Fisher: 1431 books
Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law
Holding Agents of Atrocity Accountable to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity. The author provides criteria for determining the kinds of actions...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
African American Doctors of World War I
The Lives of 104 Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The...
Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland
The Transformation of the Lowlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system...
by Scott M. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Iowans embraced aviation from its very beginning. In the late 1800s, Keokuk�s Baldwin brothers headlined Lee County Chautauqua festivals with balloon ascensions. Two decades later, early powered-flight daredevils like Lincoln Beachey, Glenn Messer, and Eugene Ely thrilled huge crowds along the Mississippi...
The Lands of Inchoate 3
The Planet Within
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
The author has had three careers. He was in the United States Air Force for 21 years and worked at Cape Canaveral at the beginning of the Apollo Era, the Pentagon as a strategic analyst and the Air Force Institute of Technology as a professor of quantitative analysis. He then taught about the use...
British River Navigations
Inland Cuts, Fens, Dikes, Channels and Non-tidal Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Britain's rivers deserve to be better known. Teeming with wildlife, steeped in history, sporting bridges, docks and stunning architecture, not to mention supporting riverside pubs, waterways museums and a variety of places of interest, they are the country's essential arteries, connecting inland Britain...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Way of Tea
Reflections on a Life with Tea
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The Way of Tea draws upon the wisdom of ancient writings to explain how modern tea lovers can bring peace and serenity to their time with a steaming mug of their favorite beverage—and how to carry that serenity with them throughout the day.
Looking at all aspects of tea and the tea ceremony...
Seeing Judaism Anew
Christianity's Sacred Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish...
by Kathlene R. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Jiggle as you giggle, some of you may even dribble, reading these Comical but True Tales. Your heart will glow long after you pass this book on to family and friends. As laughter warms your soul, you will also learn new ways to cope through the darkest of days.
We all need a true savior who...
Gideon
From Weakling to Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Gideon seemed insignificant, not someone others considered to be leadership material. The story of how God used Gideon is a powerful example for today’s students who want to be bold, faithful followers of Christ. This character study helps them learn to live with integrity while growing spiritually....
by Sydney George Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
In 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England, William Penn was a seventeen-year-old student at Christ Church, Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at Court, had abandoned his erstwhile friends and had aided in restoring King Charlie to his own again. Young...