Yes, there are many books that start with functional programming. If I remember correctly. "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" start wit

Yes, there are many books that start with functional programming. If I remember correctly. "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" start with pure functional program, and define objects as function with state. An other one is "Essentials of programming languages". Also Pierce's "Types and Programming languages"....