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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

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Handbook of Resilience in Children

    Edited by Sam Goldstein, Robert B. Brooks ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The third edition of this handbook addresses not only the concept of resilience in children who overcome adversity, but it also explores the development of children not considered at risk addressing recent challenges as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new edition reviews the scientific literature that supports findings that stress-hardiness and resilience in all children leads to ... Read more

    $395.99 USD

  • Anticancer Drug Resistance

    Advances in Molecular and Clinical Research

    Edited by Lori J. Goldstein, Robert F. Ozols ...
    Series Book 73 - Cancer Treatment and Research
    Over the last 50 years, drug development and clinical trials have resulted in successful complete responses in diseases such as childhood leukemia, testicular cancer and Hodgkin's disease. We are still, however, confronted with over 500,000 cancer-related deaths per year. Clearly, the phenomenon of drug resistance is largely responsible for these failures and continues to be an area of active ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Arresting Images

    Edited by Robert Justin Goldstein, Andrew M. Nedd ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible to the illiterate in ways that print was not, specialists in the history of the major European countries trace the use of censorship by the authorities to implement their fears of the visual arts, from caricature to cinema. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD