Comedy

Comedy
Author: Meghan Duffy
Publisher: Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

An essential guide and resource, providing authors, titles, and pulication data for over a thousand books and articles devoted to this most elusive of genres.

It's a Funny Thing, Humour

It's a Funny Thing, Humour
Author: Antony J. Chapman
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 148315825X

It's a Funny Thing, Humour contains the papers presented at the International Conference on Humor and Laughter, held in Cardiff in July 1976. The symposium provides a platform from which authors from different professional and personal background can talk about their own definition and analysis of humor. The book is structured into 10 main sections that reflect the structure of the conference and presents various studies and research on the nature of humor and laughter. Contributions range from theoretical discussions to practical and experimental expositions. Topics on the psychoanalytical theory of humor and laughter; the nature and analysis of jokes; cross-cultural research of humor; mirth measurement; and humor as a tool of learning are some of the topics covered in the symposium. Psychologists, sociologists, teachers, communication experts, psychiatrists, and people who are curious to know more about humor and laughter will find the book very interesting and highly amusing.

Guides to Library Collection Development

Guides to Library Collection Development
Author: John Thomas Gillespie
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1994-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Intended to enhance collection development in school, public, and college libraries, this volume lists and annotates approximately 1,500 significant bibliographies published from 1985 through 1993, with some earlier but still useful publications. Annotations indicate scope of the work, size (often the number of entries), kinds of material included, purpose, arrangement, nature of entries, indexes, special features, and a recommendation. Author, title, and subject indexes provide easy access to the entries. With its deep and comprehensive coverage, this work will help not only in the process of selecting and acquiring materials for the library but also in the process of identification of items for reference, readers' advisory, interlibrary loan, and collection evaluation.

Walford's Guide to Reference Material

Walford's Guide to Reference Material
Author: Marilyn Mullay
Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 1068
Release: 1989
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

**** The British counterpart to Sheehy (in which it is recommended--and vice versa), distributed in the US by Unipub. Volume 3 completes the 5th edition with 8,833 entries (vol. 1:Science and technology, 1989, 5,995 entries; vol.2: Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion, 1990, 7,166 entries). While the majority of items are reference books, Walford is a guide to reference material and therefore includes periodical articles, microforms, online, and CD-ROM sources. A special effort has been made to make sure the output of small and specialist presses is not neglected. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR