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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."Ê Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Richard Edward Doyle, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 641 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Whether it's your first venture into 3D technical drawing software or you're switching to SolidWorks from something else, you're probably excited about what this CAD program has to offer. Chances are, you figure it's going to take awhile to get the hang of it before you can begin cranking out those perfectly precise 3D designs. SolidWorks For Dummies, 2nd Edition, can help you dramatically shorten that get-acquainted period!

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Missing the good stuff
In the hopes of shortcutting my learning process I bought this book, having found other "...for Dummies" books pretty good.The problems with this book include:

1. Many of the step-by-step examples are too generic to be really useful.Instead of dealing with specific items (such as types of mates) the book covers ALL mates in a broad stroke.Not really useful.
2. Major items are completely missing from the book.Things like equations, and how to link dimensions.There isn't even material about the shortcut menu, if you don't believe me look for "shortcut" in the index.Not there.

I am finding much better material on-line and free.Don't waste your money on this book, but if you do, don't pay full list for it as I did.

Good explanation of the CAD tool
The used book seller shipped promptly (at least made paying the big $$$$ for fast delivery worthwhile). The book is pretty good. I'm an experienced CAD pilot on Pro/E, Unigraphics, and Intergraph. I'm looking at changing jobs, and may need to know something about SolidWorks. This book told me what I needed to know - that the basic concepts of the software are pretty much similar - things in different places on the menus. The explanations are very easy to follow. The only downside is that as versions change from year to year, books like this tend to go out of date fairly quickly (how much depends on how extensive the changes are in the software).

Gift for Dad
Thanks.This was exactly what Dad wanted.It was in excellent condition and included the DVD.

Useless
If you are looking for "learn" the basic principles of SolidWorks, this book is not for you. If you have experience with Autocad or any other CAD software, this book is not for you either. It is an info commercial book. So do not expect to get any good learning of this book.

From Catia to Solidworks. What a ride!
I've been using 3D Modeling Software for quite some time, and still I've found this book very helpful. Another excellant information source by IDG. Good Job, and 'Keep on Keepin On'. ... Read more

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He's back, Watson
When last we heard of Sherlock Holmes, he had plummeted from Reichenbach Falls along with the evil Professor Moriarty.

But after years of fans badgering him to bring Holmes back, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle finally relented in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes." The stories in here aren't quite as gripping as the previous collections, but there's still plenty of striking, mind-bending mysteries for the legendary detective to unwind.

A few years after Holmes' death, Watson has settled into a routine as a regular doctor, although he becomes interested in the locked-room murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair. But then a strange old man comes into Watson's office, and reveals himself to be none other than Sherlock Holmes. Watson promptly faints from the shock.

But when he wakes up, Holmes reveals that he has been traveling the world and avoiding Moriarty'sequally nasty confederates. And before he can resume normal life at Baker Street, he and Watson must catch the last of these evil men -- which may be connected to Adair's death.

After that, Holmes and Watson fall back into solving cases: a young man who is accused of murdering his strangely friendly client; a string of stick figures, a music teacher followed by a cyclist, a boy kidnapped from his school, a harpoon impalement, blackmail and high society scandal, shattered Napoleonic busts, stolen exams, a Russian lady, a rugby player's disappearance, a brutal murder that isn't what it seems, and a missing document that could leadto a massive war.

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" occasionally feels a little unenthusiastic, probably because Doyle had really intended to kill off Holmes because he wanted to focus on "important" novels. Fortunately, even lesser Holmes mysteries are still brilliant -- there are twisted crimes, malevolent schemers, and some puzzles that only Holmes can unravel.

And as usual, Doyle crafts two kinds of crimes/mysteries -- the ones that are ultra-simple but turn out to have hidden kinks, and the ones that seem impossible to solve but are actually shockingly simple. But things don't always end in the same way ("The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" ends in a really shocking manner), and the culprits aren't always dealt with in the same way.

It's also really fun to see Watson and Holmes working together again, especially after Holmes makes such a dramatic, energetic reentry in the very first story. And it's very cute to see Watson pass out because he's so shocked and thrilled that Holmes is alive. The characters seem even faster friends, especially when it's revealed that Watson has gotten Holmes off of cocaine (which was still used medicinally at the time).

"Return of Sherlock Holmes" suffers from a few patches of unenthusiastic writing, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries are still brilliant brain-benders. The Great Detective is back.

AN IMMENSELY TALENTED NARRATOR
A previous collection of Doyle's stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, brought so much pleasure that I couldn't wait for more.Here they are in THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES stunningly presented by Simon Prebble..If you've not yet heard a reading by Prebble, sit down and prepare to be well entertained.

The British born Prebble, an experienced stage, television, and film, actor came to our country in 1990.Since then he has narrated some 350 audio books and has garnered every possible award (some numerous times) - A Golden Voice and Voices of the Century by AudioFile, 24 Earphone awards, 5 Listen Up awards...well, you get the idea, he's terrific.

This collection of 13 Holmes stories was initiallypublished during the years 1903 - 1904.It is the first collectionto appear since Holmes supposedly died in "The Adventure of the Final Problem," and represents Doyle at his best.Among the 13 we find everything from The Adventure of the Empty House (which features the return of Holmes and his explanation of miraculously surviving a to the death struggle with Professor Moriarity) to The Adventure of the Second Stain.

The redoubtable Watson is, of course, by Holmes's side throughout offering his memorable comments and questions.

THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is truly a classic and one that detective fiction aficionados will want to hear again and again.

- Gail Cooke

The return of A. Conan Doyle
Sometimes, an author's fictional creation proves so popular that it cannot be escaped.Such proved to be the case for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who killed Sherlock Holmes in an earlier story, only to be pressured by fans into reviving him, first in a novel called "The Hound of the Baskervilles," which was set before the death, then finally in this subsequent collection of short stories that brings him back from the dead.If Doyle was thoroughly sick of writing Holmes stories, he disguises it well here.The overall quality may be a bit below that of previous collections (the revelation of "The Six Napoleons" is particularly easy to anticipate), but I was still immensely entertained by these tales of Victorian era detection.

Super Reader
A cause for great rejoicing, an event as momentous as this one. The Great Detective is back. Imagine the hype and hoopla if this was happening in the 21st century! After his presumed death at Reichenbach and the hands of the man many readers would have happily throttled, he lives! Take that, Moriarty, you dastardly cur! Again, more Sherlock is fantastic, and on to 'The Adventure of the Empty House'

Return of Sherlock Holmes : 01 The Adventure of the Empty House - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 02 The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 03 The Adventure of the Dancing Men - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 04 The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 05 The Adventure of the Priory School - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 06 The Adventure of Black Peter - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 07 The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 08 The Adventure of the Six Napoleons - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 09 The Adventure of the Three Students - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 10 The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 11 The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 12 The Adventure of the Abbey Grange - Arthur Conan Doyle
Return of Sherlock Holmes : 13 The Adventure of the Second Stain - Arthur Conan Doyle


Murder, Moran and Moriarty = Holmes Back In Town.

5 out of 5


Identity change means the lawyer is actually a good guy.

4 out of 5


Death threat doodle.

3.5 out of 5


Bikes, broads, bullets and a bundle of cash to be had.

5 out of 5


Duke's heir departed due to dastardly deviants.

5 out of 5


Not every day that you get murder by harpoon.

4.5 out of 5


Blackmailed babes happy Holmes on the job.

4 out of 5


Bonaparte bust bashers have a good reason.

4 out of 5


Exam nickers busted.

3.5 out of 5


Murderers should go for plain eyewear.

3.5 out of 5


Boyfriend from aussie trip preferred to husband.

3.5 out of 5


Diplomatic document disaster.

3.5 out of 5

Second-best of the Sherlock Holmes shortstory collections!
Although he also wrote several novels featuring the world's greatest fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, it was especially in his short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle perfected the Holmes formula."The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (published in 1905) is the third of the five collections of Holmes short stories.Along with the second collection ("The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"), "Return" is generally regarded as inferior to the superlative first collection ("The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), but easily better than the last two in the series ("His Last Bow" and "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes").After Doyle had apparently killed Holmes in the last story of "Memoirs" (The Final Problem), the popular outcry which followed the disappearance of the legendary detective eventually led Doyle to resurrect his character in the first story of this new collection (The Empty House).But with "Return", Doyle perhaps even surpassed the earlier effort of "Memoirs", with excellent stories such as The Empty House, The Dancing Men, The Prioriy School, and the Six Napoleons, and other favorites like The Norwood Builder, Charles Augustus Milverton, The Golden Pince-Nez, and The Second Stain.In my view, fans of "Adventures" will find that the dozen stories of "Return" are a great second choice, and not much far behind the brilliance of the first collection.

Here's a list of the stories in this collection (with the better stories marked with stars):
**The Empty House, 1903 - One of the top ten stories, the presumed dead Holmes is "resurrected" to solve the murder of Ronald Adair, a card player.More interesting than this mystery, however, is the mystery of the account of Holmes own escape from death.
*The Norwood Builder, 1903 - John Hector McFarlane is arrested for allegedly murdering Jonas Oldacre, who has just included McFarlane in his will, and it is up to Holmes to prove McFarlane's innocence and expose the events as a plan by Oldacre for revenge.
**The Dancing Men, 1903 - A top ten favorite, as Sherlock Holmes needs to decode the threatening notes with mysterious symbols of dancing men received by Hilton Cubitt's wife.
The Solitary Cyclist, 1903 - The mystery surrounding Violet Smith, who is regularly pursued by a strange cyclist, perhaps one of the various lovers who is after her hand in marriage.
**The Priory School, 1904 - The only son of the Duke of Holdernesse is abducted from his private school, and Holmes uncovers what really happened to the boy, as well as the missing German schoolmaster.
Black Peter, 1904 - The seaman Captain Peter Carey, known as Black Peter, was a nasty man, but who harpooned him to the wall of his outhouse and why?
*Charles Augustus Milverton, 1904 - Charles Augustus Milverton is a reputed blackmailer who specializes in "selling" sensitive letters which reveal the dark secrets of the upper class - but he meets his match with Holmes who is enlisted by Lady Eva Blackwell shortly before her marriage to the Earl of Dovercourt.
**The Six Napoleons, 1904 - In this top ten favorite, Holmes uncovers the perplexing mystery of why various busts of Napoleon are being strangely smashed, apparently the result of a lunatic with an obsession against Napoleon, but actually linked to a jewel theft.
The Three Students, 1904 - Which of the three students was guilty of stealing a copy of the important Greek exam from Professor Hilton Soames' office?
*The Golden Pince-Nez, 1904 - A very good story, as Holmes unravels the murder of Professor Coram's secretary Willoughby Smith, and links it to Coram's Russian wife and his Russian past.
The Missing Three-Quarter, 1904 - Holmes is enlisted to solve the strange disappearance of football star Godfrey Staunton the day before a critical game.
The Abbey Grange, 1904 - Who murdered the wealthy alcoholic tyrant Sir Eustace Brackenstall?It takes Holmes to discover the involvement of a mysterious seaman.
*The Second Stain, 1904 - Two important statesmen enlist Holmes' aid to discover the whereabouts of a stolen document that could result in a war in Europe.Is it coincidental that the theft occurred around the same time as the violent death of the nobleman Eduardo Lucas?With the help of a stain beneath a carpet, Holmes puts all the pieces of the puzzle together.
- GODLY GADFLY
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For the ambitious (and salacious-sounding) exhibition 50,000 Beds, Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Chris Doyle commissioned 45 fellow artists to make short videos, each set in a different hotel or motel in Connecticut. The videos were shown concurrently--in specially designed multi-screen galleries--at Connecticut's three premier contemporary art venues, which opened on three consecutive nights: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Artspace in New Haven and Real Art Ways in Hartford. Doyle's concept focuses on the hotel as a site of narrative potential, a location that is intimate, anonymous and infused with tension between the guests and the staff. All 45 artists included in the exhibition--a range of contemporary emerging artists who came up with a diversity of responses to the challenge posed, from fiction to documentary to animation--are included in this attractive volume bound in faux suede. ... Read more

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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places? Here's How to End the Search!
Are you stuck in a revolving door of bad dates? Or maybe you’ve given up on finding a meaningful relationship altogether. According to dating experts David Coleman and Richard Doyle, it doesn’t have to be that way. You can have that happy, healthy relationship you’ve been looking for.
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eye-opening
this book will scarily tell you what relationship patterns you have (who/what kind of person you're attracted to), how to figure out if another person is a good match for you (personality, integrity, morals, ethics, intelligence, etc), and how to get your "picker" fixed (being able to pick good guys/girls).

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IM not a professional but I know Interpersonal Communication ---SAF
I have studied Interpersonal communication while i was in college for the part four years Iwas in college and this book provides only a handful of researched advice( which they did not cite) and the rest is just opinion and stereotype. People DO NOT Take this book seriously.

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EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
I JUST RECEIVED THISBOOK "DATE SMART!" IN THE MAIL THIS WEEKEND AFTER HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT IT ON A LOCAL RADIO STATION.I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN!!!! ALMOST EVERYTHING IN THAT BOOK I CAN RELATE TO. I WAS LOOKING FOR A GOOD RELATIONSHIP BOOK AND THIS ONE RANKS EXCELLENT!!!!!!KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Relationship Questions: Answered
In a style that's fast and fun to read, this book answered so many of the relationship questions I've wondered about for years.The subject matter is presented in a way that's positive and reassuring- that I'm not just a freak who's bad at dating!I got this book on a recommendation from a friend figuring it wouldn't help me, yet now I feel like I know how to start looking for a truly positive and meaningful relationship.I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to seriously understand relationships, without giving up a light-hearted and fun approach! ... Read more