The Brief Edition of Western Civilization presents a strong chronological and political framework and seamlessly integrates the social and cultural forces that have shaped the western past. Two related themes are pursued throughout: 1) Europe in relation to the rest of the world and non-Western infl[...]

Presents the tools of combinatorics from an applied point of view. This book focuses on three basic problems of combinatorics: counting, existence, and optimization problems. It contains many examples from the biological, computer, and social sciences, including disease screening, genome mapping, sa[...]