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  • Makeshift Fields

    Chasing Baseball Across Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales

    by Dale Jacobs ...
    Makeshift Fields is a snapshot of grassroots baseball in Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. Played as it is in the rain and cold, on temporary diamonds that are sometimes less than ideal, baseball is still fragile in these places. This book is the story of people who love the game, the story of people who believe that baseball can flourish where it’s been planted, with each location ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • 100 Miles of Baseball

    Fifty Games, One Summer

    by Dale Jacobs, Heidi LM Jacobs ...
    From sandlots to major league stands, two fans set out to recapture their love of the game.For most of their lives together Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs couldn’t imagine a spring without baseball. Their season tickets renewal package always seemed to arrive on the bleakest day of winter, offering reassurance that sunnier times were around the corner. Baseball was woven into the fabric of their ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • On Comics and Grief

    by Dale Jacobs ...
    Series Book 1 - Crossing Lines
    Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author’s grief surrounding his mother’s death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of 1976.Structured around a year of comic books with a cover date of 1976, the year the author turned ten ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Myles Horton Reader

    Education For Social Change

    by Myles Horton, Dale Jacobs ...
    Cornel West has called Myles Horton “an indescribably courageous and visionary white brother from Tennessee.” Horton (1905-1990) cofounded the Highlander Folk School (now known as the Highlander Research and Education Center), an institution controversial from its beginnings.During the early labor movement, the Highlander School sponsored programs for both union organizers and rank-and-file ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jeff Lemire

    Conversations

    Edited by Dale Jacobs ...
    Series series Conversations with Comic Artists Series
    In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario—his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his transition to reading ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Professional Education Using E-Simulations: Benefits of Blended Learning Design

    Edited by Dale Holt, Stephen Segrave, Jacob L. Cybulski ...
    The use of digital, Web-based simulations for education and training in the workplace is a significant, emerging innovation requiring immediate attention. A convergence of new educational needs, theories of learning, and role-based simulation technologies points to educators’ readiness for e-simulations. As modern e-simulations aim at integration into blended learning environments, they promote ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

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  • Graphic Encounters

    Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy

    by Associate Professor Dale Jacobs ...
    With the recent explosion of activity and discussion surrounding comics, it seems timely to examine how we might think about the multiple ways in which comics are read and consumed.Graphic Encounters moves beyond seeing the reading of comics as a debased or simplified word-based literacy. Dale Jacobs argues compellingly that we should consider comics as multimodal texts in which meaning is created ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Worst Restaurant In The Universe

    by Jaco Jacobs, Dale Blankenaar ...
    A hilarious collection of laugh-out-loud stories! Dine at the Worst Restaurant in the Universe. Find out what happens when you are stuck with Monster Glue to the prettiest girl in school. Meet the boy who ate Arnold Schwarzenegger’s popcorn. Give Aunt Bridgette a kiss – if you’re brave enough! Learn how to make brilliant toe jam. And discover how a blob of chewing gum can save the Earth from an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Stan Lee's How to Write Comics

    From the Legendary Co-Creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man

    by Stan Lee ...
    Comics icon Stan Lee, creator of the Mighty Marvel Universe, has set about to teach everything he knows about writing and creating comic book characters. In these pages, aspiring comics writers will learn everything they need to know about how to write their own comic book stories, complete with easy to understand instruction, tips of the trade, and invaluable advice even for more advance writers. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Talking Pictures

    How to Watch Movies

    by Ann Hornaday ...
    A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies -- from Casablanca to CluelessWhether we are trying to impress a date after an art house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations among friends, we all need ways to look at and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • American Comics

    A History

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Education of a Comics Artist

    Visual Narrative in Cartoons, Graphic Novels, and Beyond

    Edited by Michael Dooley, Steven Heller ...
    Featuring essays by, and interviews with, more than sixty professionals, educators, and critics, the book provides an in-depth view of the art, business, and history of comics art. Readers will learn about a wide variety of genres, from editorial cartoons, political comics, and comic strips to graphic novels, superhero sagas, and alternative comics. Other featured topics include the role of comic ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD