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The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy
This book focuses on the “dark side” of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who perform comedy, join together to contemplate the paradoxical relationship between tragedy and comedy and expose over-generalizations about comic performers’ troubled childhoods, addictions, and mental illnesses. The book is divided into two sections. First, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore comedians’ onstage performances, their offstage lives, and the relationship between the two. The second half of the book focuses on amateur and lesser-known professional comedians who reveal the struggles they face as they attempt to hone successful comedy acts and likable comic personae. The goal of this collection is to move beyond the hackneyed stereotype of the sad clown in order to reveal how stand-up comedy can transform both personal and collective tragedies by providing catharsis through humor.
The Pressuremeter and Its New Avenues
Pressuremeter testing activities are of great interest for scientists and engineers concerned with the mechanical behaviour of civil engineering materials. The proceedings include the first Menard Lecture presented by Professor Branko Ladanyi and 57 technical papers from 16 countries. They are related to the application of pressuremeter testing to granular and alluvial soils, clay, rock, concrete and permafrost, and geotechnical design. It also includes a session on technological developments in the design, fabrication and installation of pressuremeters.
Precarious Employment
'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.
French Twentieth Bibliography
This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
À propos de la vie
Quel sens donnez-vous à votre vie? Qu'est-ce qui vous rend heureux? Quels sont vos craintes et vos espoirs? Voici 20 entretiens avec des personnalités de divers horizons qui nous parlent de leur parcours, de leurs petits et grands bonheurs, du sens qu'elles donnent à leur vie, mais aussi du deuil et de la mort. Des propos d'une grande sensibilité, tantôt étonnants, tantôt émouvants, et qui appellent à la réflexion.
Water, Inc.
"Years of drought have given the United States a terrible thirst and turned water into blue gold. A powerful agrichemical magnate and corporate visionary, William Greele, puts a consortium together to pipe water down from northern Quebec. Politicians and federal security agencies ride shotgun for him at home, while in Quebec his path is cleared - and covered - by a brilliant, existentially torn deputy minister. Stealth and deception are crucial to the project's success." "But Malcolm Macpherson, a Seattle aerospace executive and conservationist, finds out about the pipeline. Appalled, he appeals to rebel-girl Claire Davidowicz, director of eco-Justice USA, to stop it. Soon they've enlisted a...
Métis Families: General index
The word métis was originally used to identify children of French Canadian and Indian parents. It is now widely used to describe any of the descendants of Indian and non-Indian parents.
