Theme-based Book Review: public policy problems, and solutions?

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Knapsack problems: A book review

We review the recent book authored by Hans Kellerer, Ulrich Pferschy, and David Pisinger, Knapsack Problems, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-40286-1, price: $129.

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Wicked Problems in Public Policy

101 * This paper is a revised version of a presentation to the Australian Public Policy Network conference, 29–30 January 2008. The author thanks many colleagues who have helped in the further clarification of these ideas, including John Alford, Alan Fenna, Patrick Weller, Andrew Podger, and the anonymous referees for this journal — none of whom bears any responsibility for errors. © 2008 Curti...

Menger’s and Hurewicz’s Problems: Solutions from “the Book” and Ramifications

We provide simplified solutions of Menger’s and Hurewicz’s problems and conjectures, concerning generalizations of σcompactness. The reader who is new to this field will find a selfcontained treatment in Sections 1, 2, and 5. Sections 3 and 4 contain new results, based on the mentioned simplified solutions. The main new result is that there is a set of reals X of cardinality b, which has the fo...