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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz dazzles with this thrilling contemporary romance of deadly secrets and desires. When a mysterious man enters a bookshop and demands a rare collection of 18th-century erotica, the owner has no idea that she will soon be a part of his dark and intriguing world.

Mehr als 100 Rezepte als trickreiche Bausteine für künftige Grafikprogramme unter Windows werden dem Leser zur Verfügung gestellt. Das Buch ist eine Fundgrube mit Anregungen und Tricks, wie man Grafikprogramme mit Turbo Pascal unter Windows erstellen kann. Dabei geht das Buch weit über das hinaus, was an grundlegenden Grafik-Routinen von Borland direkt zur Verfügung gestellt wird. Jedes Rezept besteht aus einer Funktionsbeschreibung ("Wie wird...

In this political biography of Walter Mondale, Steve Gillon asks a central question that is the basis of his argument: What does Mondale's career reveal about the dilemma of the modern Democratic party and the crisis of post-war American liberalism? Gillon's answer is that Mondale provided a bridge between the Party's past successes and its still undefined future. By examining Mondale's rise in the 1950s and 1960s and his ultimately unsuccessf...

Dieses Buch dokumentiert einen Diskussionsprozeß, der an vielen Orten stattfindet und vom Arbeitskreis "Theorie der Informatik" in der Gesellschaft für Informatik zusammengeführt wird. Das Themenfeld, das festgehalten wird, umfaßt wissenschaftstheoretische und philosophische Grundlagen der Informatik, gesellschaftliche, kulturelle, anthropologische und ethische Verankerungen und Perspektiven - Sichtweisen der Informatik von innen, aber auch vo...

The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults-both the young idealists and their security-oriented parents-into rigid attitudes that stifle personal growth. He argues that the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behavior among the urban middle classes that are stultifying, narrow, and violence-prone. And he proposes a functioning city that can incorporate anarchy, dive...

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For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the United States struggled to direct its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world. These fifteen years are as rich as any in American history, rich in incident - the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the antiwar crusade, the opening of China, Watergate, Kennedy's assa...

Engaged and insightful, this collection explores the dynamics of gender, class, and race in today's United States. Sophisticated theory, passionate concern, and vivid examples make this a landmark work of social criticism." --Renato Rosaldo

In 1908 John Neihardt (1881-1973) and two companions traveled the Missouri River--about two thousand miles--in a twenty-foot canoe. Originally published in "Outing Magazine" as a series of articles, "The River and I" describes their adventures on that wild waterway before it was dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers and points out storied sites along the shore. The result transcends journalism, Neihardt does for the Missouri what Twain did for...

Anne Finch and Her Poetry is the first major critical examination of the life and works of the foremost English woman poet of the eighteenth century. This biography places Anne Finch (1661-1720) in her social and literary milieu and includes discussion of such topics as love and marriage, female friendships, melancholy, and nature as they relate both to Finch's life and to her poetry.Barbara McGovern gives considerable attention to the methods...

This text offers an overview of the basic theories and techniques of functional analysis and its applications. It contains topics such as the fixed point theory starting from Ky Fan's KKM covering and quasi-Schwartz operators. It also includes over 200 exercises to reinforce important concepts., The author explores three fundamental results on Banach spaces, together with Grothendieck's structure theorem for compact sets in Banach spaces (incl...

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Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen -- and his cat-and-mouse games with thos...

One of Hungary's most prolific authors during the first half of the 20th century. Ferenc Molnar was widely read and respected by audiences throughout Europe. This study provides an analysis of Molnar's early literary work (1898-1920) in the context of the cultural milieu of turn-of-the-century Austria-Hungary. The book seeks also to shed light on the socio-historical condition and literary developments in 'Fin-de-Siècle' Budapest.

This introductory text provides a thoroughly modern treatment of Fuchsian groups that addresses both the classical material and recent developments in the field. A basic example of lattices in semisimple groups, Fuchsian groups have extensive connections to the theory of a single complex variable, number theory, algebraic and differential geometry, topology, Lie theory, representation theory, and group theory.

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Kaufmännische Anwendungen auf einem Personalcomputer mit Hilfe von Stan­ dardsoftware? Ist dieser Ansatz für die heutigen Anforderungen akzeptabel? Die beiden Autoren haben bereits im ersten Band den Nachweis geliefert, daß viele der routinemäßigen Berechnungen, die in kaufmännischen Berufen notwendig sind, mit relativ geringem Aufwand auf der Ebene eines Personalcomputers und einer integrierten Standardsoftware wie Framewerk erledigt werden k...

Independently-produced video, produced outside of mainstream commercial channels, provides a pool of shared imagery about the American past and the American people which is unique. This title introduces historians to multicultural media as a resource in teaching, and provides and introduction to this work on three levels.

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