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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace. In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith , which he rechristens the Nadir .
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 1822, 1828, 1830, printed 1837. Auguste Comte, Course of Positive Philosophy, 1830–1842. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835. William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded upon their History, 1840.
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969, Germany) Sheetal Agashe (born 1977, India) José de Alencar (1829–1877, Brazil) Kingsley Amis (1922–1995, United Kingdom) Martin Amis (1949–2023, United Kingdom) Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954, Brazil) Jacob M. Appel (born 1973, United States) Helena Araújo Ortiz (1934–2015, Colombia)
This is a list of important publications in computer science, organized by field. Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important: Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic. Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly. Influence – A publication which has significantly ...
644066940. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
And of course we can't forget about contestant Ken Jennings, who gave one of the most hilarious answers of all time when asked about a racy gardening tool (Clue: It starts with an "h" and ends ...
The 20 funniest comedy teams of all time. By Serge Stevens. The comedy team is a sacred show-business relationship. From the beginning of time, when Eve asked Adam if he wanted a bite to eat ...
The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library. The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900. The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays.
The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research. For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes.
Tsurezuregusa. Kenkō. Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, Essays in Idleness, also known as The Harvest of Leisure) is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Kenkō (兼好) between 1330 and 1332. The work is widely considered a gem of medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre, along with ...