The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need) A Case of Needis a mysterynovel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 and won an Edgar Award in 1969.
The novel is a medical thriller in which a Boston pathlogist, Dr. John Berry, independently investigates the death of a young woman, Karen Randall. Berry becomes involved when his friend Dr. Arthur Lee is implicated in Karen's death: Lee is accused of performing the abortionon Karen Randall that led to her death. Crichton's later novels are preoccupied with technology: his novels can be extended examinations of the morality and implications of a particular innovation draped over the structure of a thriller novel. In
A Case of Need, however, it is a medical practice and not a techological innovation that is at issue.
Robert Anthony Salvatore "Exile"
Book Description
Presenting the second volume of R.A. Salvatore's masterful Legend of Drizzt trilogy in a hardback collectors edition! Drizzt Do-urden has fled a treacherous society to seek peace in the wilderness of the Underdark. But even as he confronts fearsome new enemies, his family has sworn to destroy him-using the only person Drizzt ever loved: his father!
The Terminal Man
The Terminal Man is a novel by Michael Crichton about the dangers of mind control. Published in 1972, it was later made into a film of the same name.
«Человек-терминал», другие названия: «Опасный пациент» Роман, 1972 год Аннотация:
В Лос-Анджелесе начала 70-х гг. компьютерный программист Гарольд
Бенсон, доставлен полицией в городскую больницу. Он страдает от болезни
головного мозга, которая вызывает "затмения" и агрессивное поведение.
Доктор Джон Эллис, глава команды нейрохирургов, описывает Бенсона как
идеального кандидата на экспериментальную процедуру — внедрение
электродов непосредственно в мозг для управления вспышками агрессии.
Доктор Джанет Росс не убеждена, что эта процедура сработает, но
забаллотирована другими врачами. Операция выполнена — электроды
внедрены в мозг, и чип с ядерной подзарядкой вставлен в его плечо.
Бенсон преднамеренно вызывает припадки, чтобы получить разряд
благостных эмоций, становясь "электрическим наркоманом." Вскоре Бенсон
сбегает из больницы. Чем закончится охота на пациента?
Techniques of Creative Thinking
First of all, you should read the introduction which discusses the question: "What can I do to increase my creativity?"
Random Input
Problem Reversal
Ask Questions
Applied Imagination - Question Summary
Lateral Thinking
Six Thinking Hats
The Discontinuity Principle
Checklists
Brainstorming
etc
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES must be as close to a perfect novel as anyone has written in English. It is a genuine tragedy with a girl/woman as tragic hero. It is about life on earth in a way that transcends mere sociology. It has the grandeur of Milton but concerns itself with the lives of mortal beings on earth, as much with sex as with dirt, blood, milk, dung, animal and vegetative energies. It concerns itself with only essential things the way the Bible does. It is almost a dark rendering of the Beatitudes.
The story is built with such care and such genius that every incident, every paragraph, reverberates throughout the whole structure. Surely Hardy had an angel on his shoulder when he conceived and composed this work. Yet it was considered so immoral in its time that he had to bowdlerize his own creation in order to get it published, at first. Victorian readers were not prepared for the truth of the lives of ordinary women, or for a great many truths about themselves that Hardy presents.
