It also has good exercises, at varied levels.

Daniel

Alan Knight <knight at acm.org> wrote:
> I missed the original set of books, but a recent favourite of mine, while 
> somewhat specialized, is the Gusfield book from Cambridge called something 
> like "Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences". While it's a narrow 
> focus, its explanations of general algorithms are extremely good, and it 
> covers quite an interesting sub-field.