Download Martin Gardners Favorite Poetic Parodies full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Martin Gardners Favorite Poetic Parodies ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Martin Gardner |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2010-10-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1615929525 |
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 | : Donald Capps |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2016-10-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 149829037X |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2006-03-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780826418579 |
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.
| Author | : Martin Gardner |
| Publisher | : Pocket Books |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780671708399 |
A history of Moore's famous yuletide poem describes how the figure of Santa Claus evolved
| Author | : Martin Gardner |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2010-10-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1615926860 |
Here is Martin Gardner''s first collection of short stories. Culled from fiction written over the years for such magazines as Esquire and the London Mystery Magazine, The No-Sided Professor is proof that Gardner''s expertise does not stop at his scientific and mathematical works. Only Gardner can infuse short stories with the same masterful charm, wit, and philosophical brio that have brought him legions of fans through his mathematical-puzzle books and investigations into science and pseudoscience. Gardner introduces us to the "No-Sided Professor," Dr. Stanislaw Slapenarski, who by means of a kind of mathematical yoga blips himself and his nemesis into another dimension. In "At the Feet of Karl Klodhopper," Gardner tells an engrossing story of lust and murder in the art world. These and other stories reveal Gardner''s astonishingly wide range of intellectual insight and cultural acumen. The No-Sided Professor is full of tales of fantasy, humor, the bohemian life, topological wizardry, and mystery. All are stamped with the unmistakable seal of a master storyteller.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Martin Gardner |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2012-06-19 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0486116409 |
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 | : Martin Gardner |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2010-06-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1615929347 |
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 | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2015-11-03 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0691169691 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 760 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
This unique, abundantly illustrated set features essay-length chapters on the many forms, genres, and themes of popular culture.
