Modern scientific and engineering systems are increasingly defined by nonlinearity, high dimensionality, partial observability, and uncertainty. Addressing such complexity requires more than isolated techniques. It calls for an integrated applied mathematics perspective that connects modeling, data analysis, and computation within a coherent framework. This book develops such a unified toolkit. Rather than treating mathematical methods as separate disciplines, it emphasizes their complemen...

With thirty-five on the horizon and still single, Hope Mason is abandoning her beloved New York City to try her luck in bright, shiny Los Angeles. One problem. This New Yorker is terrified of driving, an essential skill for Californians. She hires instructor Val Caceres to teach her how to drive off into the sunset, but Val could be the one thing she doesn’t want to leave behind.

Published in 1927, The President’s Daughter is one of the most controversial political memoirs in American history. In the book, Nan Britton recounts her long secret romantic relationship with Warren G. Harding, whom she claimed was the father of her daughter, Elizabeth Ann. The memoir was widely regarded as the first major American political “tell-all” and created a national sensation upon publication.

Some ghosts linger, not to haunt… but to be heard.It's been a year since Kate Morgan's husband left, and her once bestselling career as a cozy mystery author has slowed to a crawl. With just her corgi, Ralph, as company, the only craft Kate's been honing lately is the art of avoiding real life.Then she hears about Fannie McKay — "The Lady in White," the ghost of a young woman who took her life after her rum-running lover, Jacob, left her over a century ago....

It’s Thomas against Luther?! Bad news for Thomas. With all of the horror, and slaughter, and terrifying power Luther has displayed as he was “helping” Thomas get some most bloody revenge, what does Thomas possibly think he can do when his loved ones are in Luther’s crosshairs? Now that the terrifying truth has been revealed about just how personal this trail of vengeance is for Luther, Thomas must try and kill this shark-toothed, knife-handed, hate-filled monster before everything he loves...

Thomas knows the truth! But as he unravels the reality of his father’s death, the truth turns out to be far more horrific than he could possibly have imagined. There are more things in heaven and earth…than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Flailing in the wake of so much violence, Thomas must choose his path—but what if his bloody, knife-handed guide has his own dark agenda? What if Luther is playing by his own demented rules?

Glass artist Zoey Mitchell returns to Marietta with a plan.Find her ex.Get the closure she never found.Finally move on.Running into rugged rancher Levi Mitchell at the grocery store wasn’t part of the plan—especially when one playful exchange over a jar of capers reminds her exactly why walking away was never as easy as she’d pretended.Levi has spent years rebuilding his life and raising his young, adopted daughter who means everything to him. Seeing...

This book focuses on the quantum aspects of cosmology and black holes. The former seeks cosmological entanglement footprints of Euclidean wormholes that nucleate the inflationary universe, and the latter proposes a resolution to the information paradox via the nucleation of Hawking radiation’s entangled partner pairs outside an evaporating black hole. This book begins by reviewing the connection between semi-classical Hawking radiation and the flying mirror analogue gravity model, and late...

Nowadays, remote sensing systems and technologies have been widely studied and applied in environmental monitoring, land survey, and disaster management. As a pivotal remote sensing task, change detection aims to identify and quantify spatio-temporal changes using multi-temporal imagery, supporting timely decision-making and sustainable resource planning. Nevertheless, conventional change detection approaches remain limited in addressing challenges including sensitivity to noise, discrepan...

Written by a retired judge and divorce attorney - and a mom of five - for kids who need real answers, not empty reassurance.When a parent says "we need to talk," a kid's whole world can feel like it's caving in. When Home Breaks doesn't promise to fix that. Instead, it walks straight into the hard stuff: the news, the tears, the anger, the guilt - and gives kids practical, honest tools to get through it.Drawing on decades in family court, Nan S. Fa...

A Montana bull rider temporarily working as a ranch hand. An OB nurse who wants “a favor”. Two opposites thrown together. A treasure hunt adds to autumn magic.When a family emergency brings cowboy Rory Pearson home to Marietta, he hires on to Juniper Falls Ranch for seasonal work. He’s hoping to explore an intriguing family legend. Armed with research and his grandfather’s stories, Rory thinks he’s ready, but nothing goes as planned. Then a sweetly sexy nu...

Middle Kingdom Lost: From the Invention of Gunpowder to the Nanjing Massacre explores one of history's great paradoxes: if China invented gunpowder, firearms, the compass, and many other technologies centuries before the West, how did foreign powers later defeat China using those same innovations? Tracing the development of gunpowder weapons from Tang China to World War II, Nan-Yao Su examines the institutional divergence that separated China, Europe, and Japan.Gunpowder originated...