The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy 9780802190864, 9780802123985

Scoundrels: Political Scandals in American History 1538130793, 9781538130797

Political scandals have become an indelible feature of the American political system since the creation of the republic

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Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation 9780520957930

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yel

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Faster to the funny - topic writing prompts for stand up comedians and comedy writers

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Off the Mic: The World’s Best Stand-Up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy 9781472526113, 9781472526380

What is it to be a stand-up comedian? To be funny, solo? You have no character-role, no double-act partner, and nowhere

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Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves : The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains 9780199769940, 9780195169522

Drawing on his experience in creating fictional bad guys, crime novelist Lawrence Block surveys the underside of America

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Saints and Scoundrels in the Story of Jesus

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The History of Sketch Comedy : A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor 9781797218977, 9781797216836

"A boisterous debut ... the authors are as funny as one would expect ... this is a hoot." ―Publishers Weekly

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The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli 9780300147940

 The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, well known as the author of The Prince, wrote not onl

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

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Savages and Scoundrels: The Great Treaty at Horse Creek and the Making of America 9780300142501

What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire

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