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Performing Marginality: Humor, Gender, and Cultural Critique
ISBN: 9780814328033 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance reveal about power relations in our culture as well as the existence of a "female" and, more specifically, "feminist" genre of stand-up comedy? In this long overdue study of women and stand-up comedy, Joanne R. Gilbert explores these questions in order to illuminate the social, political, and cultural implications of power and gender in popular entertainment. Gilbert's research recognizes the problems that arise from assumptions made about the genres of "female" and "feminist" humor and... How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance reveal about power relations in our culture as well as t... |
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114,21 |
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Hail to Thee Okoboji U!: A Humor Anthology on Higher Education
ISBN: 9780823213832 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hail to Thee, Okoboji U is a collection of articles, stories, poems, and cartoons that pokes irreverent fun at higher education. Nothing is sacrosanct; everything is fair game: admissions procedures, intercollegiate sports, student affairs, professors, college presidents, commencements, alumni affairs, fund-raising and the cirriculum-English, music, art, history, philosophy, science. The anthology includes some of America's most distinguished writers and artists, including: Woody Allen, Richard Armour, Russel Baker, Jeremy Bernstein, Roy Blount, Jr., Robert Benchley, Peter DeVries, Max...
Hail to Thee, Okoboji U is a collection of articles, stories, poems, and cartoons that pokes irreverent fun at higher education. Nothing is sacrosanc...
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357,66 |
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Hail to Thee Okoboji U!: A Humor Anthology on Higher Education
ISBN: 9780823213849 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hail to Thee, Okoboji U is a collection of articles, stories, poems, and cartoons that pokes irreverent fun at higher education. Nothing is sacrosanct; everything is fair game: admissions procedures, intercollegiate sports, student affairs, professors, college presidents, commencements, alumni affairs, fund-raising and the cirriculum-English, music, art, history, philosophy, science. The anthology includes some of America's most distinguished writers and artists, including: Woody Allen, Richard Armour, Russel Baker, Jeremy Bernstein, Roy Blount, Jr., Robert Benchley, Peter DeVries, Max...
Hail to Thee, Okoboji U is a collection of articles, stories, poems, and cartoons that pokes irreverent fun at higher education. Nothing is sacrosanc...
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153,99 |
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Spanish Riddles & Colcha Designs
ISBN: 9780865342262 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The riddles in this book represent a wide variety of types from the poetic to those with hidden or double meaning. All of the riddles, however, have the flavor of daily life in New Mexico.
The riddles in this book represent a wide variety of types from the poetic to those with hidden or double meaning. All of the riddles, however, have t...
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66,38 |
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The Family Joke Book
ISBN: 9780865342941 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thoughtful collection of humorous and wholesome stories and jokes comes from the author's family experiences, including stories told by and to grandparents and grandchildren. Loosely divided into four broad age groups, the book is one way to get the family talking and provides a vehicle for easy conversation and respectful interchange between children and other children; parents and children; and grandparents and their grandchildren. The stories also provide instructive challenges to the maturity of any young person's understanding of humor. Much of this humor is based on stories told...
This thoughtful collection of humorous and wholesome stories and jokes comes from the author's family experiences, including stories told by and to gr...
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58,55 |
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Rebuses for Readers
ISBN: 9780872879201 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rebus is a hieroglyphic of sorts - it combines pictures with letter sounds (adding or subtracting them) to make a word or phrase. Rebuses fascinate children of all ages, and Rebuses for Readers presents more than 100 rebuses of these intriguing brain teasers for elementary students.
A rebus is a hieroglyphic of sorts - it combines pictures with letter sounds (adding or subtracting them) to make a word or phrase. Rebuses fascinate ...
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120,21 |
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Preacher Joke Book
ISBN: 9780874830873 / Angielski / Miękka / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This surprisingly reverent collection of religious humor pokes less at the message than at the messenger. Gentle enough to give your preacher, clean enough to use in the pulpit, this volume is nonetheless sharp enough to drive home its point that the clergyman does well to serve rather than be served. Gathered by Loyal Jones, whose scholarship has concentrated on both religion and humor, this collection cuts across denominational and ideological lines to focus on the foibles of the pastor and the human side of serving God. St. Peter jokes, mock sermons, church bulletin misprints, and age-old...
This surprisingly reverent collection of religious humor pokes less at the message than at the messenger. Gentle enough to give your preacher, clean e...
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58,55 |
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Roping Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: Southwestern Humor
ISBN: 9780874831467 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not everyone could make a funny story out of diving off a thirty-foot windmill into a holding tank with (because of a certain inattention to detail) three feet of water in it. Or out of a day that started with being stung by three scorpions roughly the size of draft animals and went downhill from there. Or out of managing to get your three-year-old grandson bucked off a bull, higher than you'd ever seen a kid fly. Brummett has. Through the wit and the one-liners, Brummett portrays an American West in which the old way awkwardly accommodates the new, in which the day's drudgery is seasoned...
Not everyone could make a funny story out of diving off a thirty-foot windmill into a holding tank with (because of a certain inattention to detail) t...
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54,63 |
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Hometown Humor
ISBN: 9780874835328 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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85,96 |
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Real Country Humor
ISBN: 9780874836523 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Billy Edd Wheeler is a veteran of the country music scene, having worked as a Nashville songwriter since the early 1960s. Billy Edd knows country, and, as title-holder to the moniker "Dean of Country Humor," he also knows funny. "It's impossible to attend a recording session in Nashville without hearing lots of stories and jokes," Billy Edd observes. After all, stories and humor form the foundation of country music. Wheeler has gathered jokes from some of the greatest names in country music in what reads like outtakes from a long-running recording session. The list on contributors spans the...
Billy Edd Wheeler is a veteran of the country music scene, having worked as a Nashville songwriter since the early 1960s. Billy Edd knows country, and...
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70,30 |
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500 All Time Funniest Golf Jokes, Stories & Fairway Wisdom
ISBN: 9780965685603 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,80 |
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500 More All Time Funniest Golf Jokes, Stories & Fairway Wisdom: Volume II
ISBN: 9780965685610 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,80 |
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500 All Time Funniest Jokes & Stories about Sex
ISBN: 9780971761704 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this humorous look at sex, the authors have tried not to be offensive.
In this humorous look at sex, the authors have tried not to be offensive.
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46,80 |
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500 All Time Funniest Jokes & Stories About Gambling
ISBN: 9780971761711 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a humorous look at winning and losing at gambling.
This is a humorous look at winning and losing at gambling.
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46,80 |
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The Middle Earth Riddle Book
ISBN: 9780976736844 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Riddle 165. To cross the water, I'm the way, For water I'm above: I touch it not, and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move. Answer #156 If you ever find yourself on the edge of an inky-black lake in the deepest part of a cold, dark cavern, and you meet a ravenous creature with pale, glowing eyes who wants to play the riddle game... ... will you be prepared? Nearly 180 riddles are collected together here. Sharpen your wit on them before something else sharpens its teeth on you...
Riddle 165. To cross the water, I'm the way, For water I'm above: I touch it not, and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move. Answer #156 If you ever ...
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51,83 |
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Bob Hope: My Life in Jokes
ISBN: 9781401300951 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To comedians, 'material'--their jokes--has always been precious, worthy of protecting and preserving. On stage, a good vaudeville routine could last years as it was performed on tour across the country. On radio, a year's vaudeville material might be fodder for one week's broadcast. Bob Hope used new material not only for his weekly radio series, but also for the several live charity appearances he made each week.
Organized by the stages of his life, accompanied by black-and-white photographs, this book gives readers a chance to enjoy the very best of Hope's jokes, from his early years in... To comedians, 'material'--their jokes--has always been precious, worthy of protecting and preserving. On stage, a good vaudeville routine could last y...
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162,84 |
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You Know Yer a Hillbilly when . . .: more than 300 Hillbilly Jokes
ISBN: 9781403373632 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
92,98 |
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Wise Cracks and Funny Bones: Fun With the Chiropractor
ISBN: 9781410763488 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
53,36 |
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The BIG Book of Jokes (Hebrew)
ISBN: 9781411644342 / Hebrajski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 720 of the finest jokes in Hebrew. All jokes were collected via the humor site of israel - Humor.co.il
720 of the finest jokes in Hebrew. All jokes were collected via the humor site of israel - Humor.co.il
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93,17 |
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Clean and Funny Jokes Laughs of a Life Time
ISBN: 9781414053134 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,36 |