Coastal hydrogeology, by Jiao Jimmy and Vincent Post, 2019. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 403 pages. Hardback: price £49.99, ISBN: 9781107030596.

Review of: Ted Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002

In 1990, when Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom proposed that ‘there is every reason to believe that a specialization for grammar evolved by a conventional neo-Darwinian process’ (Pinker and Bloom, 1990), the consensus in linguistics had been, for a long time, quite the opposite: ‘It is perfectly safe to attribute this development to “natural selection”, so long as we realize that there is no substa...

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)

DYNAMICS OF MARKETS: ECONOPHYSICS AND FINANCE By Joseph L. McCauley, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, 209 + xvi pages, ISBN 0-521-82447-8

The nature of econophysics and its relationship with both economics and physics has become increasingly contentious and controversial recently (Ball [2]; Gallegati et al. [3], 2006). The term is quite recent, only neologized in 1995 by Eugene Stanley and then defined by him and Rosario Mantegna (Mantegna and Stanley [4, pages viii–ix]) as a “multidisciplinary field” consisting of “activities by...

Global Competitive Strategy, by Daniel F. Spulber, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., ISBN 978-0-521880-81-7

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...

Imperfections in crystalline solids. By Wei Cai and William D. Nix. MRS-Cambridge Materials Fundamentals. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Paperback Pp. 532. Price GBP 44.99. ISBN 1107123135.

This book is a very good textbook of more than 500 pages that bridges the gap between Introduction to Dislocations by Hull & Bacon (2011), and the famous Theory of Dislocations by Hirth & Lothe (1968). It is based on the lecture notes of one the authors (WDN), who originally taught in the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Stanford University. It is mainly aimed at senior undergrad...