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American Political Cartoons: The Evolution of a National Identity, 1754-2010, Revised Edition

From Benjamin Franklin’s drawing of the first American political cartoon in 1754 to contemporary cartoonists’ blistering attacks on George W. Bush and initial love-affair with Barack Obama, editorial cartoons have been a part of American journalism and politics. American Political Cartoons chronicles the nation’s highs and lows in an extensive collection of cartoons that span the entire history …

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Enjoyment of Laughter

Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman, in this work, avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an anthology in that selections have …

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Sweet Madness: A Study of Humor

Written for all who are interested in the mechanics of humor, Sweet Madness presents a general discussion and introduction to the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor. The operation of the implicit and the unconscious in humor; the importance of humor to human life; and the development, from childhood on, of the sense of humor are …

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Humor and Laughter: Theory, Research, and Applications

Humor and laughter play a vital part in our everyday social encounters. This book is concerned with the exploration of the psychology of humor and laughter by the foremost professional researchers in these areas. It examines the major theoretical perspectives underlying current approaches and it draws together for the first time the main empirical work done over the …

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Against the Idols of the Age

Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philo­sophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless at­tacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Dar­winian theories of human behavior, and philosophi­cal idealism. He was also an occasional essayist of considerable charm and polemical snap. Stove’s …

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The Opium of the Intellectuals

Raymond Aron’s 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of “secular religion” and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth about social and political reality-in all its mundane imperfections and tragic complexities. …

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Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice compiles many of Llewellyn’s most important writings. For his time, the thirties through the fifties, Llewellyn offered fresh approaches to the study of law and society. Although these writings might not seem innovative today, because they have become widely applied in the contemporary world, they remain a testament to his. …

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