Martin Gardners Favorite Poetic Parodies

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615929525
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies written by Martin Gardner and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime admirer of well crafted prose, word puzzles and clever turns of phrase, Gardner assembles his favorite examples of the lighter side of poetry. Illustrations.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486116409
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Remembered Poems written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets. Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Author : Donald Capps
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149829037X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor Us written by Donald Capps and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the fact that Americans tend to live under a considerable amount of stress, tension, and anxiety, and suggests that humor can be helpful in alleviating their distress. It posits that humor is a useful placebo in this regard; cites studies that show that humor moderates life stress; considers the relationship of religion and humor, especially as means to alleviate anxiety; proposes that Jesus had a sense of humor; suggests that his parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard has humorous implications for the relief of occupational stress; explores the relationship of gossip and humor; and suggests that Jesus and his disciples were a joking community. It concludes that Jesus viewed the kingdom of God as a worry-free existence.

Author : Donald Capps
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826418579
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time to Laugh written by Donald Capps and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the ways in which humour can be recovered for religion. This book argues that religion is diminished when it fails to understand and embrace its own historical connection. Its chapters deal with topics ranging from humour as an expression of intimacy to humour as the maintenance of the soul.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615929347
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Wandering Jew to William F Buckley Jr written by Martin Gardner and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over his several decades of writing, Gardner has accomplished so much it's hard to believe there's just one of him. ... - Publishers WeeklyFor over fifty years Martin Gardner has been writing witty, entertaining, and highly intelligent articles on an amazing range of topics. Best known for his works on popular science and mathematics, and as an incisive skeptical commentator on the paranormal, Gardner is also an accomplished writer of children's literature, a novelist, and essayist on religion and philosophy. This collection of essays and book reviews takes its name from the bookend articles, The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming and The Faith of William Buckley, which in themselves demonstrate the extent of Gardner's interests.Besides the legend of the Wandering Jew, its relation to the Second Coming, and Bill Buckley's religious convictions, Gardner also takes on the subjects of astrology, psychic surgery, word play in the stories of L. Frank Baum (author of The Wizard of Oz), and the history of a forgotten children's magazine. In addition, there are reviews of books by astronomer Carl Sagan, philosopher Paul Edwards, and science fiction writer H. G. Wells, along with commentary on mathematics, Lewis Carroll, chess, Christian Science, science fads, and more.Longtime Gardner fans and intellectually curious newcomers will welcome this entertaining and literate collection by one of America's most brilliant essayists.Martin Gardner, the creator of Scientific American's Mathematical Games column, which he wrote for more than twenty-five years, is the author of almost one hundred books, including The Annotated Ancient Mariner, Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies, From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr., and Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. For many years he was also a contributing editor to the Skeptical Inquirer.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671708399
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Night Before Christmas written by Martin Gardner and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Moore's famous yuletide poem describes how the figure of Santa Claus evolved

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169691
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undiluted Hocus-Pocus written by Martin Gardner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and science Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality and good science against mysticism and anti-intellectualism. Gardner takes readers from his childhood in Oklahoma to his varied and wide-ranging professional pursuits. He shares colorful anecdotes about the many fascinating people he met and mentored, and voices strong opinions on the subjects that matter to him most, from his love of mathematics to his uncompromising stance against pseudoscience. For Gardner, our mathematically structured universe is undiluted hocus-pocus—a marvelous enigma, in other words. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus offers a rare, intimate look at Gardner’s life and work, and the experiences that shaped both.

Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Pulps and dime novels through young adult fiction written by M. Thomas Inge and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique, abundantly illustrated set features essay-length chapters on the many forms, genres, and themes of popular culture.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.