This award-winning text explores one of the most successful cultures and society the world has ever seen–capitalism. From capitalism's European roots more than 500 years ago to the present, this text examines the problems caused by its expansion, inequality, environmental destruction, and social unrest. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism provides the reader with the anthropological, economic, and historical framework to understand the origins of global problems, why globalization and the global expansion of the culture of capitalism has generated protest and resistance, and the steps necessary to solve global problems. Up-to-date information throughout the text helps students maintain a current view of the rapidity of global change. As one reviewer says, “In today's world of global cultures the key to solving the problems of the future depends on understanding the cultures of today. Robbins' book spells this out in clear and easy-to-read prose. It is the one book that every college student should be required to read.”

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (4th Edition)

Business & Money

Richard Robbins

Economics

Allyn&Bacon

Radioactive City is the latest book of poetry by the prominent contemporary American poet, Richard Robbins. The distinguished poet Linda Gregerson, selected Radioactive City as the winner of the 2009 Bellday Poetry Prize. About the winning entry, Professor Gregerson said, It is conceptual freshness, and a beautiful instinct for emergent shape, that makes this poetry radioactive. Robbins can spin a hitherto undiscovered cosmos out of a single, wayward proposition, but he never loses footing in the radiant, mortal, given world. Richest invention is tempered by submission to the textures of material and social and ethical life. Vision and insight both, in other words: what more can one ask of a book of poems?

Radioactive City

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Bellday Books, Inc.

Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader is the first volume in a collected series of new writing and art from the road, featuring the works of nearly four dozen established and emerging writers, poets, and printmakers from North America. The stories, essays, and poems in Stardust and Fate tour some of many routes -- seen and otherwise -- running through people's lives, in real and imagined journeys, literal and figurative, past and present. Pieces include fiction, literary journalism, verse, and memoir: offbeat, quirky, surprising, deep. Handsomely printed and illustrated with original wood engravings, the collection explores some of the intersections and side roads of landscape, history, people, places, curiosity, wanderlust, memory, moment, chance, and change. Neither travelogue nor guidebook, Stardust and Fate instead features pieces traversing a range of personal and political territories, where motion drives the narrative and people find themselves facing scenes sometimes unsettled, yet often sublime. In part tribute to William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways -- where, as he noted, the back roads on the old gas station maps were blue -- these stories and poems seek the unknown while celebrating a quiet restlessness running through us all.

Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader (Blueroad Readers)

Travel

Robert Bly

Bill Holm

Nancy Paddock

Joyce Sutphen

Thomas R. Smith

Freya Manfred

Joseph Hutchison

Carol Barrett

John Calvin Rezmerski

Ron Gower

Candace Black

Roger Sheffer

Mark Dewey

Ed Higgins

Travel Writing

Blueroad Press

Traversing hidden landscapes of memory and the American West, Other Americas, by noted Minnesota poet Richard Robbins, explores back roads and intersections of private history and public life--set against a vast terrain of rugged beauty and mystery. In evocative, haunting language, Robbins summons a cast of visionaries and ghosts seeking promises of the country's past while scanning uncharted, uncertain horizons ahead. 
From beaches and streets of Southern California across empty desert pans to lost mountain lakes high in the Rockies, Other Americas features a series of poems by a wonderful writer, illuminating shadowlands across an expanse of time and space.

Other Americas

Robert Field was the kind of man that had all of the noble attributes of Santa Claus, but had never had occasion in his life to play the role. It wasn t until after a series of personal setbacks that he felt the desire of Becoming Santa. At first he became a Santa to make ends meet, but soon found that showing his natural love of people filled a hole in his heart that hadn t been so evident before. In the end Robert was surprised to discover that he, in reality, had become an authentic Santa Claus! His existence was verifiable as an actual fact. His service grew out of practical matters and concerns. His actions were not artificial but heartfelt and genuine. And others strongly felt that he was worth of the name Santa. Parents of all ages have introduced their children to the wonders of Santa Claus. But in so doing they have silently dreaded the day when their child might ask, Is Santa Claus real? Now, because of Robert Field, they can honestly answer, Yes!

Becoming Santa

Religion & Spirituality

Brigham Distributing

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