Regula Burckhardt Qureshi. Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali. Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 265 pp., music examples, videographs, videocharts, sketches, photographs, summary tables, glossaries, bibliographies, index. [Accompanying music cassette available separately.] ISBN: 0-521-26767-6

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...

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...

François Recanati , Literal Meaning , Cambridge : Cambridge University

Contrary to a certain traditional conception dating back at least to Locke, everyday linguistic communication is not a simple matter of putting one's thoughts into words for one's audience to put back into thoughts. This naive " code model " misses the fact that what a speaker means in uttering a sentence can be distinct in various ways from what the sentence means. She might not mean what she ...

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...