Part VII - Eliminate the Impossible: 1880-1891 features contributions by: Mark Mower, Jan Edwards, Daniel D. Victor, James Lovegrove, Gayle Lange Puhl, Thomas Fortenberry, Mike Hogan, Thomas A. Turley, Adrian Middleton, James Moffett, Hugh Ashton, Geri Schear, S. Subramanian, John Hall, Jayantika Ganguly, S.F. Bennett, Steven Philip Jones, Jim French, John Linwood Grant, Mike Chinn, Robert V. Stapleton, Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, and Shane Simmons, with a poem by Jacquelynn Bost Morris, and forewords by David Marcum, Lee Child, Rand Lee, Michael Cox, and Melissa Farnham.In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow, with six volumes already released, and now two more, Eliminate the Impossible, featuring tales of Holmes's encounters with seemingly impossible events - ghosts and hauntings, curses and mythical beasts, and more.In "e;The Sussex Vampire"e;, Holmes tells Watson: "e;This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply."e; In each of the stories presented in this massive two-volume collection, Holmes approaches the varied problems with one of his favorite maxims firmly in place: "e;... when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth..."e; But what, exactly, is the truth?2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon, published between 1887 and 1927, there have been literally thousands of additional Holmes adventures in the form of books, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies, manuscripts, comics, and fan fiction. And yet, for those who are true friends and admirers of the Master Detective of Baker Street, where it is always 1895 (or a few decades on either side of that!) these stories are not enough. Give us more!The forty-eight stories in these two companion volumes represent some of the finest new Holmesian storytelling to be found, and honor the man described by Watson as "e;the best and wisest... whom I have ever known."e;All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The book is interdisciplinary and focuses on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from bioengineering to robotics. It provides an overview on the current state of the art of research in the field of artificial consciousness and includes extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the International Workshop on 'Artificial Consciousness', held in November 2005 at Agrigento (Italy).

A tribute collection of essays edited by author's colleagues and friends.

The contributors to this book mount a robust defence of the concept and practice of public service at a crucial time for its future. They question the ill-conceived assumptions behind the endless programmes of reform imposed by successive governments, often on the basis of advice from people with no direct experience of working in the public sector.With cuts in public spending by the coalition government and "e;austerity"e; programmes being imposed in Britain and abroad, the book could not be more timely in its reminder of the core purpose of public service. After a long period of denigration of the public sector, here is the voice that has not been heard clearly through these decades of reorganisation:"e;I know what my job is and I want to do it as well as I can. Indeed I would love my work if I could get one day's peace to get on with it. But I am beset at every turn by unintelligible, time wasting and fruitless management initiatives, constant change, ill-judged targets, wrong-headed 'commercial' exemplars and continuous and misguided restructuring. I have to watch as, instead of my 'customers' (actually patients, pupils, taxpayers) getting a better deal from me, the only beneficiaries seem to be those who can lobby for special treatment."e; The book contains accounts of public service by people of varying backgrounds and ages who work both inside and outside of the public sector. They share an allegiance to the value and purpose of working for the common good and an enthusiasm for getting things right and for the opportunity to recount their experience through this book.

Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased.This book presents the views of the founders of constructivism and modern systems theory, who are still providing stimulating cues for international scientific debate. The conversations of Heinz von Foerster, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela, Gerhard Roth, Siegfried J. Schmidt, Helm Stierlin, and Paul Watzlawick with Bernhard Poerksen, display a kind of thinking that steers clear of rigid fixation and reveals the ideal of objectivity to be a myth. The conversations turn on the results of brain research, the breaks through of cybernetics, the linguistic determination of thought, and the intrinsic connection between epistemology and ethical practice.Throughout, the central figure of the observer is examined with sophisticated wit and just enough irritating grit to create the pearl in the oyster. Constructivism thus emerges as a philosophy of possibilities that keeps generating new points of view, insists on fundamental scepticism with regard to certainties and dogmas, and provides the foundation for an ethics of perception: Each and every one of us is responsible for their view of things.

The contributors discuss why character education is considered valuable, what character education is taken to mean, and identify and test hypotheses about various influences (schools, families, communities, employers) on the development of character through reporting on our research in UK schools, universities and businesses.

The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English to re-evaluate the significance of movements and individuals who have had a prominent place in the historiography of the English Revolution. Davis's analyses of groups like the Levellers and individuals like Gerrard Winstanley and Oliver Cromwell has reoriented the inquiry around the contemporary moral themes of liberty, authority and formality-around which concepts this volume engages.

Siegfried J. Schmidt is closely associated in Germany with the cross-disciplinary research programme of Radical Constructivism. In Histories & Discourses he carries out a change of perspective from media and communication studies to studies of culture and the philosophy of language.His 'rewriting' of constructivism shows that classical constructivism shares some fundamental assumptions with realism, and he creates a new vocabulary which allows us to understand how we construct truth, identity, ethics, etc., without using any point of reference which lies beyond our culture (our 'history and discourses').

This volume brings together for the first time over a hundred of Oakeshott's essays and reviews, written between 1926 and 1951, that until now have remained scattered through a variety of scholarly journals, periodicals and newspapers. A new editorial introduction explains how these pieces, including the lengthy essay on the philosophical nature of jurisprudence that occupies an important position in Oakeshott's work, illuminate his other published writings. The collection throws new light on the context of his thought by placing him in dialogue with a number of other major figures in the humanities and social sciences during this period, including Leo Strauss, A.N. Whitehead, Karl Mannheim, Herbert Butterfield, E.H. Carr, Gilbert Ryle, and R.G. Collingwood.

This book presents a narrative of Scottish politics since devolution in 1999. It compares eight years of coalition government under Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats with four years of Scottish National Party minority government.It outlines the relative effect of each government on Scottish politics and public policy in various contexts, including: high expectations for 'new politics' that were never fully realised; the influence of, and reactions from, the media and public; the role of political parties; the Scottish Government's relations with the UK Government, EU institutions, local government, quasi-governmental and non-governmental actors; and, the finance available to fund policy initiatives. It then considers how far Scotland has travelled on the road to constitutional change, comparing the original devolved framework with calls for independence or a new devolution settlement.The book draws heavily on information produced since 1999 by the Scottish Devolution Monitoring project (which forms one part of the devolution monitoring project led by the Constitution Unit, UCL) and is supplemented by new research on public policy, minority government, intergovernmental relations and constitutional change.

The Project Approach in Early Years Provision is designed to help early years students, practitioners and managers understand and manage project work with young children. The project approach is designed to enable early educators to ensure young children are learning in the best possible way by providing motivating learning opportunities. Put the project approach into practice, using the included resources with adaptable and printable planning and observation forms. Link the approach to the requirements of all four British early years curricula. Develop children's personal and social skills by encouraging collaboration with others. Provide a meaningful context for children to practice their literacy and numeracy skills. Promote sustained shared thinking by facilitating projects that involve children in active investigation, discussion and debate. Give each child the freedom to learn according to their individual needs, interests, aptitudes, and abilities.

本书系统的介绍了Vue框架基础、框架应用、生态组成、项目实战、框架演、Vue原理剖析及Vue框架的原理实现。 全书共分为8章：第1章为行业发展介绍，第2章为Vue 2.x的发基础，第3章为Vue 2.x的组件发，第4章为Vue CLI发完全指南，第5章为Vue CLI项目实战，第6章为Vite Vue 3完全发指南，第7章为Vue 3.x项目实战，第8章为实现原理介绍。书中主要内容包括：Web前端发展史、Vue的诞生、Vue 2.x基础指令、Vue 2.x常用API、Vue 2.x组件系统、Vue 2.x组件化实战、Vue CLI脚手架搭建、Vue Router 3.x路由系统、Vuex 3.x状态管理系统、Axios网络插件、ElementUI框架、Vue 2.x综合项目实战、Vue 3.x基础语法、Vue 3.x组合式API、Vue 3.x响应式API、Vite脚手架、Vue 3.x函数式编程、Vue Router 4.x路由系统、Vuex 4.x状态管理系统、Pinia状态管理系统、ElementPlus框架、Vue 3.x的综合项目实战、Vue 2.x的响应式数据原理、Vue 3.x的响应式数据原理、虚拟DOM原理、Vue 2.x仿真实现、Vue 3.x仿真实现、Vue Router仿真实现和状态管理的高级原理。 书中包含大量应用示例，从基础门到阶发终渗透到原理和实现。书中的发示例基于VS Code发工具和Chrome浏览器实现，书中从框架基础到商城项目的实际发，分别通过Vue 2.x和Vue 3.x两套生态体系完整的阐述了如何使用Vue框架生态行完整的应用发，内容完整、步骤清晰，提供了工程化的解决方案。 本书可作为Vue框架初学者的门书籍，也可以作为行业在职前端程序员及培训机构的参考书籍。

这是一本全面介绍Python面向对象编程的图书。本书共分为4部分。第1章至第6章深讲解了面向对象编程的核心原则和概念，以及它们在Python中的实现方式。第7章至第9章仔细探讨了Python的数据结构、内置类和方法等，以及如何从面向对象编程的角度行分析和应用。第10章至第12章探讨了设计模式及其在Python中的实现。第13章和第14章涵盖了测试和并发两个重要主题。整本书以一个机器学习分类算法的实现案例贯穿始终，并不断探讨各种实现方式的优劣。 这是一本全面介绍Python面向对象编程的图书。本书共分为4部分。第1章至第6章深讲解了面向对象编程的核心原则和概念，以及它们在Python中的实现方式。第7章至第9章仔细探讨了Python的数据结构、内置类和方法等，以及如何从面向对象编程的角度行分析和应用。第10章至第12章探讨了设计模式及其在Python中的实现。第13章和第14章涵盖了测试和并发两个重要主题。整本书以一个机器学习分类算法的实现案例贯穿始终，并不断探讨各种实现方式的优劣。 本书针对的是Python面向对象编程的新手，假设读者具备基本的Python技能。对于有其他面向对象编程语言背景的读者，本书将展示Python的许多特性。

“浙派中医”是指发源于浙江一带，具有显著浙派文化特征的综合性中医学术流派，对中医药理论体系的完善和发展有着极其重要的作用。《浙派中医系列丛书》定位为具有较高水平的地方中医药文化研究性读物，注重学术性和史料性，兼顾通俗性和可读性。一方面旨在吸引学术界专家更多地关注和研究浙派中医文化，一方面帮助广大读者更全面地认识、更深地了解浙派中医的文化元素，从而激发和激励当代浙派中医人更好的地做到传承精华、守正创新。本丛书共分总览卷、地方卷、专科卷，其中地方卷分11个分册，专科卷10个分册。本书为总览卷，系统梳理浙江地区中医药文化、历史、发展、特色、相关医家等。

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奥普拉《超级星期天》节目的特邀嘉宾撰写，这是一本积极的、鼓舞人心的引导，帮助读者学会平息恐惧和焦虑，逐渐塑造强大而完整的内心。 A spiritual thought-leader and featured guest on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday helps us learn to quiet fear and anxiety and discover the powerful wholeness that exists within us all in this inspiring and affirmative guide.Achieving equilibrium in today’s age of anxiety can seem like a near-impossible—even frivolous—task. Panache Desai offers a refreshing, surprisingly unusual approach to meet the challenges of the modern moment and heal the fractured self it produces.For Desai, the soul—whole, unbroken, at peace, and one with the life source—isn’t a destination. It already exists within each of us, just waiting to be revealed. It is not something we have to work to develop—it is our birthright. And when we are in union with our soul, we experience a personal evolution that not only illuminates our individual cosmic purpose but helps us to engage the sense of purpose and presence necessary to remake the world itself.You Are Enough offers a straightforward, non-judgmental, and approachable process of revealing the soul, of coming into alignment and harmony with our true selves. Combining personal narrative, clear and inspiring philosophy, and prescriptive practices, it reveals that the way through is the way in—that the way through fear, self-doubt, and anxiety is accepting and embracing dissonance and emotional and psychological blockages, so that we can approach our lives and the world from a perspective that understands our fears are not who we are. Desai’s goal is simple: to guide readers through radical self-acceptance toward a life of ultimate peace and fulfillment.Beautifully designed, this enlightening volume by a fresh voice shows us that while life may have caused us to forget our power, potential, light, and love, they are always there, just waiting to be discovered.

自一九一一年孫中山等革命人士發動辛亥革命開始，到二十年代廣泛的罷工潮，三十年代末的太平洋戰爭，四十年代日軍佔領香港，以至一九四九年大陸政權更替，香港在政治與社會動蕩不已的這約四十年歲月裏，經歷了高低起跌的風風雨雨。然而，香港的發展步伐始終沒有凌亂，逐漸從鄉村漁港，發展成為工商金融業中心。作者鄭寶鴻透過一幅幅珍貴歷史圖片及大量材料，見證香港懷著鬥志走過的每一步。本書特色：1. 本書從20個主題，包括中國與香港、風雲人物、社會與人口、交通、財經金融、工商業、土地發展與房屋等，用大量圖片配以簡短的介紹文字，展現1911-1950年香港的發展及生活面貌。2. 作者為上下兩個篇章分別撰寫一篇短文，以概括當時期值得注意的大事件及重點，讓讀者在閱覽圖片前對主題有一個大概認識。3. 本書刊載大量珍貴圖片及檔案資料超過260件，絕大部分更是首次公開，具有珍貴歷史價值。

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本书是我社策划组织的《实用中医临床医学丛书》之一。本书介绍了临床各种常见肿瘤的中医诊断、治疗、鉴别等内容。并论述了临床常用的现代医学诊查方法和特，源流部分的内容详细摧了中医经典著作有关肿瘤相关内容的描述，供临床中医药工作者参考使用。辨治思路、治疗原则、治疗手段等突出中医药特色，体现中医治疗肿瘤的思维逻辑。对于中医肿瘤工作者来说，不失为一部实用经典参考著作。

本书是梅全喜教授从药40年来对地产药材研究的系统总结，全书分总论和各论二部分，总论部分系统介绍他在地产药材研究上的认识、体会、做法，各论部分介绍了他围绕50余种地产中药展了综述、鉴别、化学成分、药理及毒理作用等各方面的研究，其中很多的地产药材研究如对三角草、广东土牛膝、蛇泡簕、沉香等的研究成果对于指导一个中药工作者如何展对所关注的地产药材的系统全面研究工作具有重要价值。目前国内以这种形式出版的中药专著还很少见，相信该书的出版一定会受到欢迎，其社会和经济效益一定是显著的。

《图说中国雕塑艺术》是奉献给普通百姓的一部简明艺术读物，它旨在提高读者的文化品位，加强艺术修养。本书以便捷的方式勾勒出中国雕塑艺术的演变历程，从众多雕塑作品中精挑细选了为脍炙人口者，加以赏析，突出了这一视觉艺术的装饰、美化作用和纪念性。本书栏目活泼，语言通畅，注解深浅出，配有大量精美的彩图。在赏心悦目的阅读中，你会对我国雕塑行一次全景式的巡礼，从而轻松获得丰富的艺术知识，提升审美素养。