![]() ![]() Connan Doyle added to this success with a series of Holmes stories for the Strand Magazine in 1891. Its success encouraged its author to write a full length novel, and two years later, Micah Clarke was published to critical acclaim. He described her in his memoirs as having been "gentle and amiable." Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet' published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. ![]() In August of 1885, he married a young woman called Louisa Hawkins, the sister of one of his patients. He was a man of many talents: a medical doctor, prolific and excellent storyteller, keen patriot and a staunch imperialist, as well as a campaigner against miscarriages of justice. He is also known all over the world as the creator of the most famous fictional characters in English literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “My sister called me and said, ‘I don’t know if you want to hear this but….’ Her husband had seen it on CNN. “I had no idea they were there,” she said. Her work is an interesting cross of fantastical and photo realism (see example below), which brought many fans - including three of her pieces found in one of Saddam Hussein’s homes. In all, she has painted the cover for more than 400 novels, along with various other commissions. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, Piers Anthony, and Madeleine L’Engle, among others. Rowena, as she usually signed her work, became especially known for her science fiction and fantasy work, painting book covers for Anne McCaffrey, Philip K. If you can find a “perfect” copy of that pulp paperback, its price will probably be north of $750, almost entirely attributed to Morrill’s cover. It worked: she soon was commissioned to paint the cover for Isobel, a 1977 Jane Parkhurst romance. “The ad agency was unbearable,” she said, “so I quit.” Her next idea: call book publishers to see if they needed a cover artist. A painter, Morrill first worked at a New York City ad agency. ![]() ![]() He isn't closeted, but he isn't out at work, and there's a wild, angry side to him that he's managed to keep hidden until now. ![]() Nick Rugo's job is to protect and serve the people of Minneapolis as an undercover cop. Although he pretends not to know what he's really doing, each Find takes its toll, and he's trapped in a life he hates, losing touch with his true self. But to keep that safety, Brian has to use his Finding talent to track down the boss's enemies. ![]() His brother and sister got all three of them off the streets and into a cushy life, under the protection of a dangerous criminal. Tracefinder Book One What could an undercover cop and a drug lord's pet psychic have in common? Brian Kerr has spent years hiding behind a facade of mental slowness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Using the university’s recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era. The Kent State shootings were both unavoidable and preventable: unavoidable in that all the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place. Two students were shot and killed and 12 others were injured at the hands of the police. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the commons. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a thirteen-second, sixty-seven-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. ![]() At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus commons at Kent State University. ![]() ![]() They sacrifice relationships, friendships, uproot their lives every year when they have to move hospitals and frequently work to the point of exhaustion, all to help people and save lives. ![]() That may seem like a contradiction, and yes, it is, but what it really is, is a testament to the bloody amazing people who, despite those conditions, dedicate so much of their life to being doctors. Opening sentence: In 2010, after six years of training and a further six years on the wards, I resigned from my job as a junior doctor. Adam Kay honestly and succinctly lays bare the harsh realities of being a junior doctor in the NHS: ‘ the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible you’re underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. ![]() Let me start by saying This is Going to Hurt is hands-down one of the best memoirs I’ve read. ![]() ![]() ![]() And he’s the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. ![]() She was born in Italy and has lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the U.S. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Ali Hazelwood is a professor of neuroscience and the author of The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, and Love, Theoretically. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. ![]() Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. ONLY TARGET this exclusive edition contains bonus content! ![]() ![]() ![]() Email or text the person to set up a time to chat for thirty minutes. Next, you should try if at all possible to deliver your letter personally.Try to keep your letter to roughly one page.Describe what you are doing in your life now and how their act of kindness has contributed to it.Try to be as concrete and specific as possible. Describe as specifically as you can what this person did, why you are grateful to this person, and how this person's behavior has positively affected you.Don't worry about perfect grammar or spelling.Write as though you are addressing this person directly ("Dear _").It may be most helpful to select a person or an act someone did that you haven't thought about for awhile-and maybe take for granted. Try to pick someone who is still alive and could speak with you in the next week. ![]()
![]() ![]() Lewontin does acknowledge that scientists inescapably rely on “rhetorical” proofs (authority, tradition) for most of what they care about they depend on theoretical assumptions unprovable by hard science, and their promises are often absurdly overblown.īut he mistakenly suggests that such rhetorical reliance is a fault that the right kind of scientist-no doubt his kind-could escape. The “case” can never be “scientific” in the sense that Lewontin and Sagan imply. But he falls into a shopworn and destructive dichotomy when he says, “The case for the scientific method should itself be ‘scientific’ and not merely rhetorical” (my italics). He is right in claiming that Sagan gives no clue about how scientific method might prove its own claims to superiority. ![]() It is not enough, however, to say that Sagan “has opened the wrong envelope.” Lewontin himself has not quite opened the right one. Anyone who believes Sagan’s claims about the ultimate hopes for “scientific method” should study Lewontin’s underminings carefully. Richard Lewontin’s review of Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World raises many of the right questions about the over-confident rhetoric of many scientists. ![]() ![]() Or so my father use to tell me as I was growing up. But only breaking one of their rules will leave you in a broken, blood pile on the floor. There are rules, just as there are in every family, every society. Being part of the MC that was Angel’s Halo was exactly like being part of a family. Its greatest income is the University just outside of the town limits… and the revenue the local Motorcycle Club brings in. It’s a quiet town, with small town values. more Creswell Springs was a small little town in Trinity Count, California. ![]() Creswell Springs was a small little town in Trinity Count, California. ![]() ![]() He can't afford to do anything that might derail his career.like introducing the world to his boyfriend. Scott needs Kip in his life, but with playoff season approaching, the spotlight on him is suddenly brighter than ever. When it happens it's red-hot, incredible and frequent, but also only on Scott's terms and always behind his closed apartment doors. Or kissed with reckless abandon, never mind touched everywhere all at once. Book 4: Common Goal Book 5: Role Model Book 6: The Long Game. ![]() Kip knew there was more to Scott's frequent visits than blended fruit, but he never let himself imagine being invited back to Scott's penthouse. 'Rachel Reid crafted a story of true heart, beauty, heat, and glorious, hard-won redemption I loved both heroes and their journey to love was a gorgeous one to watch'. So, when a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes Scott breaking his on-ice slump, he's desperate to recreate the magic.and to get to know the sexy, funny guy behind the counter. In this case, it’s not just a lucky smoothie he’s cravingit’s the man who made it. ![]() Publishers Weekly, starred review for Common Goal New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. Pro hockey star Scott Hunter knows a good thing when he sees it. Reid’s hockey-themed Game Changers series continues on its red-hot winning streak. ![]() In this case, it's not just a lucky smoothie he's craving-it's the man who made it. New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. "Reid's hockey-themed Game Changers series continues on its red-hot winning streak." - Publishers Weekly, starred review for Common Goal ![]() |