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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Science askew Science askew Donald M Simanek,John. Holden,Donald E. Simanek Copiously illustrated throughout with many fine drawings by John C. Holden, Science Askew: A Light-Hearted Look at the Scientific World is a refreshing antidote to the daily grind. From continental d… OL12304320W
Jokes Jokes Herbert S. Strean In the tradition of Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Herbert Strean has presented an incisive examination of jokes as a form of emotional communication of our deepest anxieties an… OL1873811W
Disturbing the universe Disturbing the universe Freeman J. Dyson Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell Univ… OL2007224W
Komt een Griek bij de dokter Komt een Griek bij de dokter Patrick De Rynck,Mark Pieters Bloemlezing van vertaalde antieke teksten over humor in de klassieke oudheid.. OL24749760W
The Devil's Dictionary The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title T… OL7973273W