Books

Forgotten Scottish Voices from the Great War
Derek Young
Tempus Publishing Ltd
ISBN 0-7524-3326-1

Scotland's response to the Great War has, up until now, largely been marginalised or ignored. With a proportionally higher number of volunteers than any other home nation. Scotland's youth played a significant part in Britain's war effort.

Here is the first study of Scotland's response to the call to arms; the true story behind the raising, the training, life in the trenches, and the sacrifices faced by those battalions raised in Scotland.

Using letters, diaries and first-hand accounts, together with original photographs and illustrations, this book focuses on the experience of those who served in the Scottish divisions. Charting the course of emotions from initial enthusiasm in August 1914 through to outright disillusionment with the continuation of the war in 1917, the author clearly shows how life at the front line produced both physical and emotional changes in those caught up in the horrors of trench warfare.

Derek Young teaches at the University.

Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Iyad Rahwan, Pavlos Moraitis, Chris Reed (Eds.)
Springer
ISBN 3-540-24526-X

The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research involving philosophy, communication studies, linguistics, psychology and logics. Its techniques have found a wide range of applications in both theoretical and practical branches of artificial intelligence and computer science. Multi-agent systems theory has picked up argumentation-inspired approaches and specifically argumentation-theoretic results from many different areas.

Researchers in argumentation and multi-agent systems are currently enjoying a unique opportunity to integrate the various understandings of argument into a coherent and core part of the functioning of autonomous computational systems.

This book originates from the First International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Systems, ArgMAS 2004, held in New York in 2004.

Chris Reed is a lecturer in the Division of Applied Computing.

Practical Skills in Forensic Science
Alan Langford, John Dean, Rob Reed, David Holmes, Jonathan Weyers and Alan Jones
Pearson Education
ISBN 0-131-14400-6

The text, fifth in the 'Practical Skills, series, represents a one-stop guide to help forensic science students through all the practical aspects of their studies. In seventy chapters, it provides comprehensive coverage of all the necessary skills, including techniques in chemistry, biology and physics as well as relevant aspects of law.

The book is part of an ongoing collaborations between Drs Jonathan Weyers, Learning Enhancement Unit, and Allan Jones, Life Sciences Teaching Unit, and colleagues at Northumbria University. In particular, it maintains the link with Professor Rob Reed, who lectured at the Department of Biological Sciences in Dundee from 1980 to 1989.