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Table of Contents
PART 1: ENUMERATION. Chapter 1: Basic Counting; Chapter 2: Combinatorial Identities and Recursions; Chapter 3: Counting Problems in Graph Theory; Chapter 4: Inclusion-Exclusion and Related Techniques; New Chapter 5: Generating Functions; Chapter 6: Ranking, Unranking, and Successor Algorithms; PART 2: ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS; Chapter 7: Permutation Statistics and q-Analogues; Chapter 8: Permutations and Group Actions; Chapter 9: Tableaux and Symmetric Polynomials. Chapter 10: Abaci and Antisymmetric Polynomials; Chapter 11: Additional Topics. New Appendix: Background in Abstract Algebra.