William Brooks Books

A hilarious joke book for kids ages 5-7, with a funny illustration for every punch line to make sure everyone gets in on the laughs. Get ready to giggle, snort, and LOL! Children love telling jokes. It's a fun way to combat boredom, improve reading skills, and develop humor. This entertaining collection of jokes goes one step further by including a picture of each and every joke to help little ones understand punch lines that use rhyming or wordplay, logic and critical thinking, and even double meanings. Be prepared to laugh out loud with knock-knock jokes, funny cartoons, and silly puns appropriate for friends and family!Funniest Illustrated Jokes for Kids! includes:- Silly jokes and illustrations: Find 58 hilarious pictures that will have kids rolling over with laughter. - Age-appropriate humor: Discover squeaky-clean punch lines and fun for the whole family. - Bonus joke writing: Practice writing jokes for cartoons and drawing original cartoons for silly one-liners.

This quirky illustrated book celebrates the urge to pet every dog we see, no matter what obstacles stand in the way.A laugh-out-loud celebration of our favorite four-legged friends, Can I Pet Your Dog? features a series of increasingly improbable illustrations that nod to the universal experience of bending-over-backwards to give a good pup a well–earned belly rub. Whether it's covering yourself in bacon grease or pole-vaulting across traffic, these bizarre scenarios all share a common end goal: Must. Pet. That. Dog. The perfect book for any and all dog lovers, this book is a lighthearted ode to good boys and girls everywhere.HILARIOUS AND RELATABLE CONTENT: Whether you're tired of people petting your dog all the time, or you're the one always doing the petting, there's something in here for everybody, whatever your reality may be!DOGS DESERVE CELEBRATION: Humanity's best friend deserves a shout out. Loyal, playful, and always there, pups everywhere keep their owner's spirits high, and for that, their praise in this book is well deserved!A GREAT GIFT: A great addition to any dog lover's coffee table, this hysterical dip-in-dip-out book makes for a thoughtful present.Perfect for:dog lovers and ownerspeople who can't resist petting other people's dogspeople who are tired of their dog being pet all the timefans of humor books and comics

This Element focuses on the combination of digital, novel, and analogue technology that was used in the album Slave to the Rhythm, and the organisational and transformational treatments of recorded material it offered, along with their associated musical cultures.

This Element aims to create a decolonized methodology-for both music performance and research-and provides a detailed account by applying stimulated recall and collaborative autoethnographic strategies to artistic and scholarly work at the intersection of ethnomusicology and practice-led- research.

An enchanting recipe collection featuring ornately decorated, bonbon-sized layer cakes The Petit Four Cookbook reinvents an 18th-century French delicacy and brings it straight to the reader's kitchen. With flavor combinations ranging from classic vanilla, chocolate ganache, and lemon butter cream to tangy apricot, raspberry preserve, and rich mocha, there is no end to the types of cakes one can make. The hottest trend in baking is tiny desserts, and these decadent morsels are the quintessential bite-size indulgence. The Petit Four Cookbook features 50 recipes from Brooks Nguyen -- teacher, baker extraordinaire, and owner of the country's premier petit four bakery, Dragonfly Cakes. Brooks uses her years of experience teaching petit four baking classes to guide readers every step of the way as they learn the techniques for baking as well as the artistry for decorating these tiny pastries. With gorgeous full-color photos, time-tested instructions, and some history to boot, this ultimate guide to petit fours is not just the first of its kind, it's the last word on the subject.

Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault’s librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros’s findings in the light of eighty years’ research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault’s steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate ?

In June 2006 delegates from eight countries representing six French, US, and British-based learned societies met at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, for a conference on the French long seventeenth century entitled ‘Modernités/Modernities’. Nineteen of the best papers on theatre, fiction and poetry were selected for this volume, and they present new perspectives on novels as different as L’Astrée and Le Roman bourgeois, comedy and tragedy, actors’ practices, the ballet de cour and the burgeoning genre of opera, and a time span from Du Bellay to Mme de Gomez. The cardinal feature of this wide range of topics lies in the unifying factor of vibrant modernity. En juin 2006 un colloque sur le thème de la modernité pendant l’âge classique a réuni à St Catherine’s College, Oxford, des spécialistes venus de huit pays pour représenter six sociétés savantes dont quatre françaises, une américaine, et une britannique. Dix-neuf communications sur le théâtre, le roman et la poésie choisies parmi les meilleures sont recueillies dans le présent volume, qui fournit de nouvelles perspectives sur des romans aussi divers que L’Astrée et Le Roman bourgeois, la comédie et la tragédie, le jeu des comédiens, le ballet de cour et le genre naissant de l’opéra, sur une période qui va de Du Bellay à Mme de Gomez. L’aspect capital de cette envergure réside dans la vitalité cohésive de la modernité.

En juillet 2011, un colloque sur les lieux de culture au XVIIe siècle a rassemblé à l’université Queen Mary de Londres des spécialistes en provenance de différents pays pour présenter les résultats de leurs recherches dans ce domaine. Les études réunies dans le présent volume se composent d’un choix des communications tenues lors de ce colloque. L’objectif est d’explorer les rapports existant entre les lieux – concret ou figuré, réel ou imaginaire – et la représentation théâtrale, le pouvoir royal, la vie religieuse, le savoir scientifique, la création artistique et littéraire au XVIIe siècle. Entrent en ligne de compte les châteaux, les couvents, les collèges, les académies, les salons, les cabinets, les foires et les rues, lieux qui deviennent dans leur ensemble les témoins de la diversité culturelle du Grand Siècle.

In June 2006 delegates from eight countries representing six French, US, and British-based learned societies met at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, for a conference on the French long seventeenth century entitled ‘Modernités/Modernities’. Twenty of the best papers on religion, ethics and history were selected for this volume, and they present new perspectives on topics as diverse as devotion and pornography, artifice and the pursuit of truth, Bruscambille and Pascal, historiography from the sixteenth century to Voltaire, and, of course, the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. En juin 2006 un colloque sur le thème de la modernité pendant l’âge classique a réuni à St Catherine’s College, Oxford des spécialistes venus de huit pays pour représenter six sociétés savantes dont quatre françaises, une américaine, et une britannique. Vingt communications choisies parmi les meilleures sont recueillies dans le présent volume, sur des sujets aussi divers que la dévotion et la pornographie, l’artifice et la recherche de la vérité, Bruscambille et Pascal, l’historiographie tant du seizième siècle que de Voltaire et, bien entendu, la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes.