Multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) is an important method that is used across many disciplines for exploring spatial heterogeneity and modeling local spatial processes. This book introduces the concepts behind local spatial modeling and explains how to model heterogeneous spatial processes within a regression framework. It starts with the basic ideas and fundamentals of local spatial modeling followed by a detailed discussion of scale issues and statistical inference rela...

When Harriet Gordon receives word from a friend about a tragic death, she and Inspector Curran are thrust into a web of family secrets that threatens to destroy them both in this all-new mystery from the author of Singapore Sapphire.Singapore, 1910—Harriet Gordon has found fulfillment at last. Her young ward, Will, has settled into his new home with Harriet and her brother, Julian. And Harriet’s employment as a typist at the Straits Settlements Po...

Craving a change of pace, Harriet Gordon, joins a local musical theatre production but when a fellow cast member is brutally killed, Harriet and Inspector Curran must turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies.Between working at her brother’s school and typing up Inspector Robert Curran’s police reports, Harriet Gordon has little time for personal pursuits and she has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role ...

Craving a change of pace, Harriet Gordon, joins a local musical theatre production but when a fellow cast member is brutally killed, Harriet and Inspector Curran must turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies.Between working at her brother’s school and typing up Inspector Robert Curran’s police reports, Harriet Gordon has little time for personal pursuits and she has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role ...

A delightful collection of cozy fantasy stories set in the coziest of worlds!Grab your blanket and favorite hot beverage because this anthology of cozy fantasy stories has hours of holiday reading waiting for you! Winter Tales is set in Cozy Vales, an original fantasy shared world and home to the Heart of the Vale, the most delicious hot chocolate drink ever invented.This debut collection features stories set during Winter's Tide, a two-week holiday of givi...

WHAT IS YOUR STATE OF HORROR?The State of Horror series heads down the mighty Mississippi to the river delta on its tour of the United States with the second of two stops in the Bayou State—Louisiana. Join a team of paranormal investigators as they attempt to get proof of ghosts in an abandon building. Come along as we learn what the cost of disrespect is for three friends in the bayou. Meet a son whose reconnection with his long lost father takes him to an abandon...

The cause may be righteous, but the price she had paid had been too highThe short heart-wrenching prequel to SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE - the first in the Harriet Gordon Mysteries.London 1909: Returning to London after her years in India ended in the tragic death of her husband and son, Harriet Gordon struggles to find her place in her parent's comfortable middle-class world.The suffragette movement answers the need for belonging until she is false...

Genesis Seed by M.A. Stewart is a trilogy of novels about ancient, enlightened beings who sow a seed for enlightenment into early mammals. The seed is activated mistakenly by aliens who periodically visit Earth, conducting scientific experiments on mammals and humans. Genesis Seed Book 1 is a science fiction masterpiece that brings together tales of various characters navigating a galaxy in flux. This thought-provoking novel probes themes of redemption, transformation, and the unifying pow...

"The fifteen case studies in this book place the reader in a wide variety of real public health leadership situations. . . . Each situation is presented to the student with the swirl of communications, conflicts, and conundrums that I have found accompany any difficult public health leadership judgment. The case writers have done a very good job of placing the student in public health decisional situations that, to me, feel like the reality of my own professional life."—Wi...

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 145 in the series continues to report recent advances with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally recognized researchers.

The next instalment in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES.The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur, but death is waiting…Singapore 1910: Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant vi...

This book is not just for Jewish people. Its for all people who would gain insight and strength to healfrom Jewish tradition. All people who are in trouble with alcohol, drugs, or other addictionsfood, gambling, and sex Anyone seeking an understanding of the Twelve Steps from a Jewish perspectiveregardless of religious background or affiliation Alcoholics and addicts in recovery Codependents Adult children of alcoholics Specialists in recovery and treatment