Elliott: 1354 books

Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contemporary approaches to its study and addressing controversial topics with new empirical data and insights.   A folklorist drawn to the study...

Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions develop? In this groundbreaking study and translation, noted humor and folklore scholar Elliott Oring introduces us to the joke collections...

Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes. Yet the nature of jokes has proved elusive. When asked what they really mean, people tend to laugh off the question, dismissing jokes as meaningless or too obvious to require explanation. Of those who have seriously sought to understand humor, most have...

Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the ?special? sciences. This drama has centered on evolutionary theory, and in the second edition of this textbook, Elliott Sober...

Peter Gord is a simple man with simple tastes. He loves cooking and baking, window shopping for bakeware and kitchen appliances and checking out the latest cookbooks. Unemployed Peter enjoys these things in between doing the housework. And Peter's greatest pleasure is fantasizing about murdering his...

  Final Harvest is a riveting dark tale of an old man's desperate wish to be re-united with his deceased family. In a pact with the ancient tree on his land, the old man is assured his reward will be his wish of reunion. But how many innocent victims must suffer for  him to achieve his promise to...

"David's eyes widened at the sight of the head. The skin was mottled with greenish grey patches of decay, The white wispy hair was matted with dried blood." When teenager David decided he must own the Sharpshooter game at any price he could not have known that his violent...

Revised Edition includes bonus preview of Mr Westacott's Holiday. After being a widower for nearly six years Mr Westacott receives a Christmas card from his dead wife. How can that be possible? Christmas has always been a lonely time  of year, so Mr Westacott devises a plan-a dark plan to put that right. Slowly he starts preparations, one chilling step at a time.  

SPECIAL PROMO PRICE 99c WILL BE $4.99 AFTER NOV 1st 2016! Welcome to the Dark Realm. A delicious realm of darkness where the residents trade in the mundane for choice cuts of fear and dread. This collection of meaty tidbits will have you screaming for more. Included in this collection are such...

Imagine a world of the future where slugs and snails are considered gourmet food where anything that moves could prevent you from starvation. Gareth and Margaret are an upper class couple dining at a run down restaurant looking for anything vaguely edible. It seems they will only have rodent to eat...until...

Duel for honor or sue for damages? Lynch the accused or drag him off to face the Law? Marry the cousin you don't love or find your own way in the world? These are the dilemmas faced as the Old South gives way to modernity at the turn of the 20th century in this novella and six short stories by the once...

Providing a model of how to 'do' biblical theology, this book also explores important emerging trends over the last five years including: reception-history as a means to grasping the theology of the bible; theological interpretation as a new form of lectio divina (meditative reading); the place of...

Becoming a grandmother is a wonderful thing if you are ready for it and even if you are not ready to be bestowed with the title. As a grandmother I found out that the job is harder than I imaged. The little people are challenging, competitive and the adult children are more troublesome now than when...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 led Japan, and many other countries, to change their energy policies. David Elliott reviews the disaster and its global implications, asking whether, despite continued backing by some governments, the growing opposition to nuclear power means the end of the global nuclear renaissance.