1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955718303321

Autore

Tomasello Michael

Titolo

Why we cooperate : based on the 2008 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford University / / Michael Tomasello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

9786612694790

9780262258494

0262258498

9781282694798

1282694790

9780262259255

0262259257

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 206 p

Collana

A Boston review book

Disciplina

158/.3

Soggetti

Helping behavior

Altruism

Cooperativeness

Social norms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Why We Cooperate -- 1 Born (and Bred) to Help -- 2 From Social Interaction to Social Institutions -- 3 Where Biology and Culture Meet -- II Forum -- Joan B. Silk -- Carol S. Dweck -- Brian Skyrms -- Elizabeth S. Spelke -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973215203321

Autore

Krishnan M

Titolo

Contemporary African Literature in English : Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications / / by M. Krishnan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

9781137378330

1137378336

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

820.996

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

African literature

Literature

Fiction

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

African Literature

World Literature

Fiction Literature

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

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing Africa in a Global Marketplace; 1 Ethics, Conflict and Re(-)presentation; 2 Race, Class and Performativity; 3 Gender and Representing the Unrepresentable; 4 Mythopoetics and Cultural Re-Creation; 5 Global African Literature: Strategies of Address and Cultural Constraints; Conclusion: Writing Africa's Futures?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,



Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.