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UNINA9910464247003321 |
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Emanuel Lynn <1949-> |
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Noose and hook / / Lynn Emanuel |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (73 p.) |
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American poetry - 21st century |
American poetry |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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UNINA9910465574503321 |
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Hurley Matthew M. <1977-> |
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Inside jokes [[electronic resource] ] : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2011 |
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1-299-28430-2 |
0-262-30355-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 p.) |
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DennettD. C (Daniel Clement) |
AdamsReginald B |
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Laughter - Psychological aspects |
Laughter - Philosophy |
Wit and humor - Psychological aspects |
Wit and humor - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index. |
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What is humor for? -- The phenomenology of humor -- A brief history of humor theories -- Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor -- Emotion and computation -- A mind that can sustain humor -- Humor and mirth -- Higher order humor -- Objections considered -- The penumbra : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor -- But why do we laugh? -- The punch line. |
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Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near- |
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misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor. |
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UNINA9910791745003321 |
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Maritime law [[electronic resource] ] : issues, challenges and implications / / Jack W. Harris, editor |
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[Hauppauge, N.Y.], : Nova Science Publishers, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Maritime law |
Law of the sea |
Marine pollution - Law and legislation |
Maritime law - United States |
Law of the sea - United States |
Marine pollution - Law and legislation - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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International approaches to underwater cultural heritage / Mark Staniforth, James Hunter, Emily Jateff -- Things, Inc.: a case for in situ application / Jerome Lynn Hall -- Innovative tools for preventing marine pollution from ships / Griselda Capaldo -- Coast Guard : administrative law judge program contains elements designed to foster judge's independence and mariner protections assessed are being followed / U.S. Government Accountability Office -- Reauthorization of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) : opportunity to reexamine the congressionally mandated antitrust exemption for ocean liner carriers? / John Frittelli -- Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act of 2009 / John D. Rockefeller -- Framework agreement on integrated cross-border maritime law enforcement operations between the government of the |
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United States of America and the government of Canada / Preamble -- Ocean Dumping Act : a summary of the law / Claudia Copeland -- America's advocate for the maritime industry : maritime administration policy paper / Maritime Administration -- Cruise ship pollution : background, laws and regulations, and key issues / Claudia Copeland. |
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