Author: Jack J. Phillips PhD in Human Resource Management.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: human, improving, performance, investment, measuring, resources, scorecard, return
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2001-04-02
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0877193673
ISBN-13: 9780877193678
’The Human Resources Scorecard: measuring the return on investment’ is the first book to provide a comprehensive, step-by-step process for measuring return on investment in human resources programs. Based on the classic ROI definition of earnings divided by investment, the ROI Process developed 20 years ago by co-author Jack J Phillips aids managers in determining and improving the bottom-line impact that human resource programs have on an organization. The ROI Process provides six additional measures in the form of a scorecard to track and monitor the total impact of the human res
Author: Judith Rich Harri
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: human, individuality, nature, alike
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-06-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393329712
ISBN-13: 9780393329711
A groundbreaking theory of personality. The author of the controversial book The Nurture Assumption tackles the biggest mystery in all of psychology: What makes people differ so much in personality and behavior? It can’t just be "nature and nurture," because even identical twins who grow up together—same genes, same parents—have different personalities. And if psychologists can’t explain why identical twins are different, they also can’t explain why each of us differs from everyone else. Why no two people are alike. Harris turns out to be well suited for the role of detectiv
Author: Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: human, prospect, cultures, genes, natures
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0142000531
ISBN-13: 9780142000533
It’s common to blame "human nature" for some of the unpleasant facts of life--road rage, say, or murder, or war. The problem with this convenient out, argues the distinguished scientist Paul Ehrlich, is that there really is no single human nature. Humans, it’s true, share a common genetic code with remarkably few large-scale differences (if all but native Africans disappeared from the planet, he notes, "humanity would still retain somewhat more than 90 percent of its genetic variability"); and evolution has endowed us with capabilities shared by no other species. But for all that,
Author: Lewis I. Held Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: human, devo, evo, anatomy, quirks
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-05-29
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521732336
ISBN-13: 9780521732338
With the emergence of the new field of evolutionary developmental biology we are witnessing a renaissance of Darwin’s insights 150 years after his Origin of Species. Thus far, the exciting findings from "evo-devo" have only been trickling into college courses and into the domain of non-specialists. With its focus on the human organism, Quirks of Human Anatomy opens the floodgates by stating the arguments of evo-devo in plain English, and by offering a cornucopia of interesting case studies and examples. Its didactic value is enhanced by 24 schematic diagrams that integrate a host of disp
Author: Craig Stanford
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: human, quest, nature, continuum, significant, ape, others
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 046508172X
ISBN-13: 9780465081721
Engaging, enlightening, and eloquent, Significant Others tells of our closest cousins and the scientists who study them. Author Craig B. Stanford is co-director of the Jane Goodall Research Center and knows as much as anyone about field research on the great ape. His prose combines a vivid, almost poetic descriptive sensibility with a refreshingly deadpan rationality too often missing from writings on endangered or threatened species. Covering a wide range of topics from tool use to evolutionary psychology to the controversy over language in nonhumans ("an intellectual turf game, poorly played
Author: Philip Lieberma
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: human, evolution, language, eve, spoke
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-01-17
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0393040895
ISBN-13: 9780393040890
Speaking, like breathing, is something we do every day without thinking. And just like breathing, speech is the result of a complicated dance between neural mechanisms and muscle responses. Although everybody makes use of language--in some form or another--little is actually understood about what it is or how it began. In Eve Spoke, Philip Lieberman, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics, outlines his own theories about this mysterious subject. From development of the human vocal tract to the latest models of where language skills occur in the brain, Lieberman covers the physical as
Author: Richard G. Klei
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: human, third, origins, biological, career, cultural
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0226439658
ISBN-13: 9780226439655
Since its publication in 1989, The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein’s innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over the past ten years have significantly refined our knowledge of human evolution. Klein chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evid
