Inside jokes :using humor to reverse-engineer the mind

An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor. 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, Da…

Progress in Cancer Immunotherapy

* Memberi pembaca kemajuan terkini dalam penelitian dasar dan klinis imunoterapi kanker. * Mencakup topik hangat dalam imunoterapi kanker, seperti vaksin kanker, antibodi monoklonal, dan terapi seluler adoptif. * Ditulis oleh para ahli di bidang ini. ;;; Keberhasilan besar yang dicapai oleh penghambat pos pemeriksaan kekebalan dan sel CAR-T menepis keraguan kemanjuran imunoterapi dalam pengobat…

A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200–1550

This book demolishes the widely held view that the phrase 'medieval business' is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation and marketing. Businessmen's responses to t…

Metacognition: Knowing about Knowing

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What do science technology and innovation mean from Africa

Clapperton Mavhunga's collection of essays about science, technology, and innovation (STI) from an African perspective opens with the idea, "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere; when we insist that only?our? meaning is the meaning, we silence other people?s meanings." Mavhunga and his contributors argue that our contemporary definitions of STI are those of countries and culture…

The political economy of Japanese monetary policy

The contributions in this book provide a unique view of its emergence and growth in a number of different national settings in an area of the Third World where the industry is most advanced. The motor vehicle industry has had a dramatic impact on industrialized societies, shaping the structure and productive processes of capitalist economies and defining consumer life styles. The industry's imp…

Power generation and environmental change :symposium of the Committee on Envi…

Enormous increases in the demand for power throughout the world make it imperative to reduce the environmental hazards and pollution associated with power generation. This book discusses the effects that power generation has had on the land, the water, the air, and the biosphere. It reviews the technological means available for abatement and control of damaging environmental effects and describ…

Robot sex social and ethical implications

Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Missed information better information for building a wealthier more sustainab…

How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content

Hutto and Myin promote the cause of a radically enactive, embodied approach to cognition which holds that some kinds of minds - basic minds - are neither best explained by processes involving the manipulation of contents nor inherently contentful. It opposes the widely endorsed thesis that cognition always and everywhere involves content. The authors defend the counter-thesis that there can be …