Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material.

• Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in the Roman West
• Explores how ancient geography, local histories and the stories of wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and local experts
• Offers a fresh perspective by examining passages from ancient writers in a new...

Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors discusses educational systems that assess a student's knowledge and are adaptive to a student's learning needs.

The impact of computers has not been generally felt in education due to lack of hardware, teacher training, and sophisticated software. and because current instructional software is neither truly responsive to student needs nor flexible enough to emulate teaching. Dr. Woolf taps into 20 years of research on intelligent tutors to bring designers and developers a broad range of issues and methods that produce the best...