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.

UNINA9910974149103321

Autore

Bent J. Theodore (James Theodore), <1852-1897.>

Titolo

Southern Arabia / / J. Theodore Bent and Mabel Bent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Kegan Paul

New York, : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2004

London ; ; New York : , : Kegan Paul

New York : , : Distributed by Columbia University Press, , 2004

ISBN

9781136203275

1136203273

9780203040362

0203040368

9781283840316

1283840316

9781136203190

1136203192

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (533 p.)

Collana

The Kegan Paul Arabia library

Altri autori (Persone)

BentTheodore, Mrs., -1929.

Disciplina

915.3044

Soggetti

Arabia, Southern Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Facsim. reprint; originally published: London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [ix]-x) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Southern Arabia; Copyright; Main Contents; Preface; Contents; Bibliography; Illustrations; Maps; Southern Arabia; I. Manamah And M0habek; II. The Mounds Of Ali; III. Our Visit To Rufa 'a; Maskat; IV. Some Historical Facts About Oman; V. Maskat And The Outskirts; The Hadhramout; VI. Makalla; VII. Our Departure Into The Interior; VIII. The Akaba; IX. Through Wadi Kasr; X. Our Sojourn At Koton; XI. The Wadi Ser And Kabr Saleh; XII. The City Of Shibahm; XIII. Farewell To The Sultan Of Shibaiim; XIV. Harassed By Our Guides; XV. Retribution Fob Our Foes; XVI. Coasting Eastwabd By Land

XVII. Coasting Westward By SeaDhofar and the Gara Mountains; XVIII. Merbat And Al Hafa; XIX. The Gara Tribe; XX. The Gara Mountains; XXI. The Identification Of Abyssapolis; XXII. Sailing From Kosseir To Aden; An African Interlude: The Eastern Soudan; XXIII. Coasting Along The



Red Sea; XXIV. Halaib And Sawakin Kadim; XXV. Inland From Mersa Halaib; XXVI. Mohammed Gol; XXVII. 'dancing On Tom Tiddler's Ground, Picking Up Gold'; XXVIII. Behind The Jebel Erba; The Mahri Island of Sokotra; XXIX. Kalenzia; XXX. Eriosh And Kadhoup; XXXI. Tamarida Or Hadibo

XXXII. We Depart For The Land's End-i.e. Ras MomiXXXIII. Mount Haghier And Fereghet; XXXIV. Back To The Ocean; Beled Fadhli and Beled Yafei; XXXV. Experiences With The Yafei Sultan; XXXVI. Among The Fadhli; XXXVII. From The Plain Of Mis'hal To The Sea; Appendices; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The author, well established as a travel writer and archaeologist, undertook this journey with his wife, making seven journeys in all around the southern part of Arabia including Oman and Dhofar which from 1893 to the end of his life he made his special field for observation and travel.