Matthew m hurley (32 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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, 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.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 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, 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.…

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Zustand: As New. : En 'Inside Jokes', Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett y Reginald Adams ofrecen una perspectiva evolutiva y cognitiva del humor. Proponen que el humor evolucionó a partir de un problema computacional que surgió cuando nuestros antepasados fueron dotados de un pensamiento abierto. La Madre Naturaleza no puede simplemente ordenar al cerebro que encuentre y arregle todos nuestros errores y cuasi-errores apremiados por el tiempo, sino que tiene que sobornar al cerebro con placer. Así que los encontramos divertidos. Esta fuente de placer incorporada ha sido estimulada implacablemente por los humoristas a lo largo de los siglos, y nos hemos vuelto adictos al dulce mental endógeno que es el humor. EAN: 9780262015820 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Filosofía Título: Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind Autor: Matthew M. Hurley| Daniel C. Dennett| Reginald B. Adams Jr. Editorial: MIT Press Idioma: en Páginas: 376 Formato: tapa dura.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A richly illustrated examination of the evolution of Portuguese air power and guerrilla air defenses during the conflict's most active years.From 1963 to 1974, Portugal and its nationalist enemies fought an increasingly intense war for the independence of 'Portuguese' Guinea, then a colony but now the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. For most of the conflict Portugal enjoyed virtually unchallenged air supremacy, and increasingly based its military strategy and political pacification program on this singular advantage. The Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa, abbreviated FAP) consequently played a crucial role in the Guinean war. Indeed, throughout the conflict, the FAP - despite the many challenges it faced - proved to be the most effective and responsive military argument against the PAIGC rebels, which was fighting for the colony's independence from European rule.The air war for Guinea stands as a remarkable episode in air power history for several reasons. It was, for example, the first conflict in which a non-state irregular force deployed defensive missiles against an organized air force. Moreover, the degree to which Portugal relied on its air power was such that its effective neutralization doomed Lisbon's military strategy in the province. Ultimately, the FAP's unexpected combat losses initiated a cascade of effects that degraded, in turn, its own operational initiative; the battlefield effectiveness of increasingly air-dependent ground forces; Portuguese military morale and national resilience; and ultimately, Lisbon's tenability as an imperial power. The air war for Portuguese Guinea thus represents a compelling illustration of the value - and vulnerabilities - of air power in a counter-insurgency context, as well as the negative impacts of overreliance on air supremacy.This, the second of three volumes in the Sanctuary Lost mini-series, examines the evolution of Portuguese air power and guerrilla air defenses during the conflict's most active years, as both sides sought the means and methods required to counter the other's efforts to control Guinea's airspace. It is richly illustrated throughout with original photographs and includes specially commissioned color artworks.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is an informative and motivating book covering another little known Cold War/African Colonial War campaign that is a welcome addition to modelers and historian bookshelves.' -- IPMS/USAFrom 1963 to 1974, Portugal and its nationalist enemies fought an increasingly intense war for the independence of 'Portuguese' Guinea, then a colony but now the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. For most of the conflict, Portugal enjoyed virtually unchallenged air supremacy, and increasingly based its strategy on this advantage. The Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa, abbreviated FAP) consequently played a crucial role in the Guinean war. Indeed, throughout the conflict, the FAP - despite the many challenges it faced - proved to be the most effective and responsive military argument against the PAIGC, which was fighting for Guinea's independence.The air war for Guinea is unique for historians and analysts for several reasons. It was the first conflict in which a non-state irregular force deployed defensive missiles against an organized air force. Moreover, the degree to which Portugal relied on its air power was such that its effective neutralization doomed Lisbon's military strategy in the province. The FAP's unexpected combat losses initiated a cascade of effects that degraded in turn its own operational freedom and the effectiveness of the increasingly air-dependent surface forces, which felt that the war against the PAIGC was lost. The air war for Guinea thus represents a compelling illustration of the value - and vulnerabilities - of air power in a counter-insurgency context, as well as the negative impacts of over reliance on air supremacy.Volume 1 of Sanctuary Lost is extensively illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned color artworks.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextPerhaps the greatest lesson the Israeli Air Force should have learned from the five-year campaign against Palestinian militants in the Occupied Territories was the danger inherent in planning from past success. It had long bee.

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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnA detailed account of the fascinating aviation warfare during the colonial war in Guinea during the 1960s and 70s.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMatthew M. Hurley is a military historian and retired US Air Force colonel, having served in intelligence assignments worldwide and as an instructor at both the Tactical Leadership Programme and Air Command and Staff C.

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Zustand: New. 2013. Paperback. An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HPS; JMTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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