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Laughter in the Living Room

Author : Michael Tueth
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820468457
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Laughter in the Living Room written by Michael Tueth and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years some very funny people have been entering American homes through television's big picture window. From Lucy and Uncle Miltie, to Archie Bunker and Marge Simpson, certain comic stars of television history have become not just cultural icons, but friends of the family. This comprehensive study of the most successful television comedies - including domestic sitcoms, workplace comedies, variety shows, late-night comedy, animated comedy, and more - reveals that, unlike the comedy found in film, on stage, in comedy clubs and concert halls, television's presentation of comic characters and stories must negotiate a relationship with the more privatized and value-laden environment of each American home that it enters.

Beneath the Laughter

Author : Victoria Jolson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984584618
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Laughter written by Victoria Jolson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling and absorbing behind-the-scenes collection of memorable vignettes from an insider’s point of view about: Red Buttons, George Wallace, the Marquis de Montal, Maria Sharapova, Dr. Billy Graham, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pat Boone, Milton Berle, Guy Ritchie & Madonna, Michael Caine, Phyllis Diller, Liza Minelli, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Minnie Pearl, Farrah Fawcett, Don Rickles, Burt Lancaster, Maria Callas, The Judds, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Jackie Onassis, George Clooney, David Frost, Leona Helmsley, Bianca Jagger, Gene Simmons (KISS), Ringo Starr, Sidney Poitier, Robert Stack, Ronald Reagan, Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Bear Bryant, Bill O’Reilly, Gloria Allred, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ernest Borgnine, Denise Rich, Bill & Hillary Clinton, among others.

Laughter is Sacred Space

Author : Ted Swartz
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836196910
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Laughter is Sacred Space written by Ted Swartz and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Swartz and his Ted & Company TheaterWorks team are known for blending Bible stories with comedy and poignancy, and pushing the envelope on issues of faith and social justice. But who is Ted Swartz? Follow along in this engaging memoir as Swartz finds his way as a middle child in an eastern Pennsylvania traditional Mennonite home to his early work in the family butcher shop. Journey with Ted through the decision of uprooting his young family to attend seminary and then embracing life as a writer and actor. Get a glimpse into the friendship that led to the formation of the popular acting duo Ted & Lee. This uniquely honest backstage tour of an artist's life and mind combines side-splitting reminiscences, heart-rending accounts of loss, and touching stories of restored faith and love. Swartz's engaging humor blends with his own stories of triumph and tragedy, and helps readers understand their own sense of place and how they're shaped by those around them. Read the forward by Bryan Mclaren under the "Excerpt" tab and see what is already being said about the book under the "Quotes" tab! "Laughter Is Sacred Space is even funnier than Mennonite in a Little Black Dress—an authentic and profound snapshot of what it means to grow up and live Mennonite." —Howard Zehr, professor of restorative justice, Eastern Mennonite University "Ted Swartz is a gift. He unveils some of the most tragic pain and injustice of our world . . . but he knows that if we can't laugh then the devil has already won. Laughter reminds us that we know the end of the story—and in the end we see life conquer death and love triumph over hatred." —Shane Claiborne, author, activist, and lover of Jesus About the author Purchase Ted and Company scripts and DVDs

Laughter

Author : Robert R. Provine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101659254
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Laughter written by Robert R. Provine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.

The power of laughter - at work

Author : Thomas Flindt
Publisher : LaughterAtWork
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The power of laughter - at work written by Thomas Flindt and published by LaughterAtWork. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a workplace and workspace where everyone is happy. Stress is reduced in your co-workers. Sickdays are less frequent. Earnings are going up. Everyone has more energy for work, and in their off-hours. This is all possible when you incorporate laughter as a daily routine at work. Not laughing at someone, or because of something funny. But laughing, because it promotes a natural state of balance, contentment and happiness. In this book you will see how this is achieved, and what you need to do to experience the same. The books has a number of tests, exercises and things for you to ponder and savor.

Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Reference Book with CD-ROM

Author : Cambridge University Press
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521691963
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Reference Book with CD-ROM written by Cambridge University Press and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary defines the vocabulary students need to succeed in high school and beyond. Entries cover more than 2,000 content-area vocabulary items, as well as general academic vocabulary and full coverage of everyday words and phrases. The CD-ROM lets students search for vocabulary by subject area, includes audio of all entry words, offers word family and frequency information, and has a thesaurus and instant lookup feature. The CD-ROM is compatible with Windows XP/Vista and with Mac OSX 10.4 (32-bit only).

To Protect and Serve with Laughter

Author : Lt. Donald G. Hartenstine (ret)
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1425725457
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book To Protect and Serve with Laughter written by Lt. Donald G. Hartenstine (ret) and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short stories are based on actual events. The stories were developed from experiences, interviews, and observations of the men and women of law enforcement. It must be noted that every story of humor, thousands of events occur daily in law enforcement that are serious. Many dangers and dilemmas exist in the every day lives of our police officers. This book was written to promote as well as inspire humor, which I think all of us as human beings posses. With all the seriousness, trials and tribulations life's journey brings, it is my belief that if we can find it within us to laugh at others and ourselves, our burdens can truly be lightened. In turn, our lives can be more tolerable, meaningful and enjoyable. We must not take ourselves too seriously, but we must not allow humor to be harmful to others. These stories are another side of police work that some may not be totally aware of. It is my hope they will give you a chuckle and offer a better understanding and appreciation of the human side of our dedicated police officers.

Humor, Laughter and Human Flourishing

Author : Mordechai Gordon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 331900834X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Humor, Laughter and Human Flourishing written by Mordechai Gordon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical investigation of the significance of humor and laughter, examining its relation to other human phenomena including truth, nihilism, dreams, friendship, intimacy, aesthetic experience, self-transcendence and education. The author addresses the relative neglect of humor and laughter among philosophers of education with this volume, where the focus is on the significance of humor and laughter for human flourishing. Central questions are threaded through this work: What does the study of humor and laughter bring to philosophy and specifically to philosophy of education? How is humorist thinking different from other modes of human knowing? What might happen if we were to respond to the absurdity of human existence with humor and laughter? What insights can be learned from a philosophical investigation of humor in relationship to other human phenomena such as dreams, friendship, intimacy, aesthetic experience and self-transcendence? And, finally, how can humor and laughter enhance human existence and flourishing? The author presents groundbreaking insights into what can be gained from a study of humor and laughter about human existence in general and flourishing in particular. This work will be of interest to philosophers, especially philosophers of education, as well as to teachers and educators. Its unique blend of philosophical investigation and humorous discourse is both a rigorous and accessible analysis of humor.

Laughter on My Path

Author : Ann Lowrance Allman, Ed.D.
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490829601
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Laughter on My Path written by Ann Lowrance Allman, Ed.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter on My Path is the memoir of a medical school professor's fun-loving, pet-collecting, musical daughter. She wanted a more normal life and career apart from studying human brains on the kitchen table, being introduced to cadavers, and facing puberty with Gray's Anatomy. Still terribly naïve, she married the wrong man, who later became her brother-in-law and their boys' "Uncle Dad." As Ann Hamilton in this first marriage, she began teaching Spanish. When she became Joplin High School's dean of girls, she realized she must be both administrator and counselor to solve students' problems. Later, she married Joplin's entertaining school superintendent, Dr. Jack Allman. Soon they served as educators in Buenos Aires, where she made colorful mistakes using Mexican Spanish. Then they re-entered the States to stir up three more school systems.

Laughter Heals

Author : Ms. Dorothy A. Dukes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105277135
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Laughter Heals written by Ms. Dorothy A. Dukes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last days with my father was so important to me. The death of my father brought sorrow to the family. The book will give details of the days after the news of his death and there after till the day of the funeral.

Random Thoughts on Life, Love, Laughter and Living for Jesus

Author : Dave Maynard
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1636304788
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Random Thoughts on Life, Love, Laughter and Living for Jesus written by Dave Maynard and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was a long time coming. God had to take me through a lifetime of learning to prepare me for writing this book. There are three areas that He impressed upon me to write about. The first was to write about the life lessons that He has taught me. Things like how to be a better, more loving husband, how to take control of my life by planning for and accomplishing things, and how to use the gifts He has given me. The second was to make apologetics understandable. Apologetics is rationally and credibly defending the faith. I’ve has a passion for this ever since I’ve been a believer. Christianity is not just subjectively true. It’s objectively true. It is factually true and can be proven so beyond a reasonable doubt. The third was to highlight some of the lesser-known Christians and how God used them to make a difference in our world. I hope the lessons contained in this book will bless you, as they have blessed me in learning them. But even more than that, I hope they will draw you closer to Jesus.

The Laughter of My Father

Author : Carlos Bulosan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789124840
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Laughter of My Father written by Carlos Bulosan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich man’s children ate their good food and grew thinner and more peaked. The Bulosans, next door, went on eating their poor and meagre food, laughed, and grew fat. So the rich man sued Father Bulosan for stealing the spirit of his food. And Father paid him in his own coin, while the laughter of the Bulosans and the judge drove the rich man’s family out of the courtroom. The Bulosans lived in Binalonan, in the Philippine province of Pangasinan. But the episodes of Father’s history that his son Carlos retells belong to universal and timeless comedy. No one can remain unmoved by Father’s excursions into politics, cock-fighting, violin-playing, or the concoction of love-potions. Twenty-four such stories make up the rich and funny collection called The Laughter of My Father. “In the winter of 1939, when I was out of work, I went to San Pedro, California, and stood in the rain for hours with hundreds of men and women hoping to get a place at the fish canneries. To forget the monotony of waiting, I started to write the title story. It was finished when I reached the gate, but the cold hours that followed made me forget many things. “In November, 1942, when there was too much pain and tragedy in the world, I found the story in my hat. I sent it to The New Yorker, a magazine I had not read before, and in three weeks a letter came. ‘Tell us some more about the Filipinos,’ it said. I said, ‘Yes, sir.’ “I wrote about everything that I could remember about my town Binalonan, in the province of Pangasinan. I received letters from my countrymen telling me that I wrote about them and their towns. It came to me that in writing the story of my town, I was actually depicting the life of the peasantry in the Philippines. “These stories and 18 others are now gathered in this volume. For the first time the Filipino people are depicted as human beings. I hope you will enjoy reading about them.”—Carlos Bulosan

Tears Prayers Miracles and Laughter

Author : Virginia Lynn Rutenber
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481708023
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Tears Prayers Miracles and Laughter written by Virginia Lynn Rutenber and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is filled with life experiences of family members; many of them, the Author's son, Scott. He was hospitalized many times growing up and she witnessed a few miracles during those times and felt compelled to write about them. The Author tried for many years to tell Scott her testimonies and stories, but for many reasons it never worked out because of the distance between them. So she decided to put her feelings and stories in writing, and hope that someday when Scott had time he would read about them. She had been involved in all the tears and laughter for many, many years. She wanted this book to be a keepsake for Scott, in the event that if she passed away, he would have something "special" to remember her by and perhaps share the book with his new family.

Dangerous Laughter

Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030726873X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Laughter written by Steven Millhauser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world.

Stifled Laughter

Author : Claudia Johnson
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1682753611
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Stifled Laughter written by Claudia Johnson and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson's extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, and part primer for advocates fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter is the story of one woman's efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. Updated with a new introduction, Johnson's honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into why the books children read at school remains a controversial issue, and why free speech in America remains a precarious right. Johnson fights tirelessly to keep texts like Lysistrata and "The Millers Tale" in Florida school textbooks regardless of a preacher's efforts to take them out. Readers are given a glimpse into the courtroom and all the drama, passion, and hard work that follows. Johnson's writing is witty, emotional, and humorous, and it makes you want to jump in and fight censorship and book banning right alongside her. For anyone who has ever wondered just how far those who seek to ban books will go in limiting free expression, this book proves once again that the personal is political. At a time when book banning has reached new heights, parents and teachers, writers, and readers will all benefit from Johnson's experience and be touched by her spirit and courage.

Konundrum

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671529
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Konundrum written by Franz Kafka and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka's entire opus of short prose--including works published in the author's brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals, and letters--for narratives that sound the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish scribe from Prague. It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange, resonantly humane letters and journal entries alongside his classic short fiction and lyrical vignettes "Transformed" is a vivid retranslation of one of Kafka's signature stories, "Die Verwandlung," commonly rendered in English as "The Metamorphosis." Composed of short, black comic parables, fables, fairy tales, and reflections, Konundrums also includes classic stories like "In the Penal Colony," Kafka's prescient foreshadowing of the nightmare of the Twentieth Century, refreshing the writer's mythic storytelling powers for a new generation of readers. Contents: • Words are Miserable Miners of Meaning • Letter to Ernst Rowohlt • Reflections • Concerning Parables • Children on the Country Road • The Spinning Top • The Street-Side Window • At Night • Unhappiness • Clothes Make the Man • On the Inability to Write • From Somewhere in the Middle • I Can Also Laugh • The Need to Be Alone • So I Sat at My Stately Desk • A Writer's Quandary • Give it Up! • Eleven Sons • Paris Outing • The Bridge • The Trees • The Truth About Sancho Pansa • The Silence of the Sirens • Prometheus • Poseidon • The Municipal Coat of Arms • A Message from the Emperor • The Next Village Over • First Sorrow • The Hunger Artist • Josephine, Our Meistersinger, or the Music of Mice • Investigations of a Dog • A Report to an Academy • A Hybrid • Transformed • In the Penal Colony • From The Burrow • Selected Aphorisms • Selected Last Conversation Shreds • In the Caves of the Unconscious: K is for Kafka (An Afterword) • The Back of Words (A Post Script) From the Trade Paperback edition.

Laughter in the Wind

Author : SL Harris
Publisher : Bella Books
ISBN 13 : 1594938555
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Laughter in the Wind written by SL Harris and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Wilcox’s curiosity about the disturbance of an old grave overcomes her fear of the cemetery’s reputation for being haunted. After all, she’s in college now. Armed with only a name and some dates, her search leads her to sophomore Olivia Harmon. Olivia is equally curious about the grave and its occupant, but it’s not just an exercise in research to her. Family secrets—new and old—are buried in that grave. Used to hiding her sexuality to keep the peace, Olivia balks at more lies, and her already fractured family falls apart. Her friendship with Rebecca, however, only deepens. Comforted and distracted by their feelings, Rebecca and Olivia might even give up their quest, until a final clue and a shocking revelation turns what they thought they knew upside down. SL Harris debuts with a love story of two young women searching for answers and finding them in each other.