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Vail J: Friction

Friction

A Biography

A rollicking guide to&nbsp;a lifetime of choices, full of practical tips for getting the most from&nbsp;your time and money—from economist and international bestselling author Daniel Altman Stuck wondering whether to sell your house? Can’t get a good deal on a used car? Not to worry—economics can help. That’s because&nbsp;economics isn’t just about charts, markets, and prices.&nbsp;It’s also the&nbsp;science of decisions, full of pointers and principles for maximizing your wellbeing every day. Bestselling economist Daniel Altman cracks open the vault of microeconomics, revealing razor-sharp thinking&nbsp;that is&nbsp;refreshingly, actually useful. Through thirty real-world decisions—from “what’s for dinner?” to “how many kids should we have?”—he shows how a small, accessible dose of economics&nbsp;can unlock big&nbsp;gains in time, money, and sanity. The Best Decisions You’ll Ever Make is an essential toolkit for snapping out of&nbsp;decision paralysis and coming out ahead in every&nbsp;tradeoff. It’s an empowering, entertaining user’s manual&nbsp;that you’ll return to again and again—one that’ll supercharge every choice you make.

A rollicking guide to&nbsp;a lifetime of choices, full of practical tips for getting the most from&nbsp;your time and money—from economist and international bestselling author Daniel Altman Stuck wondering whether to sell your house? Can’t get a good deal on a used car? Not to worry—economics can help. That’s because&nbsp;economics isn’t just about charts, markets, and prices.&nbsp;It’s also the&nbsp;science of decisions, full of pointers and principles for maximizing your wellbeing every day. Bestselling economist Daniel Altman cracks open the vault of microeconomics, revealing razor-sharp thinking&nbsp;that is&nbsp;refreshingly, actually useful. Through thirty real-world decisions—from “what’s for dinner?” to “how many kids should we have?”—he shows how a small, accessible dose of economics&nbsp;can unlock big&nbsp;gains in time, money, and sanity. The Best Decisions You’ll Ever Make is an essential toolkit for snapping out of&nbsp;decision paralysis and coming out ahead in every&nbsp;tradeoff. It’s an empowering, entertaining user’s manual&nbsp;that you’ll return to again and again—one that’ll supercharge every choice you make.

An Economist's Guide to Saving Time, Making Money, and Living Well

The Best Decisions You'll Ever Make

This book provides insights into integrated and novel processes and technologies for mineral extraction, as well as sampling methods used to determine the composition and properties of processed materials. It also evaluates waste recovery and remediation methods within the context of South African mining activities. Furthermore, the book focuses on the beneficiation and utilization of extracted minerals as bulk materials and/or engineered nanomaterials with a wide range of properties for the development of new and nanöenabled technologies, including the evaluation of their toxicity.Features<ul> <li>Provides fundamental knowledge of mineral processing essential for research and development in mineral beneficiation.</li> <li>Presents a critical review of the utilization of minerals and materials at both bulk and nanoscale levels to influence traditional industry sectors.</li> <li>Covers value addition in local minerals and materials for the development of biomedical technologies, as well as environmental and waste management approaches.</li> <li>Overviews the physicochemical characteristics of minerals from the micrö to nanoscale.</li> <li>Illustrates extraction, production, and upscaling processes for nanomaterials and minerals.</li> </ul>This book is intended for researchers and professionals in mineralogy, mining, and materials science and engineering.

Beneficiation and Value Addition of Minerals and Materials

'Those looking for the next Lessons in Chemistry - a story of ferociously bright, feisty women holding their own in a man's world - may have found it ... this is a rich read, heartbreaking, engrossing and intellectually stimulating' New Zealand Listener 'Sweeping and intimate . a gorgeous meditation on roads not taken' SHELBY VAN PELT, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures 'A magnificent, spellbinding love story' CLARE LESLIE HALL, author of Broken Country _____ 1976, Rhode Island. Lily Webb has spent years trying to build a steady, predictable life, far from her hometown marred by tragedy and the sister she cannot seem to save from herself. Jane was always the brilliant one: fierce, complicated and drawn to the mysteries of the universe. But after their mother's death, Jane's gifts became entangled with addiction, pulling the sisters into a cycle of love, guilt and heartbreak that neither could escape. Lily has found comfort in a quiet marriage to a devoted scientist, one who opened her eyes to the beauty of the natural world and offered her safety and stability. But when her first love, a boy she lost under devastating circumstances, returns, Lily is forced to confront the past she thought she had buried. As old wounds reopen, and her fragile bond with Jane grows ever more tenuous, Lily must navigate the tension between the life she's built and the life she once imagined for herself. A decades-spanning tale rich with questions of faith, science and the ties that hold us together, Laws of Love and Logic is a compelling, emotionally gripping novel about sisterhood, forgiveness and the complicated nature of love.

Laws of Love and Logic

A new paradigm based on quantum probability that can model stock markets and price options—and also upends classical quantitative finance. In The Quantum Stock Market, David Orrell combines theory and new empirical findings to argue for a new approach to finance based on quantum probability. The main finding, a property called q-variance, may be unique in finance in that it was discovered as the result of a prediction, affects financial markets in general, has no tunable parameter, and has important consequences for a range of topics including the pricing of financial options. The property, which somehow eluded detection for over a century, has been verified by experts in the field. And the fact that it is incompatible with classical finance—which is perhaps why it went undetected—suggests that the field must be reinvented. The aim of this book is therefore nothing less than to initiate a paradigm shift in finance. As with any new work that challenges existing methods, the ideas have already received considerable pushback from a range of sources, including leaders in the field of finance, along with physicists skeptical of applying quantum probability outside its traditional domain. Written in an interdisciplinary style that mixes mathematical equations, data analysis, and informed comment on the field of finance, it should be read by anyone—including students, academics, and practitioners—who wants to be on the right side of a paradigm shift.

And the Road Not Taken in Finance

The Quantum Stock Market

Your Individual Empire

This comprehensive book examines advanced Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methodologies utilizing nanoparticles, polymers, and surfactants as extraction efficiency becomes increasingly critical in depleting oil reserves. The text provides a systematic analysis of how these chemical agents function to reduce interfacial tension, modify wettability parameters, and enhance oil displacement mechanisms in challenging reservoir environments. The authors present an integrated framework connecting theoretical principles with laboratory investigations and field implementations, addressing both the technical challenges and economic considerations of modern EOR applications.¿ Offers an analytical examination of nanoparticle-polymer-surfactant synergistic effects in maximizing recovery efficiency in mature and low-permeability formations.¿ Features documented case studies demonstrating quantifiable outcomes in diverse reservoir conditions.¿ Provides a systematic analysis of wettability alteration mechanisms, interfacial tension reduction, and sweep efficiency optimization.¿ Investigates disjoining pressure phenomena and snap-off mechanics affecting multiphase flow in porous media.¿ Evaluates environmental impacts and economic viability of advanced EOR implementations.¿ Identifies emerging research directions and technological innovations in chemical EOR applications.This scholarly reference serves researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines, including graduate-level petroleum and chemical engineering programs, research scientists specializing in nanotechnology, polymer science, and colloid chemistry, and technical professionals engaged in reservoir engineering and field development. The methodological approaches and analytical frameworks presented are particularly relevant for research institutions, oil companies, and professional engineering organizations seeking evidence-based strategies to address the technical challenges of contemporary oil recovery operations.

Fundamentals, Mechanisms, and Field Applications

Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Nanoparticles, Polymers, and Surfactants

The right business model is essential for success in a fast-moving and interconnected world, and it starts with concept development.This is the in-depth manual to building and executing strategy amidst complex external and internal driving forces. Building on the foundation of his first book, international business leader and consultant Staffan Hedén clarifies and expands his unique business model framework, showing how to create, build, and retain value while strengthening relationships with all stakeholders. The book offers important insights on navigating a tumultuous sociopolitical and economic environment, dealing with issues such as regional conflicts, cyber risk, climate change, and AI and other technological developments. Introducing the tools SETAI and SOAP, it presents a detailed roadmap for alternative paths for product and service development, recognizing the need for global organizations to constantly map new customer groups, find new ways to sell and price their products, and set up new collaborations.This thought-provoking book is an ideal resource for owners, board members, and managers at medium to large companies, as well as MBA and advanced business students.

Business Model Innovation Roadmap

The Company Soul

“Almost Reckless is not just a book, it's a permission slip. It's about the courage it takes to step off the algorithm's path, the clarity that comes from defining your own principles, and the joy of building something that feels unmistakably yours.” —Will Guidara, bestselling author of Unreasonable Hospitality Amy Smilovic's cult fashion brand, Tibi, was a thriving $70 million business when she realized she was working toward someone else's idea of success. So she threw out the rulebook of how things should be done and went with her gut instead. Today Tibi is more successful than ever, and all on Smilovic's groundbreaking entrepreneurial terms.&nbsp; In Almost Reckless, she invites you to get comfortable with embracing smart risks in pursuit of your own vision. Sharing her story and drawing on her years of helping others identify their values and principles, Smilovic teaches you to hone your gut, and your trust in it. With humor and practicality she coaches you in how to determine what success means to you, including: <ul><li>why you don’t have to listen to the data guys</li><li>why you should be a Creative Pragmatist</li><li>why sticking to your principles isn’t incompatible with success</li><li>why work/life balance is bullshit</li></ul> Almost Reckless is the essential blueprint for entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and anyone who wants a working life that feels aligned with who they truly are.

“Almost Reckless is not just a book, it's a permission slip. It's about the courage it takes to step off the algorithm's path, the clarity that comes from defining your own principles, and the joy of building something that feels unmistakably yours.” —Will Guidara, bestselling author of Unreasonable Hospitality Amy Smilovic's cult fashion brand, Tibi, was a thriving $70 million business when she realized she was working toward someone else's idea of success. So she threw out the rulebook of how things should be done and went with her gut instead. Today Tibi is more successful than ever, and all on Smilovic's groundbreaking entrepreneurial terms.&nbsp; In Almost Reckless, she invites you to get comfortable with embracing smart risks in pursuit of your own vision. Sharing her story and drawing on her years of helping others identify their values and principles, Smilovic teaches you to hone your gut, and your trust in it. With humor and practicality she coaches you in how to determine what success means to you, including: <ul><li>why you don’t have to listen to the data guys</li><li>why you should be a Creative Pragmatist</li><li>why sticking to your principles isn’t incompatible with success</li><li>why work/life balance is bullshit</li></ul> Almost Reckless is the essential blueprint for entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and anyone who wants a working life that feels aligned with who they truly are.

A Creative and Pragmatic Approach to Taking Risks

Almost Reckless

A paradigm-shifting textbook that teaches graduate students in economics how to use economic models to interpret data. Offering a new pedagogical paradigm, this textbook delivers a ready-made economics course covering the general concepts that unify different approaches to bringing economic models to data. Jesse Shapiro presents core ideas in quantitative economics as an abstract, cohesive whole and introduces canonical models that can be used across a wide range of applications. This course-in-a-book exposes students to stylized applications of these models that illuminate their foundations as well as recent research articles demonstrating the models’ broad applicability. <ul><li>Provides a coherent, generalized approach to making model-based inferences in empirical economics</li><li>Introduces central concepts and canonical models in quantitative economics</li><li>Features applications of modern research topics</li><li>Suits self-paced learning and classroom use alike</li></ul>

A paradigm-shifting textbook that teaches graduate students in economics how to use economic models to interpret data. Offering a new pedagogical paradigm, this textbook delivers a ready-made economics course covering the general concepts that unify different approaches to bringing economic models to data. Jesse Shapiro presents core ideas in quantitative economics as an abstract, cohesive whole and introduces canonical models that can be used across a wide range of applications. This course-in-a-book exposes students to stylized applications of these models that illuminate their foundations as well as recent research articles demonstrating the models’ broad applicability. <ul><li>Provides a coherent, generalized approach to making model-based inferences in empirical economics</li><li>Introduces central concepts and canonical models in quantitative economics</li><li>Features applications of modern research topics</li><li>Suits self-paced learning and classroom use alike</li></ul>

Introduction to Quantitative Economics

To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, never has so much pornography been available to so many people for so little. This is the story of how the online adult industry has plummeted from its lofty heights of the late 1990s, when a savvy Web entrepreneur could charge premium prices to thousands of eager subscribers. It is also the story of how the law has completely failed to keep pace with the technological innovations that boosted and then savaged the online adult industry. It concludes by analysing the social impact of virtually unlimited pornography of every description, available to all ages at the click of a button. Useful reading for the general reader and for students and researchers involved with business strategy, the history of technology, cultural studies, sexuality, media studies and technology more generally.

Traditionally, the presence of pornography in American society has been mediated by two primary factors: legal restrictions and the relatively high cost of the product. The degree of legal restrictions on adult material has varied from era to era and community to community, but the porn premium has remained relatively constant. Given this, these should be heady days for adult business owners. Thanks to the Internet, distribution costs are virtually nil and even the most hardcore content is easily accessible in the smallest coastal hamlet and most rural farmhouse in America. Adult industry balance sheets should be bulging with profit. But in reality, far from it. The World Wide Web has completely eradicated both the legal restrictions and premium cost that used to govern adult industry economics. To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, never has so much pornography been available to so many people for so little. This is the story of how the online adult industry has plummeted from its lofty heights of the late 1990s, when a savvy Web entrepreneur could charge thousands of eager subscribers premium prices. It is also the story of how the law has completely failed to keep pace with the technological innovations that boosted and then savaged the online adult industry. It concludes with a detailed analysis of the social impact of virtually unlimited pornography of every description, available to all ages at the click of a button.Accessible to the general reader, this book will appeal to those who want to know more about the adult entertainment industry in America and will prove useful reading for students and researchers involved with a wide variety of academic disciplines including business strategy, the history of technology, cultural studies, sexuality, media studies and technology more generally.

The Pornography Business

These leadership lessons work for leaders at every level when everything goes wrong, from the doctor who saved lives after the 9/11 attacks, in war-torn Ukraine, and on the NFL sidelines. Dr. Thom Mayer doesn’t just talk about leadership: he lives it in the world’s most high-stakes situations. From commanding the 9/11 Pentagon rescue operation to rushing onto NFL fields during medical emergencies to training doctors in war-torn Ukraine, Mayer has learned that leadership isn’t about titles or positions. It’s about action. In this practical guide, Mayer reveals eleven provocative principles that flip conventional leadership wisdom: “Leadership is worthless . . . but leading is priceless.” “Power is worthless . . . but influence is priceless.” “Success is worthless . . . but failure is priceless.” Through gripping stories from the Pentagon’s smoking corridors, NFL sidelines, and Ukrainian hospitals, he shows how real leaders emerge not from corner offices but from moments of crisis when someone must step up and act. Whether readers are managing a team, raising a family, or facing a crossroads, Mayer’s hard-won insights will transform how readers think about influence, teamwork, and making decisions under pressure. This isn’t theoretical leadership. Mayer offers battle-tested wisdom from someone who has led when lives hung in the balance.

These leadership lessons work for leaders at every level when everything goes wrong, from the doctor who saved lives after the 9/11 attacks, in war-torn Ukraine, and on the NFL sidelines. Dr. Thom Mayer doesn’t just talk about leadership: he lives it in the world’s most high-stakes situations. From commanding the 9/11 Pentagon rescue operation to rushing onto NFL fields during medical emergencies to training doctors in war-torn Ukraine, Mayer has learned that leadership isn’t about titles or positions. It’s about action. In this practical guide, Mayer reveals eleven provocative principles that flip conventional leadership wisdom: “Leadership is worthless . . . but leading is priceless.” “Power is worthless . . . but influence is priceless.” “Success is worthless . . . but failure is priceless.” Through gripping stories from the Pentagon’s smoking corridors, NFL sidelines, and Ukrainian hospitals, he shows how real leaders emerge not from corner offices but from moments of crisis when someone must step up and act. Whether readers are managing a team, raising a family, or facing a crossroads, Mayer’s hard-won insights will transform how readers think about influence, teamwork, and making decisions under pressure. This isn’t theoretical leadership. Mayer offers battle-tested wisdom from someone who has led when lives hung in the balance. Now in paperback with a new discussion guide for leadership development programs.

What I Learned from 9/11, the NFL, and Ukraine

Leadership Is Worthless…But Leading Is Priceless

Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies

A complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature, this book, now in its 2nd edition, introduces both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrates how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations. With discussion questions, writing prompts, flash interviews, and illustrated key concepts, the book covers prose poetry, flash fiction, micro memoir, lyric essay, cross-genre/hybrid writing and much more. Two new chapters explore how to spark inspiration and innovation, and how to take the next steps by collaborating with partners and preparing work for publication. In this revised and expanded edition, H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox present the ultimate companion to writing short fiction, featuring microplays, new short-form tactics, and a dozen fresh anthology pieces by Eve L. Ewing, Ross Gay, Jayne Anne Phillips, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Toomer, along with one-sentence student workshops that spotlight small but powerful moves in the short form. The extensive anthology showcases sixty short-form works including microplays and pieces by writers from Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Canada, France, Greece, Bosnia, and the U.S., offering a vibrant mix of styles, forms, themes, and voices.

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Short-Form Creative Writing

Friction

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