1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464247003321

Autore

Emanuel Lynn <1949->

Titolo

Noose and hook / / Lynn Emanuel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8229-9065-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (73 p.)

Collana

Pitt Poetry Series

Disciplina

811.608

Soggetti

American poetry - 21st century

American poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465574503321

Autore

Hurley Matthew M. <1977->

Titolo

Inside jokes [[electronic resource] ] : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2011

ISBN

1-299-28430-2

0-262-30355-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DennettD. C (Daniel Clement)

AdamsReginald B

Disciplina

152.4/3

Soggetti

Laughter - Psychological aspects

Laughter - Philosophy

Wit and humor - Psychological aspects

Wit and humor - Philosophy

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 (p. [305]-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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-



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.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791745003321

Titolo

Maritime law [[electronic resource] ] : issues, challenges and implications / / Jack W. Harris, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Hauppauge, N.Y.], : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

ISBN

1-61728-342-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Laws and legislation

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisJack W

Disciplina

343.09/6

Soggetti

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

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

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



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.