Alan Jacobs, Author . Brazos $18.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58743-014-5
This absorbing collection of essays from Jacobs, an English professor at Wheaton College, invites readers on a leisurely mental walk across campus, a walk that quickens the powers of observation and suggests anew the joys of critical thinking....
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Alan Jacobs, Author . Eerdmans $20 (231p) ISBN 978-0-8028-4894-9
Wheaton College professor Jacobs once again displays his considerable gifts in this collection of essays originally published in the Weekly Standard, First Things
and the Christian review Books & Culture
. As in his earlier collection, A Visit...
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Alan Jacobs, Author HarperOne $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-06-078340-2
In this brilliant account, Wheaton College literature professor Jacobs (The Narnian) traces the idea of original sin from the Bible to the present day. The doctrine has inspired fierce debate for the last two millennia. In every generation, it seems,
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Alan Jacobs. Oxford Univ., $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-19-974749-8
Montaigne once wrote: "there are more books on books than on any other subject: all we do is gloss each other." The great French essayist could have been thinking of Wheaton College English professor Jacobs's tired and trite defense of reading....
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Alan Jacobs, Author . Harper San Francisco $25.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-06-076690-0
Just in time for the major motion picture Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
, from Disney, comes this biography of the man who dreamed up the land and tales of Narnia. Jacobs, a Wheaton College literature professor, does
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Alan Jacobs. Penguin, $25 (160p) ISBN 978-1-984-87840-3
In exploring how texts from the past can inform one’s understanding of the present, Jacobs (How to Think), a humanities professor at Baylor University, tackles a promising subject matter with uneven results. Believing that wider perspectives are...
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Alan Jacobs. Convergent, $23 (160p) ISBN 978-0-451-49960-8
Thinking is “the power to be finely aware and richly responsible,” and this handbook by Jacobs (The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis), a Baylor University English professor, represents an erudite attempt to tap into that potential....
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Alan Jacobs. Oxford Univ, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-086465-1
Jacobs (How to Think), professor of humanities at Baylor University, explores the response of Christian humanists to the global conflagration of WWII in this precise survey. Jacobs focuses on five well-known figures: W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, C.S....
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