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Anything Can Happen: Notes on My Inadequate Life and Yours

ISBN: 9780156029551

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
The author of the deft Rules for Aging returns with thirty hilarious and engaging tales about the everyday human comedy, forcing the reader to laugh out loud at the silliness of the world.
Funny, ironic, and penetrating, Anything Can Happen is another rich and rewarding collection that demonstrates the agile wit that has endeared Roger Rosenblatt to readers everywhere.
The Best of Bad Faulkner: Choice Entries from the Faux Faulkner Competition ...

ISBN: 9780156118507

63,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
As I Lay Dieting, "Abe's Saloon Abe's Saloon " Sound like Faulkner with a twist? It is-bad Faulkner, or, to be exact, some of the best of bad Faulkner composed by the hundreds who have entered the Faux Faulkner Contest. Here, too, are outstanding Faulkner parodies from the past-even one written by Faulkner himself. Caricatures.
The Best of Bad Hemingway: Choice Entries from the Harry's Bar & American Grill Imitation Hemingway Competition

ISBN: 9780156118613

63,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Raymond Chandler, et al. Introduction by George Plimpton; caricatures.
The White Deer

ISBN: 9780156962643

55,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Here is a Thurber world of enchanted deer and seven-headed dragons, of wizards and witches, of riddles and spells, of false love and true. It is the story of a beautiful princess, transformed from a deer, who assigns each of three princes a perilous labor to perform in order to win her hand. Drawings by the Author.
American Humor

ISBN: 9780195042122

342,22 PLN (BRUTTO)
The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and particularly focus on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Look
American Humor

ISBN: 9780195050547

126,89 PLN (BRUTTO)
The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and focus particularly on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Look
Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes

ISBN: 9780195101867

600,61 PLN (BRUTTO)
This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand the peculiar expressive power of the riddle, and the cultural logic
The Oxford Book of Parodies

ISBN: 9780199548828

96,61 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Delightful. Mr. Gross's legendary gifts as an editor and critic are much in evidence...the entire anthology benefits from his discreet running commentary. Parody is a form of impersonation, obviously, but also collaboration. What makes it so pleasurable, as Mr. Gross's anthology shows on every page, is not just the accuracy of the performance, though that's certainly essential. In the funniest parodies, there is the faint but unmistakable sense of giddy collusion; and in such improbable duets the parodist
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse

ISBN: 9780199561612

70,77 PLN (BRUTTO)
From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, includi
The Mensa Genius Quiz Book 2

ISBN: 9780201059588

52,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
So You Think You're Pretty Smart...Try these quizzes, games, puzzles and strategies to find out just how intelligent you "really" are. Following the success of "The Mensa Genius Quiz Book, " here is another challenging collection of brain busters complied by "Mensa, " the internationally famous high-IQ society. You need an IQ in the top 2 percent of the population to join this elite group; this book enables you to match your wits against theirs.Just in case you need them, you'll find all the answers inside,
Mr. Bunny's Big Cup O' Java(tm)

ISBN: 9780201615630

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
If you're right on the edge after a long day of coding and have time to waste, get this book and follow Mr. Bunny and Farmer Jake as they learn Java. Master the JDK, a toolset that enables Java programmers to spear both fish and small mammals. Understand Java syntax, including variables and alternatives for storing values, such as walk-in closets. Learn how to identify each AZT class in the night sky, and discover new techniques for maximizing code performance by pressing Enter at the end of each line. Fina
The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative Guide

ISBN: 9780224086264

52,68 PLN (BRUTTO)
A must-have for all new parents--a gritty, laugh-out-loud book about the darker moments of "imperfect" parenthood A is for Anxiety, Alcohol, and Awful Activities. B is for Bedtime, Baking, and Boredom. C is for Childcare and Cooking with your Coat on. N is for Not Swearing (frustrating) and S is for Soft Play Places, Sniffing Babies' Asses (to see if they've filled their diapers) and Sex (see also L, for Lack thereof). This guide merrily gives a middle finger to the pervasive notion that parenthood is an et
Philip Guston's Poor Richard

ISBN: 9780226036212

266,85 PLN (BRUTTO)
Philip Guston's Poor Richard

ISBN: 9780226036229

159,19 PLN (BRUTTO)
In 1971, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created this series of caricatures of Richard Nixon, now available for the first time in book form. Produced two years before Watergate and three years before Nixon's resignation, these provocative, searing condemnations of a corrupt head of state are both a remarkable, prescient political satire and an aesthetic landmark-one of few instances of an artist in the late twentieth century engaging caricature in his work.
The Benchley Roundup Benchley Roundup Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites a Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Fa

ISBN: 9780226042183

70,90 PLN (BRUTTO)
Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence--on contemporaries such as E. B. White, James Thurber, and S. J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor--has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. "The Benchley Roundup "collects those pieces, selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up be
Tall Tale America Tall Tale America Tall Tale America: A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes a Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes a Legenda

ISBN: 9780226055961

82,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry have all become heroes of American folklore. Some of them, like Crokett, were real, but all have become the subject of tall tales. This is a folksy history of the United States, told as if the characters were all real. This panoramic (if completely untrue) history begins with Columbus. . . . En route to its end in the 1940s (where traditional American heroes are enlisted to fight in World War II), it covers the great and small events o
The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate

ISBN: 9780226100234

96,74 PLN (BRUTTO)
Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthie
The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate:

ISBN: 9780226100241

50,23 PLN (BRUTTO)
Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthie
Jokes Jokes Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Mat

ISBN: 9780226112305

77,36 PLN (BRUTTO)
Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious sign in front that says "$1,000 to anyone who will convert." "I wonder what that's about," says Abe. "I think I'll go in and have a look. I'll be back in a minute; just wait for me."
Sol sits on the sidewalk bench and waits patiently for nearly half an hour. Finally, Abe reappears.
"Well," asks Sol, "what are they up to? Who are they trying to convert? W
Jokes Jokes Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Mat

ISBN: 9780226112312

47,64 PLN (BRUTTO)
Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious sign in front that says "$1,000 to anyone who will convert." "I wonder what that's about," says Abe. "I think I'll go in and have a look. I'll be back in a minute; just wait for me."
Sol sits on the sidewalk bench and waits patiently for nearly half an hour. Finally, Abe reappears.
"Well," asks Sol, "what are they up to? Who are they trying to convert? W
Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Best Nonfiction

ISBN: 9780226263502

148,42 PLN (BRUTTO)
A few years ago, Christopher Buckley wrote of Bruce Jay Friedman in the "New York Times Book Review" that he "has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen," but that "he is: Bruce Jay Friedman, sui generis, and no mean thing. No further comparisons are necessary." We are happy to report that he remains the same Bruce Jay Friedman in his unique, unblinking, and slightly tilted essays--collected here for the first time--in "Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos."
A butler school in Houston, a li
Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India

ISBN: 9780226756912

320,68 PLN (BRUTTO)
"How can anyone laugh who knows of old age, disease, and death?"--Buddhacarita
This question, so solemnly posed by the young Buddha, first led Lee Siegel to examine the hitherto unexplored realm of Indian comedy. "Laughing Matters" is Siegel's account of two intersecting journeys: a search for comic traditions created and preserved in Sanskrit literature and a journey through modern India in quest of a laughter that persists across time and culture.
Hearing a boisterous and bawdy voice from India's
Lovers, Clowns, and Fairies: An Essay on Comedies

ISBN: 9780226790190

342,22 PLN (BRUTTO)
Through dreams and shadows and strangeness, through blinding charms and eye-opening counter-charms, through moments of mortification and laughter--thus Stuart M. Tave traces the journey of the lovers, clowns, and fairies who populate comedies from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to "Waiting for Godot." Tave avoids the pitfalls of theory, taking instead a close look at particular works to give us a sense of the relations between certain dramas and novels that are called comedies. The result is a wonderfully read
Down and Out: The Collected Writings of the Oldie Columnist Wilfred De'Ath

ISBN: 9780233000565

103,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
First edited collection of the columns of Wilfred De'Ath, regular columnist with monthly mag the "Oldie" with an introduction by Melvin Bragg. Original cover artwork and line-drawings by renowned illustrator, Larry. Contains an insightful and humorous first-hand account of life as a homeless intellectual--who happens to have some rather famous friends.
Sallon's War

ISBN: 9780233989099

69,61 PLN (BRUTTO)
A magnificent collection of caricatures by the oldest and most distinguished practising cartoonist in Britain. The bulk of them date from his greatest period when he drew the major figures of World War II, from the goodies like Churchill and his war cabinet, to the Nazis and the fascists, as well as the leading generals such as Marshall Bradley.
Oh I Say!: The Bare Faced Cheek of Life

ISBN: 9780233991825

75,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
This book is a hilarious look at streakers over the years.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

ISBN: 9780252070297

105,35 PLN (BRUTTO)
Marvin T. Dooley, the creation of Chicago newspaper humorist Finley Peter Dunne, benevolently dispenses wisdom, social criticism, and comedy.
Pulling Our Own Strings: Feminist Humor and Satire

ISBN: 9780253202512

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)

..". a wonderful, riotous book." -- Rita MaeBrown

"It's witty, charming, incisive -- and these are thelow points " -- Loretta Swit

From Virginia Woolf to NoraEphron, Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Ntozake Shange, Fanny Fern to Gloria Steinem, Pulling Our Own Strings shows us the roots, the history, and the rich variety offeminist humor and satire.

The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comicdrawings

ISBN: 9780253210074

83,60 PLN (BRUTTO)

"This is an absolutely delightful book.... Hubbard is considered tobe a regional humorist, but like all really good humorists, he speaks toeveryone." -- Humor: International Journal of HumorResearch

"Now an' then an innocent man is sent t' th'legislature."

"When a feller says, 'It hain't th' money, but th' principle o' th' thing, it's the money."

During theearly years of this century, the fictional Abe Martin became one of the most popularcracker-barrel philosophers this country has ever known. Fir

Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor

ISBN: 9780253218728

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)

If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense ofhumor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to theMidwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and DavidLetterman.

This book gathers some of the best stories from thehumorists of the big belly of America, past and present. Here are Mark Twain, GeorgeAde, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring

Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor

ISBN: 9780253348067

203,33 PLN (BRUTTO)

If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense ofhumor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to theMidwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and DavidLetterman.

This book gathers some of the best stories from thehumorists of the big belly of America, past and present. Here are Mark Twain, GeorgeAde, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring

Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology

ISBN: 9780275940508

139,59 PLN (BRUTTO)
Nervous Laughter examines forty years of situation comedy, decade by decade, providing the first truly panoramic view of TV's most popular dramatic form. Within this context, Hamamoto traces what he describes as the dominant liberal democratic ideology implicit within situation comedy and explains its enduring popularity. Examining liberal democratic culture, politics, and society he demonstrates how the sitcom resolves social contradictions. Borrowing freely from the social sciences, history, and literary
Illustrated Winespeak: Ronald Searles Wicked World of Winetasting

ISBN: 9780285625921

57,85 PLN (BRUTTO)
A hilarious send-up of winetasters' jargon, this collection of cartoons offers a satiric look at pretentious phrases used to describe wines by humorously assigning those characteristics to people.
Slightly Foxed/Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting

ISBN: 9780285629455

94,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
As any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of Enid Blython. Without a smattering of inside information, the baffled but hopelessly-bitten book buyer is drifting unarmed and unprepared into a minefield whose perilous complexities will usually only be made plain when an eagerly awaited pa
Knickers: An Intimate Appraisal

ISBN: 9780285630611

41,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Stick to the Music: Scores of Orchestral Tales

ISBN: 9780285631021

41,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
A collection of anecdotes about conductors living and dead.
Stockings & Suspenders: A Quick Flash

ISBN: 9780285631434

44,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Following on the success of her bestselling 'Knickers and Bras', Rosemary Hawthorne now turns her candid eye on the nether limbs. Illustrated with drawings and contemporary advertisements, this is a saucy look at one of the most tantalising areas of underwear.
Politically Incorrect Jokes from the Net

ISBN: 9780285634459

52,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
An international collection of off-color Internet humor.
The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense: A Guide for Edgy People

ISBN: 9780285637146

47,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Two of Britain's leading cultural commentators provide a hilarious guide to the various trendy discourses that academics have churned out for decades. Covering such schools of thought as difference feminism, deconstruction, and the sociology of knowledge, the author reveals that clotted jargon, tortured syntax, and unreadable style hides the fact that nothing new is being said. This ironic guide offers an array of ludicrous, exaggerated, self-contradicting definitions and explanations of popular intellectua
The Beer Guru's Guide: Spiritual Enlightenment for Those Who Thirst for Knowledge

ISBN: 9780285637733

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
The mystical role of beer is explored in this humorous satire that promises ecstatic bliss, immortality, wisdom, and freedom from the hangover. Readers follow a step-by-step guide that takes them on a quest for The Holy Ale, a sacred beer that flows from the Font of All Wisdom and bestows infinite knowledge, immortality, and instant enlightenment. If initiation is survived, readers meet the Beer Guru himself, the Dalai Llager, the Beer Goddess, and the Barmy Swami. Teaching how to master the art of Tantric
Merry Christmas from the Family [With CD]

ISBN: 9780292712669

63,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
There's no place like home for the holidays ...which is a good thing when you have a family like Robert Earl Keen's. As Keen tells it in this wry send-up of all those impossibly sweet, "not like our family" Christmas carols, Mom and Dad got drunk at the Christmas party, sister and brother brought their dubious significant others, the relatives' motor home blew out the Christmas lights, and a convenience store supplied all the goodies.

Merry Christmas from the Family is the companion book for Robert Earl K

Sneaking Out

ISBN: 9780292719484

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
From the endless battles of sibling rivalry to the endless worries about getting indifferent students into-- and then graduated from-- college, raising boys is the adventure of a lifetime for any mother. Prudence Mackintosh has not only survived the adventure but has also written about it with her signature wit and style. Her essays about life with sons Jack, Drew, and William have entertained the readers of Texas Monthly and other prominent magazines for nearly three decades, offering solace to similarly b
Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons

ISBN: 9780292770973

89,20 PLN (BRUTTO)

Folks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or drought or prickly pears looking for them dad-blamed ole wild cows. In fact, he's so real a fella that it's hard to believe that Ace Reid made him up.

This book brings together 139 of Ace Reid's popular "Cowpokes" cartoons, reproduced in large format to show the artistry and attention to detail that characterized Reid's work. Grouped around themes such as work, weather, bankers, and friends,

Irony and Discourse of Mod-Cloth

ISBN: 9780295969985

165,43 PLN (BRUTTO)
Over the Lip of the World

ISBN: 9780295981154

109,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
With wit, insight, and humor, Colleen McElroy tells of her journey to Madagascar for a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. Throughout, she interweaves traditional Malagasy stories.
You Are Here: A Dossier

ISBN: 9780297847786

117,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
Like the critically acclaimed Bremner, Bird and Fortune series on Channel 4, "You Are Here" picks away at the scabs of international politics with the voice and credibility of Rory and the two Johns, and appeals to an audience hungry for a mix of entertainment and information--tough facts made funny. The book lampoons the contradiction at the heart of Britain since Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997. In the fog of confusion created by New Labour, it can be difficult to discover the real truth. After a
Buster's Secret Diaries

ISBN: 9780297852162

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Buster the dog has kept a relentless journal in which he lays bear the truth of how The Man has held him back. Despite The Man's best efforts, Buster still gets into lots of scrapes, and although his sight and hearing are failing somewhat, he still enjoys going courting, especially in the springtime. For all The Man's treachery, Buster still remembers the words of someone called Robert Kennedy: "Don't get angry. Get even." And he has. And this time it's personal.
Don't Go There: 1001 Rude Things People Have Said about Places in Britain & Ireland

ISBN: 9780297853480

47,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Towns, cities, and counties all come in for some scathing criticism in this bad-tempered and thoroughly entertaining journey around the British Isles (or, as the Irish insist on calling them, the Hibernian Archipelago). Go from the nauseatingly Nordic Shetlands to the suspiciously Froggy Channel Islands, to the "heaving Sodom of the south coast" (Brighton). And it's not just the places that come in for a hammering--it's the people too More than 1,000 quotations are collated and arranged by place, taken fro
Really Rude Rhymes

ISBN: 9780007148042

41,59 PLN (BRUTTO)
A collection of wonderfully hilarious, really rude poems put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections. Really Rude Poems continues a sparkling new collection of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Children's Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, anthologist and teacher who is highly-regarded both in the trade and in sc
The Matewix

ISBN: 9780007176908

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
An unauthorised, utterly silly spoof of the Matrix, "The Matewix" is an adventure starring the ineffectual computer geek Newo. This book has all the action of the film, or more specifically it's a story of a nerd who couldn't get any action. Our hero has a rather bad speech impediment, which gets him into all sorts of twuble in a world that's not quite what it seems. "'If you take the Red pill, Newo, there is no going back. You will leave the Matewix and enter a world more real to you than you can possibly

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