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This comprehensive textbook presents a clean and coherent account of most fundamental tools and techniques in Parameterized Algorithms and is a self-contained guide to the area. The book covers many of the recent developments of the field, including application of important separators, branching based on linear programming, Cut & Count to obtain...

'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Wa...

This textbook, now in its third edition, provides a formative introduction to the structure of matter that will serve as a sound basis for students proceeding to more complex courses, thus bridging the gap between elementary physics and topics pertaining to research activities. The focus is deliberately limited to key concepts of atoms, molecule...

Translated from the popular French edition, the goal of the book is to provide a self-contained introduction to mean topological dimension, an invariant of dynamical systems introduced in 1999 by Misha Gromov. The book examines how this invariant was successfully used by Elon Lindenstrauss and Benjamin Weiss to answer a long-standing open questi...

"Navegábamos en demanda del Mar Rojo aprovechando la contracorriente costera que discurre por el Canal de Mozambique a pocas millas de la provincia portuguesa de ultramar de igual nombre. Con el Canal de Suez cerrado a cal y canto, nuestro armador, un italiano de Pésaro con domicilio fiscal en Lugano, se había empeñado, mediante la circunnavegac...

Aquests apunts, a manera de diari, els inicià el poeta triestí Virgilio Giotti el dia 29 de gener del 1946, quan va deixar d'esperar que els seus fills, Paolo i Franco, que havien estat enviats de Rússia com a intèrprets de l'exèrcit italià durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, tornessin vius. Claudio Magris, en l'escrit que complementa l'edició c...

"Sturm und Drang" refers to a set of values and a style of writing that arose in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, a particularly intense kind of pre-Romanticism that has often been represented as marking the beginning of an independent modern German culture. The circle of writers around the young Goethe, including Herder, Le...