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Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales

The Wrong Twin, Perkins of Portland, Alex the Great, On With Torchy, Love Among the Lions, etc.

by Ellis Parker Butler, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, John Kendrick Bangs, Thorne Smith, Robert Fitzgerald, Harry Leon Wilson, H. C. Witwer, F. Anstey, S. R. Crockett, Marietta Holley, Sewell Ford, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Anne Warner, Dornford Yates, Charles Heber Clark, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Finley Peter Dunne, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, F. Morton Howard, Richard Marsh, H. H. Sir Bashford, J. Storer Clouston, O. Henry, Charles Battell Loomis, E. F. Benson, Anita Loos, Wallace Irvin, Lawrence Daniel Fogg, Terry Southern, Henry Wallace Phillips, George V. Hobart, Stephen Leacock, Daisy Ashford, W. A. Darlington, Kendell Foster Crossen, Israel Zangwill, Ring Lardner, Charles Eustace Merriman, Wallace Irwin, Howard Roger Garis, W. Heath Robinson, Lucretia P. Hale, Richmal Crompton, Peter Newell ...

Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales is a vast and vibrant anthology that explores the rich tradition of humorous literature. Spanning a wide range of styles from satirical wit to slapstick humor, this collection features stories that highlight human folly and celebrate life's absurdities through laughter. This anthology skillfully brings together works from the golden age of humor ... Read more

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Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales is a vast and vibrant anthology that explores the rich tradition of humorous literature. Spanning a wide range of styles from satirical wit to slapstick humor, this collection features stories that highlight human folly and celebrate life's absurdities through laughter. This anthology skillfully brings together works from the golden age of humor
... Read more
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Stories About Animals

Classic tales from innocuous flies on the wall to murderous wolves

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Saki, Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Jack London, Ivan Turgenev, Honoré de Balzac, Bret Harte, Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield0, Guy de Maupassant1, Sarah Orne Jewett2, Anthony Hope3, H Rider Haggard4, D H Lawrence5, Charles Dudley Warner6, C J Cutcliffe Hyne7, Algernon Blackwood8, Edgar Allan Poe9 ...

Narrated by William Dufris0, Christopher Ragland1, Mark Rice-Oxley2 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 47 min

Many say that some of their greatest friends, and their greatest joys and feelings, are about animals. Rather than find those same joys and feelings from amongst friends, family and the rest of humanity it can be far easier, some say wiser, to find that from other sources. Some animals may be entirely innocent and entirely devoted to us. But we forget that in the world of wild animals survival is ... Read more

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Many say that some of their greatest friends, and their greatest joys and feelings, are about animals. Rather than find those same joys and feelings from amongst friends, family and the rest of humanity it can be far easier, some say wiser, to find that from other sources. Some animals may be entirely innocent and entirely devoted to us. But we forget that in the world of wild animals survival is
... Read more
Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture

Essays in Honor of James M. Dean

by Brian Gastle, Erick Kelemen, Mark Amsler, Craig E. Bertolet, John M. Ganim, Scott Lightsey, Kathryn McKinley, Gabrielle Parkin, Karla Taylor0, Joseph Turner1, Lawrence Warner2, Christian Zacher3, R.F. Yeager4 ...

The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those ideas manifest in later medieval English texts. Essays address, for example, affect in The Book of ... Read more

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The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those ideas manifest in later medieval English texts. Essays address, for example, affect in The Book of
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My Friend Kevin

by Eve Pollard Lawrence, Kelly Warner ...

My Friend Kevin is told from a classmates point of view about his friend with an emotional disability. The student explains some of his friends characteristics that can accompany an emotional disability, situations that may occur, and strategies that can be used in the classroom. My Friend Kevin is designed to help teachers explain emotional disabilities to students in a way that promotes ... Read more

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My Friend Kevin is told from a classmates point of view about his friend with an emotional disability. The student explains some of his friends characteristics that can accompany an emotional disability, situations that may occur, and strategies that can be used in the classroom. My Friend Kevin is designed to help teachers explain emotional disabilities to students in a way that promotes
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Chaucer's Scribes

London Textual Production, 1384–1432

by Lawrence Warner ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
The 2004 announcement that Chaucer's scribe had been discovered resulted in a paradigm shift in medieval studies. Adam Pynkhurst dominated the classroom, became a fictional character, and led to suggestions that this identification should prompt the abandonment of our understanding of the development of London English and acceptance that the clerks of the Guildhall were promoting vernacular ... Read more

$38.59 USD

The 2004 announcement that Chaucer's scribe had been discovered resulted in a paradigm shift in medieval studies. Adam Pynkhurst dominated the classroom, became a fictional character, and led to suggestions that this identification should prompt the abandonment of our understanding of the development of London English and acceptance that the clerks of the Guildhall were promoting vernacular
... Read more
The Lost History of "Piers Plowman"

The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work

by Lawrence Warner ...

Series series The Middle Ages Series
Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" ... Read more

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Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman"
... Read more
The Lost History of "Piers Plowman"

The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work

by Lawrence Warner ...

Series series The Middle Ages Series
Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman"
... Read more
Supporting the Mental Health of Children in Care

Evidence-Based Practice

by Siobain Bonfield, Lisa Robinson, Sam Warner, Christine Cork, Olatayo Afuape, Tonie Lawrence-Mahrra, Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Hannah Baron, Devinia Malcolm, Sheri Mosuro, Zoe Lander, Sidra Aslam, Lucie Shuker, Emily Wilkens ...

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.Expert contributors highlight the challenges that children face and propose innovative models of practice which have been proven to improve outcomes. The book describes the difficulties children in care commonly encounter, such as vulnerability to self-harm, substance ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.Expert contributors highlight the challenges that children face and propose innovative models of practice which have been proven to improve outcomes. The book describes the difficulties children in care commonly encounter, such as vulnerability to self-harm, substance
... Read more
The Myth of Piers Plowman

Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

by Lawrence Warner ...

Series Book 89 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf ... Read more

$38.59 USD

Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf
... Read more
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Rockydennis Presents Internet Pictures

by Richard Garlick ...

Narrated by asafeoasis2, Lawrence McLachlan ...

Unabridged

29 min

The narrated version of Rockydennis Presents Internet Pictures. We give our narrator absolutely no time to prepare as we demand that they analyze, interpret, and describe a bunch of random images - all in one go! ... Read more

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The narrated version of Rockydennis Presents Internet Pictures. We give our narrator absolutely no time to prepare as we demand that they analyze, interpret, and describe a bunch of random images - all in one go!
... Read more
Imaging the City

Continuing Struggles and New Directions

Edited by Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner Jr. ...

Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and ... Read more

$65.99 USD

Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and
... Read more

The Wife of Bath

A Biography

by Marion Turner ...

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

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From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few
... Read more

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