Nisbet: 86 books

The favourable reception given to my volume of Russian Fairy Tales has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales – I mean Ruthenian, the language of the Cossacks.

These are the genesis stories of a region. In Ancient Places, Jack Nisbet uncovers touchstones across the Pacific Northwest that reveal the symbiotic relationship of people and place in this corner of the world. From rural Oregon, where a controversy brewed over the provenance and ownership of a meteor,...

"You have to be careful, when you live like this. You have to live life in a normal way. Otherwise, it’ll get to you."As an American in Japan, Brian lives his life in isolation. By day he teaches at a local elementary school; by night he wanders dark streets, battling depression. Then an unsettling...

Daniel Marsh lives a lonely life with his father who is still grieving for his wife. When he finds a walrus calf that has washed up on the rocks of a nearby beach on the harsh coast of Alaska, he tries to take care of her on his own. After spending a long night out on the rocks when autumn is quickly...

Die Musik ist Curly Watkins' Leben; doch aus den aufregenden Tagen der Punkbewegung in San Francisco sind ihm nur seine Gitarre geblieben und ein riesiges Kraken-Tattoo auf dem Kopf. Die meisten seiner alten Freunde sind längst tot, doch Curly hat überlebt und schlägt sich mit Auftritten in Cafés...

High school quarterback and reluctant hero, Jake Gunn, hates the spotlight, the idea of predestination and the sudden, debilitating anxiety attacks that threaten every social interaction. Becoming one of the Ten Immortals, eternal guardians of the light, after the last game of the season was the last...

When a mining claim on a crumbling cliff of burnt-rose quartzite lured naturalist Jack Nisbet to the northeastern corner of Washington State in 1970, he began a search for an understanding of that open country through stories about the people who lived there and the everyday events he shared with...

We are all evolving at a fast rate NOW. It can be a painful birthing of a new you and a new planet or a fun filled, joyful celebration through the dimensions. The most important element to navigate these times is FUN! The Middle Path of Joy presents a few concepts we can practice daily, to override these chaotic change times, so we can ALL arrive in the Golden Age of Peace together.

This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds – the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934. Terns are small seabirds that are commonly seen along coastlines and estuaries in the summer months – their graceful flight...

The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution.

This 12 volume set now in one volume. This contains commentary concise comments and sermon outlines, perfect for preaching, and teaching. It has perspective on a passage for any lay person, or teacher. More than 100 authors wrote short essays, sermon outlines, and sermon illustrations for selected...

Jenny McNair, part-time and reluctant PI, is settling into life on her island in the Pacific Northwest. Recovering from a divorce and from having solved the mystery of the body buried in her Great Aunt Winnie's rose garden, she is now able to focus on her pottery and her spiritual counseling. However,...

Jake Gunn hated his frequent, debilitating panic attacks almost as much as the idea of predestination or becoming an Immortal. Trapping a Demon within a magical stone before it could pierce the veil between worlds and start Armageddon was supposed to be the end of the madness, not the beginning. Guided...

Imaging now plays an integral part in most diagnostic pathways. A familiarity with plain-film abnormalities and the more specialised modalities such as computerised tomography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance is an important part of the clinician's "medical knowledge",...