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  • Equipment for Living

    On Poetry and Pop Music

    “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 had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Walkman

    Series series Penguin Poets
    A new collection from an audacious, humorous poet celebrated for his "sky-blue originality of utterance" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)Michael Robbins's first two books of poetry were raucous protests lodged from the frontage roads and big-box stores of off-ramp America. With Walkman, he turns a corner. These new poems confront self-pity and nostalgia in witty-miserable defiance of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Alien vs. Predator

    Series series Penguin Poets
    The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice.Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been a lot of excited talk about the fresh and inventive work of Michael Robbins. Equal parts hip- hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins's poems are strange, wonderful, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Second Sex

    Series series Penguin Poets
    A second collection from a poet of “sheer joy and dizzy command” (The New York Times)Upon its publication in 2012, Alien vs. Predator, the debut collection by Michael Robbins, became one of the hottest and most celebrated works of poetry in the country, winning acclaim for its startling freshness and originality, and leading critics to say that it was the most likely book in years to open up ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Human Difference

    Evolution, Civilization – and Destruction

    From a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in psychoanalysis, this book explores the manifestations of mind that distinguish humans from other species, culture, civilization, and destructiveness.Psychoanalysis was created by Freud in an effort to understand neurosis and psychosis, the names he gave to individual human destructiveness. His understanding was limited and incorrect because the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Consciousness, Language, and Self

    Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind

    Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements of language differently. The "mother tongue," the language of primordial consciousness, begins in utero and our second language, reflective symbolic thought, begins in infancy.Michael Robbins describes ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Primordial Mind in Health and Illness

    A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    The universal quest to create cosmologies – to comprehend the relationship between mind and world - is inevitably limited by the social, cultural and historical perspective of the observer, in this instance western psychoanalysis. In this book Michael Robbins attempts to transcend such contextual limitations by putting forward a primordial form of mental activity that co-exists alongside thought ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Learn to Snowboard in 2 Days - Your Simple Step by Step Guide to Snowboarding Success!

    So you want to learn to Snowboard? Look no further! In Learn to Snowboard in 2 Days you will find a simple step by step program that has been designed to give you the best possible start on your Snowboarding journey – guaranteed!You will get to know insider secrets to get you up and riding in your very first session, how to avoid painful beginner's mistakes, how to choose the right gear for YOU, ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

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    A Full-Cast Vintage BBC Radio Comedy

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    Classic comedy from the writers of the Dad's Army radio seriesBrothers Jack and Lesley Burrows are as different from each other as they can possibly be. After their mum passes away, there's a surprise at the reading of her will. An unexpected windfall has been left to them, but there's one very big catch: the brothers must commit to living together for three months.As far as Jack and Lesley are ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • What Makes Humans Unique

    Evolution and the Two Structures of Mind

    Through an integrated multi-disciplinary theory, Michael Robbins proposes that the human mind consists of two mental structures: the one we share with other animate creatures and a capacity for reflective representational thought which is unique.As an alternative to Freud’s model of the human mind as structured by the id, ego, and superego, this book contends that the prolonged period of post ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis

    Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind

    Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of a biologically determined inability to attain and sustain a normal or neurotic mental organization. Michael Robbins proposes instead that psychosis is the outcome of a different developmental pathway. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Focus: Sharpen Your Focus, Become Unstoppable and Build Your Dream Life Now!

    Learn To Focus, Become Unstoppable And Easily Create The Lifestyle Of Your Dreams!I'm going to show you how everyday distractions are keeping you from living the life you really want to live. And by learning to focus the right way it will completely change the direction of your life. You really can live out all your dreams if you apply a little focus!How many times per day do you catch yourself ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus