Our new publications this week include: Thinking Functionally with Haskell by Richard Bird of University of Oxford. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students, emphasises fundamental techniques for reasoning mathematically about functional programs. It features case studies in Sudoku and pretty-printing, and over 100 carefully selected exercises with solutions. This engaging text will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. Expert Adjustments of Model Forecasts by Philip Hans Franses of Erasmus University Rotterdam. To what extent should anybody who has to make model forecasts generated from detailed data analysis adjust their forecasts based on their own intuition? In this book, Philip Hans Franses, one of Europes leading econometricians, presents the notion that many publicly available forecasts have experienced an experts touch, and questions whether this type of intervention is useful and if a lighter adjustment would be more beneficial. The second edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud et al. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 1 tracks Britains economic history in the period ranging from 1700 to 1870 from industrialisation to global trade and empire and Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy Charles Dickens and Boz by Robert L Patten of Rice University Official Page. A fascinating, detailed study of the complex and revealing relationship between Dickens and Boz, his nom-de-plume - or more accurately, his alter ego - through the formative years of his career. A paperback edition of Byrons War by Roderick Beaton of Kings College London. This is a multi-award winning examining Lord Byrons life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity by William I. Robinson of University of California, Santa Barbara. William I. Robinson has written an outstanding, gripping, and comprehensive look at the reorganization of global capitalism and its implications - potential and actual - for the masses of the worlds people. Not only does this book suggest a unique and provocative way of understanding todays global capitalism, with the rise of a transnational capitalist class, but it also offers insights into the challenges that must be undertaken in order to construct a strategy for a fundamental social transformation to rescue this planet and its inhabitants from the dangers derived from a very toxic capitalism. This book spoke to the questions with which I have been grappling, and it spoke in clear and direct terms. I could not more strongly recommend this book. Bill Fletcher, Jr, writer/activist The third edition of Crime Reason and History by Alan Norrie of University of Warwick. Many books seek to explain the general principles of the criminal law. Crime, Reason and History stands out and alone as a book that critically and concisely analyses these principles and comes up with a different viewpoint: that the law is shaped by social history and thereforesystematically structured around conflicting elements. Updated extensively to include two new chapters on loss of control and self defence and with an extended treatment of offence and defence, this new edition combines challenging and sophisticated analysis with accessibility.
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