This book integrates both classical and modern treatments of difference
equations. It contains the most updated and comprehensive material, yet
the presentation is simple enough for the book to be used by advanced
undergraduate and beginning graduate students. This third edition
includes more proofs, more graphs, and more applications. The author has
also updated the contents by adding a new chapter on Higher Order Scalar
Difference Equations, and also recent results on local and global
stability of one-dimensional maps, a new section on the various notions
of asymptoticity of solutions, a detailed proof of Levin-May Theorem,
and the latest results on the LPA flour-beetle model.