For over fifty years Frank Jacobs has been one of MAD's premiere writers, working with virtually every important MAD artist including Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragones, and Paul Coker. He has been responsible for almost all of MAD's humorous verse and song parodies and appears in [...]
"Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra, by former valet-aide George Jacobs with an oh-so-able assist by William Stadiem, has at least five quotable and shocking remarks about the famous on every page. The fifteen years Jacobs toiled for Frank produces a classic of its genre -- a gold-star gossip-lover's[...]
Anticorruption reforms provide political cover for public officials, but do they really work? This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern. Over the last century, the authors ar[...]
Schools must prepare 21st century students to compete in a global society a world in which cultures, economies, and people are continuously connected. It is the job of the 21st century educator to equip students to meet this challenge. In the Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy series, editor Heid[...]