Robbins: 623 books
The Overachievers
The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens
In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating...
Equipment for Living
On Poetry and Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
“Funny and smart” (The New Yorker) criticism of why we turn to art—specifically to poetry and popular music—and how it serves as an essential tool to understanding life.
How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno...
Voices of the Food Revolution
You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Did you know that:
More than 80% of the foods you eat in restaurants and buy at supermarkets contain genetically engineered ingredients, and that these ingredients have been linked to toxic and allergic reactions in people; sickness, sterility, and fatalities in livestock; and damage to virtually...
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction, Alexandra Robbins manages to cross Gossip Girl with Freaks and Geeks and explain the fascinating psychology and science behind popularity and outcasthood. She reveals that the things that set students apart in high school are the things...
Upward Mobility and the Common Good
Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward...
Landscapes of Promise
The Oregon Story, 1800-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental...
by Jeffrey Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of...
by Heidi Rose Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Poetry and Prose by Heidi Rose Robbins. Heidi is a poet, astrologer and podcast host of The Radiance Project. She regularly offers Radiant Life Retreats for all who wish to grow their light and live full, passionate, expressive lives. Each of Robbins’ poems beckons us to feel more, express...
by Forbes Robbins Blair
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Change Your Life As You Read - With These Powerful Self Hypnosis Scripts From A Proven Source!
"Let Go of the Baby Weight," "Get Over Your Ex," "Relieve Social Anxiety," "Manifest a New Job," "Eat Less Chocolate"
Those are just a few...
Tithing in the New Testament Age: Is It Biblical?
A Biblical and Historical Analysis of Tithing Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The practice of giving the first ten percent of one's income to a church or ministry has become a topic of debate in recent years. Having been widely accepted for generations, tithing has now come under fire by a growing segment of today's Church who insist that tithing passed away with the Old Testament...
by Lawrence D. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The art of treating headache patients is a complex one, and there are a myriad of medication possibilities. Dr. Robbins has managed to present a clear and practical approach to headache medicines. He brings us through standard first line therapies into more complex "end of the line" medi...
Money
Die 7 einfachen Schritte zur finanziellen Freiheit
Language: German
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Mehr als 10 Jahre sind seit seiner letzten Veröffentlichung in Deutschland vergangen, jetzt meldet sich Anthony Robbins zurück. Als Personal Trainer beriet er Persönlichkeiten wie Bill Clinton und Serena Williams sowie ein weltweites Millionenpublikum, nun widmet er seine Aufmerksamkeit den Finanzen....
by Christopher Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
The story of Michel Thomas reads like a thriller in which adventure and heartbreak combine to produce a unique form of wisdom. Until his death in 2005, he taught languages to ghetto kids, heads of industry and movie stars in a matter of days, succeeding even with people who considered themselves hopeless...
Dinero: domina el juego
Cómo alcanzar la libertad financiera en 7 pasos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2018
El dinero puede convertir nuestros sueños en una realidad. Para lograrlo, sin embargo, es necesario alcanzar la libertad financiera, es decir, ese punto en el que ya no se necesita trabajar para poder vivir. Hasta hace poco, únicamente los poderosos o quienes tenían buenos contactos podían acceder...