The Book Review Column

While the approaches are all different, there is at least one thread running through the three books reviewed in this column: the graph, and/or its more complex relative as manifested in the real world, the network: 1. Words and Graphs, by Sergey Kitaev and Vadim Lozin. The mathematics connecting two ideas that are more closely related than might at first appear. Review by James V. Rauff. 2. Network Science, by Albert-Làszlò Barabàasi. An introduction to a burgeoning and exciting new field. Review by Panos Louridas. 3. Trends in Computational Social Choice, edited by Ulle Endriss. This collection of articles is a follow-up to a title reviewed recently in this column. Review by S.V. Nagaraj. Please let me know if you are interested in reviewing any of the books listed on the subsequent page are available for review.