Fisher: 1431 books
No Regrets
The Life of an American Martial Artist
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Whether you are a martial artist, a historian, an avid reader of biographies or just looking for a humorous, interesting read, Fisher's work offers a true look at the life and times of a an American martial artist. Born in the middle of the Great Depression, his recollections of life and experiences,...
by Graham Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Sports writer Graham Fisher and his wife Joan get the travel bug. Both undergo cancer scares after planning a round-the-world trip only after an edge-of-the-seat ordeal do they make it. Five and a half weeks later they are back, exhilarated but broke. They decide to sell their beloved Victorian home...
by Elizabeth Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution...
Crashes, Crises, and Calamities
How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain. But science can help foretell what lies ahead.
Drawing...
Designing To Avoid Disaster
The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing...
Big Hunger
The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.
Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession...
Scalability Rules
50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
50 Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hypergrowth in Any Environment Scalability Rules is the easy-to-use scalability primer and reference for every architect, developer, web professional, and manager. Authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher have helped scale more than 200 hypergrowth...
Scalability Rules
Principles for Scaling Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Fully updated! Fifty Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hyper Growth
“Whether you’re taking on a role as a technology leader in a new company or you simply want to make great technology decisions, Scalability Rules will be the go-to resource on your bookshelf.”
–Chad...
Beat the Crowd
How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Train your brain to be a real contrarian and outsmart the crowd
Beat the Crowd is the real contrarian’s guide to investing, with comprehensive explanations of how a true contrarian investor thinks and acts – and why it works more often than not. Bestselling author Ken Fisher breaks down...
Debunkery
Learn It, Do It, and Profit from It -- Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Legendary money manager Ken Fisher outlines the most common—and costly—mistakes investors make.
Small cap stocks are best for all time. Bunk!
A trade deficit is bad for markets. Bunk!
Stocks can't rise on high unemployment. Bunk!
Many investors think they are safest following widely accepted...
Ethics for Architects
50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In this new Architecture Brief, Ethics for Architects, Thomas Fisher presents fifty case studies representing a broad range of ethical dilemmas facing today's architects, from questions regarding which clients to work for, to the moral imperatives of reclaiming building materials for construction...
Philosophy of Fearism
A First East-West Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This book is about a new philosophy that takes a specific focus on see the critical historical and everyday importance of the nature and role of fear in human existence. We seem to be at a time when fear has taken the lead and we are not yet able to understand it and manage it well enough. It is causing...
The Homebrewer's Garden, 2nd Edition
How to Grow, Prepare & Use Your Own Hops, Malts & Brewing Herbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
If you have a backyard, or even a sunny porch or balcony, you can grow your own hops, brewing herbs, and malt grains to enhance the flavor, aroma, and uniqueness of your home-brewed beer — and ensure that you have the freshest, purest, best ingredients possible. Simple instructions from experts...
Windows 8 Basics In 30 Minutes
The quick-start reference for users moving from Windows 7, Vista, and XP
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Do you have 30 minutes to spare? It's all of the time you'll need to get up to speed with Windows 8, the new Microsoft operating system designed for PCs and touch-screen tablets! Using step-by-step instructions, lots of screenshots, and a touch of humor, Windows expert Tim Fisher will cover Windows...