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The New York City Bartender's Joke Book
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99Jimmy Pritchard has been collecting jokes from diverse individuals during his career tending bars in New York. This collection includes more than 400 jokes that are sure to have anybody laughing. more...
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young... more...
More Grandmothers Are Like Snowflakes...No Two Are Alike
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 11.95No one gives comfort, love, and laughter like a grandma can! ?Your grandma and your dog will always love you no matter what you do,? says Matthew, age ten. From the mouths of babes and grandmas comes this irresistible sequel to the beloved Grandmothers Are Like Snowflakes . Here is an all-new treasury of wise, witty, and wonderful sayings and... more...
Laughter
The Floating Press 1914; US$ 5.95What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry- andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy? What method of distillation will yield us invariably the same essence from which so many different products borrow either their... more...
Expressive Voice Culture
The Floating Press 1900; US$ 6.95The Emerson System treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling. This treatise is a setting forth of methods and principles based upon this idea with a fuller elaboration of the relation of technique to expression. By concentration... more...
The Americanization of Edward Bok
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 5.95The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know what persons were saying; his education extremely limited, practically negligible; and yet, by some curious decree of fate, he was destined... more...
We've Got it Made in America
Center Street 2009; US$ 10.99The host of the Travel Channel's "John Ratzenberger's Made in America" presents a collection of thought-provoking essays on what makes America the great nation that it is today. more...
How to Write a Play
The Floating Press 1916; US$ 6.99An education is likely to take the dramatist a great deal of time - unless he is so fortunate as to be a genius. Perhaps the main difference between the play-writing genius and the rest of us is that he can associate but briefly with audiences and know it all, whereas we must spend our lives at it and know but little. I have never happened to hear... more...
The Philosophy of Style
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 6.99Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent social theorist of the Victorian era. In his work The Philosophy of Style he argues that written language should be as easy to understand as possible, allowing for the most effective and efficient possible communication. His suggestions for sentence structure supported ideas on formalist rhetoric. more...
Short Story Writing
The Floating Press 1900; US$ 6.99This book is an attempt to put into definite form the principles observed by the masters of the short story in the practice of their art. It is the result of a careful study of their work, of some indifferent attempts to imitate them, and of the critical examination of several thousands of short stories written by amateurs. It is designed to be of... more...









