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UNINA9910452350003321 |
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Miller Stephen |
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Conversation : A History of a Declining Art / / Stephen Miller |
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New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008] |
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1-281-72237-5 |
9786611722371 |
0-300-13018-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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Conversation analysis |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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 (p. [315]-328) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Conversation and Its Discontents -- II. Ancient Conversation: From the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium -- III. Three Factors Affecting Conversation: Religion, Commerce,Women -- IV. The Age of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Britain -- V. Samuel Johnson: A Conversational Triumph; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Conversation Lost -- VI. Conversation in Decline: From Raillery to Reverie -- VII. Conversation in America: From Benjamin Franklin to Dale Carnegie -- VIII. Modern Enemies of Conversation: From Countercultural Theorists to "White Negroes" -- IX. The Ways We Don't Converse Now -- X. The End of Conversation? -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index |
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Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline.Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, |
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Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in "The Age of Conversation" and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation. |
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UNINA9910300412703321 |
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Autore |
Bittencourt Neto Olavo de Oliviera |
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Defining the Limits of Outer Space for Regulatory Purposes / / by Olavo de Oliviera Bittencourt Neto |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (121 p.) |
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SpringerBriefs in Space Development, , 2191-8171 |
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Law of the sea |
International law |
Aerospace engineering |
Astronautics |
Environmental law |
Environmental policy |
Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space |
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics |
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Introduction -- Air Space and Outer Space -- The Delimitation in Discussion -- Proposals -- The "Protozone"/"Mesospace" Situation -- National Legislation and Comparative Law -- Towards a Compromise. |
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- Final Remarks -- Bibliography. |
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With different countries ascribing to different theories of air space and outer space law, Dr. Bittencourt Neto proposes in this Brief a reassessment of the international law related to the extension of state territories vertically. Taking into consideration the vast number of proposals offered by scholars and diplomatic delegations on this subject matter, as well as the principles of comparative law, a compromise to allow for peaceful development is the only way forward. The author argues for setting the delimitation of the frontier between air space and outer space at 100 km above mean sea level through an international treaty. This would also regulate passage rights for space objects during launchings and reentries, as long as those space activities are peaceful, conducted in accordance with international Law and respecting the sovereign interests of the territorial State. Continuing expansion of the commercial space industry and conflicting national laws require a stable and fair legal framework best adjudicated by the United Nations, instead of allowing a patchwork system to persist. The proper framework for developing such regulation is carefully discussed from all angles with a practical recommendation for policy-makers in the field. |
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UNINA9910468231403321 |
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Autore |
Brown Donald <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Affective Decision Making Under Uncertainty : Risk, Ambiguity and Black Swans / / by Donald J. Brown |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIII, 81 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.) |
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Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, , 2196-9957 ; ; 691 |
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Experimental economics |
Economics - Psychological aspects |
Game theory |
Econometrics |
Experimental Economics |
Behavioral Finance |
Game Theory |
Quantitative Economics |
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This book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty. It presents various essays on behavioral economics and behavioral finance that draw on the theory of Black Swans (Taleb 2010), which argues for a distinction between unprecedented events in our past and unpredictable events in our future. The defining property of Black Swan random events is that they are unpredictable, i.e., highly unlikely random events. In this text, Mandelbrot’s (1972) operational definition of risky random unpredictable events is extended to Black Swan assets – assets for which the cumulative probability distribution or conditional probability distribution of random future asset returns is a power distribution. Ambiguous assets are assets for which the uncertainties of future returns are not risks. Consequently, there are two disjoint classes of |
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Black Swan assets: Risky Black Swan assets and Ambiguous Black Swan assets, a new class of ambiguous assets with unpredictable random future outcomes. The text is divided into two parts, the first of which focuses on affective moods, introduces affective utility functions and discusses the ambiguity of Black Swans. The second part, which shifts the spotlight to affective equilibrium in asset markets, features chapters on affective portfolio analysis and Walrasian and Gorman Polar Form Equilibrium Inequalities. In order to gain the most from the book, readers should have completed the standard introductory graduate courses on microeconomics, behavioral finance, and convex optimization. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and post docs specializing in economic theory, experimental economics, finance, mathematics, computer science or data analysis. |
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