Roots of Human Behavior - TTC (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 168
Taught by Barbara J. King
The College of William and Mary
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
While human history is usually studied from the perspective of a few hundred years, anthropologists consider deeper causes for the ways we act. In this course, anthropologist Barbara J. King uses her wealth of research experience to open a window of understanding for you into the legacy left by our primate past. These lectures look for the roots of human behavior in the behavior of other primates: monkeys, apes, and human ancestors.
In these lectures, you explore such questions as:
• Are language and technology unique to humans?
• Have human love and loyalty developed from emotions of our primate cousins?
• Do the ways in which human males and females relate to each other come from our primate past?
• Have we inherited a biological tendency for aggression?
• How much of our behavioral, cognitive, and cultural identity have we inherited from our closest living relatives?
• How can the study of monkeys and apes lead us to a fuller picture of who we are?
Dictionary of applied math for engineers and scientists Clear, concise definitions of mathematical terms are not easy to locate, and despite the seemingly close connections between math and other scientific and engineering fields, practical explanations comprehensible to those who are not primarily mathematicians are even more difficult to find. The Dictionary of Applied Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists fills that void. It contains authoritative yet accessible definitions to mathematical terms often encountered in other disciplines. This practical lexicon will help students and professionals alike make sure they use mathematical terminology correctly and fully understand the mathematical literature encountered in their fields.
Mathematical Statistics: Exercises and Solutions
This book consists of solutions to four hundred exercises, over 95% of
which are in the author’s Mathematical Statistics. That textbook covers
topics in statistical theory essential for graduate students preparing
for work on a Ph.D. degree in statistics. On the other hand, this is a
stand-alone book, since exercises and solutions are comprehensible
independently of their source. Many solutions involve standard
exercises that appear in other textbooks listed in the references. To
help readers not using this book with Mathematical Statistics, lists of
notation, terminology, and some probability distributions are given in
the front of the book.
The theory and the practice of translation by Eugene A. Nida, Charles R. Taber
The Theory and Practice of Translation, first published in 1982 and a companion work to Toward a Science of Translating (Brill, 1964), analyses and describes the set of processes involved in translating. Bible translating, the focus of this work, offers a unique subject for such a study, as it has an exceptionally long history, involves more than 2,000 languages, a vast range of cultures and a broader range of literary structures than any other type of translating. Not only of interest to Biblical scholars, therefore, this work explores issues of textual meanings and the procedures for communicating these meanings into other languages and cultures.
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The theory and the practice of translation by Eugene A. Nida, Charles R. Taber
