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Telecommunications, Electronics and Computer Science
Computational Intelligence in Archaeology
Author: Joan Barceló is an archaeologist, specialised in research in archaeological techniques and theory. He has developped computer applications in archaeology, notably in the domains of Spatial Analysis, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer aided Visualization. As archaeologist he has done excavations in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Syria, Nicaragua and Argentina.
Summary: Is it possible to build a machine to do archaeology? Will this machine be capable of acting like a scientist? Will this machine be capable of understanding how humans act, or how humans think they acted in the Past? This book tries to offer some possible solutions to these questions and to investigate what does it means to solve "automatically" archaeological problems.
Publisher: IGI Global, Information Science Reference, Henshey Year of issue: 2008
History of Science
Diccionario del amante de la ciencia (The Science Lover's Dictionary)
Author: Claude Allègre is professor at the Institute Universitaire of France, the University of Paris VII and the Institut de Physique du Globe. He was the French Minister for National Education, Research and Technology from 1997 to 2000. He is author of "A Bit of Science for Everyone" and "The Vulnerable Society", and writes regularly for the French newspaper "L'Express".
Summary: The author explains in an easy and pleasant way history's most important scientific advances and their contributions to human evolution, and talks about the most relevant scientists, from Aristotle to Claude Shannon.
Publisher: Paidós Year of issue: 2008
Medicine and Health
A dictionary of epidemiology
Author: Miquel Porta, professor of the UAB Preventive Medicine and Public Health Department and researcher of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research - Hospital del Mar, is the publisher of the fifth edition of this dictionary, in which 220 epidemiologists from worldwide have contributed. Lluís Quintana Trias and Albert Rico, lecturers of the UAB Department of Catalan Philology, have participated in the lexical advising.
Summary: A completely reviewed and updated of this classic work in epidemiology. This fifth edition have been sponsored by the International Epidemiological Association. It includes explanations and comments of both epidemiologic terms and other scientific terms relevants to all the professionals in clinical medicine and public health, as well as to the professionals in other health, life and social sciences.
Publisher: Oxford University Press Year of issue: 2008
Anthropology
Cerebro y Poder (Brain and Power)
Author: Adolf Tobeña is Professor of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he leads the Psychiatry and Legal Medicine Department. He is author of more than 150 research articles on neuroscience and has published several science popularization books. He has moderated scientific debates on the radio and is a regular contributor in newspapers.
Summary: Human biology is responsible for the conditions which prevail in leaders, such as persuasion, manipulation, falseness and cruelty, that take advantage of the needs of the people of being led and dreaming about the future. According to the author, these traits depend on brain proprieties: attributes that have a decisive influence in disputes among humans.
Publisher: La Esfera de los Libros Year of issue: 2008
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