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Author : Herbert Victor Prochnow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom written by Herbert Victor Prochnow and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations arranged alphabetically by subject matter.
Author : Anna T. Litovkina
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527542785
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs written by Anna T. Litovkina and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores various aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body of Anglo-American anti-proverbs (or proverb transformations). It also depicts those who contribute to the institution of marriage (that is, husbands and wives), and analyses their nature, qualities, attributes and behaviours as revealed through such anti-proverbs. In addition, the text investigates those who remain single and do not belong to the institution of marriage, but contribute to the institution of marriage. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, from the casually interested general reader to the paremiologist, paremiographer, lexicographer, and anthropologist.
Author : Anna T. Litovkina
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319911988
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Women Through Anti-Proverbs written by Anna T. Litovkina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines stereotypical traits of women as they are reflected in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, also known as proverb transformations, deliberate proverb innovations, alterations, parodies, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs, and proverb mutations. Through these sayings and witticisms the author delineates the image of women that these anti-proverbs reflect, her qualities, attributes and behavior. The book begins with an analysis of how women’s role in the family, their sexuality and traditional occupations are presented in proverbs, and presents an overview of the genre of the anti-proverb. The author then analyses how this image of women is transformed in anti-proverbs, sometimes subverting, but often reinforcing the sexist bias of the original. This engaging work will appeal to students and scholars of humour studies, paremiology, gender studies, cultural studies, folklore and sociolinguistics alike.
Author : Anna T. Litovkina
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030890627
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages written by Anna T. Litovkina and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be considered as variants of older proverbs, they can also become new proverbs reflecting a more modern worldview. Anti-proverbs are therefore a lingo-cultural phenomenon that deserves the attention of cultural and literary historians, folklorists, linguists, and general readers interested in language and wordplay.
Author : United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Personnel Literature written by United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul F. Boller
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780195097313
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Presidential Anecdotes written by Paul F. Boller and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic, poignant, hilarious, and sentimental, anecdotes about our presidents are as varied as the presidents themselves. This new and revised edition of Presidential Anecdotes recounts some of the most striking stories about America's 42 chief executives, from Washington to Clinton, shedding light on the presidents as human beings and on the culture that produced them.
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1959 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Author : James C. Humes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761870806
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Fame-Dropping written by James C. Humes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fame-Dropping is a bit like name-dropping, but when your guide is historian James C. Humes, you can expect something more than just trivial details about celebrities. A former White House speechwriter and Pennsylvania state legislator, the author commands powers of persuasion that have opened doors into the lives of the world’s most influential men and women. Fame-Dropping zooms in for a close-up while offering you a front-row seat for viewing history’s big picture. Rich with insight, and told in a lively, self-deprecating style, this book contains tales of a gregarious ghostwriter who has met countless notables — from star performers to those who wield power behind the scenes, in Hollywood, Washington, and beyond. Learn, laugh, and enjoy with a “well-traveled political junkie” and Churchill biographer as he witnesses Richard Nixon’s informal side, dances with a young and radiant Queen Elizabeth II, and watches Margaret Thatcher tear up a speech he’d just written. Come and join Sir John Gielgud at the bar for cocktails, dine in Washington with McGovern’s Hollywood supporter Shirley MacLaine, and find out what the guests found hanging in Pamela Harriman’s powder room. At once intimate and grounded in a historian’s wider perspectives, Fame-Dropping invites you to come closer and listen in, as you take a whirlwind tour of world events with the man who was welcomed everywhere.
Author : Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1606525956
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Quotable Quotes written by Editors of Reader's Digest and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-03-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Author : Julie Saeger Nierenberg
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504397657
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book It Is What It Is written by Julie Saeger Nierenberg and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this manuscript as a journal documentation of my brain tumor diagnosis, discovery and decision making process, a journey spanning approximately twelve months, leading up to my final chosen method of treatment. Some of the chapters are humorous, some rather poignant and some include a lot of medical details. My whole point was to let readers know what that was like, a long and involved investigative process. I include some self-coaching strategies, helpful resources and lots of email exchanges with friends, family and doctors. May all who read this find something in its chapters that resonates with your head and heart.
Author : [Anonymus AC00423973]
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558620933
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The writers directory written by [Anonymus AC00423973] and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Eisenberg
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Public Speaker's Handbook of Humor written by Helen Eisenberg and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who's who in the Midwest written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical dictionary of noteworthy men and women of the Central and Midwestern States.
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299213541
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Lowering the Bar written by Marc Galanter and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
