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In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize---literature- or -theatre-; -editorial- or -morality---and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So this book takes the...

Aimless young Ben 'One' Kester and gruff former publican Ben 'Two' Markham become unlikely partners in a minibus tour of Melbourne underworld sites.

The customers are coming, the unlikely friendship is growing: this could be the making of both of them.

But can a tormentor be a mentor?

And can either man overcome their savage pasts?

Suburban Tours, traverses the pub sub-culture of inner Melbourne, the savage fringes of the outer suburbs and probes the significance of Bryan Adams, punting on aged geldings and the terrors of lint.

This work stresses the importance, in making any choice of strategies-including the decision to use or refrain from using nuclear weapons-of gauging the intent behind the opponent's military moves. Dr. Brodie also suggests that the use or threat of use of tactical nuclear weapons may lead to de-escalation, that is, may check rather than promote the expansion of hostilities. The author applies his ideas about escalation to several imagined situations, examining them in relation to experiences in Europe, in the second Cuba crisis, and in Asia.

Originally published in 1966.

The...

Marriage takes hard work. Daily life can take its toll on even a successful marriage. And when one of the parties commits adultery, the effect on a marriage can be devastating--and final. But it does not have to be.

Author Hannah Brodie's Corduroy is the true story of love and faith bound together beneath God's gaze. Young love, starry-eyed and rose-rimmed, turned sinister and dark when vows were shattered and trust broken. The promise of a married life of blissful togetherness was torn to shreds by a prolonged marital affair. Brodie tells the story of a young wife who just wouldn't...