Eisner: 58 books
PS Magazine
The Best of The Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Will Eisner—best known for his influential comic book series The Spirit and his groundbreaking graphic novel A Contract with God—believed in the teaching power of comics, and from 1951 to 1971 he produced PS magazine for the U.S. Army. This Preventive Maintenance Monthly (called PS because it...
by Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
The final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling.Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series,...
by Elliot W. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his 1980 John Dewey Lecture, Elliot Eisner argued powerfully and eloquently for a view of literacy that goes beyond verbal and numerical skills, focusing instead on the central role of the senses in the twin processes of human conceptualization and expression. A few years later, Professor Eisner...
by Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Two classic drawing textbooks from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation.
Based on Will Eisner’s legendary course at New York’s School of Visual Arts, these guides have inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. In Comics and Sequential...
by Elliot W. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked,...
by Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Two classic drawing textbooks from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation.Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, these guides have inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. In Comics and Sequential Art, Eisner...
by Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charles Dickens, in this fascinating retelling of the life of Oliver Twist's Fagin! Imagining Fagin's impoverished childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworld, Eisner's story counters the anti-Semitism of Victorian...
The Pope's Last Crusade
How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, The Pope’s Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XI’s valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich—a crusade that might have changed the course...
by Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Released to coincide with Will Eisner Week—the annual celebration of Eisner’s life and work—Last Day in Vietnam is now available in a handsome new hardcover edition!
Last Day in Vietnam recounts the artist’s own experiences with soldiers engaged not only in the daily hostilities of...
The Enlightened Eye
Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores...
Reimagining Schools
The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Elliot Eisner has spent the last forty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the enduring issues in arts education, curriculum studies and qualitative research. He has compiled a career-long collection of his finest work including extracts from books, key articles, salient research...
última cruzada del Papa (The Pope's Last Crusade - Spanish Edition)
Cómo un jesuita estadounidense ayudó al
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Basándose en recursos sin explotar, entrevistas exclusivas y nueva investigación de archivos, La última cruzada del Papa por Peter Eisner es un emocionante relato que trae a la luz el valiente esfuerzo del Papa Pío XI para condenar el nazismo y la política del Tercer Reich —una cruzada que...
Neruda
The Biography of a Poet
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history
Few poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In...
The Shadow President
The Truth About Mike Pence
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
"It presents an entirely damning portrait of Pence. You've seen his colors before, but not so vividly and in this detail." —Frank Bruni, The New York Times
"Producing a biography of a living, controversial politician is always difficult. D'Antonio and Eisner have succeeded...