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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 209 reviews
Tom Robbins
Bantam, 2001
THE BEST THAT ROBBINS GETS!!!
I'VE READ ALL OF ROBBINS BOOKS. THIS AND 'JITTERBUG PERFUME' ARE AS GOOD AS IT GETS!
THE ONLY COMPLAINT ANYONE COULD HAVE ABOUT THIS BOOK IS THAT ONE OFTEN NEEDS A DICTIONARY WHILE READING IT. THE PLOT IS FASCINATING AND HILARIOUS.....THIS MAN IS TRULY A TALENTED WRITER.
WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYBODY THAT IS NOT EASILY OFFENDED!!!
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Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time 38 reviews
Susan Scott
Berkley Trade, 2004
Change your conversations in a powerful way.
I had to read this book through work, and I have to say it made a powerful change in my company. If you are tired of having the same conversations over and over with employees or your spouse then this book will teach you that the conversation IS the realationship. Fierce conversations are REAL. They are not mean are rude, they are robust, intense, strong, powerful, passionate, eager, and ...
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir9 reviews
Vivian Gornick
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
A superb stylist
The truth is, Gornick could write about the hard bit of cheese left over and I would thill to it. She is a superb stylist and I've read all her books greedily -- precious objects that they are. This book, with its dark and painful attachment to her mother laid bare for us -- and how this attachment has acted upon all her other attempts at attachment -- is kinetic both intellectually and ...
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Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It (California Series in Public Anthropology) 1 review
Rob Borofsky
University of California Press, 2005
By far the most important book on the controversy
In 2000 a controversy exploded around numerous, diverse, and very serious allegations about violations of professional ethics and abuses of human rights made in a book by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. The present book edited by Dr. Robert Borofsky critically examines the fallout from Tierney's book. This ...
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Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)4 reviews
Jim Collins
Harvard Business Review, 2001
Leadership to outperform the market
Jim Collins operates a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Together with Jerry I. Porras he wrote the bestseller 'Built to Last' (1994). This article was published in the January 2001 issue of the Harvard Business Review. This article reports on the author's research into how good companies can become great ones. "We looked for companies that had shifted from good performance to ...
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The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality9 reviews
Belden C. Lane
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
A great book on spirituality and environment
This book is a gem for anyone who appreciates monasticism and the beauty and spirituality of the desert. It contains some of the freshest theological insights I have come across in quite awhile.
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Fierce: A Memoir16 reviews
Barbara Robinette Moss
Scribner, 2004
A Riveting follow-up to 'Zeus's Daughter'
When I first read "Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter," I immediately wanted more from memoirist Barbara Robinette Moss. In her follow-up "Fierce," she does not disappoint.
"Fierce" is Barbara's story of leaving all she knew behind to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. Every step of the way, childhood demons haunt her: her charismatic and alcoholic father, staggering poverty and abuse, ...
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-19206 reviews
Michael McGerr
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
Ambiguities of reform
This well-done account of the rise of the Progressive Movement is as good on the history of the period, and is studded with many interesting details about the Victorian period in the gestation of the great challenge to the world of big business. Notable, and what makes the book out of the ordinary, is depiction of the limits of the movement seen in the account of the movement's attitudes toward ...
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The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives6 reviews
Brennan Manning
HarperOne, 2004
living as the people of Abba
Brennan Manning writes: "Instead of a light volley of divine love followed by the heavy artillery of rule-keeping, Jesus' love for the unlovely must pierce the heart of every Christian." In the "The Wisdom of Tenderness" Brennan Manning once again discusses the unfathomable love of God. By discussing the tender, pursuing love of Jesus, as well as the fierce mercy of our Abba, Manning seeks to ...
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion6 reviews
Stephen B. Oates
Harper Perennial, 1990
Learning the truth about the legend
Nat Turner led the largest slave rebellion in American history. That is an indisputable fact. Unfortunately, not much else is known about the life of this legendary figure. Why did he do what he did? How was he able to do it? What was it about the man that made people follow him into insurrection? In his book, "The Fires Of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion", author Stephen B. Oates ...
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Surviving Black Ice3 reviews
David W. Fierce
Writers Block Press, 2002
Hope and inspiration for survivors and families!
This book grabbed me in the first few pages and I couldn't put it down. It is a story of a man who overcomes all kinds of obstacles and pushes through to a new life. For friends and families of brain injury survivors it offers practical guidance and insight into the mind of the person struggling to find a way through some dark tunnels in recovery. From feeling like the "retarded little brother" ...
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A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement3 reviews
Philip Shabecoff
Island Press, 2003
Review - A Fierce Green Fire
A Fierce Green Fire provides an in-depth account of the history of the environmental movement in America. Phillip Shabecoff, writer for the New York Times, writes with much experience in the field of environmentalism. The book maintains a nice balance of description and conclusion, and holds the interest of the audience by noting specific examples and stories from both national and grassroots ...
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Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book I of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene4 reviews
Canon Press, 1999
Transcendental (but not the Emerson type)
Roy Maynard ought to be commended for aiding us in reading Spenser. Personally, I think Spenser tells a better yarn than Shakespeare, with all due respect to the Bard. This book was written by a Christian, with powerful Christian overtones, and Christians will benefit the most from it. The language is archaic, the story is...well...schockingly relevant. I said in the title that the book is ...
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Fierce Teaching: Purpose, Passion, and What Matters Most
Eric P. Jensen
Corwin Press, 2008
"The content is crucial for classroom teachers who want to help children learn to their maximum potential." —Deborah Alexander-Davis, Educational Consultant "Teachers will benefit greatly from Jensen's knowledge and understanding of many complex topics." —Beverly Ginther, Staff Development Coordinator Minnetonka Public Schools, MN Empower students' learning with core teaching principles and brain-friendly strategies! New ...
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Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of Suicide
G. Lloyd Carr, Gwendolyn C. Carr
Herald Press, 2004
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Fierce People 15 reviews
Dirk Wittenborn
Bloomsbury USA, 2003
A Unique Page-Turner
All of the characters were completely likeable and not at all one-dimensional. Wittenborn takes the (jaded) knowledge and experience of living in NYC and applies it to Finn's personality, which makes him different than the other kids in Vlyvalle, which would naturally spark an interest in him, and he comes off as extremely likeable to everyone (even the reluctant Dwayne). Wittenborn's portrayal ...
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No Beast So Fierce7 reviews
Edward Bunker
No Exit Press, 2003
FANTASTIC
This is an incredible book about criminals and their twisted philosophies. Bunker writes with brutal honesty. I found better psychological insights in these pages than a handful of sociologists could blabber out of their book training. This book came from the REAL DEAL! It doesn't glamorize anything-it just is what it is. Not to filibuster here, but with the ongoing debates about capital ...
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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)15 reviews
Modern Library, 2002
Such a great book that I had to give it away!
I bought this book to take on vacation and my hosts loved the book so much that I had to leave it with them...and since I couldn't finish all the essays, I'm going to have to buy it again. It's so funny. I'm going to buy it for gifts... It's a riot.
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