Publications & Reports
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History of Science
El Mito de Atapuerca. Orígenes, Ciencia, Divulgación
Author: Oliver Hochadel (Bruchsal, Germany 1968) is a historian of science and a tenured researcher at the Instituci�n Mil� y Fontanals of the CSIC in Barcelona. His main research focus is the interaction between science and its publics in historical perspective. He has published widely on electricity as a science of spectacle in the enlightenment, on the zoological garden in the nineteenth century as a space for research and on contemporary human-origins research. For the last nearly twenty years he has also worked as a science journalist.
Summary: "Atapuerca" has changed from a virtually unknown name to acquire a triumphant resonance: the excavations carried out have found the world's largest accumulation of hominid fossils. The project leaders have erected an entire popularization industry that includes dozens of popular-science-books, television documentaries, exhibitions, its own Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos... This context, and not only the antiquity and importance of fossils, explains how Atapuerca became the new beginning of Spanish history. This book, based on detailed knowledge of the history of the excavations and its scientific relevance, combines a rigorous approach and an unusual entertaining narrative. "El mito de Atapuerca" tells the forging of this "myth" and helps us to understand the mechanisms of how scientific knowledge circulates and receives widespread recognition.
Publisher: Edicions UAB Year of issue: 2013
Animal Science
Boar Reproduction. Fundamentals and New Biotechnological Trends
Author: Marc Yeste, Joan Enric Rodr�guez-Gil and Efr�n Estrada, researchers and professors at the Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery of the Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona participated, together with 15 other authors from the Universitat de Girona and the University of Sheffield (UK), in this book, the first one being exclusively focused on boar reproduction. This project was edited by: Marc Yeste from the UAB, Sergi Bonet and Isabel Casas from the Universitat de Girona and Bill Holt from the University of Sheffield.
Summary: This book is made up of 12 chapters organized in three parts that cover, respectively, sperm production and epididymal maturation and factors that may affect these two processes; the stay of boar spermatozoa within the uterine and oviductal environments, with a particular emphasis to reproductive immunology, sperm reservoir formation, sperm capacitation and fertilisation; and artificial insemination and techniques for evaluating and improving sperm quality. This Book is available in printed and electronic format in bookshops and through Springer webpage.
Publisher: Springer Year of issue: 2013
Art and History
La Guerra Fría cultural y el exilio republicano español
Author: Olga Glondys, MA of the University of Krakow (2003) and PhD in Spanish Philology at the Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona (2010), was a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago (2008) and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (2009). She is a member of the research group dedicated to the Literature and Culture of the Spanish Republican Exile (GEXEL), integrated into the Centre d'Estudis de les �poques Franquista i Democr�tica (CEFID) at the Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona. Glondys is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities Department (History, Geography and Art) of the Carlos III University in Madrid.
Summary: Congress for Cultural Freedom (1950-1967) was the main front organization of the CIA during the Cultural Cold War. This international association achieved a highly efficient promotion of certain values linked to the U.S ideological aims in its struggle against the Soviet Union. Taking into acquaintance the review "Cuadernos" and its ideological influence in Latin America, this work is the first approach to the work of the Congress for Cultural Freedom from the Hispanic perspective. This book analyzes also the "bridges" tended by this institution towards dissident intellectuals during the Franco dictatorship, and it reconstructs the stories of those republican exiles who contributed to the US covert offensive during the Cold War. Finally, this book seeks to debate on the polemic issue of covert funding and on the autonomy of culture in the context of the Cold War.
Publisher: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Year of issue: 2013
Art and History
Transnational Challenges to National History Writing
Author: Matthias Middell and Llu�s Roura i Aulinas are the editors of this volume published as a result of a long process of collaboration between historians from all over Europe. Mattihas Middell is Professor of Global History at the Global and European Studies Institute of the University of Leipzig and is editor of the journal Comparativ. Currently is president of the Network of Organizations in Global and World History and member of the organization of the Comit� Interantional des Sciences Historiques. Llu�s Roura i Aulinas is Professor of Modern History at Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona and is expert in social and political European History in the age of the Enlightenment, on the impact of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, and on the Spanish and Catalan history and historiography.
Summary: After a five-year-long cooperation between historians from all over Europe, this book offers an in-depth analysis of various ways to write and conceptualise history beyond the nation-state-container. Authors combine comparative approaches with those analysing entanglements between the historiographies in various European countries. The volume argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. Thus, this publication attempts to show that history writing reflected the globality of its time as much as followed the nationalization of the societies in which it was produced.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Year of issue: 2012
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B.11870-2012 ISSN: 2014-6388