Kevin J. Mitchell is een auteur die zich verdiept in de studie van de menselijke natuur en de ontwikkeling ervan. Zijn werk onderzoekt hoe onze evolutionaire geschiedenis ons gedrag en onze cognitie vormt. Mitchell probeert te begrijpen wat ons menselijk maakt en hoe onze unieke eigenschappen zijn geëvolueerd. Zijn aanpak is geworteld in wetenschappelijk onderzoek en biedt een fascinerend inzicht in de complexiteit van de menselijke geest.
This practical guide is tailored for financial leaders seeking to master hedge accounting. It simplifies complex concepts and provides actionable insights to effectively manage financial risks. The book covers essential strategies, compliance requirements, and best practices, making it an invaluable resource for professionals aiming to enhance their understanding and application of hedge accounting in their organizations.
"An evolutionary case for the existence of free will. Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency-or free will-is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose. Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice emerged from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to introspect, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell's argument has important implications-for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.An astonishing journey of discovery, Free Agents offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose and why this matters"-- Provided by publisher
At the age of eleven, Frank Bruno was sent to reform school. At thirty-three, he was crowned undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. At forty-one, he was committed to Goodmayes Psychiatric Hospital. Now, for the first time, Frank Bruno tells his real story, showing how how mental illness can swat down the strongest man or woman, and how recovery is possible with friends and family. Frank Bruno is a man who has been right to the top and right to the very bottom. He is a great athlete and a national treasure. Painfully honest, moving, at times shocking, this is the book no one should be without.