(Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before: and Other Essays on Writing Fiction 9781595349774, 9781595349767

Stop me if you've heard this: a history and philosophy of jokes [First edition] 9780393069440, 9780871407207, 0393069443

From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, fil

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The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing 9780520954823

In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understan

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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? 9780063227934, 9780063227958

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Me and My Cell Phone. and Other Essays on Technology in Everyday Life 9956727148, 9789956727148

Cell phones and the Internet have been the recipients of in-depth research on their increased and rapid integration into

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This Strange Visible Air: Essays on Aging and the Writing Life 9781988298979

A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala "What I didn't have a clue abou

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The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing 9780520275249, 9780520275263, 9780520954823, 2012030150

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This Is Me 9780241454312

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On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition 9783110319774, 9783110319293

On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider progra

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Subtexts - Essays on Fiction 8073085909, 9788073085902

In reply to art critic Robert Hughes’s famous question, “What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1

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Show Me your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems

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