56 résultats pour "watson"
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policier, roman - littérature.
Gaboriau, auteur de l’Affaire Lerouge, un roman dit « judiciaire », 1863). En Angleterre, Wilkie Collins, avec la Dame en blanc (1860) et la Pierre de lune (1868), créa le détective Sergeant Cuff ; il fut aussi le premier à prouver que les œuvres du genre pouvaient dépasser la taille d’une nouvelle. Sur son exemple et à sa demande, son ami Charles Dickens s’essaya sur le tard à la fiction policière avec le Mystère d’Edwin Drood (1870), mais il mourut avant de l’avoir terminé et l’ident...
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science-fiction, littérature de - littérature.
sexe et la morale, l’essor des sciences humaines. La science-fiction exprime aussi à cette époque des doutes à l’égard du progrès technologique, se faisant ainsi l’écho de la critique du positivisme scientifique. Bien qu’inventé par un écrivain américain, Robert Heinlein, le terme de speculative fiction (« fiction spéculative ») est repris par les auteurs britanniques (John Brunner, Ian Watson), puis français pour désigner ce nouveau courant qui, tout en se situant dans une certaine tradition...
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From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - anthology.
'Wherebouts?' says I. 'Down to Silas Phelps's place, two mile below here. He's a runaway nigger, and they've got him. Was you looking for him?' 'You bet I ain't! I run across him in the woods about an hour or two ago, and he said if I hollered he'd cut my livers out—and told me to lay down and stay where Iwas; and I done it. Been there ever since; afeard to come out.' 'Well,' he says, 'you needn't be afeard no more, becuz they've got him. He run off f'm down South, som'ers.' 'It'...
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Yukon Territory - Geography.
Tourism is the second most important private sector industry in the Yukon. Visitors come to fish, hunt, enjoy the rugged scenery, and see the historic buildings andcreeks associated with the gold rush. Some marten, lynx, muskrat, wolverine, and other fur-bearing animals are still trapped, but the Yukon plays a minor role in Canadian fur production. The Yukon’s manufacturing industries consist almost exclusively of some mineral refining, printing, and sawmilling. Several hydroelectric plants gene...
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Yukon Territory - Canadian History.
Tourism is the second most important private sector industry in the Yukon. Visitors come to fish, hunt, enjoy the rugged scenery, and see the historic buildings andcreeks associated with the gold rush. Some marten, lynx, muskrat, wolverine, and other fur-bearing animals are still trapped, but the Yukon plays a minor role in Canadian fur production. The Yukon’s manufacturing industries consist almost exclusively of some mineral refining, printing, and sawmilling. Several hydroelectric plants gene...
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Learning.
B1 Acquisition The acquisition phase is the initial learning of the conditioned response—for example, the dog learning to salivate at the sound of the bell. Several factors can affect the speed of conditioning during the acquisition phase. The most important factors are the order and timing of the stimuli. Conditioning occurs most quickly when theconditioned stimulus (the bell) precedes the unconditioned stimulus (the food) by about half a second. Conditioning takes longer and the response is...