A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animals
The Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this accessible and original book recasts the discipline and demonstrates that in order to understand emotion, we need to examine its biological roots in humans and animals. Only through a comparative approach that encompasses work at the molecular, cellular, systems, and cognitive levels will we be able to comprehend what emotions do, how they evolved, how the brain shapes their development, and even how we might engineer them into robots in the future. 
Showing that emotions are ubiquitous across species and implemented in specific brain circuits, Adolphs and Anderson offer a broad foundation for thinking about emotions as evolved, functionally defined biological states. The authors discuss the techniques and findings from modern neuroscientific investigations of emotion and conclude with a survey of theories and future research directions. 
Featuring color illustrations throughout, The Neuroscience of Emotion synthesizes the latest in neuroscientific work to provide deeper insights into how emotions function in all of us.

The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Anderson, David J.

Adolphs, Ralph

Mental Health

Princeton University Press

Reproduction And Immune Homeostasis In A Long-Lived Seabird, The Nazca Booby (Sula Granti) (Ornithological Monographs)

Science & Math

Apanius, Victor

Westbrock, Mark A.

Biological Sciences

Univ. Of California Pr.

The Science of Tennis

Anderson, Robert M.

Racquet Pr

Kanban is a method of organizing and managing professional services work. It uses Lean concepts such as limiting work in progress to improve results. A Kanban system is a means of balancing the demand for work to be done with the available capacity to start new work. This book provides a distillation of Kanban: the "essence" of what it is and how it can be used. This brief overview introduces all the principal concepts and guidelines in Kanban and points you to where you can find out more. Essential Kanban Condensed is a great resource to get started or continue exploring ideas for evolutionary change and improvement in business agility.

Essential Kanban Condensed

Business & Money

Carmichael, Andy

Management & Leadership

Lean-Kanban University

Kanban se está convirtiendo en una manera popular de visualizar y limitar el monto de trabajo-en-progreso en las áreas de desarrollo de software y de tecnologías de la información. Equipos alrededor del mundo están agregando kanban alrededor de sus procesos actuales para catalizar el cambio cultural y entregar con mejor agilidad de negocio. Éste libro constesta las preguntas: ** ¿Qué es Kanban? ** ¿Por qué querría yo usar Kanban? ** ¿Cómo implemento Kanban? ** ¿Cómo reconozco oportunidades de mejora y que hago al respecto? David J. Anderson ué el pionero de la técnica de Kanban con Microsoft en el 2004 y ha estado refinando su enfoque desde ese entonces. Kanban nos brinda su visión sobre este nuevo enfoque evolutivo para cambiar la gestión. El Método de Kanban mejorará la madurez y agilidad de su organización con resistencia mínima al cambio.

Kanban: Cambio Evolutivo Exitoso Para su Negocio de Tecnología (Spanish Edition)

Computers & Technology

Programming

Blue Hole Press

Kanban is becoming a popular way to visualize and limit work-in-progress in software development and information technology work. Teams around the world are adding kanban around their existing processes to catalyze cultural change and deliver better business agility. This book answers the questions: What is Kanban? Why would I want to use it? How do I go about implementing Kanban? How do I recognize improvement opportunities and what should I do about that?

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

(BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE) Kanban está se tornando uma maneira popular de visualizar e limitar trabalho-em-progresso em desenvolvimento de software e no trabalho em tecnologia da informação. Equipes ao redor do mundo estão incluindo Kanban em torno no seus processos existentes para catalisar uma mudança cultural e promover melhor agilidade no negócio. Este livro responde algumas perguntas: O que é Kanban? Porque eu gostaria de usar Kanban? Como identifico oportunidades de melhoria e o que devo fazer em relação a eles?

Kanban: Mudança Evolucionária de Sucesso para seu Negócio de Tecnologia (Portuguese Edition)

Fit for Purpose: How Modern Businesses Find, Satisfy, & Keep Customers

Zheglov, Alexei

The Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)l is a new, powerful tool for coaches and consultants advising medium and large enterprises on transformation and improvement using the Kanban Method. From the author of the best-selling Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business, David J. Anderson, together with Teodora Bozheva, this book maps out seven levels of organizational maturity against the six general practices of Kanban to ensure appropriate application of Kanban practices and successful adoption of the approach. The KMM describes a roadmap and concrete actions that enable organizations to achieve fitness-for-purpose and exceptional business agility. This book is for consultants, coaches, corporate change agents, and managers who must lead medium- and large-scale enterprises through a transition to improve their operations and service delivery. This book is for businesses that aspire to superior business agility, to deliver fit-for-purpose products and services, to delight customers, and to provide the security of long-term survival associated with mature businesses that consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. The KMM is designed to eliminate the two most common failure modes in the adoption of Kanban: overreaching, causing an aborted start; false summit plateaus and failure to realize full benefit. KMM provides advisors with the knowledge to create just enough positive stress to provoke improvement without overdoing it and causing a regression in corporate performance. This book covers: 
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<li> • Understanding the seven Kanban maturity levels</li> • <li>Benefits of the KMM</li> • <li>How the KMM drives capability and maturity to enable fitness-for-purpose and business agility</li> • <li>The KMM Architecture and in-depth understanding of the model</li> • <li>Maps 132 specific practices against the six general practices of the Kanban Method and seven maturity levels, describing the intent, value, and expected outcomes from each practice.</li> • <li>KMM-specific practices codify more than ten years of Kanban implementations in firms from small to extremely large, across five continents and many industries. </li> • <li>KMM documents the body of knowledge that coaches and organizations need to develop sustainable change, build a culture of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome. </li> • <li>Provides a comprehensive set of example kanban boards suitable for the whole range of organizational maturity levels</li> • <li>The comprehensive set of kanban board designs provide ideas for visualizing work items, workflows of different types and complexity, risks, classes of services, shared resources, and other aspects of complex interdependent enterprise services. </li> • <li>Defines in detail what practices and metrics to use—and how—for effective workflow management. </li> • <li>Defines the specific Kanban practices that enable delivering high quality products and services, and optimizing economic results. </li> • <li>Describes the integration of KMM with existing models and methods, in particular Lean/TPS, Real World Risk Model (by Nassim Nichoals Taleb), CMMI, and Mission Command/Auftragstaktik. </li> • <li>Maps twenty cultural values to the seven maturity levels, enabling leadership guidance and coaching for a stronger, more effective corporate culture. </li> • <li>Includes vital coaching tips that facilitate the correct implementation of specific practices. </li> • <li>The KMM will help you avoid the two most typical failure modes in Kanban implementations: overreaching, causing an aborted start; false summit plateaus and failure to realize full benefit. Use the model to understand the current situation of your organization and define appropriate actions that will drive it to the desired state. </li>
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Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-For-Purpose Organizations

Bozheva, Teodora

Lean Kanban University Press

Review\n"The Nature of the Beast offers a stellar new paradigm for investigating inner brain states like emotion. With his famously clear-headed logic and a plain-spoken walk through the data, Anderson crafts a stunningly coherent and compelling work whose implications are potentially vast—especially if, as seems likely, it enables breakthrough treatments in psychiatric care, at long last."―Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego\n“The Nature of the Beast presents an insightful new framework for understanding how the brain regulates emotion. With wry humor, David J. Anderson walks readers through the wonders of how neurons—funny little computational units of the brain—give rise to such rich and complex things as emotions. His fruitfly work is both legendary, and well, fruitful, in helping to elucidate how it is that our brains respond to information in the environment. Of all the major emotion books to have come out in the past decade, this is the most illuminating and useful of the bunch. An incredible work.” 
―Dr. Daniel Levitin, author of Successful Aging\n“We humans spend most of our waking hours in a subjective state, wallowing in a “felt" sense of life. What is that and how do brains create it? Fearlessly, David Anderson takes on the central issue of neuroscience and provides a roadmap to truly understand this reality. Surprisingly, he reveals the way to get there is to study the fly brain not the millions of psychiatric patients that are waiting for help. This field needs new ideas and this book provides it.”―Michael S. Gazzaniga, University of California, Santa Barbara\nA pioneering neuroscientist offers a new way of understanding how emotions drive behavior\nDoes your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them. In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illness.\nIn The Nature of the Beast, pioneering neuroscientist David J. Anderson describes a new approach to solving this problem. He and his colleagues have figured out how to study the brain activity of animals as they navigate real-life scenarios, like fleeing a predator or competing for a mate. His research has revolutionized what we know about animal fear and aggression. Here, he explains what studying emotions and related internal brain states in animals can teach us about human behavior, offering new insights into why isolation makes us more aggressive, how sex and violence connect, and whether there’s a link between aggression and mental illness.\nFull of fascinating stories, The Nature of the Beast reconceptualizes how the brain regulates emotions–and explains why we have them at all.

The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us

Basic Books

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