Asa: 124 books
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years. People experience it daily through television, newspapers, literature, and contact with others. Rarely do social researchers analyze humor or try to determine what makes it such a dominating force in our lives. The types...
Larry's Kidney
Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
“One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I’ve read.”
—Boston Globe
Larry’s Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose’s wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order...
Instrument Procedures Handbook
ASA FAA-H-8083-16B
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The Instrument Procedures Handbook is a technical reference manual for professional pilots who operate under instrument flight rules (IFR). It provides real-world guidance on how instrument-rated pilots can best use the system they've trained for, as well as in-depth coverage of instrument charts...
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Understand Thailand’s important symbols, icons, and social practices
Thailand’s culture is unlike any other. Travelers attempting to fully immerse themselves in all that this tourist destination has to offer find it essential to become culturally sensitive. Thailand Tourism provides readers...
Herbal Remedies
A Quick and Easy Guide to Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2001
An essential reference to herbal remedies for the most common ailments.
Sharing twenty-five years of clinical expertise, Dr. Asa Hershoff has written a highly accessible and useful guide to hundreds of herbs and their uses for specific conditions. The book's unique format helps readers quickly...
Deconstructing Travel
Cultural Perspectives on Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2004
As a visible marker of globalization, the increased role of travel and tourism in our lives makes it a remarkable force in contemporary culture. Deconstructing Travel provides an easily understood framework of the relationship between travel and culture in our rapidly changing postmodern, postcolonial...
Victorian People
A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin...
by Jonathan Andrews, Asa Briggs, Roy Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an...
Ocean Travel and Cruising
A Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A one-of-a-kind analysis of ocean cruising!
In Ocean Travel and Cruising: A Cultural Analysis, noted author Arthur Asa Berger turns his critical eye to the phenomenon of ocean cruising. This academically solid yet reader-friendly book brings a multidisciplinary cultural studies approach to...
American icons. Viaggio tra i luoghi più significativi della cultura americana
Viaggio tra i luoghi più significativi della cultura americana
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Da Coney Island a Las Vegas, dal World Trade Center al Grand Canyon, Arthur Asa Berger (uno dei più importanti intellettuali e studioso dei media, della cultura pop, dello humor e del turismo degli ultimi decenni) guarda ai luoghi-icona della cultura americana. Un testo godibile e accessibile in...
Messages
An Introduction to Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This brief introductory textbook to the field of communication offers the advantages of Arthur Asa Berger’s informal writing style and flair for popular culture examples aimed to engage students. Designed for the basic course in communication departments, Berger introduces the key theorists who...
by Dr. Asa Don Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Dr. Asa Don Browns insightful message of unconditional love will transpire your way of thinking. Dr. Brown reveals a profound way of looking at life, forgiveness, and happiness. He explores with the reader the concepts of love and forgiveness. He has a poignant way of evoking the internal and spiritual...
What Objects Mean
An Introduction to Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts in communication, popular culture, and social theory, is back with the second edition of his popular, user-friendly guide for students who want to understand the social meanings of objects. In this broadly interdisciplinary text, Berger takes the reader...
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Just as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific aspects of humor be unique. Playwrights, television writers, novelists, cartoonists, and film scriptwriters use many special technical devices to create humor. Just as dramatic writers...