Product Description: The first volume in a comprehensive history of Latin America by one of the continent's most prominent historians. It begins examining pre-Columbian society and the violent clashes with the colonizers, the subsequent emergence of a mestiza culture, and the development of a national identity that foreshadowed the struggles for independence...read more

Product Description: This volume looks at the birth of the republics of the Americas and the early anticolonial struggles for independence, beginning with the War of Independence in North America, the liberation struggle in Haiti, and then the movements in South and Central America led by Simón Bolívar and Francisco Morazán...read more

Product Description: Here Alberto Prieto argues that the Cuban Revolution marked a turning point in the history of the Americas, with imperialism still mired in the Cold War, while revolutionary movements emerged that subsequently led to the rise of the new social movements and the revival of the concept of Latin American unity...read more

Product Description: This volume is the first scientific publication of the results of a systematic, intensive archaeological field survey conducted in the agricultural territory (chora) of a Greek colony in Southern Italy. Over twenty years, nearly six hundred sites, ranging in date from the prehistoric through the modern periods, were documented in an area of approximately forty square kilometers, resulting in a comprehensive record of the chora's occupation and settlement over the course of more than six thousand years...read more

Product Description: The guerrilla fighter has become a defining image of Latin America. This book reviews recent guerrilla movements across the continent, providing a perceptive analysis of their methods and motivations. Alberto Prieto compares and contrasts the experiences of Sandino in Nicaragua, Fidel and Che in Cuba, the decades-long civil war in Colombia, and the current situation in Central America, Peru, Mexico, and elsewhere...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation, ICA 2004, held in Granada, Spain, in September 2004. The 156 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions...read more

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Product Description: Neural computation arises from the capacity of nervous tissue to process information and accumulate knowledge in an intelligent manner. Conventional computational machines have encountered enormous difficulties in duplicatingsuch functionalities...read more

Product Description: Artificial neural networks are massively parallel interconnected networks ofsimple elements which are intended to interact with the objects of the real world in the same way as biological nervous systems do. Interest in these networks is due to the opinion that they are able to perform tasks like image and speech recognition that have only been implemented in limited ways by traditional computing methods...read more