The Big Book Of New American Humor

Author : William Novak,Moshe Waldoks
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114437846

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The Big Book of Jewish Humor by William Novak,Moshe Waldoks Pdf

Two rival businessmen meet in the Warsaw train station. "Where are you going?" says the first man. "To Minsk," says the second. "To Minsk, eh? What a nerve you have! I know you're telling me you're going to Minsk because you want me to think that you're really going to Pinsk. But it so happens that I know you really are going to Minsk. So why are you lying to me?" Four men are walking in the desert. The German says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have a beer." The Italian says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have wine." The Mexican says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have tequila." The Jew says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have diabetes."

Author : Moshe Waldoks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780671899400

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Best American Humor 1994 by Moshe Waldoks Pdf

A collection of humorous essays, articles, short stories, excerpts, and miscellaneous writings. Includes contributions by Conan O'Brien, Douglas Coupland, and Wendy Wasserstein.

Author : William Novak,Moshe Waldoks,Donald Altschiller
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:49015001204958

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The Big Book of New American Humor by William Novak,Moshe Waldoks,Donald Altschiller Pdf

A miscellaneous collection of humorous cartoons and articles by a variety of American authors.

Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9783110198492

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The Primer of Humor Research by Victor Raskin Pdf

The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Author : Beverly J. Rasporich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268174

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Made-in-Canada Humour by Beverly J. Rasporich Pdf

Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.

Author : Ellen Palestrant
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9781587365256

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Have You Ever Had a Hunch? by Ellen Palestrant Pdf

Reclaim your creativity by exploring the educational, sociological, psychological, and political influences on independent thinking. Have You Ever Had a Hunch is a powerful tool for self-growth and an invaluable gift for anyone wanting to explore their own creativity. In a series of short, to the point chapters, author Ellen Palestrant strips away the layers of inhibition and repression that encumbers us all.

Author : Peter M. Jonas
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607093183

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Laughing and Learning by Peter M. Jonas Pdf

In Laughing and Learning, leadership consultant and university professor Peter M. Jonas explores the ways in which humor can enhance the learning environment. Drawing upon empirical research and brain-based concepts, Jonas presents a theoretical model of humor, along with practical examples for use in schools and classrooms. Jonas demonstrates that humor is a natural and fundamental activity that teachers and administrators need to utilize properly to maximize their effectiveness.

Author : Stephen M. Silverman
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640193529

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Funny Ladies by Stephen M. Silverman Pdf

Jam-packed with jokes, funny stories, and stand-up routines, this guide to America's funniest women covers more than seventy-five famous comediennes, including Carol Burnett, Ellen DeGeneres, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Mary Tyler Moore, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, and others.

Author : Stanley Dubinsky,Chris Holcomb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139496940

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Understanding Language through Humor by Stanley Dubinsky,Chris Holcomb Pdf

Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts, this book makes it easy to understand these concepts, while keeping the reader's attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics, it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course, including communication systems, phonetics and phonology, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, language use, discourses, child language acquisition and language variation, while avoiding technical terminology.

Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0299213544

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Lowering the Bar by Marc Galanter Pdf

What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

Author : Martha Seif Simpson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476605449

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Reading Programs for Young Adults by Martha Seif Simpson Pdf

School and public libraries often provide programs and activities for children in preschool through the sixth grade, but there is little available to young adults. For them, libraries become a place for work—the place to research an assignment or find a book for a report—but the thought of the library as a place for enjoyment is lost. So how do librarians recapture the interest of teenagers? This just might be the answer. Here you will find theme-based units (such as Cartoon Cavalcade, Log On at the Library, Go in Style, Cruising the Mall, Space Shots, Teens on TV, and 44 others) that are designed for young adults. Each includes a display idea, suggestions for local sponsorship of prizes, a program game to encourage participation, 10 theme-related activities, curriculum tie-in activities, sample questions for use in trivia games or scavenger hunts, ideas for activity sheets, a bibliography of related works, and a list of theme-related films. The units are highly flexible, allowing any public or school library to adapt them to their particular needs.

Author : E.B... White,Katharine S. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:453062895

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A Subtreasury of American Humor by E.B... White,Katharine S. White Pdf

Author : Hans Warren
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0299209806

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Secretly Inside by Hans Warren Pdf

In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.

Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : IND:30000064272085

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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor by Alleen Pace Nilsen,Don Nilsen Pdf

Review: "This unique encyclopedia treats the concepts, persons, themes, and media of 20th-century American humor and humor studies. More than 100 alphabetically arranged entries highlight a broad range of humor-related topics from wit, understatement, and ambiguity to late-night talk shows and the Internet."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001

Author : Arthur Power Dudden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 9780195050547

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American Humor by Arthur Power Dudden Pdf

Originally appearing as an issue of American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, focusing in particular on the neglected trends of the past fifty years.