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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the genre. From the outset it was mired in disrepute. Cleland penned the novel to liberate himself from debtors' prison, and the book's manifestly lewd content led to its legal suppression within a year of publication. Though versions of the novel, nearly always abridged in some form, continued to find a way into print, the Memoirs remained an underground text until the 1960s. Only as that decade ushered in a culture less socially deferential and more sexually permissive was the moment opportune for the obscenity ban to be successfully challenged. Cleland's novel is a triumph of literary style, resting on his invention of an entirely new, vividly metaphoric, terminology for describing sexual pleasure. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers an up-to-date introduction to the basic issues that have come to define the philosophy of technology: What is 'technology" Does technology control our lives What is technology's relation to ethics How does technology influence us Is the widespread belief in technological progress justified Later sections of the book examine the application of philosophy of technology to social issues.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contains hundreds of visual explanations of results from elementary number theory. Figurate numbers and Pythagorean triples feature prominently, but there are also proofs of Fermat's Little and Wilson's Theorems. Fibonacci and perfect numbers, Pell's equation, and continued fractions all find visual representation in this collection. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Introduces functional analysis to undergraduate mathematics students who possess a basic background in analysis and linear algebra. By studying how the Volterra operator acts on vector spaces of continuous functions, its readers will sharpen their skills, reinterpret what they already know, and learn fundamental Banach-space techniques. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The theory of finite fields encompasses algebra, combinatorics, and number theory and has furnished widespread applications in other areas of mathematics and computer science. This book covers basic facts about finite fields, polynomials over finite fields, Gauss sums, algebraic number theory and cyclotomic fields, zeros of polynomials over finite fields, and classical groups over finite fields. …