Bøger af Michael Fisher

"The Falcon Mystery" unveils the perplexing disappearance of Linda Falcon, a dedicated mother and accountant from Los Angeles. The narrative delves into the turmoil that unfolds following her vanishing, spotlighting the extensive investigation that ensues, the discovery of her SUV in Las Vegas, and the unsettling suspicions surrounding her husband, Frank Falcon. As the case attracts FBI attention and reopens, the story explores themes of family dynamics, societal expectations, and the quest for truth amidst a web of secrets and lies.

The Major & the Lieutenant" is a compelling narrative of Major Bridget, a US Army officer, whose deployment to Iraq tests her resilience and character. Enduring six months of captivity and torture, Bridget returns home changed, both physically and mentally. She faces personal upheaval, dealing with an unexpected pregnancy from her captivity and the dissolution of her marriage. Bridget's journey is further intertwined with Lieutenant Keli Thompson, leading to a bond over shared struggles within the military. The novel delves into themes of resilience, personal identity, and the balance between duty and self-discovery, highlighting Bridget's evolution from a disciplined officer to a woman charting her own course amidst adversity.

"Fear & Despair" follows the story of Gloria Griffin, a recently divorced mother and District Attorney's office worker in New Orleans. The novel blends elements of the supernatural and psychological thriller as Gloria navigates a life filled with unexpected and unexplainable occurrences. Her journey through the city's mysterious passageways leads her to confront paranormal elements, including encounters with vampires and black magic. As Gloria grapples with her altered reality and the potential danger to her family, she also faces a personal transformation that challenges her understanding of her world.

"Irene's Tall Tale" is a vivid and emotionally charged narrative following the life of Irene Collins, an accountant living in a big city. The story begins with Irene reflecting on her marriage and its gradual decline from a passionate honeymoon phase to a state of emptiness and disconnection. At a party, Irene encounters a mysterious woman who introduces a supernatural element into the tale, leading to surreal and erotic experiences. These events strain Irene's marriage, leading to her husband's eventual departure and their divorce. Throughout the story, Irene's life spirals into a series of increasingly intense and bizarre sexual escapades, many of which she can barely recall, indicating a loss of control over her actions and choices. This spiral continues until a dramatic realization at her former home, where she discovers her ex-husband in an intimate situation with her sister. The story concludes with Irene reflecting on her experiences, discussing her newfound sexual preferences with her sister, and finding solace in the support they provide each other.

The author, Michael Brooke Fisher, wrote this book decades ago after reading a novel by the popular legal thriller writer John Grisham. With no disrespect to Grisham, he felt he could write something equally as good and took on the self-imposed challenge.Using his experience as both a criminal defense attorney and later as the Prosecutor of one of New Jersey's twenty-one counties he wrote To Kill or Not to Kill. A Los Angeles agency showed interest in acquiring screenplay rights to the unpublished novel but ultimately, that did not come to pass. At the same time the author was appointed to a State Superior Court Judgeship, making the publication of the novel with its subject matter less than appropriate. So he put it in a desk drawer and put it out of his mind.Since then he has left the bench, the novel has been published and he now welcomes people to read To Kill or Not to Kill.

A Bisexual Story of a mother and her two daughters. Each are Bisexual and struggle through abuse, a bad marriage and fear of men to find their true love. This story contains sexual content but is nmore of a story of struggle, understanding and trying to figure out ones self and love in this complex trying world.

Jeri dreamt of living a happy life with her prince charming, a life filled with laughter, love, and joy. She imagined a large family of their own, full of little ones with happy, smiling faces who would run around and fill their home with joy. She dreamt of a bright future with a beautiful home, a life with her prince charming, and their babies. When the dust settled in the wake of her breakup, she was left with a shattered heart and a mountain of regret. But her story had only just begun. For soon, she would find herself on an unexpected journey of self-redemption and discovery, one that pushed her to her limits and tested her mettle. Little did she know, a sweeping surprise awaited her, one that would bring her out of her darkness and into a new dawn. After numerous setbacks, she found solace in the new acquaintance. Was this a chance encounter that fate had orchestrated? Or was this the beginning of something more? Could this mysterious stranger be the missing piece of the puzzle that could finally put her life back together? Or was this just another failed attempt at finding a companion to share her journey?

The life of Deni is unlike anything a regular girl would experience. It was a destiny many would dread at the mere thought of it. From a young age, she had to face problems. Following the sudden passing of her parents, she moved in with her grandmother, yet the arrangement proved to be too overwhelming for the elderly woman. Consequently, the young girl was placed in foster care and was subjected to mistreatment by her peers. Although she felt alone and helpless, her luck changed when she encountered an unexpected ally. A person who she initially thought would only be a friend, yet before long, she would discover something within herself that she never imagined was there.She wandered the dark and winding roads of Transylvania, her heart beating with anticipation. Along the way, she encountered a variety of creatures, both ugly and strange. She explored abandoned castles and graveyards, discovering a vast array of secrets and stories. Everywhere she went, she felt a strange pull, drawing her even closer to the destiny she had long sought.Transitioning from one world to another was another challenge for Deni with its bad and good sides. Deni experienced a rollercoaster of emotions as he embarked on this journey of self-discovery, with both its highs and lows. She was met with a kaleidoscope of new and exciting experiences as she slowly adjusted to the new environment and embraced the changes that came with it. She was filled with both trepidation and excitement as she navigated the unfamiliar, embracing it with open arms. She soon found herself as the Queen of Dracula's heart and the calming force in the stormy seas of his life. But beneath the smile she wore, there was a deep longing for the children she had left behind following her death.

Poetry of the dark, regsrding loss, grief, and remorse with no holds barred. Gory at times with a little profanity.

When a Washington DC Metro Homicide detective started his shift on a sunny July morning, he was greeted with an unusual victim, an obvious snake bite; not something normally considered a homicide, but a tattoo on the victim sends him down a path he would never have believed. As the week progresses, an increasing number of unexplainable homicides draws Detective MacCallen ever deeper into a world of tattooed nightmares, terrors enacted in the most gruesome ways imaginable. Can Detective MacCallen stop the murders before they happen again? "Wonderfully inventive and darkly funny...with a subtle Clive Barker influence... his command of the English language is superb, creating tension and scares from simple and routine situations, the sign of a great writer." -Stuart Keane, Author of Grin and Charlotte

There is no such thing as choosing your parents. You might be very fortunate to live withamazing ones, just like you might be very unfortunate to live with ones who don't care aboutyour feelings at all. And this unfortunately was Gracie's case.Gracie was only 12 when her parents decided to move to the Peru Jungles and take her withthem. She refused not wanting to leave her friends, school, and everything she is used to buther parents had already made up their minds. Little did Gracie know that her parents had asecret mission in the Peru Jungles, a mission that would change her life forever and make herrealize that she was so much more than she ever thought she was.Taking her to a place no one would want to live in, she had to get used to things very quickly.Although the villagers didn't seem to really like her and gave her very strange looks. Thatmove to the Peru jungle flipped her life upside down. She didn't contract a disease as shethought she would, but she was included in a ritual to save the villagers from extinction. Shehad to do things she never thought possible, not under the drugs they gave her to comply withthem.

Marianne and her husband settled into their new home, eager to start their life together as a family. But soon after, Marianne began to hear strange, inexplicable noises echoing through the hallways of their new home. When she mentioned it to her husband, he brushed her off, attributing it to her overactive imagination. Little did they know, the secrets their home held were far stranger than either of them could have ever imagined.Despite his doubts, time passed and the young couple was soon confronted with a nightmarish situation. Alone in her dark and empty home, Marianne was plagued by awful noises and strange shapes moving in the shadows. One night, in a dreamlike state, she thought she felt a pair of hands on her body, but was this truly a dream? Was there something more sinister at play?It wasn't long alone before she was introduced to a so-called helper who would soon be in a dilemma she never thought she would. The two young girls found themselves in a living nightmare, bound within the grasp of a ghostly figure. Each day brought an unprecedented level of terror and despair, as they strived to survive the torture and abuse that threatened to consume them. With each attempt to escape, the haunting figure seems to grow in strength and cruelty. But will they ever break free of this invisible prison, or will they remain trapped in fear and darkness forever?

The Freaks come out at night. When a small group of outcasts from the suburbs of Washington, DC witness the zombie apocalypse happening before their eyes, what will they do to survive and will they succeed? A small cabin in the mountains of Virginia, once a refuge from the hectic rush of city life, may now be the only refuge for life for these sef-labelled DC Freaks. Not your mama's Cabin in the Woods.

When Jack's wife passed in a mysterious car accident, his life took an unexpected turn after meeting Joanna's look-alike, Victoria, a Real Estate Lawyer. His eyes were drawn to her beauty, and he thought he had found love again. His life spiraled downward again when things didn't work out the way he envisioned. He recklessly pursued a lifestyle of pleasure and self-destruction. He neglected his job, messed up relationships, and fell into an unhappy marriage. Just when he thought things would get deteriorated, something else happened.

This is a book of poems for children, their parents, animals that like to read, and any aliens visiting our planet. It is a whimsical journey through multiple ideas about life, love, humor, and empowerment.

These stories are a compendium of writings from the last couple of decades that have holiday-related themes. I left them largely untouched as they are reflections of not only the time in which they were written, but also represent somewhat of a timeline of events, albeit out of order, across the Christmas celebrations in my life. This is my favorite time of the year-even more so now that I have children of my own to share the festivities with. The holidays have always been magical, and even at my age now, they still are. I'm thrilled to be able to share some of these memories with you in this extended Christmas card. I hope that they remind you of your own holiday celebrations. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Time is a fascinating subject and has long since captured mankind's imagination, from the ancients to modern man, both adult and child alike. It has been studied across a wide range of disciplines, from the natural sciences to philosophy and logic. Today, thirty plus years since Prior's work in laying out foundations for temporal logic, and two decades on from Pnueli's seminal work applying of temporal logic in specification and verification of computer programs, temporal logic has a strong and thriving international research community within the broad disciplines of computer science and artificial intelligence. Areas of activity include, but are certainly not restricted to: Pure Temporal Logic, e. g. temporal systems, proof theory, model theory, expressiveness and complexity issues, algebraic properties, application of game theory; Specification and Verification, e. g. of reactive systems, ofreal-time components, of user interaction, of hardware systems, techniques and tools for verification, execution and prototyping methods; Temporal Databases, e. g. temporal representation, temporal query- ing, granularity of time, update mechanisms, active temporal data- bases, hypothetical reasoning; Temporal Aspects in AI, e. g. modelling temporal phenomena, in- terval temporal calculi, temporal nonmonotonicity, interaction of temporal reasoning with action/knowledge/belief logics, temporal planning; Tense and Aspect in Natural Language, e. g. models, ontologies, temporal quantifiers, connectives, prepositions, processing tempo- ral statements; Temporal Theorem Proving, e. g. translation methods, clausal and non-clausal resolution, tableaux, automata-theoretic approaches, tools and practical systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2006. The 34 revised full papers and 12 revised tool description papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers cover a range of topics within the remit of the Conference, such as logic programming, description logics, non-monotonic reasoning, agent theories, automated reasoning, and machine learning.

This book presents revised full versions of papers contributed to UK Workshops on Multi-Agent Systems, UKMAS, during 1996 and 2000.From the early days of MAS research, the UK community has been a particularly productive one with numerous key contributions. The 15 papers by internationally reputed researchers deal with various aspects of agent technology, with a certain emphasis on foundational issues in multi-agent systems.

Offers teachers easy-to-implement ten-minute instructional strategies that can help time-strapped teachers ensure that their students have a sound grasp of both general and content-specific words across grade levels and subject areas.

In this game-changing book, author and instructional coach Michael Fisher shows teachers how they can free themselves from rigid and ineffective busywork by replacing lesson plans with learning journeys that are guided by the students' abilities, interests, and skill levels rather than by pre-selected checklists of day-to-day benchmarks.

To stay competitive, firms need to build great products but they also need to lend these products to the uses and misuses of their customers and learn extensively from them. This is the first book to explore the idea that allowing customers to adapt features in online products or services to suit their needs is the key to viral growth.

Three centuries of the Mughal Empire in one short book

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 you how to: Prioritize and break apart standards Set targets and demonstrations of learning Create valuable experiences for contemporary learners Organize instructional elements into action plans Maintain a thriving curriculum culture ecosystemThese strategies offer you the power and permission to be the designer, not the recipient, of a contemporary curriculum. Students and teachers will benefit for years to come when you apply these engaging tools starting tomorrow.

Explores what types of assignments are worth engaging online, how teachers and students can leverage global interactions to improve their work, and how teachers can assess digital projects and other work. Along the way, Fisher offers practical advice on rigor and relevance, digital citizenship, formative assessment, and digital portfolios.

Biography of John Hardman Powell who is best known for his stained glass. Hardman Powell was trained by A W N Pugin and succeeded Pugin after the latter's sudden death in 1852.

Written by curriculum and specification experts, this Student Book supports and extends students through the new course while delivering the breadth, depth, and skills needed to succeed in the new AS and beyond. It develops true subject knowledge while also developing essential exam skills.