wyszukanych pozycji: 67
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Hometown Humor
ISBN: 9780874835328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the midst of all that may bother us crime, drugs, poisons in the water, poor health people still take time to make each other laugh. If you listen on the streetcorners, in the cafes, at the kitchen tables of America, you'll hear people telling funny stories and jokes. Hometown humor helps pull us through. In this book, Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler have gathered the best of America's hometown humor. The selections range from one-liners ( My wife's cooking was so bad, the flies got together to mend the screens ) to epigrams ( To do good is noble, but to tell others to do good is also...
In the midst of all that may bother us crime, drugs, poisons in the water, poor health people still take time to make each other laugh. If you listen ...
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85,05 |
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Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution
ISBN: 9780791443927 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a compelling read for anyone interested in where we came from and where we're going, Everybody's Story offers an exhilarating tour of natural history that illuminates the evolution of matter, life, and consciousness. As old myths, religious stories, and other shared narratives of humankind are increasingly viewed as intellectually implausible and morally irrelevant, they become less likely to fulfill their original purpose--to give people answers and provide a sense of stability and peace in daily life. Loyal Rue restores that imbalance with a new story based on fact. Rue, author of a New...
In a compelling read for anyone interested in where we came from and where we're going, Everybody's Story offers an exhilarating tour of natural histo...
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140,33 |
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Laughter in Appalachia: Southern Mountain Humor
ISBN: 9780874830323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the people of the Appalachian Mountains comes a special brand of humor: dry, colorful and earthy, aimed sometimes at the hillbilly's own foibles, but often at the outside world's pretenses, too. As longtime fans of and contributors to Appalachian lore, Jones and Wheeler collected the material for this popular and timeless volume at the Festival of Appalachian Humor sponsored by the Appalachian Center at Berea College. Includes jokes and yarns on such topics as hunting, lawyers and doctors, alcohol, and religion, along with essays on the nature and origins of humor.
From the people of the Appalachian Mountains comes a special brand of humor: dry, colorful and earthy, aimed sometimes at the hillbilly's own foibles,...
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73,43 |
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Real Estate for the Generations: A Family Team Guiding You Through Real Estate
ISBN: 9781441523587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,05 |
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Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule
ISBN: 9780874830835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Appalachian humor can be dry, colorful, and earthy. The chapters vary greatly ranging from topics of Love and Marriage; Schools, Religion; Lawyers; Mountaineers and the Law; Animals and Hunting; Mountaineers and City Folks; Health and Medicine; and Rural Life. In Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule, songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler and folklorist Loyal Jones have combined to give you the biggest serving of Appalachian mountain humor since their bestselling Laughter in Appalachia.
Appalachian humor can be dry, colorful, and earthy. The chapters vary greatly ranging from topics of Love and Marriage; Schools, Religion; Lawyers; Mo...
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... a Right Good People
ISBN: 9781469638348 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in ..". A Right Good People were originally published in the Charlotte Observer, the largest newspaper in the Carolinas in the 1970s. These stories were written with the intention of illustrating the heritage of the Appalachian people and letting them speak about their culture and traditions for themselves.
A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974...
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77,91 |
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More Laughter in Appalachia
ISBN: 9780874834116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The phenomenal success of Laughter in Appalachia, Loyal Jones' and Billy Edd Wheeler's first collection of humor (now in its twelfth printing), says something about the importance of humor in our lives, and the talent Jones and Wheeler have in finding the best of it. More Laughter in Appalachia, their fourth collection of Southern mountain humor, may well be their funniest and most comprehensive collection to date. Packed with humorous jokes, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and song, not to mention a nineteenth-century sermon a backwoods political speech, and a comical arrest warrant, this...
The phenomenal success of Laughter in Appalachia, Loyal Jones' and Billy Edd Wheeler's first collection of humor (now in its twelfth printing), says s...
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cena:
85,05 |