Networks are everywhere: networks of friends, transportation networks and the Web. Neurons in our brains and proteins within our bodies form networks that determine our intelligence and survival. This modern, accessible textbook introduces the basics of network science for a wide range of job sectors from management to marketing, from biology to engineering, and from neuroscience to the social sciences. Students will develop important, practical skills and learn to write code for using networks in their areas of interest - even as they are just learning to program with Python. Extensive sets of tutorials and homework problems provide plenty of hands-on practice and longer programming tutorials online further enhance students' programming skills. This intuitive and direct approach makes the book ideal for a first course, aimed at a wide audience without a strong background in mathematics or computing but with a desire to learn the fundamentals and applications of network science.
Epitomizing the American mystique, McCullagh (or Mack as he was popularly known) was the self-made man whose name became a legend in his profession. An Irish immigrant at the age of 11, a printer, reporter, and roving correspondent, McCullagh returned to St. Louis after the Civil War, where he had worked briefly when he was 16. From this point to the end of his life in l896—a thirty-year period which forms the bulk of Mr. Clayton’s story—St. Louis was the primary stage on which his role as editor of the Globe-Democrat unfolded. St. Louis was a crossroads through which went an unending movement of men on their way West, a bustling and burgeoning city on the eve of the American century. To this city and to the problems mirrored in its growth, McCullagh dedicated his years and his prodigious talents, provoking men to speak, sending his staff of interviewers everywhere, and heaping his abrasive prose on men and issues. This spirited yet humorous account of “Little Mack” will appeal to all readers for its portrayal of an unforgettable man in one of our great cities in the stirring and formative years of the nation.
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
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