Bøger af Michael Robbins

After a small family endures a devastating loss within their home, strange occurrences and events begin to take place that have the family questioning their beliefs, as well as their sanity.

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In the next chapter of the Shadow City series, Ghost finds himself on a hunt for the last remaining member associated with the death of an old friend. Along the way, what should be a simple mission becomes increasingly more complicated as Ghost discovers that the person he is after has much more of a hold over Haven's Edge than he could've ever believed.

A young man wakes up on a mysterious island filled with creatures from past and present, forcing him to fight for his survival as he struggles to uncover the truth behind his past and how he ended up on the island.

In the thrilling sequel, "Shadow City Reborn: Midnight's Legacy," Detective Jack Harper and his team find themselves facing a new criminal threat, set against the backdrop of a city undergoing a profound transformation. Two years have passed since they saved Shadow City from the clutches of a criminal overlord, and now they must confront a formidable adversary who seeks to plunge the city back into darkness.As Jack Harper navigates the treacherous streets of the futuristic noir city, his feelings for his teammate Lena deepen, intertwining their personal journey with the perilous mission at hand. Alongside their trusted allies-Ghost, Whisper, and Cipher-they uncover a web of corruption that leads them to the highest echelons of power.

When a family moves to the beautiful countryside in Virginia, they learn that their new house may have a dark and disturbing past.

From a multi-disciplinary 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 science of evolution and the disciplines of sociology and cultural anthropology were in their infancy when he formulated his ideas. He did not comprehend that destructiveness is qualitatively different in humans than in other species and he ignored the problem of how biological instincts become mental processes. These limitations left psychoanalysis with one of its most perplexing unsolved problems, the mysterious leap from mind to body. This book explains how neoteny, the prolonged period of post-natal immaturity that distinguishes humans from other animals, requires and enables complex learning from caregivers. It is the knowledge acquired from this learning and its intergenerational transmission that links the biological theory of evolution with the psychosocial theory of psychoanalysis and explains how the human species is unique. This book will be of interest to those who want to learn about how integrating the findings of evolutionary science, primatology, sociology and cultural anthroplogy with the theory of psychoanalysis expands our understanding of what makes humans unique and its implications for the future of our species, and empowers us to influence the destiny of humankind.

The quest to comprehend the essence of human nature is as old as the capacity for reflective thought. In this provocative book, Dr. Michael Robbins proposes a new approach that draws upon psychoanalysis but is shaped by awareness of the limits that the particular circumstances of historical epoch, Western culture, male gender, and modal population from which psychoanalysis was derived impose on its modernist claims to being a universal theory. Dr. Robbins addresses these limitations from the perspective of philosophy of science, focusing on the paradigm shift from logical positivism, which seeks to reduce complexity and diversity to its presumptive causal building blocks, to the postmodern emphasis on pluralism and on relativistic, contextual, evanescent knowledge. He examines the implications of this shift for the disciplines that study human nature-neuroscience, psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and sociology. After considering whether typical personality has changed over historical time and studying the cross-cultural diversity of human nature, the relationship of gender to personality, the spectrum of personality variability within Western culture, and the relationship of the contextual embeddedness of the conceiver to his or her theory, he proposes a dialectical conception of personality based on systems and chaos theories that respects its multiple guises and circumstantial richness of content without abandoning the quest for universal principles of organization and development.

In the course of my long professional career as a psychoanalyst I have written about how mind works, about personality and self-development, dreaming, language, culture, destructiveness, psychosis and more. I have never thought of myself as a poet. Over the past half-century, emotions surrounding particular experiences have moved me to write poems. Recently I realized that I had accumulated 26 of them. They describe aspects of my journey through life. To my pleasant surprise, IPbooks has agreed to help me offer them to you.

Whether you are managing institutional portfolios or private wealth, augment your asset allocation strategy with machine learning and factor investing for unprecedented returns and growthIn a straightforward and unambiguous fashion, Quantitative Asset Management shows how to take join factor investing and data science-machine learning and applied to big data. Using instructive anecdotes and practical examples, including quiz questions and a companion website with working code, this groundbreaking guide provides a toolkit to apply these modern tools to investing and includes such real-world details as currency controls, market impact, and taxes. It walks readers through the entire investing process, from designing goals to planning, research, implementation, and testing, and risk management. Inside, you'll find:Cutting edge methods married to the actual strategies used by the most sophisticated institutionsReal-world investment processes as employed by the largest investment companiesA toolkit for investing as a professionalClear explanations of how to use modern quantitative methods to analyze investing optionsAn accompanying online site with coding and appsWritten by a seasoned financial investor who uses technology as a tool-as opposed to a technologist who invests-Quantitative Asset Management explains the author's methods without oversimplification or confounding theory and math. Quantitative Asset Management demonstrates how leading institutions use Python and MATLAB to build alpha and risk engines, including optimal multi-factor models, contextual nonlinear models, multi-period portfolio implementation, and much more to manage multibillion-dollar portfolios.Big data combined with machine learning provide amazing opportunities for institutional investors. This unmatched resource will get you up and running with a powerful new asset allocation strategy that benefits your clients, your organization, and your career.

Butterfly and Serpent is about isolation, the isolation others impose on us and that we impose on ourselves. Whenever we feel worthless, often wrongly, we sometimes have an overwhelming feeling that we're alone. We've always been alone and maybe it's something we deserve. But that's not really true. We're not alone; we don't have to be alone. Jamai Dlamini has lived a life of isolation in her own community. She has a gift she doesn't understand and can't control. Other forces with sinister intentions have set their sights on her, including a disembodied spirit from another dimension who understands her situation all too well. Details of her story emerge slowly as she is interviewed (by whom we don't know). Jamai fights to discover her own background, beginning with her birth and loss of her mother, who she feels watches over her, keeping her safe. But she soon learns of family connections that disturb her and she seeks answers to what is expected of her. Time plays a strong role in her confusion, her birth post-dating the year 2025 by 500 years. As she grows, she discovers strange powers that cause further confusion. Characters both good and evil wind their way into her life as she struggles to understand. As events in her life spin out of control, even her best friend Youssou is drawn into the net tightening around her. Along the way, she will find that she has unexpected allies among the living...and the dead. The author worked on developing this character work by unlearning everything he thought he knew about Africa. He never wanted Jamai to be a bitch-in-britches like Tasha Yar, or the space marines in the Alien movies. He wanted her to be a strong capable person; He wanted readers to see their own possibilities. This novel is the first step in her journey, which begins like this: My first memories were of water, all warm and clingy, and a steady thrum-thrum as of a drum. I also remember a song whispered by an angel. What the words were I couldn't recall, other than one which was repeated over and over: e-ay-as. No, that wasn't exactly what it was. Time blurs all things.

“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 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. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups”). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal music, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. As Dwight Garner said in The New York Times about Robbins: “This man can write.” Equipment for Living is a “freakishly original” (Elle) look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can help us understand our own lives.

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, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is certain to receive an enormous amount of attention.

This is a long essay on various aspects of the history of railways, and the effects they have had on the world around them. It is mostly about railways and society in 19th-century Britain, with a rapid sketch of developments in other countries.