Linear Geostatistics covers basic geostatistics from the underlying statistical assumptions, the variogram calculation and modelling through to kriging. The underlying philosophy is to give the students an indepth understanding of the relevant theory and how to put it into practice. This means going into the theory in more detail than most books do, and also linking it with applications. It is assumed that readers, students and professionals alike, are familiar with basic probability and statistics, and matrix algebra needed for solving linear systems. Some reminders on these are given in an...

The scholarship on Jane Ellen Harrison s personal§religious beliefs has focused solely on her§Evangelical upbringing, which involved a strict§stepmother and a religion based on the fear of §hellfire and damnation. The current scholarship has§translated her antagonism against Evangelicalism as §a hatred of all religion; however, a close reading §of Harrison s letters and work reveal that as a §young girl in Yorkshire she discovered a religion §that made her intensely aware of ritual and the §religious impulse. Her letters, autobiography, and §notes in the Newnham Archive at...