This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which suddenly Holmes’s efforts reveal a new perspective on the case, typically identifying the culprit(s) and resolving the case. Drawing on ideas presented by Thomas S. Kuhn in his famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions

New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina’s history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state’s evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state’s past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections,...

This text takes the student from the very basics of digital electronics to an introduction of state-of-the-art techniques used in the field. It is ideal for any engineering or science student who wishes to study the subject from its basic principles as well as serving as a guide to more advanced topics for readers already familiar with the subject. The coverage is sufficiently in-depth to allow the reader to progress smoothly onto higher level texts.

Comprising twenty papers, including six never before published, this long-awaited work spans the fifty-year career of noted theologian Frederick E. Crowe, a scholar who has devoted himself to studying, expounding, and making available the writings of Bernard Lonergan, the well-known Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian who died in 1984. The publication of these papers, compiled by Michael Vertin, is a tribute both to their subject and to their author.Developing the Lonerg...

Naughty Nathan is a rambunctious little boy who loves to play in the dirt and mud. Naughty Nathan learns the importance of washing his hands and listening to others.

Writing North Carolina History is the first book to assess fully the historical literature of North Carolina. It combines the talents and insights of eight noted scholars of state and southern history: William S. Powell, Alan D. Watson, Robert M. Calhoon, Harry L. Watson, Sarah M. Lemmon, and H. G. Jones. Their essays are arranged in chronological order from the founding of the first English colony in North America in 1585 to the present.Traditionally North Carolina has no...

He is 18 years old, extremely shy and practically a virgin. She is 36, a monumental body and a face that seems to have been carved by God himself ... but she keeps a secret that she does not dare confess ...Can a relationship between a young man and a mature woman be love? Or simple obsession?A couple meets just as they travel through life on opposite paths. An impossible love that produces an explosion of passion and eroticism. A romance based on ...

He is 18 years old, extremely shy and practically a virgin. She is 36, a monumental body and a face that seems to have been carved by God himself ... but she keeps a secret that she does not dare confess ...Can a relationship between a young man and a mature woman be love? Or simple obsession?A couple meets just as they travel through life on opposite paths. An impossible love that produces an explosion of passion and eroticism. A romance based on ...

For over 50 years, coronary angiography has been the mainstay of diagnosing and quantifying the extent of coronary artery disease. However appreciation of the inherent limitations of conventional angiography has led to a plethora of new imaging modalities, each with their relative strengths and potential pitfalls. Advances in these techniques have given clinicians, as well as researchers, an overwhelming amount of information and the need for thoughtful interpretation.This outstand...

He is 18 years old, extremely shy and practically a virgin. She is 36, a monumental body and a face that seems to have been carved by God himself ... but she keeps a secret that she does not dare confess ...Can a relationship between a young man and a mature woman be love? Or simple obsession?A couple meets just as they travel through life on opposite paths. An impossible love that produces an explosion of passion and eroticism. A romance based on ...

Like its World War II namesake of Leyte Gulf fame, USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was a small combatant built for escort duty. But its skipper imbued his brand-new crew with a fighting spirit to match their forebears, and in 1988 when the guided missile frigate was thrust into the Persian Gulf at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, there was no better ship for the job. Forbidden to fire unless fired upon, Captain Paul Rinn and his crew sailed amid the chaos in the Gulf for two months...

One kiss . . . so hot it scalded me. One year later . . . a second chance to give her the one thing she's never had.I've known Daisy for years. She's all curves, but I'm not supposed to notice. Because we're just friends. I want her anyway. Relationships are messy, and I don't do messy. I've never had a problem keeping my distance.But the clock is ticking. This was supposed to be easy. I didn't count on wanting more.Contains mature themes.