invective

A collection of some of history's most celebrated wisecracks and humorous remarks by such names as Mark Twain, Mae West, and Groucho Marx.

Presents several scenarios in which students become the victims of name-calling, discusses the emotional impact of name-calling on victims and bullies, and introduces the SAFE program which students may use toprotect themselves against name-calling.

A collection of insults and insult jokes, including verses, sick jokes, riddles, classics, and new quips.

Draws together information from different disciplines to explore the psychological, neurological, cultural, and linguistic factors that underlie the reasons that people curse and why they choose the worlds they do when they curse.

Contains 162 flexible flip pages, each featuring words used in one of more of Shakespeare's thirty-eight plays, that may be mixed and matched to create over 100,000 insults in the style of the bard.

The author describes her childhood, during which her father abandoned her, her mother abused her, and she suffered physical and emotional pain because of her obesity, and reflects upon her love-hate relationship with food in adulthood.