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Author : U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Laughter and Despair written by U. C. Knoepflmacher and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard De Koven
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304351823
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Playful Path written by Bernard De Koven and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.
Author : Ken Pisani
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250085209
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Amp'd written by Ken Pisani and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After having his left arm amputated due to a car accident, Aaron is forced to return to his boyhood home to recuperate. Disappearing into a fog of pain killers, the only true joy in his life comes from the daily 90-second radio spots of science fun facts and the disembodied voice of Sunny Lee.
Author : Donna M. Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520276043
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Laughter Out of Place written by Donna M. Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author's experience in Brazil, this text provides a portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas - a portrait that challenges much of what we think we know about the 'culture of poverty'. It helps us understand the nature of joking and laughter in the shantytown.
Author : M.J. Haag
Publisher : Shattered Glass Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1638690510
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Despair written by M.J. Haag and published by Shattered Glass Publishing. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everything is what it seems. In a desperate bid to free her twin sister from an evil caster, Kellen flees her sheltered life under the cover of darkness. Lost and on the run from the cursed beasts lurking in the Dark Forest, she stumbles upon a clearing where seven handsome men reside. Despite their wariness towards her, Kellen finds herself drawn to them. Their laughter, camaraderie, and the way they gaze at her awaken a longing she’s never known. Her intuition whispers that she must stay, yet her loyalty to her sister compels her to find a way to leave. To plot her escape and save her sister, Kellen will need to navigate the seductive charm of the seven men and her yearning for acceptance in this darker version of Snow White that’s as spell-binding as the seven hot and endearing men who hold her captive.
Author : U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Laughter & Despair written by U. C. Knoepflmacher and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Reck
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175867
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Man in Despair written by Friedrich Reck and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the most important works on the Hitler period, this is an “astonishing, compelling, and unnerving” portrait of life in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944—from a man who nearly shot Hitler himself (The New Yorker) Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck, the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author’s own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, “one of the most important documents of the Hitler period,” but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.
Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063290693
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)
Download or read book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting written by Milan Kundera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110354004
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Redeeming Laughter written by Peter L. Berger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the variety of human experiences, the comic occupies a distinctive place. It is simultaneously ubiquitous, relative, and fragile. In this book, Peter L. Berger reflects on the nature of the comic and its relationship to other human experiences. Berger contends that the comic is an integral aspect of human life, yet one that must be approached and analyzed circumspectly and circuitously. Beginning with an exploration of the anatomy of the comic, Berger addresses humor in philosophy, physiology, psychology, and the social sciences before turning to a discussion of different types of comedy and finally suggesting a theology of the comic in terms of its relationship to folly, redemption, and transcendence. Along the way, the reader is treated to a variety of jokes on a variety of topics, with particular emphasis on humor and its relationship to religion. Originally published in 1997, the second edition includes a new preface reflecting on Berger’s work in the intervening years, particularly on the relationship between humor and modernity.
Author : Dean Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780912376837
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Under Running Laughter written by Dean Jones and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Jones was two men. He was the boyishly handsome star of the Walt Disney box-office hits - the hero of television shows and Saturday matinees, with a winsome smile every mother could trust. And he was the reckless, hard-living predator who prowled from one Hollywood romance to another - always stalked by deep regrets and a strange death wish that arose when on his motorcycle or behind the wheel of his sports car. Enter Lory Patrick. Loving, attractive, independent, different.
Author : John Marmysz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791486281
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Laughing at Nothing written by John Marmysz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disputing the common misconception that nihilism is wholly negative and necessarily damaging to the human spirit, John Marmysz offers a clear and complete definition to argue that it is compatible, and indeed preferably responded to, with an attitude of good humor. He carefully scrutinizes the phenomenon of nihilism as it appears in the works, lives, and actions of key figures in the history of philosophy, literature, politics, and theology, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, and Mishima. While suggesting that there ultimately is no solution to the problem of nihilism, Marmysz proposes a way of utilizing the anxiety and despair that is associated with the problem as a spur toward liveliness, activity, and the celebration of life.
Author : Aaron Aalborg
Publisher : Penman House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780990876441
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Doom, Gloom and Despair written by Aaron Aalborg and published by Penman House Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doom, Gloom and Despair is a collection of stories combining black humor, misery and horror. If you can laugh at humankind's self importance and stupidity, this book is for you. If you are willing to consider wild and terrifying alternative futures, you will find it darkly entertaining. Black humor, pathos and laughter are combined in wildly imaginative ways. Enjoy!
Author : Viktor E. Frankl
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080700555X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Yes to Life written by Viktor E. Frankl and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today—as the world faces a coronavirus pandemic, social isolation, and great economic uncertainty—as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim “Live as if you were living for the second time,” and he unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis contains opportunity. Despite the unspeakable horrors of the camps, Frankl learned from the strength of his fellow inmates that it is always possible to “say yes to life”—a profound and timeless lesson for us all.
Author : Marian Keyes
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006182805X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Angels written by Marian Keyes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring -- and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish out of water. Yet, overnight, she's mixing with film folk, pitching scripts, even experimenting with sex -- and discovering that the end of a marriage is not the end of the world.
Author : Helmuth Plessner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810139718
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Laughing and Crying written by Helmuth Plessner and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic of philosophical anthropology, Helmuth Plessner investigates the significance of laughing and crying, both in themselves and in relation to human nature.
Author : Leone Ross
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312420161
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Orange Laughter written by Leone Ross and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Pellar, a man of former style and fading beauty, has fled to the subway tunnels beneath New York. There he makes an even more perilous interior journey convinced the key to his sanity lies in retracing the events of his North Carolina childhood. As Tony gradually remembers, the stories of both his childhood friend Mikey, and of Agatha, a complex woman with a disfigured face, interweave with his own. All three stories finally come together against the backdrop of the civil rights movement and a heartrending and haunting climax.
Author : Jane Fonda
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0593296249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)
Download or read book What Can I Do? written by Jane Fonda and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest In 2019, daunted by the looming disaster of climate change and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda asked herself one question: What can I do? Jane Fonda, one of the most influential activists of our time, moved to Washington, D.C., and has since led thousands of people in demonstrations on Capitol Hill. In launching Fire Drill Fridays, Fonda teamed up with Greenpeace, leading climate scientists, and community organizers not only to understand what’s at stake, but to equip all of us with the education and tools we need to join her in protest. What Can I Do? isn’t a wish list—it’s a to-do list. So many of us recognize the urgency in stemming the tide of climate change but aren’t sure where to start. Our window of opportunity to act is quickly closing. And it isn’t only Earth’s life-support systems that are unraveling, so too is our social fabric. This is going to take an all-out war on drilling, fracking, deregulation, racism, misogyny, colonialism, and despair—all at the same time. The problems we face now require every one of us to join the fight for not only our immediate future, but for the future of generations to come. 100% of the author's net proceeds from What Can I Do? have gone to Greenpeace
