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Pages: 208
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-26 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Language: en
Pages: 504
Pages: 504
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-19 - Publisher: Springer Nature
This book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberat
Language: en
Pages: 198
Pages: 198
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