Fisher: 1431 books
The Mobile Photographer
An Unofficial Guide to Using Android Phones, Tablets, and Apps in a Photography Workflow
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
It’s been said that, with smartphones, everyone is a photographer. There is a snide implication with that statement-that camera phones aren’t real” cameras and that the people who use them aren’t real” photographers. In this book, Robert Fisher proves that today’s Android devices offer...
Why We Love
The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005
A groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion
Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession—these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience—which...
Rebuilding
When Your Relationship Ends
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In print for thirty-five years, Rebuilding is the number one trusted resource on divorce recovery. Now, this classic self-help book is available in an updated fourth edition, featuring a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti.
If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you...
Invisible Student Scientists
How Graduate School Science and Engineering Programs Shortchange Black, Hispanic, and Women Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does not represent the demographics of the nation. We need to recruit more native-born women and under-represented minorities into graduate programs in order...
by Roy Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Roy Fisher is known internationally for his witty, anarchic poetry which plays the language, pleasures the imagination and teases the senses. But he is at heart an English Midlander. In "Standard Midland", he confronts and worries at nuances of perception and the politi of understanding....
K-punk
The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation.
This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004...
Dating for Dads
The Single Father's Guide to Dating Well Without Parenting Poorly
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Here is the first book written specifically for men who date while answering to a higher authority: their children.
As a single father, you’re ready to begin dating again. But are your kids ready? In this much-needed guide, relationship expert Ellie Slott Fisher comes to the rescue with no-nonsense,...
President Obama
Constitutional Aspirations and Executive Actions
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles. In particular, he objected to George W. Bush’s claim to certain “inherent” presidential powers that could not be checked by Congress or the judiciary. After his inauguration, how did President Obama’s constitutional...
by Gay Ivey, Douglas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
What teacher hasn't sometimes believed that the entire class understands a lesson, even though only a few students are nodding their heads and answering questions? Later, the teacher is dismayed when many students fail a related test. Why aren't students getting it? And, just as important, why didn't...
by Ronald J. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
This edited volume presents selected papers focusing on Ronald Fisher’s cumulative contributions to understanding destructive intergroup conflicts from a social-psychological perspective, and to the development and assessment of small group, interactive methods for resolving them. Highlights include...
by Edward Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
After art critic Edward Fisher died, author Giles Ward discovered a lifetime’s collection of notes and transcripts the writer had made in preparation for his biography of controversial twentieth-century British artist Wallace Slade. Fisher’s biography reveals previously undisclosed details, often...
Suicide or Murder?
The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark. Their mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase,...
On the Irish Waterfront
The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted...
by Sydney George Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Sydney George Fisher (March 2, 1809 July 25, 1871) was a Philadelphia lawyer, farmer, plantation owner, political essayist and poet. Fisher wrote several books and delivered numerous talks. Of most interest was his highly sought after diary, full of keen, witty and unabashed observationsand often criticismsof...