Fish: 278 books
China's Millennials
The Want Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese youth are a world apart from those who converged...
The Revival of Pragmatism
New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism—with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth—lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since...
O Glorious City
A Love Letter to San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
O Glorious City is an exuberant love letter to San Francisco from Jeremy Fish, a beloved artist who enjoys a massive fan base for his edgy artwork. When Fish was invited to create 100 new works of art in honor of City Hall's 100th birthday, he moved his studio into a City Hall office to become the...
Engage
A Practical Guide to Understanding, Influencing and Connecting With People
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Many highly skilled professionals find that, after a few years in their industry, their career starts to hit a ceiling. It’s not a lack of technical skills that’s holding them back but a lack of people skills. These days, just being highly skilled at your job is not enough. You also need to be...
by Stanley Fish
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues...
by Ramesh Srinivasan, Adam Fish
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: what comes after a broken internet?
Ramesh Srinivasan and Adam Fish reimagine the internet from the perspective...
by Aileen Fish
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A collection of selected previously published Christmas Regency romance novellas by Aileen Fish. Also included is the first chapter of His Impassion Proposal.
The Viscount’s Sweet Temptation: Lady Harriet Thornhill knows the summons from her grandfather means he’s decided whom she must...
101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent
Making Athletics a Positive Experience for Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The determining factor in whether a child between the ages of six and seventeen enjoys athletics is his or her parents -- not the sport, coach, or team. Yet, parents are often unaware of how their behavior and expectations impact their child's experience.
In 101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent,...
by Margery Fish
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
First published in 1956, We Made a Garden is the story of how Margery Fish, the leading gardener of the 1960s, and her husband Walter transformed an acre of wilderness into a stunning cottage garden, still open to the public at East Lambrook Manor, Somerset, England. This is now one of the most important...
Doing What Comes Naturally
Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1989
In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally,...
Versions of Antihumanism
Milton and Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early modern literature. In his analyses of...
Inner Leadership
Keys to making Breakthroughs in Work, Relationships and Life. An Integral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
You aim high. You have achieved much and you're in search of something more. Confronted by a new challenge, a problem or opportunity, an important decision. You are at a crossroads. How to make the most of your situation? 'Inner Leadership' is bold and original. Distilled from David's long experience...
by Margery Fish
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Margery Fish was the voice of gardening in the 1960s and her advice and enthusiasm for horticulture has stood the test of time. In her imaginative adaption of the traditional cottage garden style that she saw disappearing around her, she brought together old-fashioned plants and contemporary plants...
Domestic Workers of the World Unite!
A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement.
Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often ‘off the books,’ working for long hours and...