COMBINATORIAL REASONINGShowcases the interdisciplinary aspects of combinatorics and illustrates how to problem solve with a multitude of exercisesWritten by two well-known scholars in the field, Combinatorial Reasoning: An Introduction to the Art of Counting presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methodology of beginning combinatorics. Focusing on modern techniques and applications, the book develops a ...

It's not unusual for someone to have issues with their parents, but the 15 cases profiled in this book show that sometimes they can't be resolved with a conversation. In some cases, frequent physical and mental abuse led to murder, while other cases were just mentally deranged people taking out their frustrations on the closest person available.These short profiles show what happens when sons and daughters snap and end the lives of those who brought them into this world.

The challenge of dividing an asset fairly, from cakes to more important properties, is of great practical importance in many situations. Since the famous Polish school of mathematicians (Steinhaus, Banach, and Knaster) introduced and described algorithms for the fair division problem in the 1940s, the concept has been widely popularized. This book

Written by two well-known scholars in the field, Combinatorial Reasoning: An Introduction to the Art of Counting presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methodology of beginning combinatorics. Focusing on modern techniques and applications, the book develops a variety of effective approaches to solving counting problems.Balancing abstract ideas with specific topical coverage, the book utilizes real world examples with problems ranging from basic...

With this definitive guide to radio spectrum management, you will learn from leading practitioners how spectrum can be managed effectively and made available both now and in the future. All aspects of spectrum management are covered in depth, from the fundamentals of radio spectrum and technical and economic basics, to detail on methods such as auctions, trading, and pricing, and emerging approaches including shared and dynamic spectrum access and new ways of licensing. With the help of re...

If you've ever thought your child was bad, then you haven't seen anything yet! In the pages that follow, you are about to meet some of the most vicious children who ever lived.The kids in this book are as young as ten-years-old and they are ruthless. The nice ones killed in cold blood—but many of these kids weren’t nice…they wanted their victims to suffer.Some were turned killers by their brutal home environments; others were just inherently evil. They were all deadly darli...

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is…deadly? For the people in this book, that’s certainly the case. They acted out of love and performed some of the most hideous acts of passion in the history of romance.This short book follows several cases of deadly passion, from the celebrated French woman who had enough of her husband's blatant cheating to the woman who made her husband a few inches shorter. These deadly divas and wannabe studs shocked the world and proved that love can be f...

With all of the attention placed on murderers of the male persuasion, you may be under the mistaken impression that the fairer sex has little if any blood on their hands.Sure, women have killed people over the years, but aside from a poisoning here and there, they couldn’t have been that bad, right?Wrong.True, there have been fewer female serial killers than men (that we know of), but as this book shows the women who have taken part in this sickening pastime were ev...

Essential for getting to grips with the Weightless standard for M2M communications, this definitive guide describes and explains the new standard in an accessible manner. It helps you to understand the Weightless standard by revealing its background and rationale. Designed to make clear the context and the fundamental design decisions for Weightless and to provide a readable overview of the standard, it details principal features and issues of the technology, the business case for deployme...

Do you need to get up to speed quickly on the technologies and services that could transform the wireless world over the coming decade? Whether you work directly with wireless or in a sector where wireless solutions could be beneficial (e.g. healthcare, transport, sensor networks, location and smart metering), this concise guide provides a critical insight into future developments. For the first time, you will have a clear view of all the key technologies, including mesh networks, white sp...

A tidyverse edition of the acclaimed textbook on data analysis and statistics for the social sciences and allied fieldsQuantitative analysis is an essential skill for social science research, yet students in the social sciences and related areas typically receive little training in it. Quantitative Social Science is a practical introduction to data analysis and statistics written especially for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the social s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.★★★ You'll never look at coworkers the same way again ★★★Almost everyone thinks it: “One day I’m going to give my boss what he has coming.” The fifteen people in this book took this notion to the extreme.What kind of workplace drives a person into performing such heinous acts? Does a workplace drive a person to kill, or is the killer already inside, waiting for a reason to act out? Find out in this fasci...