose cleverly takes its time revealing his characters' secret desires, building suspense for fun to come...when readers are alone with each character's thoughts, the author serves up something delicious." -Kirkus ReviewsHow well do you really know the people you ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Little 'Red Scares'

    Anti-Communism and Political Repression in the United States, 1921-1946

    Edited by Robert Justin Goldstein ...
    Anti-communism has long been a potent force in American politics, capable of gripping both government and popular attention. Nowhere is this more evident that the two great 'red scares' of 1919-20 and 1946-54; the latter generally - if somewhat inaccurately - termed McCarthyism. The interlude between these two major scares has tended to garner less attention, but as this volume makes clear, the ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Ecology and Environmental Ethics

    Green Wood in the Bundle of Sticks

    by Robert Jay Goldstein ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 2004. Examining the successes and failures of three decades of environmental law, this absorbing book reconsiders some of the policies devised to remedy centuries of abuse of the planet. It acknowledges the advances made using technological standards to effect pollution control as well as rudimentary systems that regulate use of land at the local level. However, as the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Frightful Stage

    Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Robert Justin Goldstein ...
    In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class’s time and energy, with a particularly focus ... Read more

    $21.99 USD