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Avatars and acolytes Byron, De Quincey, Wilde and more, are here, all at their unwholesome best. English Decadence was not a polite response to French invention, but the hothouse blossoming of long indigenous researches into the perverse. Like Imperial Rome, England could hardly subdue and rule the globe without becoming corrupt. The Romantics tried rebellion, but amidst Victorian industry, terminally fatigued Decadents concerned themselves with cultivating their addiction to luxury and sensation. This is the most wide-ranging, important collection of English decadent writing ever published..
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The book deals with the existence, uniqueness, regularity, and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the initial value problem (Cauchy problem) and the initial-Dirichlet problem for a class of degenerate diffusions modeled on the porous medium type equation $u_t = \Delta u^m$, $m \geq 0$, $u \geq 0$. Such models arise in plasma physics, diffusion through porous media, thin liquid film dynamics, as well as in geometric flows such as the Ricci flow on surfaces and the Yamabe flow. The approach presented to these problems uses local regularity estimates and Harnack type inequalities, which yield compactness for families of solutions. The theory is quite complete in the slow diffusion case ($m>1$) and in the supercritical fast diffusion case ($m_c < m < 1$, $m_c=(n-2)_+/n$) while many problems remain in the range $m \leq m_c$. All of these aspects of the theory are discussed in the book..
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The book is written mainly to advanced graduate and post-graduate students following courses in Perturbation Theory and Celestial Mechanics. It is also intended to serve as a guide in research work and is written in a very explicit way: all perturbation theories are given with details allowing its immediate application to real problems. In addition, they are followed by examples showing all steps of their application. The book is not intended to explore the mathematics of Hamiltonian Systems, but may be useful to mathematicians in a great deal of circumstances as a reference on the practical application of the theories. In the same way, it may be a source book on the problems of degeneracy and small divisors, which affect the use of perturbation theories as well in Celestial Mechanics as in Physics.

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Tales of a Degenerate Poker Player is a colourful insight into the world of poker and gambling as seen through the eyes of Derek Kelly. The glue that holds this multitude of often very funny stories and potted histories together is his involvement in a thing called Gutshot. Derek was the leading name in an English High Court battle to prove poker is a game of skill. Along with a bunch of other poker degenerates he chose the method of opening a high profile poker club, (called Gutshot), in Central London, England to challenge a law they believed to be out of date and redundant. The inclusion of irreverent tales of famous gamblers, gangsters, private poker games, (and the strange people that play in them), serves to illustrate poker is not fifty two playing cards and degenerate gambling but maybe a whole lot better than that..
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