Fisher: 1431 books
Shadow Tribe
The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest�s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal dispossession...
by M.F.K. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection
Nowhere in the world did the beloved food and travel writer M.F.K Fisher feel more at ease than in the port of Marseille. From her timeless A Considerable Town, published as part of Two Towns in Provence, here is her affectionate introduction to the old streets...
by Philip Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense...
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Game Theory in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Praised by Entertainment Weekly as the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation...
Communion of Immigrants
A History of Catholics in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest denomination. James Fisher surveys more than four centuries of Catholics' involvement in American history, starting his narrative with one of the first Spanish...
When God Stepped In
51 Encounters That Showed Me God Is Real and I Can Trust in Him
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
After a devastating car accident that killed his wife, Yvonne, and left author Bill Fisher severely wounded, he realized that this time, his life had just been spared from death for the ninth time. In When God Stepped In, Fisher shares how his life has been punctuated with a series of miraculous acts...
It's Either Her or Me
A Guide to Help a Mom and Her Daughter-in-Law Get Along
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT—YOU’RE NOT LOSING A SON AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE GAINING A RIVAL.
For a mother who’s accustomed to having been number one in her son’s life, the arrival of a girlfriend, fiancée, or wife can be a complicated, confusing, and emotionally challenging...
Beyond Reason
Using Emotions as You Negotiate
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
**“Written in the same remarkable vein as Getting to Yes, this book is a masterpiece.” —Dr. Steven R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for Excellence in Conflict Resolution from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention...
The Six Secrets of Raising Capital
An Insider's Guide for Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Based on Bill Fisher’s three-day seminars that regularly sell out all over the world, this book offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts no entrepreneur can do without. As a banker in Silicon Valley in the ‘80s and a businessman who founded a number of successful companies beginning in...
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie
And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
LIFE LESSONS AND HARD-EARNED ADVICE THAT EVERY BOY NEEDS TO BECOME A MAN—AND EVERY MAN NEEDS TO BECOME A RESPECTED CITIZEN
ANTWONE FISHER ALWAYS ADMIRED his foster father’s crisp sartorial style. It wasn’t until Fisher was a navy recruit that he realized this smartly dressed man had never...
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Envisioning what we need, when it doesn’t yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world—functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities—why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services and systems...
The Perfect Swarm
The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
One of the greatest discoveries of recent times is that the complex patterns we find in life are often produced when all of the individuals in a group follow the same simple rule. This process of self-organization” reveals itself in the inanimate worlds of crystals and seashells, but as Len Fisher...
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Fan Favorite Suzanne Woods Fisher Offers Readers Tender Romance, Humor, and Plenty of Surprises
Bright, curious, and restless, Ruthie Stoltzfus loves her family but is stuck in a sea of indecision about her future: Should she stay Amish? Or should she leave? She's done all she can to prepare...
by M. F. K. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher’s unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher’s signature red boxes.
Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the...