Game Faces

Game Faces
Author: Peter Devereaux
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 158834634X

A charming gift book showcasing baseball cards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries alongside photos from the early days of the nation's beloved pastime Game Faces showcases rare and colorful baseball cards from the Library of Congress's Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, bringing to life an era of American history that saw the game explode in popularity. Marrying gems from the collection's 2,100 baseball cards to images of American life from 1887 to 1914, the book also offers engaging insights into the players and the game, giving readers an intimate view of both baseball's development and American culture at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights cards depicting many of the game's first stars--including Ty Cobb, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson--as well as less widely known figures, shown with extravagant ornamentation and boldly juxtaposed colors that render the cards works of art in their own right. Game Faces is a rich, engrossing history of the baseball card and the ways that it has illustrated and influenced American culture as a whole. It is a must-have for those who love baseball.

Kovel's Guide to Selling, Buying, and Fixing Your Antiques and Collectibles

Kovel's Guide to Selling, Buying, and Fixing Your Antiques and Collectibles
Author: Ralph M. Kovel
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780517883136

The hard-to-find information, sources, and addresses that collectors need for repairing, caring for, and finding buyers for antiques and collectibles are all in this book. To gather the information for this book, Ralph and Terry Kovel contacted more than 3,000 suppliers, clubs, auctions, services, and other industry sources around the country, making this the most up-to-date and complete reference of its kind.

Cumulative Book Index

Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2264
Release: 1995
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

A world list of books in the English language.

The Baseball Bibliography

The Baseball Bibliography
Author: Myron J. Smith
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

"With over 57,000 entries, this two-volume set is the most comprehensive non-electronic, non-database, print bibliography on any American sport. Represented here are books and monographs, scholarly papers, government documents, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, poetry and fiction, novels, pro team yearbooks, college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs, commercially produced yearbooks, and periodical and journal articles"--Provided by publisher.

Hager's Comprehensive Price Guide to Rare Baseball Cards, 1886 to Present

Hager's Comprehensive Price Guide to Rare Baseball Cards, 1886 to Present
Author: Alan Hager
Publisher: Alan Hager Group, Incorporated
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1993
Genre: Baseball cards
ISBN: 9781883622008

If you want the most revolutionary Price Guide on Baseball Sportscards with every series from 1886 to Present in full color & complete color grading guides for all Baseball cards this is the number one selling book in its field. This book is a complete self help book for the collector, investor & dealer. The Guide's main focus is the color photos of the front & back, one of every card from every series from 1886, a feat never before accomplished. This book offers information never before catalogued: Surviving mintages, several major finds in old series, all rare Rookie Cards, Hall of Fame Cards, Manager Cards, Minor League Cards, & Southern League Cards. This comprehensive work offers expert information regarding the sportscard industry presented in a professional & innovative style. Mr. Hager's approach is geared towards the investor, collector & dealer providing Investment Ratings, Annual Upside Potentials & specific Recommendations. Mr. Hager goes into detail on conditional rarity of these cards with a full explanation on the Accugrade Grade System for Early Cards, Pre-Modern Cards & Modern Cards. This is volume 1 of a 5 volume series (to be released) on all sportscards: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey & Boxing/Golf.

ACS Style Guide

ACS Style Guide
Author: Anne M. Coghill
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9780841239494

In the time since the second edition of The ACS Style Guide was published, the rapid growth of electronic communication has dramatically changed the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publication world. This dynamic mode of dissemination is enabling scientists, engineers, and medicalpractitioners all over the world to obtain and transmit information quickly and easily. An essential constant in this changing environment is the requirement that information remain accurate, clear, unambiguous, and ethically sound.This extensive revision of The ACS Style Guide thoroughly examines electronic tools now available to assist STM writers in preparing manuscripts and communicating with publishers. Valuable updates include discussions of markup languages, citation of electronic sources, online submission ofmanuscripts, and preparation of figures, tables, and structures. In keeping current with the changing environment, this edition also contains references to many resources on the internet.With this wealth of new information, The ACS Style Guide's Third Edition continues its long tradition of providing invaluable insight on ethics in scientific communication, the editorial process, copyright, conventions in chemistry, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and writing style for any STMauthor, reviewer, or editor. The Third Edition is the definitive source for all information needed to write, review, submit, and edit scholarly and scientific manuscripts.

Reading Stephen King

Reading Stephen King
Author: Brenda Miller Power
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This collection of essays grew out of the "Reading Stephen King Conference" held at the University of Maine in 1996. Stephen King's books have become a lightning rod for the tensions around issues of including "mass market" popular literature in middle and high school English classes and of who chooses what students read. King's fiction is among the most popular of "pop" literature, and among the most controversial. These essays spotlight the ways in which King's work intersects with the themes of the literary canon and its construction and maintenance, censorship in public schools, and the need for adolescent readers to be able to choose books in school reading programs. The essays and their authors are: (1) "Reading Stephen King: An Ethnography of an Event" (Brenda Miller Power); (2) "I Want to Be Typhoid Stevie" (Stephen King); (3) "King and Controversy in Classrooms: A Conversation between Teachers and Students" (Kelly Chandler and others); (4) "Of Cornflakes, Hot Dogs, Cabbages, and King" (Jeffrey D. Wilhelm); (5) "The 'Wanna Read' Workshop: Reading for Love" (Kimberly Hill Campbell); (6) "When 'IT' Comes to the Classroom" (Ruth Shagoury Hubbard); (7) "If Students Own Their Learning, What Do Teachers Do?" (Curt Dudley-Marling); (8) "Disrupting Stephen King: Engaging in Alternative Reading Practices" (James Albright and Roberta F. Hammett); (9) "Because Stories Matter: Authorial Reading and the Threat of Censorship" (Michael W. Smith); (10) "Canon Construction Ahead" (Kelly Chandler); (11) "King in the Classroom" (Michael R. Collings); (12) "King's Works and the At-Risk Student: The Broad-Based Appeal of a Canon Basher" (John Skretta); (13) "Reading the Cool Stuff: Students Respond to 'Pet Sematary'" (Mark A Fabrizi); (14) "When Reading Horror Subliterature Isn't So Horrible" (Janice V. Kristo and Rosemary A. Bamford); (15) "One Book Can Hurt You...But a Thousand Never Will" (Janet S. Allen); (16) "In the Case of King: What May Follow" (Anne E. Pooler and Constance M. Perry); and (17) "Be Prepared: Developing a Censorship Policy for the Electronic Age" (Abigail C. Garthwait). Appended are a joint manifesto by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and International Reading Association (IRA) concerning intellectual freedom; an excerpt from a teacher's guide to selected horror short stories of Stephen King; and the conference program. Contains a 152-item reference list of literary works.(NKA)