Braude S Treasury Of Wit & Humour


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All Of Us Have Had The Experience Of Trying Desperately To Reach Back Into The Recesses Of Our Memory For Some Story Or Anecdote To Illustrate A Given Point And Too Often That Memory Has Failed Us. It Contains Hundreds Of Anecdotes, Jokes And Stories That Can Be Used Over And Over Again To Help You Scintillate Your Daily Conversation. They Comprise Some Of The Best Of Thousands Of Items Collected By The Author During The Course Of Fifty Years Of Reading, Clipping And Filing.




Braude's Treasury of Wit and Humor for All Occasions


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Offers more than one thousand jokes, stories, quotations, and anecdotes on a variety of alphabetically arranged topics.




Braude's Treasury of Wit and Humor


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Over 1,000 jokes, quotations, anecdotes, and funny definitions that really hit the mark. With such a wide selection to choose from, and with Braude's detailed Index to guide you, it's a snap to find the right joke for the right audience ...







Political Humour


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The Doctor's Book of Humorous Quotations


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This entertaining book presents hundreds of humorous jokes, quotations, and one-liners compiled from a variety of sources (medical literature, books, magazines, the internet, movies, television, remarks made at conferences or rounds, lectures, comic routines). The text is organized alphabetically allowing readers to browse through the book randomly, or focus on particular topics of interest. Sample subject headings include Academia, Aphorisms, Atrophy, Bedside Manner, Beepers, Case Reports, Chicken Soup, Dieting, Epitaphs, Fatigue, Health Food, Insanity, Jogging, Lab Tests, Lawyers, Middle Age, Motherhood, Night Calls, Obesity, Phobias, Quacks, Retirement, Snoring, Teenagers, Turfing, Ulcers, Vacations, Wellness, Zoonoses. There is cross-referencing throughout the book for easy location of additional topics of interest. Offers nuggets of wisdom within humorous one-liners Provides a quick laugh or pick-me-up at the end of a busy day Helps promote better communication among colleagues, students, and patients Material in this book can be used during lectures and hospital rounds, conferences, with office staff, and by speakers who need funny lines to spice up their presentations to medical professionals




Power Speak


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What is the secret to being a captivating and credible speaker? Never be boring! If you are boring, people will not listen. The central message and focus of PowerSpeak is the importance of engaging, stimulating, and maintaining an audience's attention. This book focuses on the elements of speaking effectively from a design and a delivery perspective. Dorothy Leeds isolates these essential elements to assure that any speaker can gain and keep the audience's attention. She focuses on the trouble spots of any presentation and the six major faults speakers make. This book also includes tips on the following: Breaking the fear barrier. Ten steps that guarantee a complete presentation. How to avoid weak, passive language and make humor your ally. Voice and speech exercises. How to handle the Q & A portion of a presentation. How to develop your own style and project positive body language. How to incorporate (or not incorporate) new technology into presentations.




Adult Catalog: Subjects


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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes


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From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.