Fischer: 1405 books
Meet the Regulars
People of Brooklyn and the Places They Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Based on the column The Regulars on the New York magazine partner Bedford + Bowery, the celebrities and everyday people who love the local joints of the world’s coolest borough.
Meet the Regulars captures a previously unseen and entertaining portrait of the people of Brooklyn and the places...
Sailing Home
Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Homer's Odyssey has a timeless allure. It is an ancient story that is significant for every generation: the struggle of a homesick, battle-weary man longing to return to love and family. Odysseus's strivings to overcome divine and earthly obstacles and to control his own impulsive nature hold valuable...
I Like Being Killed
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Fiendishly funny and dark, here is a Canterbury Tales for the millennium, a vision of the New Europe where the young and bright live ultra-hip lives of noisy desperation
Tibor Fischer has been called "a Joseph Conrad with jokes" (The Sunday Times, London). Now he earns the title again...
Islands
From Atlantis to Zanzibar
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific...
Red Sox vs. Yankees
Hometown Experts Analyze, Debate, and Illuminate Baseball's Ultimate Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Teddy Ballgame or the Great Bambino? Nomar or Jeter? Clemens or Clemens?
For more than 115 years, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have been battling it out on the diamond, playing each other over 2,000 times. This heated rivalry has stood the test of time, as one team’s triumph usually...
Near-Death Experiences
Understanding Visions of the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Near-death experiences offer a glimpse not only into the nature of death but also into the meaning of life. They are not only useful tools to aid in the human quest to understand death but are also deeply meaningful, transformative experiences for the people who have them. In a unique contribution...
Cultural Logics and Global Economies
Maya Identity in Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As ideas, goods, and people move with increasing ease and speed across national boundaries and geographic distances, the economic changes and technological advances that enable this globalization are also paradoxically contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic groups, and special interest...
The Good Life
Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living?...
by Bernd R. Fischer, Russ Wermers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Just how successful is that investment? Measuring portfolio performance requires evaluation (measuring portfolio results against benchmarks) and attribution (determining individual results of the portfolio's parts), In this book, a professor and an asset manager show readers how to use theories,...
Vom Leistungstief zum Leistungshoch
Wie Sie Low Performer in Ihrem Team wieder zur Bestform führen
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Was tun, wenn Mitarbeiter nicht genug leisten? Entlassen ist die eine Option. Trainings und Weiterbildung die andere. Das sind die gängigen Strategien der Führungskräfte. Doch beide Varianten sind kostspielig, und produzieren entweder ein Angstklima oder Frust für die Zugpferde im Unternehmen....
Machado e Borges
e outros ensaios sobre Machado de Assis
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Luís Augusto Fischer é ficcionista, cronista, crítico literário, roteirista, até dicionarista (do porto-alegrês). Quem podia ser melhor, então, para escrever sobre Machado de Assis, escritor que usou todos os gêneros possíveis para animar a cultura do seu tempo? Ao ler este livro, fiquei...
by Niket Sonpal, Conrad Fischer, Elizabeth V. August
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The perfect way to master the wards and review for shelf and USMLE/COMLEX exams – 150 obstetrics & gynecology cases in a convenient flashcard format!
Created by Niket Sonpal, MD, and Conrad Fischer, MD, noted educators and bestselling authors of numerous test prep resources, Master the...
by Mário de Andrade, Luís Augusto Fischer, Guto Leite
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 4, 2017
O herói sem nenhum caráter Apresentação de Luís Augusto Fischer; fixação de texto de Guto Leite; notas de Guto Leite e Luís Augusto Fischer Escrito em uma semana de dezembro de 1926 e publicado pela primeira vez em 1928, Macunaíma é um clássico nacional, mas nem sempre foi assim. A consagração...
by Ester Amy Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Is it empowerment or desperation when an upper-middle class young woman decides to explore the world’s oldest profession?
American Courtesan is the provocative debut novel by Ester Amy Fischer.
At the turn of the millennium, in the bohemian underground of industrial...