Fisher: 1431 books
by M.F.K. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
This volume brings together two delightful books—Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town—by one of our most beloved food and travel writers. In her inimitable style, here M.F.K. Fisher tells the stories—and reveals the secrets—of two quintessential French cities.
Map of Another...
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Rose Schrock is a plain woman with a simple plan. Determined to find a way to support her family and pay off her late husband's debts, she sets to work to convert the basement of her Amish farmhouse into an inn. While her family, especially her cranky mother-in-law, is unhappy with Rose's big idea,...
Finley
Decoy Dynasty, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
FINLEY (Decoy Dynasty book 1) A Decoy series spin off by KT Fisher
*You do not have to read the Decoy series before you start FINLEY*
Finley is the son of a huge rock star, Jax Parker and has now found himself following in the footsteps of his father and winning the hearts of women all...
Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies
American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding...
How to Smell a Rat
The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
A timely guide to uncovering financial fraud
2008 and 2009 will be remembered for bear markets, a global credit crunch, and some of the largest investment scams ever. But these scams are nothing new, they've been repeated throughout history, and there will certainly be more to come. But the...
Danseuse et maman
Inspiré d'une histoire vraie
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Humble préposée aux soins dans une résidence pour personnes âgées, Martine, l’héroïne de 18 ans de cette histoire vraie, voit sa vie transformée à jamais lorsqu’elle tombe éperdument amoureuse d’Herby, un Haïtien beau comme un dieu. Sous prétexte qu’elle doit l’aider à payer...
Urban Green
Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that...
Ghosts of My Life
Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.
Engineering Eden
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. **
When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions...
War at Every Door
Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
One of the most divided regions of the Confederacy, East Tennessee was the site of fierce Unionist resistance to secession, Confederate rule, and the Southern war effort. It was also the scene of unrelenting 'irregular,' or guerrilla, warfare between Union and Confederate supporters, a conflict that...
Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing
A History of the Noble Gases
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not...
by John Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Would you believe that you could ask a full-grown man to hold a penny for you and then tell him to drop it and finds he can’t, hard as he may try?
In what is undoubtedly the most original magic book of our time, John Fisher shows the reader how, with minimal practice, he can use the marvels...
Breaking the Code
A Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Fisher-Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew.
They...
The Art of Scalability
Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
The Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability–Updated with New Strategies, Technologies, and Case Studies In The Art of Scalability, Second Edition, leading scalability consultants Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything you need to know to smoothly scale products and...