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Book The Male Anatomy   and Other Laughing Matters

Download or read book The Male Anatomy and Other Laughing Matters written by Jennifer Worick and published by Chamberlain Brothers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes non-removable plastic model affixed in center of book.

Book Male Anatomy

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  • Author : Jennifer Worick
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-08
  • ISBN : 9781437958492
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book Male Anatomy written by Jennifer Worick and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents each layer of the male body, from the dermal system to the skeletal system I and II, digestive system, urinary system, circulatory system, respiratory system, muscular system, and nervous system. As you turn each page, each layer of the 3-D model in the center lifts to reveal the organs in the next system. Combines humor with medical information. Topics covered: symptoms of melanoma, head massage, tendons and ligaments, body shapes, hair loss, how to slim a man down on the sly, hydration, urine trouble, calorie burning, how the heart beats, symptoms of a heart attack, collapsed lung, snoring, types of muscles and manly muscle movement, strength-training at home, the male brain, and baby making 101. Illustrations.

Book Laughing Matters

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  • Author : Giorgio Baruchello
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2023-11-06
  • ISBN : 3111256103
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Laughing Matters written by Giorgio Baruchello and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 2 of Volume 3 addresses in detail the conflicts between humor and cruelty, i.e., how cruelty can be unleashed against humor and, conversely, humor can be utilized against cruelty. Potent enmities to mirth and jollity are retrieved from a variety of socio-historical contexts, ranging from Europe’s medieval monasteries to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre. Special attention is paid to the cruel humor and humorous cruelty arising thereof, insofar as such phenomena can reveal critical aspects of today’s neoliberal socio-economic order. In parallel, settings where humor has been used as an instrument to cope with suffered cruelty, whether natural or human in origin, are also retrieved and discussed. These also vary greatly and encompass domains such as hospital wards, 20th-century Jewish ghettoes, and contemporary funeral homes. A set of concluding reflections is then offered on the psychological, theological, ethical, and metaphysical roots of humor—and its cruel rejection.

Book No Laughing Matter

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  • Author : David A. Quam
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2022-11-03
  • ISBN : 1642993913
  • Pages : 93 pages

Download or read book No Laughing Matter written by David A. Quam and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Laughing Matter is a series of reflections on humor, from its nature and necessity to its purpose and effect. The author writes with courage and spiritual strength gained while recovering from a debilitating stroke. Following his first two books: Wipeout: Journey of a Stroke Overcomer and Interrupted by God, Pastor Quam explores the essential role of humor and laughter in recovery and in everyday life. Drawing upon his life and more than 35 years in pastoral ministry, the author dispenses many jokes, illustrations and anecdotes to teach about humor and how God uses it to work in our lives. The book's concluding chapters take the reader on a spiritual journey through Biblical passages and reflections about life and eternity. About the Author Pastor David A. Quam was born and raised in Hawley, Minnesota. A lyric tenor, he sang professionally on the opera stage before beginning his teaching career. He holds both a bachelor degree and a masters degree in music education and taught vocal music on the high school and collegiate level for eight years. Pastor Quam attended North American Baptist Seminary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was ordained in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church and served as a pastor for 35 years. He still sings in various venues. He and his wife, Carol, have four children and twelve grandchildren and live in Chaska, Minnesota. This is his third book.

Book Laughing Matters

Download or read book Laughing Matters written by Lee Siegel and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1989 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laughing matters

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  • Author : John Mundy
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 1526130521
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Laughing matters written by John Mundy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts. The introduction explains the value of studying comedy, concisely outlines the approach taken and summarises the relevant theories. The subsequent chapters are divided into two parts. The first part examines the specific forms comedy has taken as a constant and key element in film and broadcast comedy from their origins to the present. The second part shows how the genre gravitates towards contentious issues in British and American culture as it finds humour in the boundaries of class, gender, sexuality, race and logic. The authors cover silent cinema comedy including Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, sound film comedies including the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, Romantic film comedy, radio, television situation and sketch comedy, comedy and genre (including parody and spoof), animations from cartoons to CGI, issues of gender and sexuality from drag comedy to queer reading, issues of taste and humour from Carry On to contemporary 'gross-out' , and issues of race and ethnicity including a case study of African-American screen comedy. Numerous opportunities for following up are highlighted and advice on further reading, writing academically about comedy and an extensive bibliography add to the value of this textbook.

Book Laughing Matter

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  • Author : Marcel Gutwirth
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780801427831
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Laughing Matter written by Marcel Gutwirth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of theorists in such fields as psychology, anthropology, physiology, sociology, and folklore as well as literary criticism, Gutwirth perceives that writers across history have attempted to explain laughter in one of three ways - focusing on its social or political function, its emotional rationale, or its intellectual dimension. Offering an array of readings of comic texts and incidents, he constructs a general model of laughter which takes into account its causes, immediate effects, and long-range influence on human affairs. In conclusion, he looks at the unique nature of comic wisdom, particularly as reflected in works by Santayana, Cervantes, and Beckett.

Book No Laughing Matter

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  • Author : Angela Rosenthal
  • Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
  • Release : 2015-11-22
  • ISBN : 1611688221
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book No Laughing Matter written by Angela Rosenthal and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2015-11-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection - which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor - seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national, or ethnic groups and explore how humor works differently in different media, such as cartoons, photographs, film, video, television, and physical performance. This is a timely and necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.

Book No Laughing Matter  Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media

Download or read book No Laughing Matter Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media written by Luiz Valério P. Trindade and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media’ examines the social phenomenon of construction and dissemination of colonial-like racist discourses fostered against upwardly-mobile black women through disparagement humour on social media platforms, adopting a fresh and innovative perspective. In this book, Luiz Valério P. Trindade explores the idea that disparagement humour might not be as exempt of social impact as the jokers might believe, and that, in fact, this kind of humour reveals the hidden facet of deep-seated colonial ideologies still present in Brazilian society despite being hailed as a unique model of a post-racial society. The author argues that these ideologies establish and naturalise superior social positions and symbolic privileges to whites while undermining and delegitimising black women’s upward social mobility. Social media platforms enable the proponents of these beliefs not only to engage in the practice of online hate speech but also to attract a considerable number of like-minded people, creating a long-lasting echo chamber effect in the cyberspace. This way, they manage to amplify the reach and reverberation of their racist discourses in the online environment in ways not commonly seen in Brazilian offline social contexts. This monograph is of great interest and relevance to students, scholars, and researchers across a variety of disciplines, most notably Critical Race Studies, Media Communication Studies and Critical Humour Studies, and also academics in other areas such as Critical Discourse Analysis, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Latin American Studies.

Book Stupid Men Jokes and Other Laughing Matters

Download or read book Stupid Men Jokes and Other Laughing Matters written by Jasmine Birtles and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laughing Matters

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  • Author : Sara Beam
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1501732374
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Laughing Matters written by Sara Beam and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bawdy satirical plays—many starring law clerks and seminarians—savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France. The Church and the royal court tolerated—and even commissioned—such performances, the audiences for which included men and women from every social class. From the mid-sixteenth century, however, local authorities began to temper and in some cases ban such performances. Sara Beam, in revealing how theater and politics were intimately intertwined, shows how the topics we joke about in public reflect and shape larger religious and political developments. For Beam, the eclipse of the vital tradition of satirical farce in late medieval and early modern France is a key aspect of the complex political and cultural factors that prepared the way for the emergence of the absolutist state. In her view, the Wars of Religion were the major reason attitudes toward the farceurs changed; local officials feared that satirical theater would stir up violence, and Counter-Reformation Catholicism proved hostile to the bawdiness that the clergy had earlier tolerated. In demonstrating that the efforts of provincial urban officials prepared the way for the taming of popular culture throughout France, Laughing Matters provides a compelling alternative to Norbert Elias's influential notion of the "civilizing process," which assigns to the royal court at Versailles the decisive role in the shift toward absolutism.

Book No Laughing Matter    A Fictional Non Fiction

Download or read book No Laughing Matter A Fictional Non Fiction written by Ayanna Augustine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Urban tale based on Two metro Detroiters Alia & Damon. This Action packed Tale will keep you guessing, what is fact and what is fiction.

Book No Laughing Matter

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  • Author : Peter Guttridge
  • Publisher : Speck Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780972577649
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book No Laughing Matter written by Peter Guttridge and published by Speck Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a naked woman flashes past Nick Madrid's fourteenth floor hotel window it's quite a start to the Just for Laughs Festival. The management is horrified to have a celebrity death fall into their laps, that is, into their pool, and the mess in the shallow end is no treat either. But the big question is: was Cissie Parker pushed or did she fall? Nick, a journalist easily distracted by his intense and painful yoga practices, turns gumshoe to answer the question. Madrid and his cohorts -- the caddy Frank and the ciggie-smoking, platform-sole wearing Bridget -- pick up the deadly breadcrumb trail, each carrying their own suspicions as to who killed Ms. Parker. The fine lines of comedy and tragedy are smeared as the killer's trail leads them from Montreal to Edinburgh to the ghastly-lights of Hollywood.

Book No Laughing Matter

Download or read book No Laughing Matter written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars while still remaining accessible to students. By including discussions of fragmentary authors alongside Aristophanes, the collection provides a broad understanding of the richness of Athenian comedy. The collection showcases the best of the new scholarship on Old and Middle Comedy, using the most up-to-date texts and tools. No Laughing Matter has been prepared in tribute to Professor Ian Storey of Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario), whose work on Athenian comedy will continue to shape scholarship for many years to come.

Book Laughing Matters

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  • Author : Bobbie Siegle
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2002-08-21
  • ISBN : 0595244475
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Laughing Matters written by Bobbie Siegle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-08-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays about everyday life, written by a woman who is surviving middle age with humor and as little energy as possible.

Book No Laughing Matter

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  • Author : Angus Wilson
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2012-03-15
  • ISBN : 0571281214
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book No Laughing Matter written by Angus Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel. The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the lives of the six Matthews children and their dysfuntional middle-class family. Their parents - Billy Pop and the Countess - are objects of ridicule to their children who vow never to make their mistakes. Quentin, the eldest, is a socialist who adores women. His fervent views, however, become distilled over the years until he transforms into a cynical TV pundit. Gladys, plump and amenable, is unlucky in love and eventually falls for the charms of a crook. Rupert, the handsome actor, has a successful career until he fails to adapt to the changing theatre. Margaret is a brilliant and highly acclaimed novelist but she becomes bitter as her twin Sukey sinks into domestic bliss, while Marcus, the baby of the family, believes that his career is his life. An ambitious and enriching novel No Laughing Matter is an extraordinary work in its depictions of complex family relationships, where it is just as easy to hate as to love and where everyone struggles to be an individual.

Book Laughing Matter

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  • Author : Herbert B. Hickey
  • Publisher : eStar Books
  • Release : 2011-01-10
  • ISBN : 1612101720
  • Pages : 9 pages

Download or read book Laughing Matter written by Herbert B. Hickey and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cave of the Mad God was like a maw -- destroying the souls it engulfed. But why didn't the curse work on Benno?