Wisdom At Wit S End

Author : James Geary
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393254952

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Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It by James Geary Pdf

"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.

Author : Harold Moore
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664207530

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At Wit's End-Jesus Is There by Harold Moore Pdf

Have you ever faced a challenge that was so overwhelming you felt like you were at your wits end? Most of us have! I've been there and have found that when I'm at my wits end the place for me to turn is to Jesus. May I suggest the next time you're at your wits end you look to Jesus. He's there for you!

Author : Louis Kaplan
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823287574

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At Wit's End by Louis Kaplan Pdf

CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE A scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the twentieth century. At Wit’s End explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust. The first in-depth study to explore the Jewish joke as a crucial rhetorical figure in larger cultural debates in Germany, author Louis Kaplan presents an engrossing and lucid work of scholarship that examines how “der jüdische Witz” (referring to both Jewish wit and jokes) was utilized differently in a number of texts, from the Weimar Republic to the rise of National Socialism, and how it was re-introduced into the public sphere after the Holocaust with the controversial publication of Salcia Landmann’s collection of Jewish jokes in the reparations era (Wiedergutmachung). Kaplan reviews the claims made about the Jewish joke and its provocative laughter by notable writers from a variety of ideological perspectives, demonstrating how their reflections on this complex cultural trope enable a better understanding of German–Jewish intercultural relations and their eventual breakdown in the Third Reich. He also illustrates how selfcritical and self-ironic Jewish Witz maintained a fraught and ambivalent relationship with anti-Semitism. In reviewing this critical and traumatic moment in modern German–Jewish history through the deadly discourse on the Jewish joke, At Wit’s End includes chapters on the virulent Austrian anti-Semitic racial theorist Arthur Trebitsch, the Nazi racial propagandist Siegfried Kadner, the German Marxist cultural historian Eduard Fuchs, the Jewish diasporic historian Erich Kahler, and the Jewish cabaret impresario Kurt Robitschek, among others. Shedding new light on anti-Semitism and on the Jewish question leading up to the Holocaust, At Wit’s End provides readers with a unique perspective by which to gain important insights about this crucial historical period that reverberates into the present day, when potentially offensive humor coupled with a toxic political climate and xenophobia can have deadly consequences.

Author : George Kraus
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781612494715

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At Wit’s End by George Kraus Pdf

At Wit’s End: Plain Talk on Alzheimer’s for Families and Clinicians, now in its Second Edition, is a straightforward summary of leading advice for understanding and caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease, written without technical jargon and impractical nuance. About one-third of our population will eventually provide care for someone with Alzheimer’s. The strain of caring for a loved one with this disease can be enormous, yet the reward of enhancing a loved one’s quality of life is beyond measure. So, where to begin? Many books delve into other specific areas of Alzheimer’s care, emphasizing the financial and legal challenges, as well as myriad medical treatment needs of those experiencing the disease. Unique among these offerings, At Wit’s End explains the psychiatric and psychological aspects of Alzheimer’s, and does so in a holistic and practical manner. Dr. Kraus focuses on the whole person across his or her full social, psychological, physical, and spiritual life to provide as complete a picture as possible of the changes that are in play. With this broad, thoughtful, and grounded approach, family members, clinicians, and caregivers are better able to discover and make wise choices from a wealth of effective interventions in all areas of care. It also allows them to care for themselves and their families in the dynamic and supportive care process.

Author : Erma Bombeck
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307778246

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At Wit's End by Erma Bombeck Pdf

"America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"

Author : Sue Scheff
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780757306976

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Wit's End by Sue Scheff Pdf

A true story tells about a mother who, after realizing the damage done to her daughter upon returning home from a disciplinary educational institution, created an advocacy group to work through the problems of at-risk teenagers and found a way to reconnect with her rebellious daughter using proper methods based on love and understanding. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Author : James Geary
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393357592

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Wit's End by James Geary Pdf

Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End “convey[s] the power of wit to refresh the mind” (Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal). In “this inventive and playful book” (Tom Beer, Newsday), James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Adopting a different style for each chapter—from dramatic dialogue to sermon, heroic couplets to a barroom monologue—Geary embodies wit in all its forms. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktale, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, demonstrating that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.

Author : James Combs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443824699

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Wit's End by James Combs Pdf

This book is a study of the “Great Movies,” that fluid category of feature films deemed by various authorities—film societies, critics, academics, and movie enthusiasts—to be the enduring and memorable works of cinematic history. But what are they about? In Wit’s End, the author attempts to “make sense” of these films in order to understand their greatness in the context of their relation to other films and to the worlds they come from and recreate on screen. To that end, we employ the conceptual power of pragmatic social theory and the rich idea of aesthesis to explore and arrange these films as a means of understanding what they express about the universality of human life in our keen use of wit, organization of social wont, and direction of cultural way. It is hoped that such an inquiry will illuminate the glory of the great films and contribute to the advance of film studies.

Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674219813

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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by Bartlett Jere Whiting Pdf

p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."

Author : James Geary
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393254945

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Wit's End by James Geary Pdf

"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781472976529

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The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson by Harry Mount Pdf

A return to the wit and wisdom of Boris Johnson – Brexiteer, Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister. New and updated edition. 2019 – the year that Boris took on the 'lingering gloomadon-poppers', pledged to steer the UK between the 'Scylla and Charybdis of Corbyn and Farage' and into the calmer waters of political freedom. Of course there was always bound to be 'a bit of plaster coming off the ceilings of Europe's Chanceries'. Harry Mount has updated his edited collection of the Prime Minister's wit and wisdom with three new chapters dealing with Boris's time as Brexiteer-in-chief; Foreign Secretary and 'On the Threshold of Downing Street'. He describes Boris's Brexit campaign, his leadership breakdown in 2016, his ups and downs as Foreign Secretary, his time outside the political establishment, his turbulent private life and how Boris felt it was his manifest destiny to become the Prime Minister. So buckle up for a riotous tour of the million-pound NHS funder, golden wonder, pro-having, pro-eating blond behemoth. This is the Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson.

Author : Joseph Addison,P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : English essays
ISBN : OXFORD:600074313

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Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator" by Joseph Addison,P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 Pdf

Author : George Vicesimus Wigram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590972118

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The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based on the unpubl. work of W. De Burgh, ed. by G.V. Wigram.]. by George Vicesimus Wigram Pdf

Author : George V. Wigram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081693715

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The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram Pdf

Author : George V. Wigram
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 1713 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781565632080

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The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram Pdf

This new edition of the standard work "The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament" is an improved and corrected edition that features a new, larger format. Now coded to "Strong's, " it is invaluable in Bible study for those who do not know Hebrew. A new index of out-of-sequence "Strong's" numbers allows the reader to quickly and easily locate any word by its "Strong's "number. The Hebrew and English indexes have been retained.