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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy seeks to recover the sensation of being present and embodied....
6) Tickled pink
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Tiffany challenges her to a laugh-off, Pinkalicious is determined to come up with the all-time funniest joke.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Young Henry Hyena loves to join his fellow hyenas in poking fun at animals at the zoo. But the jokes aren't making Henry laugh anymore, [and] with the help of a wise old giraffe, Henry gets his laugh back in an unexpected way"--
12) Mr. Funny
Author
Series
Mr. Men series volume 18
Language
English
Description
Comical Mr. Funny, who makes everybody laugh, finds that his talent comes in handy in cheering up the sick animals at the zoo.
Author
Language
English
Description
The power of laughter triumphs over illness in Norman Cousins's bestselling classic memoir that revolutionized medicine. Norman Cousins's iconic firsthand account of victory against terminal disease, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient, inspired a revolution, encouraging patients to take charge of their own treatment. A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the...
Author
Series
Pinkalicious (8x8) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Tiffany challenges her to a laugh-off, Pinkalicious is determined to come up with the all-time funniest joke.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When E. B. White said "analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog, few people are interested and the frog dies," he hadn't seen Al Gini's hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot understand or avoid. Not everyone tells jokes. Not everyone...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Where is the fun in life? How do we find it? What does it look like? With her signature hope and humor, New York Times bestselling author Annie F. Downs invites you to join her for 100 ways to chase the fun available to you, and experience God's goodnessalong the way"--
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