Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor


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640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.




Asimov Laughs Again


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Here are more than 700 of Isaac Asimov's favorite jokes, cleverest limericks and funniest stories.




Asimov on Numbers


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The Sense of Humor


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A Treasury of Humor


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"A Treasury of Humor" is a sequel to the best-selling "An Encyclopedia of Humor" (now in its fifth printing in two years). There are almost 200 categories of topics in this fun treasury of new material, arranged alphabetically from "Advertising" and "Atheists" to "Weddings" and "Wisdom." It features everything from bumper stickers and one-liners to full-page stories. Accompanying the book is a CD-ROM" use it for fast searches or to copy and paste into a manuscript. The material is all family-rated content and is acceptable for both youngsters and adults. This is a valuable resource for pastors, speakers, and writers as well as a source of fun for families. The CD-ROM contains over 2,000 stories, jokes, and one-liners that can be searched or browsed by topic or title. It also provides a handy way to copy and paste content into other documents such as sermons, or lesson plans. "CD-ROM requires Windows 98, 95, NT, or later, 16 MB RAM, minimum 7MB hard disk space, CD-ROM drive."







Mark Twain's Library of Humor


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"Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section." -The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888) Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays and those of other popular contemporary writers, such as Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1888 edition of Mark Twain's Library of Humor, with the authentic illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is an entertaining and humorous book for book lovers and Mark Twain aficionados.




A Feast Of Laughter


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Ha, Ha And Aha


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First published in 1987. What distinguishes people from other animals is said to be people's ability to laugh. Much of the literature treats humor as a normal but pathological phenomenon. This volume first describes a theory which not only views humor as nonpathological, but as contributing to the evolution of social interest. It then describes the structure of the joke and proceeds to elaborate the forms and goals humor takes in psychotherapy.