The Humor Code

Brimming with humor, drama, and fantasy, this collection of 6 stories takes its title from the enchanting fable about a beautiful girl's love for a gentle but ugly creature. Also includes ""Blue Beard

Come join literary provocateur Lisa Carver on a hilarious, poignant search for truth and meaning at the end of the "American Century." With the same outrageous humor, piercing insight and racy flair t

A dazzling story told with the sensitivity, humor, and brilliant verse of debut talent Aida Salazar.La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas... por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse a

Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat comics are renowned for their humor, artistic flair and appeal to both children and adults. The Peter Wheat comic books are extremely rare and have never been collected as a

In this dazzling collection, best-selling author Marnie O. Mamminga details the common experiences that unite those of us who live, love, and work in the heart of the country. With insight and humor,

Humor author Kate Reynolds has published her fourth book. This one is a book of poetry that is emotional, enigmatic and often humorous. Her love of people, animals and various earthly things comes thr

Humor author Kate Reynolds has published her fourth book. This one is a book of poetry that is emotional, enigmatic and often humorous. Her love of people, animals and various earthly things comes thr

Longtime White Sox fan and historian, Paul Whitfield, takes the rich tradition of the White Sox and presents the legend and lore in brief, through quotes, humor, facts, figures and memories. A lot of

In a daring novel that deftly fuses wild, satiric humor and deeply felt pain, Melanie Sumner tells the story of the Pepperses of Counterpoint, Georgia -- a family that never raises their voices or hon

Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humor. Grove Press is proud to reissue the

Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and

Welcome to the Lapp farm near Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to visit and bring your sense of humor. Dependable Emma Lapp dreams about the same fate that happens to all teenage Amish girls. Eventua

"Hold the eggnog: What you need is a draft of 'edgy fatalism and sexy recklessness,' of flashy crime, gallows humor, and 'desperate deals with a variety of devils,' served up every year since 2004 by

"Hold the eggnog: What you need is a draft of 'edgy fatalism and sexy recklessness,' of flashy crime, gallows humor, and 'desperate deals with a variety of devils,' served up every year since 2004 by

The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is a hilarious addition to Patrick F. McManus’s existing work in humor. The author weighs in on his childhood, everyday life, and outdoor tales with his typica

Here’s the book for anyone who has ever wanted to sing like a lumberjack; pined for a dead parrot; or gone for a silly walk. Combining outrageous humor,unbridled creativity, and surreal animati

Between the late 1960s and the early ’80s Italy went crazy for the “fumetti sexy," a home-grown genre of exotic comics with a unique brand of twisted humor, violence, and up-front sensuality. Wil

A hybrid of science fiction, moe characters, and over-the-top humor and action,Pandora of the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn is an ongoing manga series crafted by two of the manga world's most-respected mas

“How The (Bleep) Did I Get This Old?” showcases the best of “LAVERNE'S VIEW,” a humor column she began writing in 1999, that has been syndicated since 2004. The author returns to the single life after

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humor

Presented with intelligence and peppered with just the right amount of humor, How To Marry The Man Of Your Choice offers women a step-by-step program for making--and then landing--the very best choic

Armed with only her bike and a great sense of humor, Josie Dew returns to Japan for a second dose of its eccentric and mysterious culture. Japan is a land of contradictions, where snow-capped mountain

"The rage over a lost penny, given vent in a Caprice," well reflects the humor of Beethoven and has been popular with young pianists for decades. The original theme is manipulated th

With clarity and humor, Martin Jenkins and Satoshi Kitamura take readers on a fascinating tour of the history of money.What can take the form of a stone with a hole in the middle, a string of shells,

With clarity and humor, Martin Jenkins and Satoshi Kitamura take readers on a fascinating tour of the history of money.What can take the form of a stone with a hole in the middle, a string of shells,

For the traveler who might not have a yacht--just a sense of humor and a spirit of adventure--Stephanie Schorow proves you can still embark on a voyage through the Boston Harbor Islands. A practical g

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. Lowering the Bar analyzes h

Throwaway Nation is informative, but at the same time offers interludes of fact, fiction and humor to lighten the mood of a somber topic. The aim of the book is not to simply lecture or throw facts in

Why are cows confusing? Can a dog rub a bee the wrong way? Has a snail ever been a Martian? What is there to know for sure about sheep?Fanciful humor blends delight with imagination in the lilting

A new mom runs into a host of new challenges once baby arrives. With compassion and humor--and always the privilege of motherhood in mind--The New Mom's Guide to Life with Baby helps mom establish a d

No luck is required to win with the scrambled word puzzles in this collection, just a bit of wit and a sense of humor. For more than 40 years, millions of newspaper readers have delighted in solving J

Take this test. You think today’s sensitive, caring man is: (a) a myth, (b) an oxymoron, or (c) a moron. No matter whether you laugh at this bit of folk humor, its wide circulation bespeaks a modern p

Climb up the spout―and back up again―with the Itsy Bitsy Spider in this interactive board book based on the beloved children’s song. Each title in the Sing Along With Me! series has five slider mechanisms and a QR code that links to both an instrumental and vocal version of the nursery rhyme. Simply scan the code for little ones to listen and sing along!

穿圓點洋裝的小巫婆，勇闖紐沃特市百貨公司的大冒險！主角克里姆森（Crimson）是個很不一樣的小巫婆，她不愛尖頭鞋和黑長袍，反而著迷於圓點圖案和小狗，甚至在尖頂帽上綁了個大蝴蝶結——而且她的帽子是深紅色的，正如她的名字一樣。 今晚，克里姆森將第一次坐在媽媽的掃帚後座，遠赴「紐沃特市」的「掃帚百貨」（Broomingdale's）盡情購物！這棟巨大的百貨公司裡應有盡有，從帽子、貓咪到掃帚，每一層樓對克里姆森來說都是全新冒險。但是，這間古老傳統的百貨公司，真的準備好迎接像克里姆森這麼獨特的小巫婆了嗎？全書充滿雙關語的幽默，一個豐富又俏皮的全新魔法世界就此展開！“The narration's great humor throughout—featuring puns and wordplay—doesn't undermine the earnest, wholesome sincerity of Crimson. . . . A bewitching series opener.” —Kirkus ReviewsCrimson Twill is a little witch, but you might not know it. She loves polka dots and puppies instead of pointy shoes and black dresses. She even wears a big bow on her hat—which is crimson, just like her name. Tonight, for the very first time, Crimson is riding on her mother's broom all the way to New Wart City to go shopping at Broomingdale's! The huge department store has everything a witch could itch for. For Crimson, each floor (hats! cats! brooms!) is a new adventure. But is Broomingdale's ready for a witch as unique as Crimson

This book examines the function of irony and humor in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Newman's Apologist and Yeats' A Vision. Steven Helmling identifies in these three unusual texts a comic sensibility that has its roots in Augustan satire. In his view, the works are 'proto-modernist', exemplifying a major cultural shift that was to find expression in the avant-garde comic self-consciousness and the 'black humor' of writers like Joyce, Beckett and Pynchon. Hemling analyzes the motives and functions of parody, the uses of difficulty and self-referentiality, and the development of ironic personae (in Carlyle) or presentations of the self as eccentric or foolish (in Newman and Yeats). Such devices were central to these imaginative writers, who sought to address an audience that was increasingly homogenized by the emergence of mass culture. The book attempts to explain why, over the course of a century, ambitious works of art became increasingly difficult and demanding, culminating in the daunt

The world is filled with ten thousand things in confusion: Never overtax your literary thought. The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and critics since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at the time, it is simultaneously a taxonomy and history of genres and styles, and a manual for good writing. Its chapters, organized according to the I Ching, cover such topics as “Emotion and Literary Expression,” “Humor and Enigma,” “Spiritual Thought or Imagination,” “The Nourishing of Vitality,”“Organization,” and “Literary Flaws.” “Mind” is the ideas, impressions, and emotions that take form—the “carving of the dragon”—in a literary work. Full of examples and delightful anecdotes drawn from Liu Hsieh’s encyclopedic knowledge of Chinese literature, readers will discover distinctive concepts and

Building Character is written for leaders who understand their responsibility to develop authentic leaders within their organizations. Without presenting an overarching moral code or a prescriptive co

This essential new volume provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.1 Code requirements for power piping design and construction. It provides the m

This collection of Russell’s classic adaptations concludes with Pelleas & Melisande by Maeterlinck and Debussy, Salome by Richard Strauss and the all new The Godfather’s Code from Cavalleria Rusti

This book is about code generation for the Microsoft.NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). It guides software engineers in creating .NET compilers and implementing programming languages for the .NET envi