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Re-Size America

Finding Your Perfect Weight

By: Jordan Rubin

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Re-Size America

Finding Your Perfect Weight

By: Jordan Rubin

Re-Size Your LIFE! Look around. What do you see? American obesity is at an all-time high, even while eating disorders plague teenagers, and the stick-thin model is touted as the pinnacle of beauty. Does this seem right? New York Times best-selling author Jordan Rubin certainly doesn’t think so. His 16-week health plan isn’t about losing ten pounds to look like a picture in a magazine. It’s about finding the perfect weight for you. This may not be what you weigh right now. It may not be what you best friend weighs, or what your mother weighs. But somewhere inside you, there is a perfectly thin you just waiting to be revealed. Based on a landmark study conducted by Rubin in “one of the unhealthiest cities in America,” Re-Size America has been created as a program to help you achieve your perfect weight. With solid medical advice from Bernard Bulwer, MD, an advanced clinical fellow at one of the premier teaching hospitals at Harvard Medical School, this book contains the blueprint for re-sizing your life!

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768403804

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Emotion and Devotion

The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures

By: Miri Rubin

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Emotion and Devotion

The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures

By: Miri Rubin

In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces and sermons – a wide range of sources from many European regions – are made to reveal the creativity and richness which they elicited in medieval people, women and men, clergy and laity, people of status and riches as well as those of modest means. The first chapter, "The Global 'Middle Ages'," considers the current historiographical frame for the study of religious cultures and suggests ways in which the Middle Ages can be made more global. Next, "Mary, and Others" examines the polemical situations around Mary, and the location of Muslims and Jews within them. The third chapter, "Emotions and Selves," tracks the sentimental education experienced by Europeans in the late Middle Ages through devotional encounters with the figure of the Virgin Mary in word, image and sound. Each year one scholar of world fame is invited to present lectures in the framework of the Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at the Central European University, Budapest. This is the second volume in the series of published lectures.

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Central European University Press

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963977636X

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9789639776364

Plastic Surgery - E-Book

Volume 2: Aesthetic Surgery

By: J. Peter Rubin,Peter C. Neligan

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Plastic Surgery - E-Book

Volume 2: Aesthetic Surgery

By: J. Peter Rubin,Peter C. Neligan

Completely revised to meet the demands of today's trainee and practicing plastic surgeon, Aesthetic, Volume 2 of Plastic Surgery, 4th Edition, features new full-color clinical photos, dynamic videos, and authoritative coverage of hot topics in the field. Editor-narrated PowerPoint presentations offer a step-by-step audio-visual walkthrough of techniques and procedures in aesthetic surgery. - Offers evidence-based advice from a diverse collection of experts to help you apply the very latest advances in aesthetic plastic surgery and ensure optimal outcomes. - Provides updated coverage of: Facelift - The male patient; Energy-based devices for body contouring; Autologous gluteal flaps for augmentation and preservation of gluteal contour; Buttock shaping with fat grafting and liposuction; and Essential elements of patient safety in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, just to name a few. - Includes brand-new color clinical photos, videos, and lectures. - New volume editor J. Peter Rubin brings his expertise and know-how to all aspects of aesthetic surgery. - Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323357024

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9780323357029

Religious Conversion

History, Experience and Meaning

By: Ira Katznelson,Miri Rubin

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Religious Conversion

History, Experience and Meaning

By: Ira Katznelson,Miri Rubin

Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, conversion can be protracted or sudden, voluntary or coerced, small-scale or large. It may be the result of active missionary efforts, instrumental decisions, or intellectual or spiritual attraction to a different doctrine and practices. In order to investigate these multiple meanings, and how they may differ across time and space, this collection ranges far and wide across medieval and early modern Europe and beyond. From early Christian pilgrims to fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation of the eastern Mediterranean to Reformation Germany, the volume highlights salient features and key concepts that define religious conversion, particular the Jewish, Muslim and Christian experiences. By probing similarities and variations, continuities and fissures, the volume also extends the range of conversion to focus on matters less commonly examined, such as competition for the meaning of sacred space, changes to bodies, patterns of gender, and the ways conversion has been understood and narrated by actors and observers. In so doing, it promotes a layered approach that deepens inquiry by identifying and suggesting constellations of elements that both compose particular instances of conversion and help make systematic comparisons possible by indicating how to ask comparable questions of often vastly different situations.

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Routledge

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1317067002

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9781317067009

The Maker's Diet for Weight Loss

16-week strategy for burning fat, cleansing toxins, and living a healthier life!

By: Jordan Rubin

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The Maker's Diet for Weight Loss

16-week strategy for burning fat, cleansing toxins, and living a healthier life!

By: Jordan Rubin

The Best Way to Lose Weight! The Maker’s Way! Designed as a follow-up to his New York Times best-seller, The Maker’s Diet, Jordan Rubin takes his nutritional strategies to the next level in this 16-week program calculated to help you not only achieve your weight-loss goals, but maintain them in the future. By addressing your whole person—body, mind, emotions, and spirit—The Maker’s Diet for Weight Loss will help you reach a weight that makes you look good and feel great about yourself as you: Eat for your body type, age, gender, and region Maximize nutrients while reducing calories Eliminate toxins inside and outside your body Learn the best ways to “cheat” without getting off track With sold medical advice from Bernard Bulwer, MD, an advanced fellow at one of the premier teaching hospitals at Harvard Medical School, The Maker’s Diet for Weight Loss presents a holistic approach to weight loss that will change your life forever.

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768403901

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9780768403909

Confederacy of Silence

A True Tale of the New Old South

By: Richard Rubin

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Confederacy of Silence

A True Tale of the New Old South

By: Richard Rubin

In this stunning twist on the timeless tale of an outsider fascinated by a closed society, a young Jewish writer goes back to Greenwood, Mississippi, where he had his first newspaper job, and covers a murder trial that challenges his notions of both the South and himself. When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New York as any in the country. Yet to his surprise, he is warmly welcomed by the townspeople and soon finds his first great scoop in Handy Campbell, a poor, black teen and gifted high school quarterback who goes on to win a spot on Mississippi State's team—a training ground for the NFL. Six years later, Rubin, back in New York, learns that Handy is locked up in Greenwood, accused of capital murder. Returning south to cover the trial, Rubin follows the trail that took Handy from the football field to county jail. As the best and worst elements of Mississippi rise up to do battle over one man's fate, Rubin must confront his own unresolved feelings about the confederacy of silence that initially enabled him to thrive in Greenwood but ultimately forced him to leave it.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451602650

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9781451602654

A Memory of Trains

The Boll Weevil and Others

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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A Memory of Trains

The Boll Weevil and Others

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

The author, a literary critic and historian, uses over 100 of his own photographs to recall his life-long love of trains.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003382X

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9781570033827

Perishing Heathens

Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America

By: Julius H. Rubin

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Perishing Heathens

Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America

By: Julius H. Rubin

In Perishing Heathens Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory. Rubin also recounts the lives of Native converts, many of whom were from mixed-blood métis families and were attracted to the benefits of education, literacy, and conversion. During the Second Great Awakening, Protestant denominations embraced a complex set of values, ideas, and institutions known as "the missionary spirit." These missionaries fervently believed they would build the kingdom of God in America by converting Native Americans in the Trans-Appalachian and Trans-Mississippi West. Perishing Heathens explores the theology and institutions that characterized the missionary spirit and the early missions such as the Union Mission to the Osages, and the Brainerd Mission to the Cherokees, and the Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. Through a magnificent array of primary sources, Perishing Heathens reconstructs the millennial ideals of fervent true believers as they confronted a host of impediments to success: endemic malaria and infectious illness, Native resistance to the gospel message, and intertribal warfare in the context of the removal of eastern tribes to the Indian frontier.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496203089

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9781496203083

Soul, Self, and Society

The New Morality and the Modern State

By: Edward L. Rubin

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Soul, Self, and Society

The New Morality and the Modern State

By: Edward L. Rubin

Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account of moral transformations, these prophets of doom are missing the point. Morality is not diminishing; instead, a new morality, centered on an ethos of human self-fulfillment, is arising to replace the old one. As Rubin explains, changes in morality have gone hand in hand with changes in the prevailing mode of governance throughout the course of Western history. During the Early Middle Ages, a moral system based on honor gradually developed. In a dangerous world where state power was declining, people relied on bonds of personal loyalty that were secured by generosity to their followers and violence against their enemies. That moral order, exemplified in the early feudal system and in sagas like The Song of Roland, The Song of the Cid, and the Arthurian legends has faded, but its remnants exist today in criminal organizations like the Mafia and in the rap music of the urban ghettos. When state power began to revive in the High Middle Ages through the efforts of the European monarchies, and Christianity became more institutionally effective and more spiritually intense, a new morality emerged. Described by Rubin as the morality of higher purposes, it demanded that people devote their personal efforts to achieving salvation and their social efforts to serving the emerging nation-states. It insisted on social hierarchy, confined women to subordinate roles, restricted sex to procreation, centered child-rearing on moral inculcation, and countenanced slavery and the marriage of pre-teenage girls to older men. Our modern era, which began in the late 18th century, has seen the gradual erosion of this morality of higher purposes and the rise of a new morality of self-fulfillment, one that encourages individuals to pursue the most meaningful and rewarding life-path. Far from being permissive or a moral abdication, it demands that people respect each other's choices, that sex be mutually enjoyable, that public positions be allocated according to merit, and that society provide all its members with their minimum needs so that they have the opportunity to fulfill themselves. Where people once served the state, the state now functions to serve the people. The clash between this ascending morality and the declining morality of higher purposes is the primary driver of contemporary political and cultural conflict. A sweeping, big-idea book in the vein of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History, Charles Taylor's The Secular Age, and Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man, Edward Rubin's new volume promises to reshape our understanding of morality, its relationship to government, and its role in shaping the emerging world of High Modernity.

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Oxford University Press

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0199348677

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9780199348671

Public Budgeting

Policy, Process and Politics

By: Irene S. Rubin

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Public Budgeting

Policy, Process and Politics

By: Irene S. Rubin

Some of the best writings on public budgeting and finance can be found in the journals that ASPA publishes or sponsors. For this volume editor Irene Rubin has brought together the best of these articles - emerging classics that address the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting.The anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the more recent controversies in the field. Rubin's introductory essay and section openers frame the key issues and provide historical context for each article. The collection begins with descriptions of what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for. It moves on to the relationship between budget processes and outcomes, constraints on budgeting, the legal context in which it operates, and adaptations to those constraints such as contracting out.The book concludes with a discussion of the ethics and norms that underlie budgeting in a democracy. Throughout the anthology, the emphasis is on areas of disagreement and debate, so students can get involved and explore different viewpoints.

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Routledge

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1317461835

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9781317461838

Rulers, Religion, and Riches

Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

By: Jared Rubin

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Rulers, Religion, and Riches

Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

By: Jared Rubin

This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.

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Cambridge University Press

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110703681X

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9781107036819

Paul Cezanne

A–Z

By: James H. Rubin

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Paul Cezanne

A–Z

By: James H. Rubin

The incomparable play of light and color in Paul Cezanne's work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went his own way, and his paintings initially evoked a lack of understanding in art critics of the time, as well as ridicule. Despite his Romantic, Baroque, Impressionist, and finally Classical influences, it is still difficult to ascribe Cezanne to any particular art movement. Still, which specific places left lasting impressions on the scion of a provincial banker's family? What and who were major influences supporting and advancing his innovative oeuvre? James H. Rubin traces Cezanne's life and work from A to Z in this brief volume, creating an image of a painter who wanted to transform painting itself. The author—and established connoisseur—succeeds in closely approaching the artist while at the same time maintaining the necessary distance to his inimitable paintings. PAUL CEZANNE (1839–1906) was one of the most influential painters in the early days of modernism and has often been described as a pioneer of Neues Sehen, or New Vision. His work still exercises undiminished influence to this day. JAMES H. RUBIN (*1944) is an art historian and professor at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. His research focuses on nineteenth-century European art, especially the history, theory, and critique of French Modernism.

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Hatje Cantz Verlag

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3775758852

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9783775758857

Songs of Ourselves

The Uses of Poetry in America

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

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Songs of Ourselves

The Uses of Poetry in America

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

Listen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings. Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. Emphasizing the cultural circumstances that influenced the production and reception of poets and poetry in this country, Rubin recovers the experiences of ordinary people reading poems in public places. We see the recent immigrant seeking acceptance, the schoolchild eager to be integrated into the class, the mourner sharing grief at a funeral, the grandparent trying to bridge the generation gap--all instances of readers remaking texts to meet social and personal needs. Preserving the moral, romantic, and sentimental legacies of the nineteenth century, the act of reading poems offered cultural continuity, spiritual comfort, and pleasure. Songs of Ourselves is a unique history of literary texts as lived experience. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

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Harvard University Press

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0674035127

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9780674035126

Through the Heart of Dixie

Sherman's March and American Memory

By: Anne Sarah Rubin

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Through the Heart of Dixie

Sherman's March and American Memory

By: Anne Sarah Rubin

Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, and even Sherman himself. Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including travel accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American thinking about the Civil War has changed over time. Compiling and analyzing the discordant stories around the March, and considering significant cultural artifacts such as George Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and E. L. Doctorow's The March, Rubin creates a cohesive narrative that unites seemingly incompatible myths and asserts the metaphorical importance of Sherman's March to Americans' memory of the Civil War. The book is enhanced by a digital history project, which can be found at shermansmarch.org.

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UNC Press Books

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1469617781

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9781469617787

Cities of Strangers

Making Lives in Medieval Europe

By: Miri Rubin

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Cities of Strangers

Making Lives in Medieval Europe

By: Miri Rubin

Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and judges to settle and help produce good urban living. Dynastic rulers also shaped immigration, often inviting groups from afar to settle and help their cities flourish. All cities accommodated a great deal of difference - of language, religion, occupation - in shared spaces, regulated by law. When this benign cycle broke down around 1350 with demographic crisis and repeated mortality, less tolerant and more authoritarian attitudes emerged, resulting in violent expulsions of even long-settled groups. Tracing the development of urban institutions and using a wide range of sources from across Europe, Miri Rubin recreates a complex picture of urban life for settled and migrant communities over the course of five centuries, and offers an innovative vantage point on Europe's past with insights for its present.

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Cambridge University Press

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110848123X

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9781108481236

Learning in a Crusader City

Intellectual Activity and Intercultural Exchanges in Acre, 1191–1291

By: Jonathan Rubin

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Learning in a Crusader City

Intellectual Activity and Intercultural Exchanges in Acre, 1191–1291

By: Jonathan Rubin

Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader States acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual developments which characterized the West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? This book is the first to examine these questions systematically using the complete body of evidence from one major urban centre: Acre. This reveals that Acre contained a significant number of people who engaged in learned activities, as well as the existence of study centres housed within the city. This volume also seeks to reconstruct the discourse that flowed across four major fields of learning: language and translation, jurisprudence, the study of Islam, and theological exchanges with Eastern Christians. The result is an unprecedentedly rich portrait of a hitherto neglected intellectual centre on the Eastern shores of the medieval Mediterranean.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316947106

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9781316947104

The Middle Ages

A Very Short Introduction

By: Miri Rubin

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The Middle Ages

A Very Short Introduction

By: Miri Rubin

The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles. Including stories of kingship and Christian salvation, agriculture and trade, Rubin demonstrates the remarkable nature and legacy of the Middle Ages.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199697299

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9780199697298

Bizarro

The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured

By: Jordan S. Rubin

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Bizarro

The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured

By: Jordan S. Rubin

Inside a drug war so screwy that people don’t know what’s illegal—until it’s too late. Bizarro is a page-turning tale of the unprecedented prosecution of Burton Ritchie and Ben Galecki, the Florida-based founders of a sprawling “spice” (synthetic cannabinoid) operation. With this book, journalist and former New York City narcotics prosecutor Jordan S. Rubin exposes a Reagan-era law called the Analogue Act, which targets dealers selling drugs that are “substantially similar” to controlled substances—an unwieldy law that produces erratic results in court. Rubin brings readers deep inside the synthetic war, exploring how Ritchie and Galecki landed in its crosshairs and why one of the DEA’s own chemists may have been their best chance at freedom, until he was arrested too. This stranger-than-fiction narrative is backed by thousands of pages of court records and exclusive interviews with defendants, lawyers, law enforcement, celebrities, and more. Bizarro reveals the world of underground chemists making drugs faster than the government can ban them, dealers making millions in a gray market, and a justice system run amok.

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Univ of California Press

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0520387961

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9780520387966

Mother of God

A History of the Virgin Mary

By: Miri Rubin

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Mother of God

A History of the Virgin Mary

By: Miri Rubin

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is one of the most powerful, influential and complex of all religious figures. The focus for women, the inspiration of faith, the subject of innumerable paintings, sculptures, pieces of music and churches, Mary is so entangled in our world that it is impossible to conceive of the history of Western culture and religion without her. Miri Rubin's Mother of God is a major work of cultural imagination. Mary's role in the Gospels is a relatively minor one, and yet in the centuries during which Christianity established itself she emerged as a powerful, strange and ungovernable force, endlessly remade and reimagined by wave after wave of devotees, ultimately becoming 'a sort of God', in ways that have always made some Christians uneasy. Whether talking about the vast public festivals celebrating Mary that sweep up entire communities or the intense private agony of individual devotion, Rubin's book is a triumph of sympathy and intelligence. Throughout Christianity's journey from mysterious origins to global religion, the Mother of God has been a profound presence in countless lives - Mother of God is the story of that presence and a book that raises profound questions about the human experience.

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Penguin UK

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0141912642

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9780141912646

The Middle East

A Guide to Politics, Economics, Society and Culture

By: Barry Rubin

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The Middle East

A Guide to Politics, Economics, Society and Culture

By: Barry Rubin

The Middle East is an area of great importance globally, yet misperceptions abound. Events have made it a region of special interest to the West and so the search for understanding gains momentum. This publication is intended to clarify the region’s complex history and issues. In developing this project, the contributors’ set out to explore seven significant themes that are usually not found in other sources. While many books focus on political history and conflicts, this two-volume work deals specifically with culture, religion, women, economics, governance, and media, as well as the role that the region’s modern history has played in shaping its society and worldview.

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Routledge

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1317455789

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9781317455783

Jewish Voices

Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from Global Thought Leaders

By: Dana Rubin

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Jewish Voices

Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from Global Thought Leaders

By: Dana Rubin

Jewish Voices offers over 70 powerful quotes on topics including family, activism, art and culture, entertainment, and more from the Talmud to well-loved contemporary Jewish voices.

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Wellfleet

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1577154592

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9781577154594

Splash 9

Watercolor Secrets

By: Rachel Rubin Wolf

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Watercolor Secrets

By: Rachel Rubin Wolf

The Potential of Watercolor Revealed Luminous, dynamic and expressive, watercolor is an intriguing medium for artist and viewer alike. Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets invites you to push your own creative potential to new heights as you explore the work of more than 100 of today's best watercolor artists. Page after page showcases a diverse array of styles and subjects, from quiet still lifes to animated streetscapes to mood-filled portraits. Each featured artist punctuates this collection with his or her own distinctive mastery of the medium. In every work, you'll see how color, composition and personal inspiration blend with years of practice, commitment and experimentation to create resonant works of stunning beauty. Created specifically for artists and art lovers, Splash 9 invites you to discover watercolor on a deeper level, providing detailed commentary from the artists themselves on every piece. You'll learn about their influences, their challenges and, most importantly, their specialized painting techniques. Delight in the secrets of this inspiring collection!

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Penguin

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1440313199

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9781440313196

Howie and Ruby Conversations

By: Rubin Battino

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Howie and Ruby Conversations

By: Rubin Battino

This is an oral history of the lives of two psychotherapists, Howard H. Fink and Rubin Battino. Dr. Fink started his career at the beginnings of psychotherapy in this country in the 1950s. He trained with exceptional people like Milton H. Erickson and Fritz Perls. He was one of the developers of Gestalt Therapy and Group Therapy. The oral history includes his training, his service in World War II, and his private practice in Dayton, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychotherapy. Battino is a licensed clinical counselor who has written 8 books on psychotherapy. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry. Their life stories and shared conversations will be of interest to anyone working in the field of psychotherapy. The book is an oral history of sessions taped over a 7 year period.

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Lulu.com

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1257654748

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9781257654741

Spain's Cause was Mine

A Memoir of an American Medic in the Spanish Civil War

By: Hank Rubin

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Spain's Cause was Mine

A Memoir of an American Medic in the Spanish Civil War

By: Hank Rubin

In a narrative voice that inspires both trust and affection, Rubin tells of being alternately delighted and sardonically amused by the cloak-and-dagger routines during the clandestine train ride from Los Angeles to New York. He re-creates the tension of being a member of a secret army in New York, of life as a third-class passenger aboard an ocean liner, and as a soldier at loose ends in Paris. He takes the reader on the perilous night journey over the mountains from France into Spain, describes training routines, and details the conditions of war. And through it all, he sets his compelling personal story against the larger backdrop of history: the Great Depression in the United States, the Spanish Army, the Vatican, the Catholic clergy and Germany and Italy supporting Franco's fascists, the Nonintervention Pact upheld by Britain and France, and Roosevelt's arms embargo against Spain.

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SIU Press

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0809321599

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9780809321599

The Muse of the Revolution

The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

By: Nancy Rubin Stuart

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The Muse of the Revolution

The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

By: Nancy Rubin Stuart

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.

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Beacon Press

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0807097365

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9780807097366

Gentile Tales

The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews

By: Miri Rubin

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Gentile Tales

The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews

By: Miri Rubin

During the late medieval period, accusations that Jews had abused Christ by desecrating the Eucharist created a powerful anti-Jewish movement and violent clashes quickly spread throughout Europe.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812218809

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9780812218800

Decentering the Regime

Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico

By: Jeffrey W. Rubin

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Decentering the Regime

Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico

By: Jeffrey W. Rubin

An ethnographic analysis of popular politics and the pursuit of democracy in Juchitan, Mexico.

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Duke University Press

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0822320630

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9780822320630

Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State

How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons

By: Malcolm M. Feeley,Edward L. Rubin

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Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State

How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons

By: Malcolm M. Feeley,Edward L. Rubin

Investigates the role of federal judges in prison reform, and policy making in general.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521777348

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9780521777346

Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host

By: Robert H. Rubin,Lowell S. Young

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Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host

By: Robert H. Rubin,Lowell S. Young

At the beginning of the new millennium, it is opportune to raveling of the molecular pathways of impaired host - review what has been accomplished in the field of infec- fense mechanisms and the characterization of the genetic tious diseases during the last decades of the previous mutations involved, with the prospect of novel strategies century. The paradigm of the immunocompromised host for therapeutic interventions and possible corrective gene has taught much about the pathophysiology of infectious therapy. In this foreword, I will take a helicopter view of diseases, particularly with regard to immunological as- the various aspects of host defense mechanisms with pects of host defense. In the beginning, Robert Good special emphasis on genetic factors, because of their re- called immunodeficiency syndromes “experiments of na- vance for the course and outcome of infections. ture. ” In the 1960s and subsequent decades, the clinical During life, there exist phases of age-related c- and immunological aspects of immune deficiencies were promised immune functions. After birth there is a phys- studied and adequate treatment attempted. A reflection of logical immune deficiency because the production of an- these developments were the three successful meetings on bodies commences slowly upon contact of the neonate these topics in Veldhoven, The Netherlands (1980), Stir- with microorganisms and upon vaccination.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306475278

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9780306475276

His Eyes Were on the Starling

How Grampa Grew Up—And Lived to Tell About It

By: Larry Rubin

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His Eyes Were on the Starling

How Grampa Grew Up—And Lived to Tell About It

By: Larry Rubin

Occasionally, a reader will happen upon a book that is excellent as a bedtime sleeping aidbut not this one. With nearly five score different events, happenings, and adventures with dozens of related and pertinent rabbit trails lending credence to the excursions, the reader will be thumb ready to eagerly flip a page, seeking the outcome of the last daring deed of the adventuresome author. Wide is the variety of decent and noble escapades at a time when seat belts were unknown, standing up in the center aisle of the school bus for six miles was permitted, and unwritten laws of the land promoted unlimited homemade adventures and the unshackled variety of down-to-earth fun. Youthful minds, unabashedly, often ran rampant in the myriad of rare adventures that were available to pursue. We attempted many and lived to tell about our assorted and varied shenanigansmost of them with a grin!

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WestBow Press

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1512716855

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9781512716856

Mighty Mac

The Official Picture History of the Mackinac Bridge

By: Lawrence A. Rubin

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Mighty Mac

The Official Picture History of the Mackinac Bridge

By: Lawrence A. Rubin

With a total span length of 8,344 feet from anchor block to anchor block, the Mackinac Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world. It surpasses the Golden Gate Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and the Humber Bridge in England, even with their longer center spans. Every phase of construction of the Mackinac Bridge was photographed. The pictures in this book, selected from 3,000 black-and-white photos, document important stages of the monumental undertaking. Captions detail the procedures used during construction. The result is a volume which captures the struggles and the hardships, as well as the determination and the pride of the men who labored to build Mighty Mac.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814318177

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9780814318171

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