Michael Fisher: 40 books
Philosophy of Fearism
A First East-West Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This book is about a new philosophy that takes a specific focus on see the critical historical and everyday importance of the nature and role of fear in human existence. We seem to be at a time when fear has taken the lead and we are not yet able to understand it and manage it well enough. It is causing...
Hacking Instructional Design
33 Extraordinary Ways to Create a Contemporary Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Whether you want to make subtle changes to your instructional design or turn it on its head—Hacking Instructional Design provides a toolbox of options. Discover just-in-time tools to design, upgrade, or adapt your instructional practices. Curriculum design experts Michael and Elizabeth Fisher show...
Ditch the Daily Lesson Plan
How do I plan for meaningful student learning? (ASCD Arias)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Designing and implementing daily lesson plans can be among the most frustrating and time-consuming aspects of teaching—a tedious exercise that places artificial restrictions on student creativity and engagement with learning. In this game-changing book, author and instructional coach Michael Fisher...
The World's Fearlessness Teachings
A Critical Integral Approach to Fear Management/Education for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
The World's Fearlessness Teachings addresses the human fear problem in a truly unique and insightful way, summarizing the teachings on fearlessness from around the world and throughout history. The author then utilizes critical integral theory (a la Wilber) as an approach to categorize the developmental...
by Michael Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's...
Digital Learning Strategies
How do I assign and assess 21st century work? (ASCD Arias)
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Strategies and resources for using technology to teach students 21st century skills.
Upgrade Your Curriculum
Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Amid a confluence of messages regarding accountability, the Common Core State Standards, teacher effectiveness, and student performance, educators everywhere are looking for ways to revitalize their curriculum design and instructional practice. Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform...
Fear, Law and Criminology
Critical Issues in Applying the Philosophy of Fearism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
With the growing awareness of many critics of risk society, the culture of fear and the dangerous rising levels of unhealthy fear around individual, group, and public insecurities, three keen observers of the human condition have joined experiences, theories, and ideas to create a fresh vision for...
by Michael E Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book is a compilation of selected reviews by Professor Michael E Fisher. Fisher's major contributions to physics have been in equilibrium statistical mechanics, and have spanned the entire range of that subject. He has been credited with bringing together, and teaching a common language to chemists...
Silent No More
Victim 1's Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Victim 1, at fourteen years of age, spoke up against Jerry Sandusky in the Penn State scandal, and now for the first time tells his story.
Aaron Fisher was an eager and spirited eleven-year-old when legendary Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky recruited him into his Second Mile children’s...
by Fisher Investments, Michael Kelly, Andrew S. Teufel
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The Fisher Investments On series is designed to provide individual investors, students, and aspiring investment professionals the tools necessary to understand and analyze investment opportunities—primarily for investing in global stocks.
Each guide is an easily accessible primer to economic...
The Art of Scalability
Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
The Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability–Updated with New Strategies, Technologies, and Case Studies In The Art of Scalability, Second Edition, leading scalability consultants Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything you need to know to smoothly scale products and...
Scalability Rules
50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
50 Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hypergrowth in Any Environment Scalability Rules is the easy-to-use scalability primer and reference for every architect, developer, web professional, and manager. Authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher have helped scale more than 200 hypergrowth...
Scalability Rules
Principles for Scaling Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Fully updated! Fifty Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hyper Growth
“Whether you’re taking on a role as a technology leader in a new company or you simply want to make great technology decisions, Scalability Rules will be the go-to resource on your bookshelf.”
–Chad...