Cuando Santiago Muñez llega a Los Angeles de México a la tierna edad de diez años, viaja con sólo una bola de fútbol y una foto deslucida de la Copa Mundial. Cuando un cazatalento de Inglaterra le ofrece la oportunidad de cumplir su sueño eterno de jugar al fútbol, vuela hasta un lejano rincón del mundo a jugarse el todo por el todo. Sin embargo, no todo es color de rosa cuando Santiago aterriza en una de las ciudades más industriales y desalentadoras de Inglaterra. La presión que Santiago...

Danny Watts højeste ønske er at blive soldat. Men hæren nægter at optage ham, for hans bedstefar, Fergus, var en forræder af den værste art. En SAS-bombeekspert som forrådte sit land og regimet for penge – narkopenge. Han blev arresteret og efterladt i et colombiansk fængsel for at dø. I det mindste er det, hvad den 17-årige Danny får som forklaring.Men Danny ved noget, som SAS ikke ved. Fergus Watts lever i bedste velgående i skjul under et andet navn. Spørgsmålet er hvor. Fergus ...

Danny Watts højeste ønske er at blive soldat. Men hæren nægter at optage ham, for hans bedstefar, Fergus, var en forræder af den værste art. En SAS-bombeekspert som forrådte sit land og regimet for penge – narkopenge. Han blev arresteret og efterladt i et colombiansk fængsel for at dø. I det mindste er det, hvad den 17-årige Danny får som forklaring. Men Danny ved noget, som SAS ikke ved. Fergus Watts lever i bedste velgående i skjul under et andet navn. Spørgsmålet er hvor. Fergus er Dann...

This book is about learning from data using the Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS). GAMLSS extends the Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to accommodate large complex datasets, which are increasingly prevalent.In particular, the GAMLSS statistical framework enables flexible regression and smoothing models to be fitted to the data. The GAMLSS model assumes that the response variable has any parametric (continuous, ...

This is a book about statistical distributions, their properties, and their application to modelling the dependence of the location, scale, and shape of the distribution of a response variable on explanatory variables. It will be especially useful to applied statisticians and data scientists in a wide range of application areas, and also to those interested in the theoretical properties of distributions. This book follows the earlier book ‘Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in...

Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour.Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective is lured to Stratford upon Avon following an explosion by a band of determined suffragettes. Faced with the ingenious mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome, Max and his trusty servant Parkinson must solve the riddle of the missing bo...

Glenda Jackson stars in this award-winning BBC Radio series, inspired by literature's greatest ever whistleblower, Émile Zola, and his epic saga of the Rougon-Macquart family‘Unmissable’ Daily TelegraphFirst published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th-century France. It included s...

Stephen Fry, Daniel Rigby and Tamsin Greig star in all three series of the poignant BBC Radio 4 comedy drama.Warhorses of Letters is the world's finest and best-loved equine, military, epistolary romance, comprising the newly-discovered love letters between two horses united by passion but cruelly divided by conflict.Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, these twelve episodes introduce us to Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's frisky young racehorse, an...