Fisher: 1431 books
by Anthony Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Anthony served in the United States Army for over 23 years. He flew over 1,800 flight hours as pilot-in-command in the most prestigious helicopter, known as the Apache AH64D. He saved many lives by providing aerial reconnaissance and protection for American soldiers during his tours in Iraq. He provided...
The Valley of Vision
Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
The author of this important contribution to the study of Blake was tragically drowned in a sailing accident when he had almost completed it in manuscript. His was a critical mind of singular erudition and power. As is abundantly evidenced in these chapters which Northrop Frye has prepared for publication....
Flexible Work Arrangements
Embracing the Noise to Understand the Silence
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Organizations and U.S. workers across the life course indicate increased interest in flexible work arrangements. More organizations have flexibility on the books, but rates of utilization remain low, and both workers and organizations note operational challenges and concerns. Noticing the commonality...
Text-Dependent Questions, Grades K-5
Pathways to Close and Critical Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Fisher & Frey’s answer to close and critical reading
Learn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, texts and questions, cross-curricular...
Text-Dependent Questions, Grades 6-12
Pathways to Close and Critical Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Fisher & Frey’s answer to close and critical reading
Learn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, texts and questions, cross-curricular...
Crippled at the Starting Gate
The Graduate Schools Created and Perpetuate the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In Crippled at the Starting Gate, Robert Leslie Fisher argues that the United States needs an education bill, much like the G.I. Bill passed after World War II, to send more Americans to graduate school in the sciences and engineering. Equally important, the graduate schools need to change their culture...
by Ellen Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Maxfield Sinclair, the author of a popular science fiction series, is revered by fans everywhere as "The Creator." Drew Cooper, a snobbish literature professor, isn’t impressed with Max’s books, or with Max himself, for that matter. As Drew gets to know Max, however, she realizes there’s...
The Scalawag
The Long Life & Times of Gerald John Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The Scalawag is Jerry Fisher’s story about a life that has taught him a thing or two, or three... Born in poverty before the Great Depression, 90-year-old Jerry Fisher recalls his life in remarkable detail that includes his courageous mother who was fierce about her children’s welfare but tragically...
Writing Not Writing
Poetry, Crisis, and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The poet George Oppen comments, “There are situations which cannot honorably [be] met by art, and surely no one need fiddle precisely at the moment that the house next door is burning.” To write poetry under such circumstances, he continues, “would be a treason to one’s neighbor.” Committing...
by Jay Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until his own lifetime. Ennius represents an important bridge between Homer’s works in Greek and Vergil’s Aeneid. Jay Fisher argues that Ennius does not...
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Back and broke in Stoney Ridge, Jimmy Fisher has coasted as long as he could through life on charm, good looks, and deep-set dimples. They always worked just fine for him--until they didn't. His smile has no effect on the violet-eyed beauty he met at the Bent N' Dent, the one with that stunning horse....
Don't Look at the Camera
Making television at Britain's smallest ITV station
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Don't Look at the Camera tells the extraordinary inside story of what it’s like to spend a lifetime making television. Ian Fisher is an international award winning producer/director who started his television career as a news reporter and presenter. This first volume of his memoirs is an often...
by Jessica Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Kick the fastfood habit! This updated edition of Not Your Mother's Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook has even more batch recipes for busy families on a budget.
In today's fast-paced society fast food can easily take the place of good home cooking. With the help of one of the most underused appliances...
by Celia Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
A long time ago, you could only find them on the slopes of remote mountain ranges in Asia, but today they are the very symbol of modern genetics, a species unrivalled for the variety of colors and forms that breeders can create: tulips. In this book, Celia Fisher traces the story of this important...