Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert d towne”
Skip side bar filters

  • Schizophrenic Women

    Studies in Marital Crisis

    by Robert D. Towne, Harold Sampson, Sheldon L. Messinger ...
    Schizophrenic Women is a fascinating report on the lives of seventeen families that suffered the experiences associated with the hospitalization of the wife and mother for mental illness. A description and analysis of representative experiences is presented here in an attempt to investigate various key issues--the patterns of family living preceding the crisis leading to medical hospitalization; ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • John Fante's Ask the Dust

    A Joining of Voices and Views

    by Stephen Cooper, Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Giovanna Di Lello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Robert Guffey0, Philippe Garnier1, Ryan Holiday2, Jan Louter3, Chiara Mazzucchelli4, Meagan Meylor5, J’aime Morrison6, Nathan Rabin7, Alan Rifkin8, Suzanne Roszak9, Danny Shain0, Robert Towne1, Joel Williams2 ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact.The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Earth is the Evening Star

    by Robert Sherman Townes ...
    They got the key to the dead city of Mars from a race no longer there … ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • They F*** You Up

    by Oliver James ...
    Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Triumphs of Experience

    The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

    by George E. Vaillant ...
    At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers welcome news for old age: our lives evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling. Among the surprising findings: people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Unwinding of Liberty Brass, A Clockwork Cowboy Story

    by J. Steven York ...
    Series series Tales of the Clockwork Cowboy
    "J. Steven York's Clockwork Cowboy stories aren't just 'weird Westerns.' They're quite touching, too. Yes, Liberty Brass is a metal man with a busted 'governor.' But he's got as much heart as any other hero you'll find riding the range."-- Steve Hockensmith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Dawn of the Dreadfuls, and the Holmes on the Range mystery seriesThroughout the west tales are ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Nurture Assumption

    Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

    by Judith Rich Harris ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHow much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up -- is nothing more than a cultural myth. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Reality Therapy

    A New Approach to Psychiatry

    by William Glasser, M.D. ...
    William Glasser's classic bestseller examines his alternative to Freudian psychoanalytic procedures, explains the procedure, contrasts it to conventional treatment, and describes different individual cases in which it was successful.A landmark in psychotherapy, Reality Therapy outlines a positive approach to helping the emotionally distressed. Attacking the whole concept of "mental illness" and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

    Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior

    by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, Barry L. Beyerstein ...
    Series series Great Myths of Psychology
    50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience.Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychologyExplores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains', ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Matter of Matter

    by L. Ron Hubbard ...
    Series series Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories Collection
    When it comes to big dreams and schemes, young Chuck Lambert would give Walter Mitty a run for his money. In fact, Chuck’s biggest dream of all is really out of this world. Because he’s got his eyes on a prize in the sky. Chuck wants to buy a planet of his own.…Madman Murphy, the King of Planetary Realtors, is more than happy to oblige. He’s got a whole galaxy of planets for sale. All Chuck needs ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fourth Edition

    A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner

    by J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP ...
    Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!"In the fields of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant....ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to J. William Worden. From his work we may be just a bit wiser, a bit healthier, a bit more competent, and a lot more in touch with meaning (our own and those of others) for the sake of all who mourn." - ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • No Two Alike

    Human Nature and Human Individuality

    by Judith Rich Harris ...
    "A display of scientific courage and imagination." —William Saletan, New York Times Book ReviewWhy do people—even identical twins reared in the same home—differ so much in personality? Armed with an inquiring mind and insights from evolutionary psychology, Judith Rich Harris sets out to solve the mystery of human individuality. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook