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The colossal book of short puzzles and problems : combinatorics, probability, algebra, geometry, topology, chess, logic, cryptarithms, wordplay, physics and other topics of recreational mathematics 1st ed.
Published: Norton, 2006Table of contents -Description: xiv, 494 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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The spirit of Montmartre : cabarets, humor, and the avant-garde, 1875-1905
Published: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1996Contents: “…From Rabelais to the Avant-Garde : wordplays and parody in the Wall-Journal Le Mur /…”Description: vii, 249 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
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The Face of Nature : Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses""
Published: Princeton University Press, 2014Contents: “…Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Introduction; CHAPTER 1; Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation; Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea; Indecorous and Transformative Puns; Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun; Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard; Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha); Littera scripta manet-Or Does It? …”Description: 1 online resource (252 pages).
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Old faithful : 18 writers present their favorite writing assignments
Published: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1995Contents: “…Storytelling -- Autobiography and memoir -- Fiction -- Poetry -- Playwriting -- Wordplay -- Oral history.…”Description: 143 pages ; 23 cm.
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The mother tongue : English & how it got that way
Published: Avon Books, 1991Contents: “…The world's language -- The dawn of language -- Global language -- The first thousand years -- Where words come from -- Pronunciation -- Varieties of English -- Spelling -- Good English and bad -- Order out of chaos -- Old world, new world -- English as a world language -- Names -- Swearing -- Wordplay -- The future of English.…”Description: 270 pages ; 21 cm.
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When i grow up Unabridged.
Published: HarperAudio, 2011Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file) : digital.
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Renaissance figures of speech
Published: Cambridge University Press, 2007Contents: “…Synonymia: or, in other words / Sylvia Adamson -- Compar or parison: measure for measure / Russ McDonald -- Periodos: squaring the circle / Janel Mueller -- Puns: serious wordplay / Sophie Read -- Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure / Gavin Alexander -- Ekphrasis: painting in words / Claire Preston -- Hysteron proteron: or the preposterous / Patricia Parker -- Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues / Quentin Skinner -- Syncrisis: the figure of contestation / Ian Donaldson -- Testimony: the artless proof / R.W. …”Description: xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Alice's adventures in wonderland (diversion illustrated classics)
Published: Diversion Books, 2015Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource.
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The curse of lono Unabridged.
Published: Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC, 2014Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource (5 audio files) : digital.
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Research on young children's humor : theoretical and practical implications for early childhood education
Published: Springer, 2019Contents: “…Cartoons as an educational tool to fight disability stereotypes; Eleni Loizou and Simoni Symeonidou -- 10: Linguistic Gymnastics: Humor and Wordplay in Childrens and Adolescent Literature; Lisa Maxwell Arter -- SECTION 3: Other perspectives and Contexts -- 11. …”Description: 1 online resource.
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Weird and witty tales of mystery
Published: Duke Classics, 2012Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource.
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A butt of heads Unabridged.
Published: Bowman Press, 2019Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource (7 audio files) : digital.
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Noodles, nitwits, and numskulls
Published: World Pub. Co., 1961Contents: “…A riddle is a wonderful thing -- The riddle of the sphinx -- Seven sons -- The full moon -- Outriddling the princess -- The blind men and the elephant -- The house without eyes or ears -- With and without -- As many as-- -- Transportation problem -- Wordplay riddles.…”Description: 96 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Poe-tree
Published: Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2006Alexander Street - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource (13 min.).
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The accidental
Published: [publisher not identified], 2007Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource.
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Shakespeare beyond the green world : drama and ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain
Published: Oxford University Press, 2023Oxford Scholarship online - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource.
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The book of not entirely useful advice
Published: [publisher not identified], 2021Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource.
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A place for zero
Published: [publisher not identified], 2020Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource.
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Skippyjon jones, lost in spice Unabridged.
Published: Recorded Books Inc., 2015Overdrive - Click here for access.Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file) : digital.
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