Bill Leithead is “officially” reading Multiplication of Distributions by Jean
François Colombeau (£20.50, ISBN 3540562885, Springer Verlag). No
surprises there: Leithead is reader in control engineering at Strathclyde
University and director of the Centre for Economic Renewable Power Delivery. But
you’ll also find him absorbed in A Conspiracy of Hope, the novel by Michael
Cannon (£9.99, ISBN 1852425172, Serpent’s Tail).
Power takes on many various forms and Leithead is a keen student of another
type of control engineering. Top of his gift shopping list is The Scottish
Nation 1700-2000, by T. M. Devine (£9.99, ISBN 0140230041, Penguin).…
