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The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

di John Dickson Carr

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Large-Eddy Simulation (LES), which is an advanced eddy-resolving method for calculating turbulent flows, is used increasingly in Computational Fluid Dynamics, also for solving hydraulics and environmental flow problems. The method has generally great potential and is particularly suited for problems dominated by large-scale turbulent structures. This book gives an introduction to the LES method specially geared for hydraulic and environmental engineers. Compared with existing books on LES it is less theoretically and mathematically demanding and hence easier to follow, and it covers special features of flows in water bodies and summarizes the experience gained with LES for calculating such flows. The book was written primarily as an introduction to LES for hydraulic and environmental engineers, but it will also be very useful as an entry to the subject of LES for researchers and students in all fields of fluids engineering. The applications part will further be useful to researchers interested in the physics of flows governed by the dynamics of coherent structures.… (altro)

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Fans of Sherlock Holmes or Professor Challenger should be sure to read mystery writer John Dickson Carr biography of Sir Arthur, they'll be glad that they did. (

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kevn57 | Dec 8, 2021 |

Very well researched and fascinating book about a fascinating man. The only two things that stopped it getting five stars were
(1) the constant use by the author of the phrase 'this biographer' when referring to his own opinion or something he discovered. I found this an irritating and rather pompous way and would have preferred a simple 'I'.
(2) his attitude towards those who were less than enthusiastic about any of Mr Doyle's writing. It's obvious he is a fan of Doyle which is fine, but he could be quite insulting when talking of those who thought otherwise. There was no need to be so dismissive simply because their opinion differed from his.
Otherwise and in all other respects this is an excellent biography of one of our most famous (and best) writers. Recommended. (

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nwdavies | Aug 21, 2014 |

One of my favorite writers writes about one of my favorite writers. This was fun and informative. (

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ReneeGKC | Jan 30, 2014 |

I, like many people I would guess, knew nothing about Doyle except that he wrote Sherlock Holmes. Now I know that this fact would have caused him to have fits if he knew it back then. I didn’t realize how popular and well known he was at the time, even though the Holmes stories were by far his most popular works even then. He led a much more interesting life than I would have guessed and now I want to read some of his other works.

This is a biography by an author who can really write, not just rattle off a timeline. It’s almost like a novel at times. (

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bongo_x | Apr 6, 2013 |

This 1949 biography is quite dated and awkwardly stands the test of time (utilizing old-fashioned conventions such as staging Conan Doyle's conscience, speaking aloud to him). It is also filled with oblique references to then-current events that the modern reader does not recognize, and sprinkled throughout with rather prim editorial commentary. Despite these distractions, I found it riveting in its vivid portrait of an amazing thinker and adventurer, a gifted, generous and remarkably larger-than-life character. It's filled with surprising revelations (Conan Doyle introduced skiing to Switzerland for the first time, and invented and successfully promoted many military innovations for saving lives, such as using inflatable rubber rafts as life boats). I didn't know that he despised Holmes, or of his family's proud knightly and artistic accomplishments. His years as a struggling doctor were fascinating, and coming to understand his relationships and his emotional life and their impact on his development as a writer made the book well worth the read. (

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Large-Eddy Simulation (LES), which is an advanced eddy-resolving method for calculating turbulent flows, is used increasingly in Computational Fluid Dynamics, also for solving hydraulics and environmental flow problems. The method has generally great potential and is particularly suited for problems dominated by large-scale turbulent structures. This book gives an introduction to the LES method specially geared for hydraulic and environmental engineers. Compared with existing books on LES it is less theoretically and mathematically demanding and hence easier to follow, and it covers special features of flows in water bodies and summarizes the experience gained with LES for calculating such flows. The book was written primarily as an introduction to LES for hydraulic and environmental engineers, but it will also be very useful as an entry to the subject of LES for researchers and students in all fields of fluids engineering. The applications part will further be useful to researchers interested in the physics of flows governed by the dynamics of coherent structures.

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