1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996209706503316

Titolo

Guts and brains [[electronic resource] ] : an integrative approach to the hominin record / / edited by Wil Roebroeks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Amsterdam], : Leiden University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-78781-7

9786611787813

90-485-0805-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

LUP Academic

Altri autori (Persone)

RoebroeksWil

Disciplina

599.9

Soggetti

Human beings - Origin

Fossil hominids

Diet - History

Brain - Evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record / Wil Roebroeks -- 2. Notes on the Implications of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis for Human Biological and Social Evolution / Leslie C. Aiello -- Energetics and the Evolution of Brain Size in Early Homo / William R. Leondard, Marcia L. Robertson and J. Josh Snodgrass -- The Evolution of Diet, Brain and Life History among Primates and Humans / Hillard S. Kaplan [and five others] -- Why Hominins Had Big Brains / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Ecological Hypotheses for Human Brain Evolution: Evidence for Skill and Learning Processes in the Ethnographic Literature on Hunting / Katharine MacDonald -- Haak en Steek - The Tool that Allowed Hominins to Colonize the African Savanna and to Flourish There / R. Dale Guthrie --

Women of the Middle Latitudes. The Earliest Peopling of Europe from a Female Perspective / Margherita Mussi -- The Diet of Early Hominins: Some Things We Need to Know before "Reading" the Menu from the Archaeological Record / Lewis R. Binford -- Diet Shift at the



Middle/Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Europe? The Stable Isotope Evidence / Michael P. Richards -- The Evolution of the Human Niche: Integrating Models with the Fossil Record / Najma Anwar, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks, and Alexander Verpoorle.

Sommario/riassunto

The human brain and its one hundred billion neurons compose the most complex organ in the body and harness more than 20 per cent of all the energy we produce. Why do we have such large and energy-demanding brains, and how have we been able to afford such an expensive organ for thousands of years? Guts and Brains discusses the key variables at stake in such a question, including the relationship between brain size and diet, diet and social organization, and large brains and the human sexual division of labour. This interdisciplinary volume provides an entry for the reader into understanding the development of both early primates and our own species.

Waarom hebben wij zulke grote en energie-vretende hersenen? Hoe kunnen we ons zo'n duur orgaan permitteren, en hoe deden Neandertalers dat, hun brein was immers minstens zo groot als dat van de moderne mens? In deze bundel behandelen vooraanstaande onderzoekers de verwevenheid van belangrijke variabelen in deze, bijvoorbeeld de relatie tussen dieet en hersengrootte bij primaten, tussen dieet en sociale organisatie, en tussen grote, "dure" hersenen en de sexe-gebonden arbeidsverdeling bij hedendaagse jagers-verzamelaars. De bijdragen in Guts and Brains laten zien dat kleine veranderingen in het dieet van onze verre voorouders grote gevolgen hadden voor hun manier van leven en uiteindelijk ook voor die van de moderne mens. Daarmee geeft de bundel ons niet alleen een beter inzicht in de levenswijze van vroege mensachtigen maar ook in die van die eigenaardige primaat die wij Homo sapiens noemen, onze eigen soort.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793352903321

Titolo

Advances in accounting education : teaching and curriculum innovations / / edited by Thomas G. Calderon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, UK : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

1-78756-541-6

1-78756-539-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Advances in accounting education, , 1085-4622 ; ; volume 22

Disciplina

657.071

Soggetti

Accounting - Study and teaching

Educational innovations

Business & Economics - General

Economics, finance, business & management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelims -- Chapter 1 Accounting research readings groups -- Chapter 2 Analytics knowledge, skills, and abilities for accounting graduates -- Chapter 3 Data analytics and the cash collections process: an adaptable case employing Excel and Tableau -- Chapter 4 Determinants of students' repeating the first college-level accounting course -- Chapter 5 The Goldilocks relationship between exam completion sequencing and performance in accounting classes -- Chapter 6 Inducing creativity in accountants' task performance: the effects of background, environment, and feedback -- Chapter 7 Research productivity of accounting professors around a change in institutional affiliation -- Chapter 8 2017 uniform CPA Exam revisions: how are educators responding? -- Chapter 9 Is a current year IRA deduction the best long-term tax strategy? -- Chapter 10 Teaching operating cash flow: one matrix for analysis  two methods for presentation -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations 18 publishes both non-empirical and empirical articles dealing with accounting pedagogy. All articles explain how teaching methods or curricula/programs can be improved. Non-empirical papers are academically rigorous, and specifically discuss the institutional



context of a course or program, as well as any relevant tradeoffs or policy issues. Empirical reports exhibit sound research design and execution, and develop a thorough motivation and literature review, including references from outside the accounting field, where appropriate." -- Publisher's description.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960980303321

Autore

Dobson Alan P.

Titolo

Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century : of friendship, conflict, and the rise and decline of superpowers / / Alan P. Dobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

9781134812875

1134812876

9781134812882

1134812884

9781280325410

1280325410

9780203293584

0203293584

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

British history in perspective

Disciplina

327.41073

327.410730904

Soggetti

International relations

Great Britain Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Great Britain

United States Foreign relations 20th century

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; The lion and the eagle: of twisted tails and plucked feathers; Identifying the contours of the relationship; Assertion and response 1900  19; Resolving differences and changing defence policies; Economic rivalry; The



impact of war; Associated but not allied; Stability and change 1919  39; Debts, navies and economic policies 1920  5; Security and economic depression 1925  34; The dictates of sentiment and the needs of self-interest 1934  9; In war and Cold War 1939  51; Intelligence, atomic and military co-operation 1941  5; Personal relations

Economic policy An incomplete restoration of special relations 1946  51; Conservatively special 1951  61; Churchill and Truman;  Churchill and Eisenhower 1951  5; The Far and Middle East; Suez and its consequences 1956  61; Into the 1960's; Years of transition 1961  79; Economic policies; Nuclear defence; Sterling, defence and Bretton Woods 1964  70; On losing one's way 1970  4; Picking up the pieces 1974  9; Interests and sentiment 1980  95, and beyond; Reagan and Thatcher 1981  9; Changes and re-adjustments 1990  5; Concluding observations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship between Britain and America has been the most important bilateral relationship the world has ever seen. Dobson's concise and readable book covers the whole of this century and employs selected historical detail to expose the special relationship in its true light and in all its complexity. Dobson rejects that claim that the US was ever hegemonical. Its relationship with Britain - over the Suez Crisis and Iran in the 1960's and Grenada in 1983 - clearly demonstrates that it had to bargain and did not always get its way. However, the two nations co-operated in every major crisis