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  • Walkman

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Alien vs. Predator

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

  • Equipment for Living

    On Poetry and Pop Music

    by Michael Robbins ...
    “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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Second Sex

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

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

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

    $5.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Makes Humans Unique

    Evolution and the Two Structures of Mind

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

    $52.99 USD

  • The Primordial Mind in Health and Illness

    A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

  • The Human Difference

    Evolution, Civilization – and Destruction

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

    $51.99 USD

  • Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis

    Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind

    by Michael Robbins ...
    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

  • Audiobook

    Walkman

    by Michael Robbins ...
    Narrated by Tim Alexander ...
    Series series Penguin Poets

    Unabridged

    48 min

    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

    $7.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Equipment for Living

    On Poetry and Pop Music

    by Michael Robbins ...
    Narrated by Rudy Sanda ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    How can art help us make sense of the world? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all.Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins's mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. His singular ability to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook