1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454529003321

Titolo

The primer of humor research [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Victor Raskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

1-283-39656-4

9786613396563

3-11-019849-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (678 p.)

Collana

Humor research, , 1861-4116 ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

RaskinVictor <1944->

Disciplina

809.7

Soggetti

Wit and humor - History and criticism

Literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Theory of humor and practice of humor research: Editor's notes and thoughts -- Psychology of humor -- A primer for the linguistics of humor -- Undertaking the comparative study of humor -- Humor in anthropology and folklore -- Philosophy and religion -- Literature and humor -- Humor and popular culture -- Historical views of humor -- Computational humor: Beyond the pun? -- The sociology of humor -- Beyond "Wit and Persuasion": Rhetoric, composition, and humor studies -- Applications of humor: Health, the workplace, and education -- Humor and health -- Humor in literature -- Communication and humor -- Verbally expressed humor and translation -- Cartoons: Drawn jokes? -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize



the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910169193403321

Autore

Guery d'Alain

Titolo

Montchrestien et Cantillon : le commerce et l'émergence d'une pensée économique / / sous la direction d'Alain Guery ; avec les contributions de Jean Andreau [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ENS Éditions, 2011

Lyon, [France] : , : Icon Books, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

2-84788-623-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.)

Collana

Gouvernement en Question(s)

Disciplina

330.153

Soggetti

Economics - France - History - 17th century

Economics - France - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Avant-propos; Introduction - De Montchrestien à Cantillon : de l'économie politique à l'analyse économique; Avant-scène; De la



tragédie au théâtre de la vie civile : Montchrestien; Les allusions à l'Antiquité dans le Traité de Montchrestien; Possibles dialogues; Le Traicté de l'oeconomie politique est-il un anti-Machiavel ? Note philologique,historiographique et critique; Montesquieu et Cantillon; Civilisations de l'entrepreneur; Entrepreneur et entreprise chez Montchrestien et Cantillon; L'entrepreneur, l'entreprise et l'ordre social. Cantillon, Montchrestien et la Chine médiévale

Savoirs démographiques et spatiauxConnaître le nombre des hommes chez Montchrestien et Cantillon. Le dénombrement, l'arithmétique politique et les principes du peuplement; Les territoires de l'économie. Lectures croisées de Montchrestien et Cantillon; Richesse métallique et circulations monétaires; L'orfèvrerie et la monnaie aux XVIIIe siècle. Quelques observations autour d'une relation étrange; Le statut de la monnaie dans le Traité de Montchrestien et dans l'Essai de Cantillon; Puissance économique et grandeur politique; Souveraineté et économie selon Montchrestien et Cantillon

L'honneur et le profit. Économie du pouvoir et économie de la richesse chez MontchrestienBibliographie; Les auteurs; Table

Sommario/riassunto

Comment est apparue la catégorie de pensée des phénomènes sociaux que nous englobons aujourd’hui sous le terme d’économie, mot désignant autrefois un ordre de la vie domestique ? Une question de cette importance, pourtant négligée, trouve une réponse dans les écrits sur le commerce qui privilégient la mise en rapport des échanges avec la production plutôt que la résolution de questions pratiques. Deux ouvrages émergent de ce point de vue : le Traicté de l’oeconomie politique (1615) d’Antoine de Montchrestien et l’Essai sur la nature du commerce en général (1755) de Richard Cantillon.  Les historiens, économistes et philosophes réunis ici, spécialistes de diverses périodes et sociétés, ont posé aux deux ouvrages fondateurs les mêmes questions sur leurs appareils de référence et sur leurs éventuelles connivences intellectuelles. Montchrestien en sort réhabilité ; Cantillon démontre sa pertinence. Demeure alors le long débat qu’ils inaugurent pour classer ou non le savoir nouveau dans l’ordre du politique ou en dehors de lui.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778590003321

Autore

Witten I. H (Ian H.)

Titolo

How to build a digital library [[electronic resource] /] / Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, and David M. Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, MA, : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2009

ISBN

1-282-32909-X

9786612329098

0-08-089039-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (655 p.)

Collana

The Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems

Altri autori (Persone)

BainbridgeDavid <1969->

NicholsDavid M

Disciplina

025.00285

Soggetti

Digital libraries

Digital libraries - Collection development - Computer programs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Half title page; How to Build a Digital Library; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Preface; The Greenstone Software; Updated and Revised Content; How the Book Is Organized; What the Book Covers; About the Web Site; Acknowledgments; Part I Principles and Practices; Chapter 1 Orientation; Example One: Supporting Human Development; Example Two: Pushing on the Frontiers of Science; Example Three: Preserving a Traditional Culture; Example Four: Exploring Popular Music; The scope of digital libraries; 1.1 Libraries and Digital Libraries; 1.2 The Changing Face of Libraries

In the beginningThe information explosion; The Alexandrian principle; Early technodreams; The library catalog; The changing nature of books; 1.3 Searching for Sophocles; 1.4 Digital Libraries in Developing Countries; Disseminating humanitarian information; Disaster relief; Preserving indigenous culture; Locally produced information; The technological infrastructure; 1.5 The Pen Is Mighty: Wield It Wisely; Copyright law; The public domain; Relinquishing copyright; Digital rights management; Copyright and digitization; Collecting from the Web; Illegal and harmful material; Cultural sensitivity

1.6 Planning a Digital Library1.7 Implementing a Digital Library: The



Greenstone Software; 1.8 Notes and Sources; Chapter 2 People in digital libraries; 2.1 Roles; Global users; Roles of librarians; Change; 2.2 Identity; Anonymous use; Authenticated use; Recording usage data; 2.3 Help and User Support Services; 2.4 Working with Digital Collections; Using information from digital libraries; Referring to objects in a digital library; Berry-picking; 2.5 User Contributions; Annotations; Keywords; Ratings; Corrections; New documents; Partial and fluid documents; 2.6 Notes and Sources

Chapter 3 PresentationFrom People to Presentation; 3.1 Presenting Textual Documents; Documents, chapters, sections; Unstructured text documents; Page images; Images with text; Realistic books; 3.2 Presenting Multimedia Documents; Sound and pictures; Video; Music; 3.3 Document Surrogates; Metadata; Multimedia surrogates; 3.4 Searching; Types of queries; Case-folding and stemming; Phrase searching; Query interfaces; Searching multimedia; Searching music; Searching images; 3.5 Metadata Browsing; Lists; Dates; Hierarchies; Facets; 3.6 Putting It All Together; An institutional repository

3.7 Notes and SourcesChapter 4 Textual documents; 4.1 Representing Textual Documents; ASCII; Unicode; Plain text; Indexing; Word segmentation; 4.2 Textual Images; Scanning; Optical character recognition; Acquisition, cleanup, and page analysis; Recognition; Checking and saving; Page handling; Planning an image digitization project; Inside an OCR shop; An example project; 4.3 Web Documents: HTML and XML; Markup and stylesheet languages; Basic HTML; Using HTML in a digital library; Basic XML; Parsing XML; Using XML in a digital library; 4.4 Presenting Web Documents: CSS and XSL; CSS

Cascading style sheets

Sommario/riassunto

How to Build a Digital Library is the only book that offers all the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. It is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries.The Second Edition of reflect new developments in the field as well as in the Greenstone Digital Library open source software.  The authors have based their revisions not only on their own research but also on user feedback over the years s