Jake Jacobson

Alaska Northwest Arctic Hunts is a collection of 20 stories of hunting activities during the past few years. These are true stories. However, the names of some participants have been changed to preserve their privacy.

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process. The authors have worked with faculty world-wide, and share the stories of how faculty have transformed courses from theory to practice. They start with Dee Fink’s foundation of integrating course design. Then they provide additional design concepts to expand the course blueprint to implement plans for communication, accessibility, technology integration, as well as the assessment of course design as it fits into the assessment of programs and institutions, and how faculty can use what they learn to meet their professional goals.

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process. The authors have worked with faculty world-wide, and share the stories of how faculty have transformed courses from theory to practice. They start with Dee Fink’s foundation of integrating course design. Then they provide additional design concepts to expand the course blueprint to implement plans for communication, accessibility, technology integration, as well as the assessment of course design as it fits into the assessment of programs and institutions, and how faculty can use what they learn to meet their professional goals.

The Ambassador Art Heist was the near perfect crime just outside Paris, France. Nobody was ever charged and the only witnesses left alive seemingly vanished. Then a marque painting turns up in Miami 25 years later and the prime suspect lends no clues. Sinjin Jones is the newest CIA asset who has been assigned to work with the FBI taskforce investigating this international conflict. Fresh out of Special Forces he is eager to show his worth. Around every corner is an investigation sabotaged while the bodies stack up. The situation becomes even more difficult thanks to a mystery woman that he can't get out of his head. Politicians and Miami socialites help force Jones off the investigation. His boss turns on him but that can't diminish his resolve to finish what he started despite an assassin on his tail. Sinjin Jones makes his way back to the vineyards of France to solve the Sullivan Secret right where it all began.

A collection of 38 stories and 110 photos recounting some of Jake's experiences hunting Kodiak's Sitka Blacktail deer for more than fifty years.A collection of 38 stories and 110 photos recounting some of Jake's experiences hunting Kodiak's Sitka Blacktail deer for more than fifty years.

ALASKA BEARS: Shaken and Stirred is a collection of 24 stories describing Jake's personal experience hunting and guiding for all the species of bears in Alaska. Bear biology, hunting techniques, cabin depredations and avoidance thereof, and other aspects of bear pursuits are detailed. These are true stories except for the names of some of the hunting guests from Jake's fifty years of living and hunting in Alaska.

ALASKA FLYING: Surviving Incidents and Accidents encompass many short stories about Jake's experiences gained from 1967 to the present as a pilot in Alaska. Though he logged time as pilot in command in other parts of the world, including Southern Rhodesia, Namibia, Australia, Bolivia, Hawaii, Arizona and other locations, the stories in this collection relate exclusively to Alaskan flying.

You should buy this book. It will make you laugh. It is full of stories you'll want to read again, and again. You'll tell your friends about it. Thinking about it will make you smile during boring meetings. People will wonder what you are up to. On a bad day, when you've screwed up at work, your wife is mad at you, and the kids are sick, this book will give you half an hour's respite. It will take you to a place of adventure, danger, and humor, all woven together by one larger than life character. I had to get all that down fast, because it's important. I'm not a writer, and I don't know how long I can hold your attention.Dr. Larry GatesThe stories in this collection are true. In some instances, the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the not so guiltless.With most days of the past forty-seven years spent in Alaska, the thirty-six stories in this collection are connected primarily with Jake's guiding activities in the Great Land. These stories were selected for their humorous content.This selection of tales is trivial, eclectic, and of minimal redeeming value. But there may be some valuable bits of information, if one looks for them. These stories attempt to entertain readers, to give them a giggle, or at least a wry smirk.

Alaska Hunting: Earthworms to Elephants, a collection of 39 stories, is intended to be seasoning for a Hunters' pie, rural Alaska style.Most hunters extol the charismatic mega fauna, but pursuit of lesser game often takes center stage. Occasionally hunting discoveries lead to other endeavors, from jade mining to gold prospecting and fossil recovery. Possibilities are limitless. As we engage in hunting and fishing pursuits memories are laced with the big ones-the exceptional, genetically endowed giants-but some of the brightest memories are of average representatives of their species. What made them so memorable was the combination of circumstances under which they were taken-or lost. Companions, whether human or animal, often make the hunt memorable and its recollections of trophy quality.