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So if I understand correctly, this book is both too long and doesn't cover enough? (I'm confused about the book to which you're referring. If it's "Mathematics for Computer Science", then it does cover graph theory from p445.)

Read the TOC again, there's plenty of graph theory. Calculus isn't important for CS.

Calculus isn't important for CS.

It can be, depending on what you're doing. Look at back-propagation in neural networks for example, where the whole thing is based on the chain rule from Calculus.

Yeah absolutely. Having a broad background in math can help in surprising places but there's much more math that has applications to CS than can fit in one class.

Calculus is a prereq for taking the course in which this book is used. I'm pretty sure Differential Equations is also a required course for CS majors at MIT, too.