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Author : Jacqui Bailey
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 962/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cracking Up by : Jacqui Bailey
Download or read book Cracking Up written by Jacqui Bailey. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how weather and water wear away rock and includes two experiments to assist in understanding how erosion works.
Author : Christopher Bollas
Release : 1995
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 436/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cracking Up by : Christopher Bollas
Download or read book Cracking Up written by Christopher Bollas. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the inner world of human experience and suggests that the rhythm of that experience, is vital to individual creativity
Author : Paul Lewis
Release : 2006-10-02
Genre : Current Events
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cracking Up by : Paul Lewis
Download or read book Cracking Up written by Paul Lewis. This book was released on 2006-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Jon Stewart, Freddy Krueger, Patch Adams, and George W. Bush have in common? As Paul Lewis shows in Cracking Up, they are all among the ranks of joke tellers who aim to do much more than simply amuse. Exploring topics that range from the sadistic mockery of Abu Ghraib prison guards to New Age platitudes about the healing power of laughter, from jokes used to ridicule the possibility of global climate change to the heartwarming performances of hospital clowns, Lewis demonstrates that over the past thirty years American humor has become increasingly purposeful and embattled. Navigating this contentious world of controversial, manipulative, and disturbing laughter, Cracking Up argues that the good news about American humor in our time—that it is delightful, relaxing, and distracting—is also the bad news. In a culture that both enjoys and quarrels about jokes, humor expresses our most nurturing and hurtful impulses, informs and misinforms us, and exposes as well as covers up the shortcomings of our leaders. Wondering what’s so funny about a culture determined to laugh at problems it prefers not to face, Lewis reveals connections between such seemingly unrelated jokers as Norman Cousins, Hannibal Lecter, Rush Limbaugh, Garry Trudeau, Jay Leno, Ronald Reagan, Beavis and Butt-Head, and Bill Clinton. The result is a surprising, alarming, and at times hilarious argument that will appeal to anyone interested in the ways humor is changing our cultural and political landscapes.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Release : 2009-02-27
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Crack-Up by : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Download or read book The Crack-Up written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book was released on 2009-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
Author : Courtney Summers
Release : 2008-12-23
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 108/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cracked Up to Be by : Courtney Summers
Download or read book Cracked Up to Be written by Courtney Summers. This book was released on 2008-12-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Courtney Summers with a brand new look and exclusive bonus material! This ebook edition of Cracked Up to Be includes updated text, an afterword from the author and a discussion guide. The high price of perfection is one 'Perfect' Parker Fadley always believed she was willing to pay until the events of a party during junior year fractures the lives of her family and friends. Something terrible has happened and only Parker knows it's her fault. If being a perfect daughter, student, friend and girlfriend couldn't keep her from making an unforgivable mistake, Parker hopes becoming a perfect mess will at least keep her loved ones from discovering the truth. But when the arrival of a curious new student and the unexpected return of an old enemy threaten her tenuous grip on control, Parker must decide just how far she'll go to keep her secret from surfacing. Also available from Courtney Summers: I'M THE GIRL, the new "brutally captivating" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller based loosely on The Epstein case.
