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True Detective - Season 3 (DVD): Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff, Carmen Ejogo, Ray Fisher True Detective - Season 3 (DVD)
Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff, Carmen Ejogo, Ray Fisher
R497 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R155 (31%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mahershala Ali stars as Wayne Hays, a retired detective who has been tormented for 35 years by a case involving the 1980 disappearance of a 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister in the town of West Finger, Arkansas. As the aging Hays, his memory failing, ruminates on details of his investigation with the producer of a truecrime documentary, we learn about the case, and Hays’ past, tracking stories in 1980, when the crime took place, and 1990, when a shocking discovery reignited interest in the case.

Through these flashbacks, we get to know key characters like Roland West (Stephen Dorff), Wayne’s partner at the time of the murder; Amelia Reardon (Carmen Ejogo), a schoolteacher and writer; as well as county officials, FBI agents, family members and suspects.

Each of the eight episodes adds a new piece to the puzzle of what happened on that fateful night in 1980 – and how that one event shaped the lives of so many people for so many years.

Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - 9-Movie Collection (DVD, Boxed set): Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Hayden... Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - 9-Movie Collection (DVD, Boxed set)
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, … 5
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Anakin Skywalker is young a boy with special powers, unaware of the journey he is beginning and whom he will transform him into. Obi-Wan Kenobi is a determined young apprentice and Palpatine, well know as the evil Emperor, is an ambitious Senator in the Galactic Republic. It is a time when the Jedi Knights are the guardians of Peace in a turbulent galaxy and a young Queen fights to save her people. In the shadows lurks an evil force waiting for the right moment to strike.

Episode 2: Attack Of The Clones
Anakin Skywalker has grown into an accomplished Jedi apprentice, and he faces his most difficult challenge yet as he must choose between his Jedi duty and forbidden love. Relive the adventure the way it was meant to be seen in spectacular digital clarity, including the climatic Clone War battle and Jedi Master Yoda in the ultimate lightsaber duel. Discover how Episode II unlocks the secrets of the entire Star Wars saga...

Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith
Torn between loyalty to his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the seductive powers of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker ultimately turns his back on the Jedi, thus completing his journey to the dark side and his transformation into Darth Vader. Experience the breathtaking scope of the final chapter in spectacular digital clarity and relive all the epic battles including the final climactic lightsaber duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan.

Episode 4: A New Hope
Nearly two decades after the rise of the Empire, young farmer Luke Skywalker meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived for years in seclusion on the desert planet of Tatooine. Obi-Wan begins Luke’s Jedi training, telling him of the Rebels’ battle against the Empire and the power known as the Force. Soon Luke, Obi-Wan, and a charismatic mercenary named Han Solo and his Wookiee sidekick Chewbacca, join forces to rescue Princess Leia from the Empire’s massive warship, the Death Star, controlled by Darth Vader.

Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back
It is a dark time for the Rebellion. After a devastating attack on their ice base on the frozen planet of Hoth, the Rebels are scattered by Imperial pursuit. Luke Skywalker seeks out the mysterious Jedi Master Yoda in the swamps of Dagobah, while Han Solo and Princess Leia outrun the Imperial fleet to the beautiful Cloud City of Bespin. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, the evil Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap. In the midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke faces a terrible truth about the Skywalker legacy.

Episode 6: Return Of The Jedi
In the spectacular final chapter of the Star Wars saga, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia must travel to Tatooine to free Han Solo by infiltrating the wretched stronghold of Jabba the Hutt, the galaxy's most loathsome gangster. Reunited, the Rebels team up with tribes of Ewoks to combat the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor. Meanwhile the Emperor and Darth Vader conspire to turn Luke to the dark side, and young Skywalker is determined to rekindle the spirit of the Jedi within his father.

Episode 7: The Force Awakens
Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy faces a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and the First Order. When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey, a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map. Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo to make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, the last of the Jedi Knights.

Episode 8: The Last Jedi
The Star Wars saga continues as the heroes and galactic legends go on an epic adventure unlocking mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past. Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.

Episode 9: The Rise Of Skywalker
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more as an old threat makes itself known again. Journey one last time to a galaxy far, far away for the riveting conclusion of the Skywalker saga, where new legends will be born and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.

The Next Conversation - Argue Less, Talk More (Paperback): Jefferson Fisher The Next Conversation - Argue Less, Talk More (Paperback)
Jefferson Fisher
R440 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R47 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Make your next conversation the one that changes everything.

What’s the best way to handle a heated conversation? How do I stand my ground with confidence? Is there an effective way to work with difficult personalities?

Trial lawyer Jefferson Fisher has gained millions of followers through short, simple, practical videos teaching people how to argue less and talk more.

And now he offers a tried-and-true framework that will show you how to transform your life and your relationships. His down-to-earth teachings and actionable strategies have helped countless people navigate life’s toughest situations.

You will learn:

  • Why you should never “win” an argument
  • How to set boundaries and frame conversations
  • Why saying less is often more
  • How to overcome conflict with connection

Everything you want to say, and how you want to say it, can be found in The Next Conversation.

Sphingolipids in Cancer, Volume 140 (Hardcover): Charles E. Chalfant, Paul B. Fisher Sphingolipids in Cancer, Volume 140 (Hardcover)
Charles E. Chalfant, Paul B. Fisher
R3,977 Discovery Miles 39 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sphingolipids in Cancer, Volume 140, the latest release in the Advances in Cancer Research series, provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Topics discussed in this updated volume include Mechanisms of ceramide-dependent cancer cell death, Sphingolipids as regulators of autophagy and endocytic trafficking, The role and function of sphingomyelin biosynthesis in the development of cancer, Neutral sphingomyelinases in cancer: Friend or foe?, Sphingolipid rendezvous at the crossroad of NAFLD and senescence, Ceramide signaling and p53 pathways, Sphingolipid regulation of RNA Biology in cancer phenotypes, The role of ceramide-1-phosphate in tumor cell survival and dissemination, and more.

Better Learning Through Structured Teaching - A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility (Paperback, 3rd Revised... Better Learning Through Structured Teaching - A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
R792 R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Save R105 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now in its 3rd edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility-an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners.To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to master content and develop new competencies. On a day-to-day basis, it means delivering lessons intentionally structured to incorporate four interrelated phases: * Focused Instruction ("I do it") that sets students up for cognitive apprenticeship by establishing lesson purpose, modeling strategies and skills, and sharing information and insight. * Guided Instruction ("We do it together") that incorporates targeted prompts, cues, and questions to scaffold understanding. * Collaborative Learning ("You do it together") that allows students to consolidate and extend understanding through accountable group tasks built on discussion and cooperative problem solving. * Independent Learning ("You do it alone") that provides students opportunities to practice and apply the skills and knowledge they've acquired to create authentic products and ask new questions. Authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey detail the components of each phase, sharing proven strategies and real-life examples. You'll find a variety of useful tips for classroom implementation, along with new guidance on teacher credibility, social-emotional learning, and embedding assessment throughout all four phases. No matter what grade level or subject you teach, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is an essential resource for improving your practice and empowering your students.

Men Who Batter (Hardcover): Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend Men Who Batter (Hardcover)
Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend
R2,086 Discovery Miles 20 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Men who act abusively have their own story to tell, a journey that often begins in childhood, ripens in their teenage years, and takes them down paths they were hoping to never travel. Men Who Batter recounts the journey from the point of view of the men themselves. The men's accounts of their lives are told within a broader framework of the agency where they have attended groups, and the regional coordinated community response to domestic violence, which includes the criminal justice workers (e.g., probation, parole, judges), and those who staff shelters and work in advocacy. Based on interview data with this wide array of professionals, we are able to examine how one community, in one western state, responds to men who batter. Interwoven with this rich and colorful portrayal of the journey of abusive men, we bring twenty years of fieldwork with survivors and those who walk alongside them as they seek safety, healing and wholeness for themselves and their children. Women who have been victimized by the men they love often hold out hope that, if only their abusers could be held accountable and receive intervention, the violence will stop and their own lives will improve dramatically as a result. While the main purpose of Men Who Batter is to highlight the stories of men, told from their personal point of view, it is countered by reality checks from their own case files and those professionals who have worked with them. And finally, interspersed within its pages is another theme: finding religious faith or spiritual activity in unlikely places.

Never Never (Paperback): Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher Never Never (Paperback)
Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
R240 R214 Discovery Miles 2 140 Save R26 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Forgetting is terrifying. Remembering is worse…

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning… they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love… every memory has vanished.

Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be… the more they question why they were ever together to begin with.

The Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us joins forces with the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives for a gripping, twisty, romantic mystery unlike any other.

(Originally self-published in 2015)

Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing - A History of the Noble Gases (Hardcover, New): David Fisher Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing - A History of the Noble Gases (Hardcover, New)
David Fisher
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 react with anything, and were thought to be unimportant until the early 1960s. Starting in that era, David Fisher has spent roughly fifty years doing research on these gases, publishing nearly a hundred papers in the scientific journals, applying them to problems in geophysics and cosmochemistry, and learning how other scientists have utilized them to change our ideas about the universe, the sun, and our own planet.
Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing will cover this spectrum of ideas, interspersed with the author's own work which will serve to introduce each gas and the important work others have done with them. The rare gases have participated in a wide range of scientific advances-even revolutions-but no book has ever recorded the entire story. Fisher will range from the intricacies of the atomic nucleus and the tiniest of elementary particles, the neutrino, to the energy source of the stars; from the age of the earth to its future energies; from life on Mars to cancer here on earth. A whole panoply that has never before been told as an entity.

Guarding the Pugin Flame (Hardcover): Michael Fisher Guarding the Pugin Flame (Hardcover)
Michael Fisher
R2,053 Discovery Miles 20 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When the premature death of A.W.N. Pugin (1812-1852) created a huge vacuum in the realm of Gothic-revival art and design, this was more than adequately filled by John Hardman Powell (1827-1895). Tutored personally - and uniquely - by Pugin, Powell now stepped into his master's shoes as chief designer for the Birmingham firm of John Hardman & Co. who manufactured metalwork, stained glass, and other furnishings for Pugin and for architects influenced by him. More than that, Powell was married to Pugin's eldest daughter, Anne (1832-1897) who bore him twelve children. Though rigorously trained by Pugin, Powell had a free-spirited artistic temperament, which, imbued with Pugin's 'True Principles' of medieval art and design, led him to apply them in innovative and imaginative ways. Researched from newly-discovered original sources, this book examines Powell's rich legacy of stained glass and metalwork which is still to be enjoyed in cathedrals, churches and great houses across the United Kingdom and overseas, and the ideas which shaped it. Powell's loyalty to his late Master extended to the younger members of Pugin's family, including the love-lorn Agnes and the hot-tempered Edward, and also to Pugin's widow Jane, whose social pretensions he mercilessly lampooned. Through his encouragement of artistic talent within his own family, his training of Hardman apprentices, his evening lectures in Birmingham, and his written tributes to his late Master, Powell ensured that the Pugin flame would continue to burn brightly well into the twentieth century.

Better Than Carrots or Sticks - Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management (Paperback): Dominique Smith, Douglas... Better Than Carrots or Sticks - Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management (Paperback)
Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
R784 R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together. After a comprehensive overview of the roots of the restorative practices movement in schools, the authors explain how to: Establish procedures and expectations for student behavior that encourage the development of positive interpersonal skills. Develop a nonconfrontational rapport with even the most challenging students. Implement conflict resolution strategies that prioritize relationship building and mutual understanding over finger-pointing and retribution. Rewards and punishments may help to maintain order in the short term, but they're at best superficially effective and at worst counterproductive. This book will prepare teachers at all levels to ensure that their classrooms are welcoming, enriching, and constructive environments built on collective respect and focused on student achievement.

Long Island Rail Road - Main Line East (Paperback): David D. Morrison Long Island Rail Road - Main Line East (Paperback)
David D. Morrison; Foreword by Don Fisher
R587 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Your Students, My Students, Our Students - Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms (Paperback): Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey,... Your Students, My Students, Our Students - Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms (Paperback)
Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, Julie Kroener
R809 R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Save R111 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of AM&P EXCEL Bronze Award Your Students, My Students, Our Students explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. Authors Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Julie Kroener show you how to: Establish a school culture that champions equity and inclusion. Rethink the long-standing structure of least restrictive environment and the resulting service delivery. Leverage the strengths of all educators to provide appropriate support and challenge. Collaborate on the delivery of instruction and intervention. Honor the aspirations of each student and plan accordingly. To realize authentic and equitable inclusion, we must relentlessly and collectively pursue change. This book-written not for ""special educators"" or ""general educators"" but for all educators-addresses the challenges, maps out the solutions, and provides tools and inspiration for the work ahead. Real-life examples of empowerment and success illustrate just what's possible when educators commit to the belief that every student belongs to all of us and all students deserve learning experiences that will equip them to live full and rewarding lives.

Migration - A World History (Hardcover): Michael H. Fisher Migration - A World History (Hardcover)
Michael H. Fisher
R2,928 Discovery Miles 29 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Migration began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved in different material environments, migrants conflicted, merged, and cohabited with each other, creating, entering, and leaving various city-states, kingdoms, empires, and nations. During the early modern period, migrations reconnected the continents, including through colonization and forced migrations of subject peoples, while political concepts like "citizen" and "alien" developed. In recent history, migrations changed their character as nation-states and transnational unions sought in new ways to control the peoples who migrated across their borders. This volume will explore the process of migration chronologically and also at several levels, from the illuminating example of the migration of a individual community, to larger patterns of the collective movements of major ethnic groups, to the more abstract study of the processes of emigration, migration, and immigration. This book will concentrate on substantial migrations covering long distances and involving large numbers of people. It will intentionally balance evidence from the now diverse people's of the world, for example, by highlighting an exemplary migration for each of the six chapters that highlights different trajectories and by keeping issues of gender and socio-economic class salient wherever appropriate. Further, as a major theme, the volume will consider how technology, the environment, and various polities have historically shaped human migration. Exciting new scholarship in the several fields inherent in this topic make it a particularly valuable and timely project. Each chapter will contain short individual examples, maps, illustrations, and brief quotations from diverse types of primary documents, all integrated with each other and analyzed engagingly in the text.

The Darlings of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom (Paperback): Harriet Fletcher Fisher The Darlings of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom (Paperback)
Harriet Fletcher Fisher
R539 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Migraine: Samuel Fisher Migraine
Samuel Fisher
R519 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Save R47 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The snow has melted, but the thaw reveals a world transformed. London is in ruins, its population a fraction of its pre-freeze level. The weather has become wildly unpredictable - huge pressure swings leading to powerful localised storms. And this has led to an epidemic of migraine. When a storm hits, the pain comes, along with a wide range of visual and haptic hallucinations named Migraine 'aura'. The novel starts with Ellis, one of a very small proportion of the population who don't suffer from weather-induced migraines, being struck by a migraine attack for the first time. After being blinded by hallucinations, he wakes in a ruined bookshop with its former owner, Sam, who pulled him to safety from the storm. No longer excluded from the migraine epidemic, Ellis decides to find his ex-girlfriend, Luna, and win her back. With Sam tagging along, he sets out from the bookshop and heads south. From here, chapters alternate, giving the backstory of Ellis and Luna's relationship, from their first meeting to their final rupture, while in the present day the two men wend a crooked psychogeography through the centre of the city. Migraine is concerned with questions such as: what does a society look like, if it's organised around chronic pain? What kind of culture would this set of conditions produce?

The Kingdom/Jarhead (DVD): Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven,... The Kingdom/Jarhead (DVD)
Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, … 2
R27 Discovery Miles 270 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The Kingdom (2007)
When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol, and with the clock ticking on their five days, the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Police Captain Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist, hell bent on further destruction.

Jarhead (2006)
An adaptation of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed 'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the 1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which Swofford and his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the Persian Gulf to take part in a war that sees them required to do very little in the way of fighting. Bored and frustrated in the middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of humour as they wait for the war to happen to them.

Decoden Bling - Mini Decorations for Phones & Favorite Things (Paperback): Alice Fisher Decoden Bling - Mini Decorations for Phones & Favorite Things (Paperback)
Alice Fisher
R240 R177 Discovery Miles 1 770 Save R63 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title features 20 projects to reinvent phonecases, mirrors, sunglasses and more, in the fashionable Decoden style. One of the first books on this hot emerging trend which is sweeping the internet. It is suitable for children aged 10+. Yet another fabulous trend influenced by our friends in Japan (and elsewhere, by now), decoden or dekoden is for all of us who are part magpie, in the sense that we dive for anything that glitters. The term "deco" is shorthand for "decorated" and "den" is short for denwa, "phone" in Japanese. But these fancy facades don't stop at just phones. The deco craze has swept portable gaming systems, e-readers and even fingernails. The Decoden look is over-the-top sparkle and embellishment, and the aim is to be as decadent as possible. Electronic devices are pretty nondescript on the outside for the most part, so decoden-covered cases serve the dual purpose of protection and self-expression.

A   Mind to Kill: Series 3 (DVD): Philip Madoc, Ffion Wilkins, Sharon Morgan, Gillian Elisa, Ieuan Rhys, Sara McGaughey, Simon... A Mind to Kill: Series 3 (DVD)
Philip Madoc, Ffion Wilkins, Sharon Morgan, Gillian Elisa, Ieuan Rhys, …
R105 Discovery Miles 1 050 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

All six episodes from the third season of the Welsh crime drama series starring Philip Madoc as DCI Noel Bain, who relies more on instinct than scientific evidence to track down criminals. Episodes are: 'Shadow Falls', 'Box', 'The Inner Life of Strangers', 'Colour Blind', 'Sound Bites', 'Engineer', 'Blood and Water' and 'The Little House in the Forest'.

Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma (Paperback): Janina Fisher Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma (Paperback)
Janina Fisher 1
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Urge - Our History of Addiction (Paperback): Carl Erik Fisher The Urge - Our History of Addiction (Paperback)
Carl Erik Fisher
R477 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction-a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives-by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself "Carl Erik Fisher's The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I've read on the history of addiction. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesn't self-aggrandize; the result is a full-throated argument against blaming people with substance use disorder. The Urge is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read." -Beth Macy, author of Dopesick Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding-let alone addressing effectively. As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and control addictive behavior for most of recorded history, including well before the advent of modern science and medicine. A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people who have endeavored to address this complex condition through the ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists, researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, he argues-our successes and our failures-can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician's urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and compassionate view of one of society's most intractable challenges.

Basket Case (Paperback): Nick Fisher Basket Case (Paperback)
Nick Fisher
R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Basket Case, dependable Miranda and her ex-husband, the smoothly charming and wholly unreliable Guy are thrown together when their faithful old family pet takes a turn for the worse. Reunited over the dog basket, Guy and Miranda find they haven't 'moved on' quite as they'd imagined. When they are joined by family friend James, who rarely sees a stick without getting the wrong end of it, and Martin, the vet and a long time admirer of Miranda, the scene is set for some startling home-truths as this rapid-fire foursome mines laughter and touching observations in equal measure.

Commercial Feeding Stuffs: Report on Inspection, 1962 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): H.J. Fisher Commercial Feeding Stuffs: Report on Inspection, 1962 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
H.J. Fisher
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Reach the Hard to Teach - Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most (Paperback): Jana Echevarria, Nancy Frey,... How to Reach the Hard to Teach - Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most (Paperback)
Jana Echevarria, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher
R612 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you-the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for reasons that are unknown. They have been overlooked or underserved or frustrated, and they're not learning as they should. Until now. Until you. How to Reach the Hard to Teach presents a thoughtful and practical approach to achieving breakthrough success with linguistically and culturally diverse students who struggle in school. Combining elements of the SIOP (R) Model and the FIT Teaching (R) approach, authors Jana Echevarria, Nancy Frey, and Douglas Fisher take stock of what we know about excellent instruction and distill it into five guiding principles: Set high expectations. Provide access to the core curriculum. Use assessment to inform instruction. Attend to language development-both English and academic. Create a supportive classroom climate. You'll learn specific practices associated with each principle and see how real-life teachers are employing these practices in their classrooms so that all students have the opportunity to learn and receive optimal support for that learning. Every teacher has had the experience of seeing a "hard to teach" student in a new light and realizing all he or she might achieve. This book is about shining that light of possibility on the students who challenge us most, interrogating our beliefs, and taking action to ensure they receive the best instruction we have to offer.

Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., Ll.D., Late Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in Yale College - Chiefly from His... Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., Ll.D., Late Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in Yale College - Chiefly from His Manuscript Reminiscences, Diaries, and Correspondence (Paperback)
George Park Fisher
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Californians (Paperback): Walter Mulrea Fisher The Californians (Paperback)
Walter Mulrea Fisher
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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