Fischer: 1405 books
by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka
Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers...
by Tibor Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2008
Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law-enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might...
by BK Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
A novella in verse, *Radioapocrypha *envisions what would have happened if Jesus Christ had arrived for the first time not in Palestine two thousand years ago but in a subdivision in Maryland in 1989, the year Depeche Mode released “Personal Jesus.” In this suburban retelling of the gospel,...
The Source of the River
The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action...
Nice Guys Finish Dead
The Hollywood Murder Mysteries Book Six
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Ned Sharkey is a fugitive from mob revenge. For six years he's been successfully hiding out in the Los Angeles area while a $100,000 contract for his demise hangs over his head. But when Warner Brothers begins filming "The Winning Team", the story of Grover Cleveland Alexander, Ned can't resist showing...
by Patricia W. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Nurse Shelly Westbrook has returned home to Marietta hoping to give her son and niece a Christmas holiday to reboot a disappointing year. Christmas is magic and Marietta is the perfect place for them all to start over.
Dr. Peter Davidson has never indulged in the Christmas spirt, but he thinks...
The Unkindness of Strangers
The Hollywood Murder Mysteries Book Five
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Warner Brothers is getting it from all sides and Joe Bernardi seems to be everybody’s favorite target. “A Streetcar Named Desire” is unproducible, they say. Too violent, too seedy, too sexy, too controversial and what’s worse, it’s being directed by that well-known pinko, Elia Kazan. To make...
ADHD in Adults
What the Science Says
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Providing a new perspective on ADHD in adults, this compelling book analyzes findings from two major studies directed by leading authority Russell A. Barkley. Groundbreaking information is presented on the significant impairments produced by the disorder across major functional domains and life activities,...
The Pedagogy of Pop
Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which...
Tragedy's Endurance
Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
This volume sets out a novel approach to theatre historiography, presenting the history of performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as the history of the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class throughout that period. Philhellenism and theatromania took hold in this milieu...
by Julia Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In the high-pressure world today, it’s easy not to notice the natural world’s beauty. Our world seems quite distant from the world of our ancestors, where nature and humans were as one, with the existence of both intertwined in life’s natural cycles. So meet Wicca, the Way of the Craft. Its...
by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
"Hellmann brings to life the reality of bullying among teenage girls with enough twists and turns to keep you reading. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal (Starred Review)
"Just what's needed in a mystery... Depth of characterization sets this new entry by Hellmann (A Shot...
The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared
The Ellie Foreman Mysteries (Prequel)
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In 1938 sixteen year old Jake Foreman spends his free time with his friend Barney Teitleman in Lawndale, a prosperous Jewish community on Chicago’s near west side. Jake develops a crush on Miriam Hirsch, an actress in the Yiddish theater who lives at the Teitleman’s boarding house, but Miriam...
by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Don't miss Jump Cut, #5 in the series, which was released March 1 after a 10 year hiatus. "Exceptional..." PW Starred Review
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“A powerful tale… Hellmann is adept at welding technical information to strong characters… Foreman’s pluck and grit married to Hellmann’s...