David Fisher: 81 books
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland (1866-1944)--French novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in 1915--focuses on his experiments with political commitment against the backdrop of European history between the two world wars. Best known as a biographer of Beethoven and for...
Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing
A History of the Noble Gases
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not...
Cool Jump-Rope Tricks You Can Do!
A Fun Way to Keep Kids 6 to 12 Fit Year-'Round.
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Learn the Coolest Tricks from “The World’s Best Rope Jumper.*” *Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Guinness World Record holder David Fisher is going to change the way you think about rope jumping. Cool Jump-Rope Tricks You Can Do! will teach you over 100 cool skills and tricks like the Houdini,...
Morality and War
Can War Be Just in the Twenty-first Century?
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty-first...
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple schools of theory and thought. This work presents informative and original investigations into three overlapping areas of psychoanalytic tradition: the history of psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic culture criticism; and the application of...
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense
The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Mental Floss Book to Read in Summer 2019
“Gripping.… Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense is a must-read.” —NPR
A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake.
ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt’s last...
Earn the Right to Win
How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A top NFL coach offers leadership advice that applies from the field to the office Tom Coughlin led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories with his unique system of relentless preparation and resilience. He teaches his players that you can never guarantee a win, but you can always earn the...
Friends of the Family
The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
“One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.”
—New York Times
Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men....
Killer
The Autobiography of a Mafia Hit Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
New York Times Bestseller: This groundbreaking tell-all by a mob hit man is “chilling and compelling—a must-read” (Former FBI agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco).
The Bronx-born son of a Jewish bootlegger, “Joey the Hit Man” was introduced to crime when he was just eleven years...
by David Fisher, Col. Jack Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
There is absolutely nothing in the American experience comparable to basic training or boot camp. If you haven't been through it, you can't understand it.
But if you've been through it, you never forget it.
No matter where they live, all American fighting men and women have one thing...
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Homemade soaps, scrubs, salves, lotions, and other bath and body products have been popping up all over the places from craft fairs to Etsy and it's no surprise why. Soap making is a fun and creative hobby that you can do right in the comfort of your own kitchen. Want to learn how? Look no further....
The Ways of Justice
A DCS Frank Kruger Crime Fiction Mystery Vol.1
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This suspenseful detective mystery thriller is set against the international fashion industry and involves an ambitious woman's battle to overcome a conspiracy to destroy her.
Gia Madden, beautiful, ambitious, elegant, has risen in only a few years from mannequin to fashion model to editor...
Shadows of Darkness
An Italian Political Thriller and Psychological Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
A fast-paced, gripping, hardboiled mystery thriller packed with corruption, intrigue, murder and dramatic romance with an unforgettable finish.
The background to this suspenseful political thriller is the idyllic town of Sanremo on the Italian Riviera. Not the place to expect to find murder,...
Lincoln's Last Trial Young Readers' Edition
The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The Young Readers’ Edition of the New York Times Bestseller!
“Abraham Lincoln: the dusty shoes, the weary eyes, the Jedi mastery of a jury in a true case of life and death. So pull up a chair….”—Diane Sawyer
At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn...