This book is a tribute to Paul Erd\H{o}s, the wandering mathematician once described as the "prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of problem posers." It examines -- within the context of his unique personality and lifestyle -- the legacy of open problems he left to the world after his death in 1996. Unwilling to succumb to the temptat

This book is a tribute to Paul Erdos, the wandering mathematician once described as the "prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of problem posers." It examines the legacy of open problems he left to the world after his death in 1996.

As the first English-language book on Taiwan’s relations with Latin America, this book examines the major issues and theoretical debates on Taiwan’s activities in Latin America, and its relations with the US and China. Latin America has become a crucial frontline for Taiwan. Today, more than at any time since the end of WWII, Taiwan’s future as an independent state hinges on the balance of power between the United States and China. This book provides the most detailed and sophisticated ana...

An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting the common needs and objectives among all aging Americans. With portraits of Asians, Latinos, individuals of European and African origins, Native Americans, Socio-religious groups, women, gay men...

Math for Kids, the fourth book of The Kitchen Pantry Scientist series, brings math to life through biography and creative engagement.Go beyond counting. Solve puzzles, learn a magic trick, and play a ton of games.This engaging guide offers a series of snapshots of 20+ mathematicians, from ancient history through today, paired with related hands-on projects perfect for a kitchen or a classroom. Each lab tells the st...

Every real estate agent knows that in order to grow their business, they need to grow their database. But today, agents are caught between outdated practices like door knocking and overly automated methods like complex digital bots. Old-school agents are paralyzed by the past, and modern agents are paralyzed by the tech.Expert marketer Aarin Chung realized this gap was moving agents further and further away from the very thing they do best: connecting with people. ...

Education reform has become a highly political issue in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since the transfer of sovereignty to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).Lo and Hung focus on the political struggles among stakeholders, including the government of Hong Kong, the Catholic Church, parents, students, teachers, the central authorities of Beijing, and even the bureaucratic politics between Beijing, the Hong Kong government and the Examination Authority. They e...

This book explores the dynamics of China’s new united front work in Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese penetrative politics can be seen in the activities of local pro-Beijing political parties, clans and neighborhood associations, labor unions, women and media organizations, district federations, and some religious groups. However, united front work in the educational and youth sectors of civil society has encountered strong resistance because many Hong Kong people are post-materialistic and upho...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks, WAW 2026, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, during June 15–19, 2026.The 7 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The goal was also to stimulate the development of high performance and scalable algorithms that exploit complex networks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2017, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in June 2017. The 7 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers are organized around topics such as graphs that arise from the Web and various user activities on the Web; the development of high Performance algorithms and applications that exploit these graphs; graph-theoretic a...

This book shows that Hong Kong’s protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China’s effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory. The mixture of peaceful and violent protests was due to the snowballing effect of protestors-police confrontations, the imbalanced way in which police exercised their power, and protestors’ strategies. The protests triggere...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2016, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in December 2016.The 13 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The workshop gathered the researchers who are working on graph-theoretic and algorithmic aspects of related complex networks, including social networks, citation networks, biological networks, molecular network...