\"A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it\'s about so much more than crime.\"--Tana French, author of In the WoodsOne of USA Today\'s \"Five new books you won\'t want to miss \" For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no recent book that tells

Crack the case with the world\'s most famous detective! But before he became the great detective, who was young Sherlock Holmes? The fourth book in a series of mystery adventures featuring a teenage Sherlock and endorsed by the Conan Doyle

Explores the astonishing range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. Describing about the head and brain, this book demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we

This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering all areas of endocrine pathology, it incorporates the most recent clinical, pathologic, and molecular knowledge in this challenging field to provide a comprehensive overview of all key issues relevant to today\'s practice. Richly illustrated

A laugh-out-loud collection of illustrated scenarios that perfectly captures the tribulations of being an adult human in the twenty-first century. Whether pondering the overwhelming plethora of nondairy milk options that drag out your coffee shop experience or grocery trip by a solid half-hour, trying to figure out why you always have a fork that never matches all of your other forks, or wondering

This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is. Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis is a unique contribution to the attempts to bridge the gap between clinicians and researchers and to create a culture of a more rigorous and systematic inquiry. It provides an innovative experience because for the first time different methods and perspectives were used to analyse one

Discover the power of positivity with these fun and entertaining games and activities designed to help boost your self-love. Bored? Lonely? Looking for a good time? That\'s the perfect time to work on you Every page of Self-Love Games & Activities has an activity you can do with little or no preparation to stimulate your brain, have some fun, or just pass the time. Simply open to a page and you\'ll

The Sun, as our nearest star, is of enormous importance for life on Earth - providing the warm radiation and light which allowed complex life to evolve. The Sun plays a key role in influencing our climate, whilst solar storms and high-energy events can threaten our communication infrastructure and satellites. This Very Short Introduction explores what we know about the Sun, its physics, its structure,

On the face of it, Gabriel Axel\'s Babette\'s Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religiouszealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that way is to get it profoundly wrong. In his study of the film, Julian Baggini argues that Babette\'s

Theoretical research and practical applications in the ?eld of vehicle routing started in 1959 with the truck dispatching problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser [1]: ?nd the \". . . optimum routing of a ?eet of gasoline delivery trucks between a bulk terminal and a large number of service stations supplied by the terminal. \" Using a method based on a linear programming formulation, their hand calculations

The male form is the focus here--twisting, leaping and tumbling in dramatic action sequences In this book, master manga and anime artist Kyachi teaches you the secrets professional Japanese artists use to create dynamic motion on the page. A series of detailed tutorials show you how to draw the male form in every possible position. Individual lessons cover standing, sitting, reclining, walking, running,

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Using his ability to repeat past events, a power named \"Return by Death,\" Subaru has saved the half-elf girl Emilia from a grim fate. However, his celebration is violently cut short. Subaru now wakes up in a large mansion, unsure of whether time has moved forward. Greeting him are the maid sisters Ram and Rem, whose verbal jabs sting with every word. It\'s a chance for a new life, but is Subaru in

Will she save him, as he has saved her - or will she lose everything?As she trudges endlessly calling his name in the hopeless hope she may find him, she runs into other people\'s landscapes and lives, finding allies amongst psychics, bloggers and mysterious midnight

Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist\'s prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of his life in 1966, including works from public and private collections across North America and Europe.

This new edition continues to be the classic core textbook for veterinary nursing students and a useful resource for qualified veterinary nurses. The edition has been revised and updated throughout and provides information covering the \'Day 1 Competencies\' (D1Cs) and \'Day 1 Skills\' (D1Ss), as set by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), and which every veterinary nurse graduate is expected

Teaching Children English focuses on an activity-based approach to teaching young learners aged seven years and over. It examines the educational and linguistic needs of children and provides an overview of appropriate classroom techniques. It highlights the importance of effective classroom management and organisation and supports teachers in the management of classroom resources. It provides extensive

\"Not only do we pass through the gate of death as immortal beings, we also enter through the gate of birth as unborn beings. We need the term unbornness, as well as the term immortality, to encompass the whole human being\" (Rudolf Steiner). As anyone who has had a child knows, newborns enter the earthly world as beings different from their parents. They arrive with their own individuality, being,

Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been \"read\" in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work\'s perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200-1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define \"the human\" so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex. The Shape of Sex examines a host of thinkers--theologians,