Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell, The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 360, illus., £42.50, US$64.95 (hardback 0-521-46135-9), £15.95, US$22.95 (paperback 0-521-46701-2).

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe

who were born or aged under five during the late 1840s. But this book is not satisfied with just examining food and famine, for it goes on to study the issue of nutrition, rightly observing that the nutritional value of diets is a major determinant of health. Here again much attention is devoted to the potato. This time Clarkson and Crawford explore the controversial issue of the relationship b...

News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change by Timothy Marjoribanks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 221 pp., ISBN 0-521-77280-x and 0-521-77535-3

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 184 pp., ISBN 0-521-69269-5

The proposed solution runs entirely against the orthodoxy that compositionality is necessary for modularity, but it is persausive. Much to their credit, the authors have robustly defended this view and others in several online forums, and have shown they are prepared to accept and develop viewpoints distinct from their own. In closing, I must ask the inevitable rhetorical questions: would CTM h...

Worldwide Asset and Liability Modeling; W.T. Ziemba and J.M. Mulvey (eds.); Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, ISBN: 0-521-57187-1, hardback (US$ 95.00)

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The only fully intact textual evidence from fifth-century and (very) early fourth-century comedy are the eleven completely preserved comedies by Aristophanes, who was born, in all likelihood, shortly after 450 bce and died after 388 bce.1 This is, in fact, not as thin a basis as one might initially think. For not only is the number of completely preserved Aristophanic comedies actually quite hi...