American Highlights presents a window on the United States, capturing its feel and flavor as well as the overall shape of its history. Through over 80 works of art and lively short text pieces in both English and Spanish, the book covers daily life and popular culture, including baseball, P. T. Barnum's circus, Hollywood, and television, in addition to broad themes such as immigration and industrial change.

Placing failed humor within the broader category of miscommunication and drawing on a range of conversational data, this text represents the first comprehensive study of failed humor. It provides a framework for classifying the types of failure that can occur, examines the strategies used by both speakers and hearers to avoid and manage failure, and highlights the crucial role humor plays in social identity and relationship management.

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The complexities of electricity are addressed by "standup scientist" Bill Nye in this episode of his celebrated series. Through the use of clever, but very silly, graphics, music videos from his Sounds of Science, and guest scientists, Nye keeps the pace quick, and the discussion lively. He traces electricity down to electrons, and from there to the atoms that are the building blocks of everything. One of the highlights of the show is the performance of "AC/DC Charge," a parody of Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart."

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