In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, a
This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor. Humor is inescapable in our daily interactions - also at the work place. Affiliati
Humor, wit, and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature, newspapers, and television we experience humor in many forms, yet the impetus for ou
This is the first book to look at the psychological processes that enable humor to affect people and teams in the workplace. It recognizes that humor plays many roles beyond making people feel happier
The Rhetorical Function of Humor in the Public Sphere advances an understanding about how humor functions persuasively in the public sphere as a means to ignite deliberative democracy, a tradition tha
This volume explores in depth how infants—perhaps as young as three months—develop the capacity to appreciate, participate in, and create humor. Engagingly written, it synthesizes theories of humor, i
Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contemporary approaches to its study and address
Twain is America’s best known humorous writer, yet many commentators have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature of Twain’s writings. Kolb shows that humor is at the center of Twain’
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African de
This book discusses boundaries for organizational humor as well as the jokers and jesters that enliven modern workplaces. It has long been accepted that humor and tragedy can occupy the same space and
“Caution, Writer Ahead...and other unprovoked acts of humor” presents humor lovers with a fresh voice, whose topic selections and writing styles are designed to bring smiles and laughs to humor book b
"'If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide,' wrote the late Mahatma Gandhi, expressing the potent power of humor to sustain and uplift. Less obvious is humor's ability to o
Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and lang
Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and lang
Humor in the Gospels offers a comprehensive history of the various scholarly approaches to the study of humor in the Gospels over the past 150 years. It explores the barriers, insights, and advances i
Placing failed humor within the broader category of miscommunication and drawing on a range of conversational data, this text represents the first comprehensive study of failed humor. It provides a fr
While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor—often satirical—has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Midd
Twain is America’s best known humorous writer, yet many commentators have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature of Twain’s writings. Kolb shows that humor is at the center of Twain’
In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical pa
"The New Humor in the Progressive Era defines this brand of humor and how it was practiced by comic vaudevillians from the 1880s to the early 1920s, vaudeville's golden era. Providing a comprehensive
This two-volume encyclopedia offers about 300 entries on the study of humor and current areas of research related to anthropology, folklore, and ethnicity; antiquity; the components of humor; culture;
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of vario
Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuv
When Clay Morgan and his sidekick Twitch Mabry rode out of Texas for Kansas City to pick up Clay's orphaned nephew and niece, they planned to make the return trip in the debatable comfort of a stageco
The book brings forcefully to the reader the importance of humor in a person's life, what outstanding men and women from all disciplines say in praise of humor and how it benefited them. The book tell
The book brings forcefully to the reader the importance of humor in a person's life, what outstanding men and women from all disciplines say in praise of humor and how it benefited them. The book tell
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines writers, such as Louise Bennett, Aime Cesaire, Junot Diaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler, who engage humor to challen
In relationships everyone circumstances are different, but a lot of women say that all men are the same and some men say that all women are the same which is debatable in a lot of ways. Men and Women
Smith, a librarian and collector and writer of library humor, presents a history of American library humor (as well as references to a few pieces by English-language humorists from Canada, Australia,
Here's a different angle on humor--it can be a spiritual practice, an expression of a theology of joy, hope, and grace. Humor is so valuable, for it offers self-care, healing, and renewal, precious gi
"Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor.
This book provides practical techniques that everyone can employ successfully to infuse their information literacy instruction with humor—regardless of whether they're "naturally funny" or not.
A fancy little package for true word lovers. This utterly debatable list will be a conversation starter and a very entertaining book to carry around. Wea€?ve taken our million-selling Pocket PoshAR fo
In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical pa
A concise, reader-friendly introduction to an important but often underappreciated topic in modern psychology, Humor 101 explains the role of comedy, jokes, and wit in the sciences and discusses why
The boundaries between simple and complicated, and complicated and complex system designations are fuzzy and debatable, even using quantitative measures of complexity. However, if you are a biomedical
Political realists are accustomed to argue that ethical considerations have no place in public affairs. This is always a debatable view: realism habitually employs a crude utilitarian morality rather
`With a clear and engaging narrative that delves into complex and debatable issues and, at the same time, tells very entertaining stories, this book is a wonderful addition to the historiography of in
