Download or read book Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini written by Sue Ann Jaffarian and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagine spending eternity with your backside hanging out--that's what Emma Whitecastle and Granny Apples think when they meet the ghost of Tessa North frolicking in the surf off Catalina Island. The young starlet died there in the 1960s in her polka-dot bikini, and won't cross over until 'Curtis' comes for her. To help the winsome spirit, Emma and Granny must find out who Curtis is and how Tessa died. The investigation takes them from the grit and glamour of Hollywood to Kennedy-era political intrigue--before hitting close to home"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Ghost a la Mode written by Sue Ann Jaffarian and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series debut from Odelia Grey mystery author Sue Ann Jaffarian! Granny was famous for her award-winning apple pies-and notorious for murdering her husband Jacob at their homestead in Julian, California. The only trouble is, Granny was framed, then murdered. For more than one hundred years, Granny's spirit has been searching for someone to help her see that justice is served—and she hits pay dirt when she pops in to a séance attended by her great-great-great-granddaughter, modern-day divorced mom Emma Whitecastle. Together, Emma and Granny Apples solve mysteries of the past—starting with Granny's own unjust murder rap in the final days of the California Gold Rush. Along with a sprinkling of history, this spirited new mystery series features the amateur sleuth team of Emma Whitecastle and the spirit of her pie-baking great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples. Praise: "A delectable first in a new paranormal cozy series from Sue Ann Jaffarian."—Publishers Weekly "A fun new series. Ghostly puzzles are one of the trendy new themes in cozy mysteries, and this is a good one."—Booklist "Jaffarian has done a nifty job of incorporating Julian's history into her tale of unresolved ghosts, uncanny psychics, unsolved murders and unhappy divorcees, while handily introducing some characters, alive and dead, to carry the series forward."—North Country Times "Emma handles her 'gift' of seeing the dead with aplomb, and class. I'll look forward to seeing where the sequel will take Emma and Granny."—Deadly Pleasures "A charming tale, as appealing as apple pie. I predict a long life (and afterlife) for Sue Ann's latest series."—Harley Jane Kozak, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-winning author of Dating Dead Men "Take colorful characters in a charming setting, mix in a dash of romance, add a pinch of the paranormal, and serve it up like one of Granny's famous pies. I guarantee you'll be back for seconds."—Deborah Sharp, author of Mama Rides Shotgun

Download or read book Gem of a Ghost written by Sue Ann Jaffarian and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Whitecastle would rather spend time with her boyfriend than help Joanna Reid get rid of her husband's ghost. But when she finds out Joanna's daughter has broken her engagement and attempted suicide, Emma and Granny Apples are compelled to investigate. The multifaceted mystery unfolds in Hollywood, where a vengeful spirit strikes too close for comfort as Emma and Granny unearth a clue hidden in a haunted diamond. When the case leads Emma and a suave stranger to the historic mining town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, Emma must call upon a ghostly group of Molly Maguires to ease the pain of a century-old marriage gone bad. Praise: "Jaffarian's welcome third entry in her paranormal series sparkles as brilliantly as the story's haunted diamond."—Library Journal (starred review) "Jaffarian's comic timing, seemingly simple plotting and perfectly pitched dialogue make this entry in the Granny Apples series a complete delight."—RT Book Reviews "Award-winning author Jaffarian provides plot surprises and plenty of dark elements to texture this well-crafted cozy. Emma is a complicated heroine, and readers of Victoria Laurie and other paranormal suspense authors will be most pleased."—Booklist "A sweet and sassy third Granny Apples mystery."—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book A Multigrid Tutorial written by William L. Briggs and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics of Computing -- Numerical Analysis.

Download or read book Blotter written by Erik Davis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated exploration of the history, art, and design of printed LSD blotter tabs. Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, the iconic drug delivery device that will perhaps forever be linked to underground psychedelic culture and contemporary street art. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’s boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves, while also staying true to the sense of play, irreverence, and adventure inherent in psychedelic exploration. Davis weaves together two main stories: first, the largely unknown history of blotter paper’s development in the 1960s and its later flowering in the 1970s and 1980s; and second, the story of how San Francisco artist, professor, and “freak” McCloud began collecting blotter and ultimately became embroiled with the LSD trade. The book closes with a unique discussion of the market for “vanity blotter”—more recent perforated papers produced as collectible art objects never meant to be dipped in LSD. While vanity blotters are intimately related to the underground blotters of the LSD trade, they effectively open up their own visual world. As the ultimate document of this ephemeral artform, Blotter represents an exceptional contribution to the scholarship of art and psychedelics that will entertain older readers with lysergic nostalgia and younger readers with its image-driven journey through a colorful and scandalous corner of psychedelic lore.

Download or read book The Case of the Graveyard Ghost written by Michele Torrey and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who you gonna call to ghostbust a graveyard spook? Doyle and Fossey, that’s who! They’re on the job and ready to free a snobby girl from a tight situation, uncover the culprit who’s ruining some prize roses, nab a dangerous smuggler of rare animals, and of course…reveal the truth about that pesky ghost!

Download or read book Ghosts of Edinburgh written by Rob Kirkup and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulous collection of ghostly hauntings in Edinburgh, illustrated throughout.

Download or read book Ghost Hunters Anthology 3 written by S. H. Marpel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue - with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before: - Visiting a haunted planet where the normal is falling between two worlds, while John winds up solving being in a coma, away from his body. - The goddes Harpy returns with a simple request for John, a personal and very human one. - Sal has to help John sort out a mental mis-thinking that could kill him off unless unraveled. - A classic murder-detective story, where a ghost re-enacts the scene of a crime. In order to find out how she died. - Even elementals can have mysteries, especially when they were the by-product of terrorists and government experimentation. All in short reads that fit into the time you have to read. Delicious mental snacks that will leave you with new ideas to consider long after the entertainment is over. Get Your Copy Now.

Download or read book Using the Bootstrap Algorithm for Changing the Control Game written by Petter Ogland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Using the Bootstrap Algorithm for Changing the Control Game' is clearly written and points are supported by real life case studies. Dr. Ogland demonstrates how a Total Quality Management strategy articulated through the use of bootstrap algorithms can be used to achieve world-class performance in challenging environments such as complex organisations saturated with power struggles and internal politics. The book features insights on critical systems thinking, game theory, quality management systems, the Efqm Business Excellence Model, self-assessment, and the implementation of Tqm. Case studies provide practical insights from twenty years of empirical research on how to bootstrap Tqm and Business Excellence in complex environments. The ideas developed in the book have been acknowledged as a major contribution to the theory of Tqm, and the book itself is an indispensable resource for practitioners trying to implement Tqm in environments where traditional implementation methods are bound to fail.

Download or read book Applied Stochastic Analysis written by Miranda Holmes-Cerfon and published by American Mathematical Society, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook introduces the major ideas of stochastic analysis with a view to modeling or simulating systems involving randomness. Suitable for students and researchers in applied mathematics and related disciplines, this book prepares readers to solve concrete problems arising in physically motivated models. The author?s practical approach avoids measure theory while retaining rigor for cases where it helps build techniques or intuition. Topics covered include Markov chains (discrete and continuous), Gaussian processes, It“ calculus, and stochastic differential equations and their associated PDEs. We ask questions such as: How does probability evolve? How do statistics evolve? How can we solve for time-dependent quantities such as first-passage times? How can we set up a model that includes fundamental principles such as time-reversibility (detailed balance)? How can we simulate a stochastic process numerically? Applied Stochastic Analysis invites readers to develop tools and insights for tackling physical systems involving randomness. Exercises accompany the text throughout, with frequent opportunities to implement simulation algorithms. A strong undergraduate background in linear algebra, probability, ODEs, and PDEs is assumed, along with the mathematical sophistication characteristic of a graduate student.

Download or read book Mechanism Design for Total Quality Management Using the Bootstrap Algorithm for Changing the Control Game written by Petter Ogland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This PhD thesis contributes to the theory of information infrastructures by explaining how to use game theory and genetic algorithms for turning the pseudo-code of the bootstrap algorithm into proper code. The study is the first known study to analyse the bootstrap algorithm from an action research perspective, and it has become an important reference for further research on how to bootstrap information infrastructures.

Download or read book Agents and Artificial Intelligence written by Jaap van den Herik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. Overall, 46 full papers, 66 short papers, and 36 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 initial submissions. 17 of the 46 full papers were selected to be included in this volume. These papers deal with topics such as natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and agents.

Download or read book Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Combustion written by Santanu De and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art models for turbulent combustion, with special emphasis on the theory, development and applications of combustion models in practical combustion systems. It simplifies the complex multi-scale and nonlinear interaction between chemistry and turbulence to allow a broader audience to understand the modeling and numerical simulations of turbulent combustion, which remains at the forefront of research due to its industrial relevance. Further, the book provides a holistic view by covering a diverse range of basic and advanced topics—from the fundamentals of turbulence–chemistry interactions, role of high-performance computing in combustion simulations, and optimization and reduction techniques for chemical kinetics, to state-of-the-art modeling strategies for turbulent premixed and nonpremixed combustion and their applications in engineering contexts.

Download or read book Computational Mathematics written by Robert E. White and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Mathematics: Models, Methods, and Analysis with MATLAB and MPI is a unique book covering the concepts and techniques at the core of computational science. The author delivers a hands-on introduction to nonlinear, 2D, and 3D models; nonrectangular domains; systems of partial differential equations; and large algebraic problems requirin

Download or read book American Journal of Mental Retardation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the association's conference proceedings and addresses.

Download or read book Misty Gordon and the Mystery of the Ghost Pirates written by Kim Kennedy and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a funny middle-grade mystery from a bright new fiction talent. Things in the New England town of Ashcrumb are getting weird. Or just weirder. Misty Gordon, whose antique-dealing parents drive a van that says “D.E.A.D.” on the side (for “Deceased’s Estate and Antique Dealer”), is accustomed to weird. One day, when accompanying her father to the estate of a recently departed clairvoyant, Misty discovers a notebook and a pair of eyeglasses that enable her to see ghosts! And solve mysteries. With the help of her new powers and her best friend, Yoshi, Misty learns that her hometown was settled not by respectable colonists but by pirates! And the ghosts of the pirates are returning to reclaim a dangerous, powerful treasure they lost centuries ago. Who will find it first, Misty or the pirates?

Download or read book End User Development written by Henry Lieberman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes important aspects of the international discussion on End User Development (EUD) available to a broader audience. It offers a unique set of contributions from research institutes worldwide, addressing relevant issues and proposing original solutions. This broad look at the emerging paradigm of End-User Development will inspire every reader to appreciate its potential for the future. Indeed, the editors hope that readers – "end-users" - will themselves become developers.