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Book Synopsis Battle of Wits by : Stephen Budiansky
Download or read book Battle of Wits written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the story of the Allied codebreakers puzzling through the most difficult codebreaking problems that ever existed.
Book Synopsis The Algonquin Wits by : Robert E. Drennan
Download or read book The Algonquin Wits written by Robert E. Drennan and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wit at the poker table tended to be less sophisticated than the luncheon banter - one can't consider the possibilities of a three card flush and simultaneously create nifties - but it was at the poker table that the Round Tablers revealed, in their firehouse funnies, their substantially small town origins. Every one of them came from the hinterlands exept my father.
Book Synopsis Keep Your Wits About You by : Vonetta M. Dotson
Download or read book Keep Your Wits About You written by Vonetta M. Dotson and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science tells us that by keeping our brain as healthy as possible, we can optimize our cognitive abilities, mental health, and physical functioning at any age. Healthy behaviors, such as staying physically, mentally, and socially active, maintaining a healthy diet, and getting good sleep, are the most powerful tools we have to maintain healthy brains. This book provides science-based facts and practical tools for the reader to achieve and maintain a healthy brain.
Book Synopsis The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890-1938 by : Harold B. Segel
Download or read book The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890-1938 written by Harold B. Segel and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Segel's extensive introduction provides a wealth of information concerning the social, political, and cultural background of turn-of-the-century Vienna. The eight artists assembled here are concerned with their world, Austria and particularly Vienna. They exchange ideas, argue, gossip, tell stories, read each other's works and even write in the coffeehouse.
Download or read book At Our Wits' End written by Edward Dutton and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' End. The authors take us on a journey through the growing body of evidence that we are significantly less intelligent now than we were a hundred years ago. The research proving this is, at once, profoundly thought-provoking, highly controversial, and it's currently only read by academics. But the authors are passionate that it cannot remain ensconced in the ivory tower any longer. With At Our Wits' End, they present the first ever popular scientific book on this crucially important issue. They prove that intelligence — which is strongly genetic — was increasing up until the breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution, because we were subject to the rigors of Darwinian Selection, meaning that lots of surviving children was the preserve of the cleverest. But since then, they show, intelligence has gone into rapid decline, because large families are increasingly the preserve of the least intelligent. The book explores how this change has occurred and, crucially, what its consequences will be for the future. Can we find a way of reversing the decline of our IQ? Or will we witness the collapse of civilization and the rise of a new Dark Age?
Book Synopsis Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It by : James Geary
Download or read book Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It written by James Geary and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.
Download or read book At Wit's End written by Erma Bombeck and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"
Download or read book Wit written by Margaret Edson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity." In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson's writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.
Book Synopsis Test Your Wits! by : Sheila Anne Barry
Download or read book Test Your Wits! written by Sheila Anne Barry and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of picture puzzles, brain teasers, word games, aptitude and personality tests, and quizzes to solve and rate yourself alone or with friends.
Book Synopsis Wonder Wits Teaching Guide by : Timothy Tuck
Download or read book Wonder Wits Teaching Guide written by Timothy Tuck and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teaching resource providing varied activities on problem solving, inventiveness and higher-order thinking skills as part of thinking skills/creativity lessons.
Book Synopsis The Wits and Beaux of Society by : Grace Wharton
Download or read book The Wits and Beaux of Society written by Grace Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton by : Katherine Thomson
Download or read book The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton written by Katherine Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore by : Burren Laughlin
Download or read book Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore written by Burren Laughlin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore" is a beautiful oriental tale about an extraordinarily wise, witty, and charming young prince called Bright-Wits for his numerous talents. According to the tradition of the genre, Bright-Withs falls in love with a beautiful princess, yet to marry her, he needs to solve eleven puzzles, which presuppose a lot of dangerous adventures and secret plots.
Book Synopsis Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth. Newly corrected and amended. The prefatory epistle signed: N. L., i.e. Nicholas Ling by : N. L.
Download or read book Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth. Newly corrected and amended. The prefatory epistle signed: N. L., i.e. Nicholas Ling written by N. L. and published by . This book was released on 1641 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse by : John Hollander
Download or read book American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse written by John Hollander and published by American Poets Project. This book was released on 2003-10-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes Edwin Arlington Robinson, Don Marquis, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Morley, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash, Phyllis McGinley, and Anthony Hecht.
Book Synopsis Lives of Wits and Humourists: R. Brinsley Sheridan. Richard Porson. Rev. Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook. James and Horace Smith by : John Timbs
Download or read book Lives of Wits and Humourists: R. Brinsley Sheridan. Richard Porson. Rev. Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook. James and Horace Smith written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals by : Cornelia Otis Skinner
Download or read book Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals written by Cornelia Otis Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
