Thank you very much Ingmar, it is a good reference, i am going to study it in depth, it look like very good.

Thank you very much Ingmar, with your contribution i have a new and good material for my study of recursion and functional programming for the moment. I appreciate your contribution very much.

Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman 

"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs".

pdf of the book is available on the Web

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good also covers recursion very well I've used it with American High-School students. The old Bird and Wadler book (newer editions are by Bird alone) are really good about algorithms, but maybe a bit too mathematical for many. 

See Book:

Drawing Programs: The Theory and Practice of Schematic Functional Programming, Pub by Springer, ISBN 978-1-84882-617-5 or e-ISBN 978-1-84882-618-2 by Tom & Jan Addis.  Although it is aimed at Schematic functional programming it also applies to ML, LISP, HOPE, MIRANDA or FPL.  The code generated is Faith - a functional database language (Also see Poulovassilis & King 1990 dept of Comp Sci Dept, Birkbeck College, London University internal report EDBT-90 or Read C, 1989 - Elements of Functional Programming, Addison Wesley ISBN 0-201-12915-9)

Another natural place to look at would be Martin Odersky's Coursera course:

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

Martin Odersky of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is the inventor of Scala.I have worked through this course and can recommend it very much.