Books Reviewed by: Martin Chandler and Virginia Pow

BRIEF COMMUNICATION A Label for Peer-Reviewed Books

The Publishers Association of Flanders, Belgium, has created a label for peer-reviewed books: the Guaranteed Peer Reviewed Content (GPRC) label (www.gprc.be/en). We introduce the label and the logic behind it. A label for peer-reviewed books encourages transparency in academic book publishing. It is especially relevant for the social sciences and humanities and in the context of performance-bas...

Semiotics by Daniel Chandler Adapted

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What counts as evidence in linguistics? In our discipline this is a perennial issue, a question to which different schools and generations of linguists have given varying responses. Inductive procedures, the analysis of language samples known as corpora, have been one strong option since Bloomfield's structuralism and have gained increasing momentum in recent years. Technological advances have ...

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Jean-Luc Arrègle, Université du Luxembourg (editor) Laure Cabantous, ESCP Europe, Paris (editor) Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney (editor) Olivier Germain, U. du Québec à Montréal (editor, book reviews) Karim Mignonac, Université de Toulouse 1 (Editor) Philippe Monin, EM Lyon Business School (editor) Tyrone Pitsis, University of Newcastle (editor) José Pla-Barber, Universidad de ...

Reviewed by Philip Protter

Mathematical finance (or financial engineering, as it is often known) is a young subject for mathematics, but is highly popular with students. No doubt the allure of being connected to vast sums of money is a part of the attraction. Yet it is a difficult subject, requiring a broad array of knowledge of subjects that are traditionally considered hard to learn. Forty years ago, options and what a...