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A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches

By: Charles Press

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A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches

By: Charles Press

More parodies have been written targeting Sherlock Holmes than anyone else dead or alive, fictional or real. James M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, started it all back in the early 1890's and Sherlockian parody has been coming out regularly ever since, right into the age of the internet. While Sherlock's creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived, close to 400 appeared in Britain and America. In these early parodies, Sherlock is off on the wrong track in the great Coleslaw mystery, struggling with the disappearance of the President's Whisker, rescuing that damsel in distress, Elsa Lohengrin, and even delving into the spirit world---and much more. Mark Twain, the Mr. Dooley of Finley Peter Dunne, Kenneth Grahame's Ratty of The Wind in the Willows, John Kendrick Bangs, Bret Harte, Ring Lardner, C. K. Chesterton, and O. Henry all contributed to this early Bedside collection. Sherlock turns up at Wellseley College and Yale, Hades and The Garden of Eden, Peoria and the Oklahoma Territory, in the trenches of War I and often in his familiar Baker Street hangout. Sherlockian Charles Press began collecting these early lampoons as a hobby after retiring from Michigan State University. He is the author of two Sherlockian monographs, Parodies and Pastiches, Buzzing Round Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Looking Over Sir Arthur's Shoulder, and "When Did Arthur Conan Doyle Meet Jean Leckie?" in The Baker Street Journal.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1780926324

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9781780926322

In touch with the future

The sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality

By: Alberto Gallace,Charles Spence

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In touch with the future

The sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality

By: Alberto Gallace,Charles Spence

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of tactile receptors. It provides us with the means to connect with our surroundings. Despite the important role that vision plays in our everyday lives, it is the skin that constitutes both the oldest, and by far the largest of our sense organs. The skin protects our body from the external world and, at the same time, informs us about what occurs on its surface. In Touch With The Future explores the science of touch, bringing together the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience about the processing of tactile information in humans. The book provides a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge regarding themes such as tactile memory, tactile awareness (consciousness), tactile attention, the role of touch in interpersonal and sexual interactions, and the neurological substrates of touch. It highlights the many ways in which our growing understanding of the world of touch can, and in some cases already are, being applied in the real world in everything from the development of virtual reality (VR) environments, tablet PCs, mobile phones, and even teledildonics - the ultimate frontier in terms of adult entertainment. In addition, the book shows how the cognitive neuroscience approach to the study of touch can be applied to help improve the design of many real-world applications/products as well as to many of our everyday experiences, such as those related to the appreciation of food, marketing, packaging design, the development of enhanced sensory substitution systems, art, and man-machine interfaces. Crucially, the authors makes a convincing argument for the view that one cannot really understand touch, especially not in a real-world context, without placing it in a multisensory context. That is, the senses interact to influence tactile perception in everything - from changing the feel of a surface or product by changing the sound it makes or the fragrance it has. For students and researchers in the brain sciences, this book presents a valuable and fascinating exploration into one of our least understood senses

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481

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OUP Oxford

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0191501808

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9780191501807

The Argonauts of California

By: Charles Warren Haskins

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The Argonauts of California

By: Charles Warren Haskins

The Argonauts of California being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days.

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505

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Рипол Классик

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5518729227

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9785518729223

Incentive Relativity

By: Charles F. Flaherty

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Incentive Relativity

By: Charles F. Flaherty

Disappointment and recovery occur frequently in life; as does irritation regarding ones financial or economic state compared to others. Incentive relativity is the study of this phenomenon, and this book provides a full account of the subject, suitable for behavioral scientists and psychologists. The book shows that animals also respond on the basis of the relative value of rewards - current compared to previous, to the reward available in one situation versus what is available in another context. These relativity effects are stressful in animals but they may also be adaptive, driving animals to seek the best that is available. The book demonstrates that animal research may lead to an understanding of individual differences in discernment and susceptibility to disappointment and to an understanding of both the advantages and disadvantages of dissatisfaction.

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244

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Cambridge University Press

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0521658632

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9780521658638

Confidentiality

Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas

By: Charles D. Levin,Allanah Furlong,Mary Kay O'Neil

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Confidentiality

Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas

By: Charles D. Levin,Allanah Furlong,Mary Kay O'Neil

The distinguished contributors to Confidentiality probe the ethical, legal, and clinical implications of a deceptively simple proposition: Psychoanalytic treatment requires a confidential relationship between analyst and analysand. But how, they ask, should we understand confidentiality in a psychoanalytically meaningful way? Is confidentiality a therapeutic requisite of psychoanalysis, an ethical precept independent of psychoanalytic principles, or simply a legal accommodation with the powers that be? In wrestling with these questions, the contributors to Confidentiality are responding to a professional, ethical, and political crisis in the field of mental health. Psychotherapy - especially long-term psychotherapy in its psychoanalytic variants - has been undermined by an erosion of personal privacy that has become part of our cultural zeitgeist. The heightened demand for public transparency has forced caregivers from all walks of professional life to submit to increasing bureaucratic regulation. For the contributors to this collection, the need for confidentiality is centrally involved in the relationship of the psychotherapeutic professions both to society and to the law. No less importantly, the requirement of confidentiality brings a clarifying perspective to debates within the psychotherapeutic literature about the relationship of theory to practice. It thereby provides a framework for shaping a set of ethical principles specifically adapted to the psychotherapeutic, and especially to the psychoanalytic, relationship. Linking general issues of privacy to the intimate details of psychotherapeutic encounter, Confidentiality will serve as a basic guide to a wide range of professionals, including lawyers, social scientists, philosophers, and, of course, psychotherapists. Therapy patients, policy makers, and the wider public will also find it instructive to know more about the special protected conditions under which one can better come to "know thyself.

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Routledge

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1317771044

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9781317771043

A History of East Asia

From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

By: Charles Holcombe

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A History of East Asia

From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

By: Charles Holcombe

This book traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the present.

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455

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Cambridge University Press

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0521515955

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The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1

By: Charles Babbage,Martin Campbell-Kelly

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The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1

By: Charles Babbage,Martin Campbell-Kelly

A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040236863

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9781040236864

Book's by Charles F Spence

A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches

A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches

In touch with the future

In touch with the future

The Argonauts of California

The Argonauts of California

Incentive Relativity

Incentive Relativity

Confidentiality

Confidentiality

A History of East Asia

A History of East Asia

The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1

The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1

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