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Neuroeconomics of Prosocial Behavior

The Compassionate Egoist

By: Carolyn Declerck,Christophe Boone

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Neuroeconomics of Prosocial Behavior

The Compassionate Egoist

By: Carolyn Declerck,Christophe Boone

This summary of recent research in neuroeconomics aims to explain how and why a person can sometimes be generous, helpful, and cooperative, yet other times behave in a self-interested and/or exploitative manner. The book explains a dual process of analysis measuring immediate needs of the individual, relative to long term gains possible through prosocial behavior (e.g. synergy, accumulating profits, (in)direct reciprocity) with the output further mitigated by the motivation of the individual at that moment and any special circumstances of the environment. Ultimately it can be shown that prosocial behavior can be economically rational. Yet even when individuals are intrinsically motivated to act prosocially, they are also able to reverse this behavior when they sense it is no longer adaptive. The book will further explore individual differences in prosocial behavior, the development of prosocial behavior, and how a personal neural signature forms that facilitates or hampers cooperation. The book includes game theory research, neuroimaging studies, and research in traditional cognitive psychology to better understand human decision-making re prosocial behavior. This will be of interest to cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists, as well as neuroscientists, and behavioral economists. - Explores: Individual differences in prosocial behavior, The development of prosocial behavior, How a personal neural signature forms that facilitates or hampers cooperation - Includes: Game theory research, Neuroimaging studies, Research in traditional cognitive psychology

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Academic Press

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0128014415

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Neuroeconomics of Prosocial Behavior

The Compassionate Egoist

By: Carolyn Declerck,Christophe Boone

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The Compassionate Egoist

By: Carolyn Declerck,Christophe Boone

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Pakistan at the Crossroads

Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures

By: Christophe Jaffrelot

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Pakistan at the Crossroads

Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures

By: Christophe Jaffrelot

In Pakistan at the Crossroads, top international scholars assess Pakistan's politics, economics and the challenges faced by its civil and military leaders domestically and diplomatically. Contributors examine the state's handling of internal threats, tensions between civilians and the military, strategies of political parties, police and law enforcement reform, trends in judicial activism, the rise of border conflicts, economic challenges, financial entanglements with foreign powers, and diplomatic relations with India, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and the United States. This volume is critical to grasping the sophisticated interplay of internal and external forces complicating the country's recent trajectory.

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265

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Random House India

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8184007973

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9788184007978

Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics, Volume 1

Family Amborellaceae to Vitaceae

By: Christophe Wiart

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Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics, Volume 1

Family Amborellaceae to Vitaceae

By: Christophe Wiart

Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics provides an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of the phylogeny, botany, ethnopharmacology, and pharmacology of more than 100 plants used in the traditional medical systems of Asia and Pacific. It discusses their actions and potentials against viruses, bacteria, and fungi that represent a threat of epidemic and pandemic diseases, with an emphasis on the molecular basis and cellular pathways. This book presents scientific names, the botanical classification, traditional medicinal uses, active chemical constituents, and pharmacology. This volume is a critical reference for anyone involved in the discovery of lead molecules or phytopharmaceutical products for the prevention or treatment of pandemic viral, bacterial, or fungal infections. FEATURES Phylogenetic presentation of medicinal plants and a chemotaxonomical rationale of antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal actions Discusses the chemical structure–activity relationship, pharmacokinetics, and oral bioavailability of antimicrobial principles Introduces the molecular mechanism of natural products on viruses, bacteria, and fungi Contains a selection of botanical plates and useful bibliographic references This book is a useful research tool for postgraduates, academics, and the pharmaceutical, herbal, and nutrition industries. Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics includes commentary sections that invite further research and reflection on the fascinating and timely subject of the development of drugs and herbals from Asia-Pacific medicinal plants to safeguard humanity and other life forms against the forthcoming waves of viral, bacterial, or fungal pandemics. This book is an ideal reference text for medicinal plant enthusiasts.

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CRC Press

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1351059068

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The Hollow Beast

By: Christophe Bernard

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The Hollow Beast

By: Christophe Bernard

Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge. In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations, one hundred years and dozens of alcohol-soaked tall tales, from treachery in northern gold-mining camps to the appearance of a legendary beast by turns playful and ferocious. It's up to Monti's grandson, François, to make sense of the vendetta between Monti and Bradley that has shaped the destiny of their town and everyone who lives there. In a sumptuous, unpredictable language and slapstick comedy, Christophe Bernard reveals himself as a master of epic storytelling.

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Biblioasis

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1771965568

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Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be

At the Origin of Male Domination

By: Christophe Darmangeat

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Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be

At the Origin of Male Domination

By: Christophe Darmangeat

When was male domination established in human societies, and why did it take hold? How does humanity's most remote past inform today's feminist struggle? This new, updated edition of Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be – available for the first time in English translation – represents a timely contribution to the debate, drawing on the accumulated knowledge of ethnology and archaeology. While noting the many outdated aspects of Morgan and Engels' seminal work, this vast synthesis, guided by a rigorous materialist approach, renews Marxist analysis on a theme that is at once remote and pressingly topical.

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BRILL

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9004535241

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9789004535244

Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia

By: Christophe Darmangeat

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Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia

By: Christophe Darmangeat

Meticulously examining ethnographic sources, Christophe Darmangeat argues that warfare among Australian Aborigines was mostly an extension of their judicial systems. He demonstrates how violent conflict occurred when circumstances prohibited regulated proceedings.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793632324

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Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema

By: Christophe P. Jacobs,Donald McCaffrey

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Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema

By: Christophe P. Jacobs,Donald McCaffrey

The latest offering from the Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series, this critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters during the silent era of the American cinema offers a broad-ranging portrait of the motion picture production of silent film. Detailed but concise alphabetical entries include over 100 film titles and 150 personnel. An introductory chapter explores the early growth of the new silent medium while the final chapter of this encyclopedic study examines the sophistication of the silent cinema. These two chapters outline film history from its beginnings until the perfection of synchronized sound, and reflect upon the themes and techniques established with the silent cinema that continued into the sound era through modern times. The annotated entries, alphabetically arranged by film title or personnel, include brief bibliographies and filmographies. An appendix lists secondary but important movies and their creators. Film and popular culture scholars will appreciate the vast amount of information that has been culled from various sources and that builds upon the increased studies and research of the past ten years.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032173

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9780313032172

The Return of Work in Critical Theory

Self, Society, Politics

By: Christophe Dejours,Jean-Philippe Deranty,Emmanuel Renault,Nicholas H. Smith

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The Return of Work in Critical Theory

Self, Society, Politics

By: Christophe Dejours,Jean-Philippe Deranty,Emmanuel Renault,Nicholas H. Smith

From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation. But far from coming to an end, work continues to occupy a central place in our lives. This is not only because of the amount of time people spend on the job. Many of our deepest hopes and fears are bound up in our labor—what jobs we perform, how we relate to others, how we might flourish. The Return of Work in Critical Theory presents a bold new account of the human significance of work and the human costs of contemporary forms of work organization. A collaboration among experts in philosophy, social theory, and clinical psychology, it brings together empirical research with incisive analysis of the political stakes of contemporary work. The Return of Work in Critical Theory begins by looking in detail at the ways in which work today fails to meet our expectations. It then sketches a phenomenological description of work and examines the normative premises that underlie the experience of work. Finally, it puts forward a novel conception of work that can renew critical theory’s engagement with work and point toward possibilities for transformation. Inspired by Max Horkheimer’s vision of critical theory as empirically informed reflection on the sources of social suffering with emancipatory intent, The Return of Work in Critical Theory is a lucid diagnosis of the malaise and pathologies of contemporary work that proposes powerful remedies.

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Columbia University Press

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0231547188

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9780231547185

Leonard Cohen

The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

By: Christophe Lebold

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Leonard Cohen

The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

By: Christophe Lebold

Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer’s cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches. We see how six decades of radiant pessimism and a few thousand nights in hotel rooms transformed a young Jewish poet who longed to be a saint into an existentialist troubadour in love with women and a gravelly-voiced crooner who taught a thousand ways of dissolving into love. After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.

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177852270X

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Book's by Christophe Boone

Neuroeconomics of Prosocial Behavior

Neuroeconomics of Prosocial Behavior

Neuroeconomics of Prosocial Behavior

Neuroeconomics of Prosocial Behavior

Pakistan at the Crossroads

Pakistan at the Crossroads

Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics, Volume 1

Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics, Volume 1

The Hollow Beast

The Hollow Beast

Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be

Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be

Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia

Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia

Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema

Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema

The Return of Work in Critical Theory

The Return of Work in Critical Theory

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

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