People need a vast amount of knowledge in order to live in an advanced technological society. Most of this has to be obtained from others by believing what they say and what they have written. Androids and sophisticated AI systems would also have to be able to learn in this way. This obvious fact tends to be overlooked by AI researchers (such as Pollock and Brooks) involved in the design of and...

The aim of this section is to give brief indications of the character, content and cost of new books in the various fields of biology. More books are received by The Quarterly than can be reviewed critically. All submitted books, however, are carefully considered for originality, timeliness, and reader interest, and we make every effort to find a competent and conscientious reviewer for each bo...

All interested medical physicists are encouraged to have their names added to a list of available reviewers. Please rank your interest among radiation therapy, x-ray imaging, nuclear medicine imaging, ultrasound imaging, MR imaging, radiation injury, radiation protection, and others. Make your interest known to Rodica Alecu, Ph.D., Books Review Editor ([email protected]). Include your name and e-...

Books are one of the most important tools to convey knowledge, they survived to be a convenient and portable source of information. On the other side, Electronic books (e-books) are playing a big role in attracting a huge number of readers, but still paper books are preferable by many people due to some drawbacks in e-books. Yet, Interactive books combines all positive features in ordinary book...

Iris Borowy (ed.), Uneasy encounters: the politics of medicine and health in China 1900–1937, Frankfurt am Main and Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 230, £40.00 (paperback 978-3-631-57803-2). Iris Bruijn, Ship’s surgeons of the Dutch East India Company: commerce and the progress of medicine in the eighteenth century, Leiden University Press, 2009, pp. 388, illus., e39.50 (paperback 978-90-87-28-05...

The present study seeks to examine the factors affecting information search of heads of households in purchasing an outbound package tour. A sample of 60 academics and non-academics in the field of tourism was chosen. Sampling methods were judgmental and snowball sampling. In order to gather data, we used a semi-structured interview.  Thematic analysis was applied for data analysis, and the col...

Kostas Ouranis (1890–1953), a Greek poet and essayist, lesser known abroad, was regarded as one of the first to introduce “travel writing” in Greece. As correspondent different newspapers, he travelled many countries Europe abroad recorded his impressions travel books, which best is travelogue on Spain, Sol y sombra (1934). However, book that special interest regards perspective writer, Travels...