Michael K. Cundall Jr. – författare

The Humor Hack is an entirely different book about using humor to lead a more engaged life. It''s a playbook filled with anecdotes, exercises, and discussion of topics that will provide readers a way to understand how humor works and how they can take this knowledge and enrich their personal and professional lives with more laughs, enjoyment, and mirth. The book''s content is based in research, but not academic in tone or format, and is accessible to the general reader. The subject matter is broken into chapters that teach people how to understand, recognize, and produce more humor in their day-to-day lives. It is written in a friendly and warm tone and avoids being nothing more than a series of stories about humor or an overly theory-laden academic book. It provides readers with a book that is enjoyable to read, informative, playful, and educational. That''s why this is best described as a playbook. The book is meant to provide a sort of text that is missing in the current books out there that profess to be humor how-tos. It takes research related to humor and discusses it in an informed yet accessible fashion.

This anthology explores the intersection of humor and laughter with various faith, religious, and mythic traditions.Each chapter covers a unique case where humor and laughter have intersected with some part of a religious, cultural, or mythic tradition and explores how and why laughter and humor are important in those stories. The contributors also explore how the role of humor and laughter shaped and influenced the various religions, cultures, or myths and what that might mean to the parent society. Each author also adds a bit of reflection on how they think their work is relevant to issues of humor in our modern world.

Through an engaging collection of readings and articles, Philosophical Introductions: Introductory Readings in Philosophy introduces students to a variety of areas within the discipline. The text features examples and content students can easily relate to, as well as a section dedicated to humor.The anthology is organized into 15 chapters that cover a range of topics, including the concepts of evil, forgiveness and apology, free will and determinism, and the justification of human rights. Students read selections from Aristotle concerning the virtue of character, virtues of thought, and the individual virtues of character. Additional chapters cover the concept of race as it applies to social culture, utilitarianism, Kantianism, humor, and more.Designed to provide students with a thought-provoking reading experience, Philosophical Introductions is an ideal foundational resource for courses in philosophy.

This anthology explores the intersection of humor and laughter with various faith, religious, and mythic traditions.Each chapter covers a unique case where humor and laughter have intersected with some part of a religious, cultural, or mythic tradition and explores how and why laughter and humor are important in those stories. The contributors also explore how the role of humor and laughter shaped and influenced the various religions, cultures, or myths and what that might mean to the parent society. Each author also adds a bit of reflection on how they think their work is relevant to issues of humor in our modern world.

This book provides a light, but detailed study of recent research into the world of laughter and humor and offers direct, applied lessons to help readers use humor effectively and ethically in a wide range of situations in daily life. Focusing on broader categories like the effectiveness of humor and laughter at work, humor in interpersonal and family communication, and ethical issues related to humor, and more, the author summarizes and presents the research in a way that helps the reader understand the broader trends and relates those trends to modern issues.

This book provides a light, but detailed study of recent research into the world of laughter and humor and offers direct, applied lessons to help readers use humor effectively and ethically in a wide range of situations in daily life. Focusing on broader categories like the effectiveness of humor and laughter at work, humor in interpersonal and family communication, and ethical issues related to humor, and more, the author summarizes and presents the research in a way that helps the reader understand the broader trends and relates those trends to modern issues.

The role of humor as helpful in our individual lives has long been touted. Satirists and comics have also been known to play important roles in our society. But what hasn't been explored is why and how humor and mirth are important to the overall health of the public. This book explores the idea of humor as a public good. A good the promotes the health and well-being of the society and its individual members. The book begins with an exploration of the notion of a public good and then argues for a particular view of what a public good is. Topics covered will include the importance of humor and mirth to an individual's happiness, the role of satire and the comic in our world, and how these two pieces together work to promote the public good. Content will be devoted to covering what humor is and how it works and why the way it works is also important to the public good. Ultimately, the argument for humor as a public good is to help grow the purview of humor studies more generally as well as provide and novel argument about the relevance and importance of humor in our public and private lives.