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Human Evolution and Development / 2nd Edition
Textbook for Life Sciences
2019 || Paperback || Nico M. van Straalen e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Our understanding of human evolution is proceeding at an unprecedented rate over the last years due to spectacular fossil finds, reconstructions based on genome comparison, ancient DNA sequencing and new insights into developmental genetics. This book takes an integrative approach in which the development of the human embryo, the evolutionary history of our body, the structure of human populations, their dispersal over the world and their cultures are examined by integrating paleoanthropology...
The ABC of Work Motivation
How to Energize Any Organization
2024 || Paperback || Anja van den Broeck e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
What are the innate and universal ingredients to stimulate employee well-being and performance? This book will help you learn more about these, based on the latest research in motivational science.
Motivation is the key to our lives. Whether at work, at home, at school or on the sports field, we constantly need to find ways to motivate ourselves and those we support. What if, instead of motivational tricks, we could rely on a positive, universal, and surprisingly simple point of view: that of...
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Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences
Truth, Dialogue, and Historical Consciousness
2021 || Paperback || Mary Bouquet e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Starting from informal cross-disciplinary conversations between colleagues, this volume is the result of an experiment in understanding the standpoints and methodologies of others in a multidisciplinary setting. At its heart are the core values of a liberal arts education: intellectual curiosity and the ability to communicate across borders. Written with the aim of communicating academic content to non-specialists, the essays interweave narratives about truth with various kinds of dialogue an...
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Capitalism Reconnected
Toward a Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative Market Economy in Europe
2023 || Paperback || Jan Peter Balkenende e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations.
An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consider our planet as ‘Our Common Home,’ for present and future generations.
This book argues that ...
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An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research / Druk 2
2nd Revised Edition
2022 || Paperback || Machiel Keestra e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
We are increasingly realizing that, as a result of technological developments and globalization, problems are becoming so complex that they can only be solved through cooperation between scientists from different disciplines. Healthcare, climate change, food security, globalization, and quality of life are just a few examples of issues that require scientists to work across disciplines. In many cases, extra-academic stakeholders must be involved in order to arrive at robust solutions. Young a...
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The Life of Texts
An Introduction to Literary Studies
2019 || Paperback || Kiene Brillenburg Wurth e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
This innovative introduction to literary studies takes 'the life of texts' as its overarching frame. It provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form. It shows how texts inspire each other, and how stories migrate across media. It explains why literature has been interpreted in different ways across time. Finally, it asks why some texts fascinate people so much that they are reprodu...
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Designing Interdisciplinary Education, A Practical Handbook for University Teachers
a practical handbook for university teachers
2017 || Paperback || Linda de Greef e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Interdisciplinary education has been identified by many educational organisations in Europe and the United States as important for what lies ahead, and it has become a buzzword in some debates about educating for the future. Now, more than ever, higher education is challenged to educate students to see beyond the limits of their own discipline and to come up with innovative integrated solutions for our global challenges. But how do you define interdisciplinarity? How do you measure whether a ...
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Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Studies
revised Edition
2019 || Paperback || Koen van der Gaast e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
What's a theoretical framework for? How do you effectively present your data in a figure? What's the secret to a good presentation?
As an interdisciplinary student, you delve into theories and research methods from a whole range of disciplines. Academic skills are the tools that you can use to take in, develop, integrate and question knowledge. This guide provides specific instructions, tips and examples to help students develop these skills, both during and after their studies.
As academic e...
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Anthropologists Wanted
Why Organizations Need Anthropology
2021 || Paperback || Laurens Bakker e.a. || Amsterdam University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
In 'Anthropologists Wanted. Why Organizations Need Anthropology' the authors present a broad and inspiring survey of anthropologists in the job market. What in fact is anthropology? What skills do anthropologists have? Where do they work? How do they add value in the workplace, according to the people who hire them? And how can anthropologists showcase their qualities to employers? The book contains unique insights for anyone who plans to study, is studying, or has studied anthropology. And f...
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Win Win Win
If You Want to Go Far, Go Together
2021 || Paperback || Daniel Bernardus e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Would you like to build greater trust in your relationships? Discuss this book together.
Trusting relationships are key to economics and life: a student wants to win a prestigious business contest with this insight, but must first prevent her team from falling apart.
Discover a mirror on our way of dealing with others that is not always comfortable, but inspiring and ultimately very rewarding.
Buy this book for yourself or as a gift to help people relate together more effectively.