Author: FlowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The flowers of anecdote, wit, humour, gaiety, & genius
Author: FlowersThe Flowers of Anecdote, Wit, Humour, Gaiety and Genius. With Etchings by T. Landseer
Author: Catalogue of an Extensive Selection of Books in Various Classes of Literature, from the Stock of William Paterson, ...
Author: Catalogue of an Extensive Selection of Books in Various Classes of Literature from the Stock of William Paterson, 67 Princes Street Edinburgh
Author: William PatersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Lowering the Bar
Author: Marc GalanterPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299213541
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Secretly Inside
Author: Hans WarrenPublisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 9780299209803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The epigrammatists: a selection, with notes and an intr. by H. P. Dodd
Author: EpigrammatistsBelle Assemblée
Author: Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain
Author: Edmund LodgePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description