Sobriety and Mirth 1138982113, 9781138982116

First Published in 2001. These extremely entertaining shorter pieces by the leader of Islamic literary culture aim to in

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English Pages 318 Year 2016

Sobriety and Mirth
1138982113, 9781138982116

What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed m

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The Mirth of Nations is a social and historical study of jokes told in the principal English-speaking countries. It is b

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This edition is written in English. However, there is a running German thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more

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Recovering the lyrical voice and remarkable literary life of James McCarroll, Canada's Irish-born poet and humorist

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How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration,

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Straight edge—hardcore punk’s drug-free offshoot—has thrived as a subculture since the early 1980s. Its influence has re

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Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their r

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Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a w

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What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed m

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To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,

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