Arthur Conan Doyle, the son of Charles Doyle and Mary Foley, was born in Edinburgh on 22nd May Arthur's father was an alcoholic and the family was always short of At school, Arthur developed a strong interest in the books written by Sir Walter Scott and Edgar Allan P Conan Doyle studied at Edinburgh University and helped to fund his course by working as a surgeon on Hope, a 400 ton whaler on a seven month voyage to the A The following year he worked on Mayumba, a passenger ship bound for West A On this voyage Conan Doyle nearly died of On his return, Conan Doyle set up as a doctor in Southsea, a suburb of P With very few patients, Conan Doyle attempted to make money by writing detective His main character, Sherlock Holmes, was based on D Joseph Bell, a surgeon and criminal psychologist, who lectured at Edinburgh I In 1891 Conan Doyle published six Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand M The following year he was paid ￡1,000 for a whole series on Sherlock H Conan Doyle really wanted to write historical novels like his hero, Sir Walter Scott, and in 1893 decided to kill off Sherlock Holmes in the story, The Final P However, after coming under considerable pressure from his fans, he returned to write his best known detective story, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Conan Doyle served as a doctor in the Boer War (1899-1902) and wrote The War in South Africa (1902), where he attempted to justify Britain's actions during the On 2nd September, 1914, soon after the start of the First World War, the Liberal politician, Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau, organised a secret meeting of Britain's leading to discuss ways of best promoting Britain's interests during the Those who attended to discuss the best way of promoting Britain's interests during the war included Conan Doyle, Arnold Bennett, John Masefield, Ford Madox Ford, William Archer, G K Chesterton, Sir Henry Newbolt, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Gilbert Parker, G M Trevelyan and H G W All the writers present at the conference agreed to the utmost secrecy, and it was not until 1935 that the activities of the War Propaganda Bureau became known to the general Several of the men who attending the meeting agreed to write pamphlets and books that would promote the government's view of the In 1914 Conan Doyle wrote the recruiting pamphlet, To Arms! The WPB arranged for Conan Doyle to go the Western Front and his pamphlet, A Visit to the Three Fronts was published in During the war Doyle also wrote his six volume history, The British Campaign in France and F Conan Doyle also wrote on the First World War for the Daily C Although fifty-five when the war Conan Doyle also joined the Crowborough Company of the Sixth Royal Sussex Volunteer Regiment and served as a private throughout the His son, Kingsley Conan Doyle, joined the British Army and was wounded at the S He died in October, 1917, after developing After the war Conan Doyle wrote several books on spiritualism including The New Revelation (1918) and The History of Spiritualism (1926) Arthur Conan Doyle died at Crowborough on 7th July
DorisLessing 多丽丝 莱辛 1919-- Persian (Iranian)-born British writer, whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people caught in the social and political upheavals of the 20th Central themes in Lessing‘s works are feminism (see also Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedman, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French), the battle of the sexes, and individuals in search of "Not simply an artist, she is also critic and prophet, dissecting in minute detail the faults of society "hypnotized by the idea of Armageddon" and prophesying the calamitous results of those At the same time, she attempts to delineate possible solutions to the world‘s " (Mary Ann Singleton, in The City and the Veld, The Fiction of Doris Lessing, 1977) Doris Lessing spent her early childhood in Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran), where her English-born father was a bank In the mid-1920s her father bought a maize farm in Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia), where she grew Lessing was educated in Salisbury at a Roman Catholic She left the school at the age of fourteen and worked as a nursemaid, telephone operator and From the age of 18 she worked at the Rhodesian parliament and helped to start a non-racist left-wing party in the Her first marriage ended in She joined the Communist Party and married the German political activist Gottfried Lessing, who later became the German ambassador to Uganda and was accidentally killed in the 1979 revolt against Idi A Lessing‘s second marriage did not succeed and in 1949 she moved to England with her youngest child and the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, which appeared in The story was set in Rhodesia and depicted a poor white farmer whose wife has a relationship with their African servant, and who eventually kills Many critics consider Children of Violence, Lessing‘s semi-autobiographical series of novels about Martha Quest - who grows up in southern Africa and settles in England - her most substantial From this period she supported herself and her son by It has been said that Lessing‘s Children of violence and more The Canopus in Argos reflects the influence of Sufist thought and concern with the union of the soul with a Higher Being (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John Clute and Peter Nichols, 1993) DIARY OF A GOOD NEIGHBOR (1983) and IF THE OLD COULD (1984) were published under the name Jane Somers to dramatize the problems of unknown The use of a pseudonym also helped Lessing to experiment with different type of Lessing has published poems, plays, and several science fiction Her most widely read and translated book is THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK (1962) The book was hailed as a landmark by the Women‘s M It deals with a novelist‘s crisis, who keeps four notebooks while working on her fictional novel ‘Free Women‘ Sections of conventional narrative ironically entitled ‘Free Women‘ enclose and intersperse the four experimental notebooks of writer Anna Wulf who is struggling with crises in her domestic and political In the end Anna gives the ‘golden notebook‘ to her American lover with a suggestion for the first sentence of his new novel: he in turn suggests the first sentence of The conventional narrative ends prosaically with Anna‘s declaration that she is about to join the Labour P In BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL (1971), written in a ‘stream of conscious‘ style, and MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR (1974) Lessing portrayed the breakdown of The film version of Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) was directed by David Gladwell, starring Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie H "Christie emerges as a fine character player despite her still potent ," wrote Derek Elley in Variety Film Guide (2000) "Director David Gladwell apparently did not have the budget to give a more solid look to the degenerating " THE GOOD TERRORIST (1985) examined with irony a militant left-wing life style and the short distance between idealism and "Kindly, skilled people watched, and waited, judging when people (like herself, like Pat) were ripe, could be really Unsuspected by the petit bourgeois who were in the thrall of the mental superstructure of fascist-imperialistic Britain, the poor slaves of propaganda, were these watchers, the observers, the poor people who held all the strings in their In factories, in big industries - where Comrade Andrew wanted her, Alica, to work; in the civil service (that was just the place for Comrade Muriel!); in the BBC, in the big newspapers - everywhere in fact was this network, and even in little unimportant places like these two houses, Nos 43 and 45, just ordinary squats and Nothing was too small to be overlooked, everyone with any sort of potential was noticed, observed, It gave her a safe, comfortable " (from The Good Terrorist) Alice, the protagonist, sees herself as a committed She knows how to confront officials, spray paint slogans, but she really does not have an understanding of political When explosives are stored under her own roof, she cares more about curtains than As Alice tries to change the house in a genuine commune, she becomes the mother of parasitic LOVE, AGAIN (1966) was set in the theatre The protagonist is an older woman, manager of a small theatre company, whose self-analysis runs parallels with a new In THE FIFTH CHILD (1988) a family is torn apart by the arrival of their fifth offspring, a In AFRICAN LAUGHTER (1994) Lessing gave an account of her four visits to Zimbabwe between 1982 and MARA AND DANN (1999), set thousands of years in the future, tells the story of a brother and sister in a world full of violence and THE SWEETEST DREAM (2002) was a family story, in which Frances Lennox struggles in life with her two sons and her ex-husband, a phoney C The last part of the book focused on Sylvia, the daughter of Johnny‘s second wife, who works as a doctor in Zimlia, a thinly veiled Z "But while the novel ends on an affecting note that attests to M Lessing‘s undimmed talent for social and psychological observation, even this achievement cannot erase the memory of the lugubrious and unconvincing pages that have taken so long to get "
只找到英语的了。DR PAUL MEIER'S BIOGRAPHY Education: D Paul Meier received his Masters of Science in Cardiovascular Physiology from Michigan State University and a Medical Degree (MD) from the University of Arkansas College of M D Meier completed his psychiatric residency at Duke U He attended graduate courses at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois in 1975-76 while on full-time He also holds a Master of Arts degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, where he also served as a full-time faculty member in pastoral counseling for 12 Specialty Training and Experience: Paul Meier is an MD/Psychiatrist/Ordained Minister who is the founder of the national chain of non-profit Christian psychiatry clinics, the Meier C He has authored or co-authored over 80 books, mostly Christian self-help books like Love is a Choice andHappiness is a Choice, and also a series of Bible Prophecy novels, including The Third M He has been on many secular and Christian TV and radio shows, including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Snyder, D Norman Vincent Peale, Joni Eareckson Tada, Joyce Meyer and many He has traveled to countries all over the world to train both professional and lay counselors, as well as missionaries and pastors, in the field of Christian C He taught full-time for twelve years at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he spent lots of extra time discipling promising young students like Tony Evans, John Trent, John Townsend, Henry Cloud and many He has lectured at seminaries around the world including Southwestern Seminary in F Worth, the Baptist Seminary in Cuba, and the Greek Bible Institute and Seminary in A In 1985, he was the team physician for a mountain climbing expedition of M Ararat with American astronaut Jim Irwin to find Noah’s A D Meier’s team was chased away by The Meier Clinics have launched many ministries throughout the Countless people have trusted Christ through various Meier Clinics counseling sessions and ministries that have branched off from Meier C Over 100 Christian psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists, coast-to-coast, see thousands of clients each week, and they provide hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in charitable D Meier's daily prayer partner is D Jean-Luc Bertrand, of P D Meier's previous daily prayer partner, D David Larson, died of a heart attack in March of A permanent Chair (scholarship) was named after D Larson in the Library of Congress, because over half of the medical schools in the United States now have courses on spirituality that D Larson The only other permanent Chair in the Library of Congress belongs to Henry K The American Association of Christian Counselors honored D Meier in 2003 as a father of the Christian Psychology movement, and Christianity Today Magazinehas called D Meier a "Modern Day Reformer" for moving Christianity more toward an openness to admitting faults, getting counseling, being less legalistic, and even a willingness to take psychiatric medications if Speaker: D Meier has been a guest speaker at Awakening, an annual weekend retreat designed as an opportunity for business and political leaders to exchange ideas, examine trends and learn from leading authorities and policy makers in a variety of D Meier was honored and acknowledged in 2007 by President George Bush, members of the US Congress and the NRCC as a Physician of the Year H Active Memberships:American Association of Christian CounselorsAmerican Medical AssociationAmerican Psychiatric AssociationChristian Medical and Dental SocietyDallas County Medical Society Television and Radio: D Meier is a frequent guest on numerous radio and television programs, such as those hosted by:* Oprah Winfrey * Tom Snyder * Norman Vincent Peale* Joyce Meyer’s Enjoying Everyday Life * Joni Television show on the Daystar television network * Praise the Lord Show on TBN* Has been interviewed on Radio Free Europe, and * Has appeared in a French television documentary discussing Christian psychiatry Publications (Authored or Co-Authored):The Angry ManAsk The Doctors - Questions and Answers Beating Burnout - Balanced Living for Busy PeopleBeating the Clock - A Guide to Maturing SuccessfullyBefore Burnout - Balanced Living for Busy PeopleBeyond the Millennium (fictional novel)Blue Genes - Breaking free from the chemical imbalances that affect your moods, your mind, your life, and your loved onesBruised and Broken - Understanding Psychological Problems Caring for Aging Loved OnesChoices of Champions Christian Child Rearing and Personality Development - Guide to ParentingCompelled to Achieve - Finding Balance Between Success and AccessThe Complete Book of Baby and Child CareThe Complete Life Encyclopedia - A Family ResourceCounseling and the Nature of ManCrazymakers Don't�6�4 Let Jerks Get the Best of You - Dealing with Impossible People The Fakers - Exploding the Myths of the SupernaturalFamily Foundations - How to Have a Happy HomeFear Less for Life - Break Free to Living with Hope and Confidence Filling the Holes in our Souls - Effective Small GroupsFinding Purpose Beyond Our Pain First Time Parents The First Two YearsFormula for a Happy Marriage The Fourth Millennium (fictional novel) Free to Forgive - Daily Devotions for Adult Children of Abuse Growing In Step - Your Guide to Successful Step-parenting Happiness Is A Choice - A Manual on the Symptoms, Causes, and Cures of DepressionHappiness Is A Choice for Teens Happy Holidays - How to Beat the Holiday BluesThe Healthy Christian Life - Bible Study GuideThe Healthy Pastor Hiding from LoveHow to Beat Burnout - Help for Men and Women Introduction to Psychology and Counseling (textbook) Love Hunger - Recovery from Food AddictionLove Hunger Weight-Loss WorkbookLove Is A Choice - Recovery for Codependent Relationships Managing Stress and Workaholism Meditating for Success (booklet)The Megamillennium SeriesMiracle Drugs - How They Work and What You Should Know About ThemThe Monster Within - Overcoming BulimiaMood Swings - Understand Your Emotional Highs and LowsMoney Diet - Biblical Prescriptions for Financial SuccessA Mother's Choice - Day Care or Home CareA Mother's Choice - A Guide to Responsible ParentingMoving from Depression and Anxiety to Christ-centered Optimism 100 Ways to Live a Happy and Successful Life - Overcoming Depression 100 Ways to Obtain Peace - Overcoming Anxiety100 Ways to Overcome DepressionOvercoming Loneliness The Path to Serenity - Growth Through the 12-Step RecoveryThe Postpartum Survival Guide The Power of a New Attitude Raising Your Child - From Birth to TwelveRenewing Your Mind in a Secular World Safe Places - Finding Serenity in the Passages of LifeThe Secret Code (fictional novel) The Serenity Bible (Meier clinics editing team)Seven Secrets for a Happy FamilySex in the Christian Marriage - Maintaining the HoneymoonSexual Addiction - Identifying the Problem, Seeking God's�6�4 Direction, The Spiritual Life GuideStress Factors - Thriving Emotionally and SpirituallySurviving ToddlerhoodSurviving Traumatic StressSweet Dreams - A Guide to Productive Sleep Taking Control - New Hope for Substance Abusers and Their FamiliesTeen HealthThe Third Millennium (fictional novel)Toddlerhood Unbreakable Bonds - Practicing the Art of Loving and Being Loved Walk With the Serenity Prayer - Daily Devotions for People in RecoveryWalvoord: A TributeWe Are DrivenWhat I've Learned Since I Knew It All What they Didn't�6�4 Teach You in Seminary When Life Isn't FairWhy Be Lonely?- A Guide to Meaningful RelationshipsWindows of the Soul - A Look at Dreams and Their MeaningsWinning is a ChoiceThe Workaholic and His Family - An Inside LookWorry-Free Living - Turning Anxiety into a Positive ToolWWJD? - The Question that Will Change Your Life (devotion) You Can Avoid DivorceYou Can Save Your Marriage (booklet)You Can Measure Your Mental Health (booklet) You Can Measure Your Spiritual Health (booklet)You Might Be a Narcissist I