1 Table of Contents: “... Problems -- R. Herzog, D. Knees, C. Meyer, M. Sievers, A. Stötzner, S. Thomas, Rate-Independent Systems...”

2 “... and their applications to nonlinear impul­ sive differential equations in Banach spaces...”

3 “... comprehen­ sive presentation of those parts of perturbation theory that can be treated without...”

4 “... to cryptic; our intent is to be more leisurely, more comprehen­ sive, and more comprehensible. To this end we...”

5 “... second purpose, we provide, for those instructors who wish to give a comprehen­ sive course in analysis...”

6 “...Historically, complex analysis and geometrical function theory have been inten­ sively developed...”

7 “..., it was unsatisfactory mainly because it was ex­ ce~sively abstract and lacked examples. It was then decided to write...”

8 “... of partial differential inequalities has been described exten­ sively in the monographs [138, 140, 195, 225...”