Author: Philip Howard
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682132382
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
I’ve Heard that One Before
Author: Philip Howard
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682132382
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682132382
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Author: Jim Holt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393069443
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
“Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393069443
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
“Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.
A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134929986
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1315
Book Description
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134929986
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1315
Book Description
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
The Best Jokes I've Heard
Author: Douglas Blankenship
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456754653
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456754653
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Children of God
Author: Lars Petter Sveen
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Daring and original stories set in New Testament times, from a rising young Norwegian author Lars Petter Sveen’s Children of God recounts the lives of people on the margins of the New Testament; thieves, Roman soldiers, prostitutes, lepers, healers, and the occasional disciple all get a chance to speak. With language free of judgment or moralizing, Sveen covers familiar ground in unusual ways. In the opening story, a group of soldiers are tasked with carrying out King Herod’s edict to slaughter the young male children in Bethlehem but waver in their resolve. These interwoven stories harbor surprises at every turn, as the characters reappear. A group of thieves on the road to Jericho encounters no good Samaritan but themselves. A boy healed of his stutter will later regress. A woman searching for her lover from beyond the grave cannot find solace. At crucial moments an old blind man appears, urging the characters to give in to their darker impulses. Children of God was a bestseller in Norway, where it won the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize and gathered ecstatic reviews. Sveen’s subtle elevation of the conflict between light and dark focuses on the varied struggles these often-ignored individuals face. Yet despite the dark tone, Sveen’s stories retain a buoyancy, thanks to Guy Puzey’s supple and fleet-footed translation. This deeply original and moving book, in Sveen’s restrained and gritty telling, brings to light stories that reflect our own time, from a setting everyone knows.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Daring and original stories set in New Testament times, from a rising young Norwegian author Lars Petter Sveen’s Children of God recounts the lives of people on the margins of the New Testament; thieves, Roman soldiers, prostitutes, lepers, healers, and the occasional disciple all get a chance to speak. With language free of judgment or moralizing, Sveen covers familiar ground in unusual ways. In the opening story, a group of soldiers are tasked with carrying out King Herod’s edict to slaughter the young male children in Bethlehem but waver in their resolve. These interwoven stories harbor surprises at every turn, as the characters reappear. A group of thieves on the road to Jericho encounters no good Samaritan but themselves. A boy healed of his stutter will later regress. A woman searching for her lover from beyond the grave cannot find solace. At crucial moments an old blind man appears, urging the characters to give in to their darker impulses. Children of God was a bestseller in Norway, where it won the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize and gathered ecstatic reviews. Sveen’s subtle elevation of the conflict between light and dark focuses on the varied struggles these often-ignored individuals face. Yet despite the dark tone, Sveen’s stories retain a buoyancy, thanks to Guy Puzey’s supple and fleet-footed translation. This deeply original and moving book, in Sveen’s restrained and gritty telling, brings to light stories that reflect our own time, from a setting everyone knows.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0812885368
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0812885368
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Scribner's Monthly
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The Case Computers
Author: Justin Tully
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409240894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Case Computers is the story of a group of highly sophisticated new computers designed by a professor for use by the police and other law enforcement agencies. They are instead accidentally sold to members of the general public, which leads to an amazing adventure for one of these members of the public. Jack Spencer is catapulted back in time to February 1956 to a few days before the movie starlet Jacqueline Davies is found murdered in West Echo Point, New Humberside. It's a fifty-two year old unsolved murder, but can Jack Spencer solve the case in this spectacular and thrilling new mystery/sci-fi/crime novel by the author Justin Tully.This is his third novel following Show Me Something (2007) & Orlando's Secret (2008).
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409240894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Case Computers is the story of a group of highly sophisticated new computers designed by a professor for use by the police and other law enforcement agencies. They are instead accidentally sold to members of the general public, which leads to an amazing adventure for one of these members of the public. Jack Spencer is catapulted back in time to February 1956 to a few days before the movie starlet Jacqueline Davies is found murdered in West Echo Point, New Humberside. It's a fifty-two year old unsolved murder, but can Jack Spencer solve the case in this spectacular and thrilling new mystery/sci-fi/crime novel by the author Justin Tully.This is his third novel following Show Me Something (2007) & Orlando's Secret (2008).