“I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven LevittGame theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world. Using a diverse arr...

The international bestseller—don't compete without it!A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneauvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy making and then shows ho...

This monograph provides a comprehensive mathematical framework for modeling heavy metal transport in soil. Drawing on advection-diffusion equations, exponential decay models, and advanced numerical techniques, the book bridges theoretical mathematics with practical applications in environmental science and policy. Through detailed derivations, simulations, and case studies it demonstrates how predictive models can forecast plume migration, optimize remediation, and quantify climate change ...

The only person qualified to determine your worth is YOU. Inherently, every human being has the mettle to achieve near perfection. One lacks, training, knowledge, confidence, motivation, or insight to use what one already has as part of their persona.This book is for those people who like helping their own self, their surroundings and want to live in the world as a community. This is for those who want to be rich and improve exponentially. For those who are willing to adopt lifestyl...

I believe we the INDIANS, like all other peoples of the world, are naturally susceptible to flattery. But unfortunately they have been deprived of their share of it, even in wholesome measure, both by the Fates presiding at the making of their history as well as by the guests partaking of their salt. We have been declared inefficient in practical matters by our governors, foreign missionaries have created a vast literature proclaiming our moral obliquity, while casual visitors have express...

A young king, forced into the throne after the death of his family, must do everything in his power to maintain the peace in his kingdom and find his kidnapped brother. In the meantime, an alien race wishing to wipe them all out takes advantage of the strife.

India’s near east encompasses Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian states of the ‘Northeast’—Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. Celebrated as a theatre of geo-economic connectivity typified by India’s ‘Act East’ policy, the region is key not only to India’s great-power rivalry with China, which first boiled over in the 1962 war, but to the idea(s) of India itself. It is also one of the most intricately partitioned lands anywhere on Earth. Ren...

Understand data analysis pipelines using machine learning algorithms and techniques with this practical guideKey FeaturesPrepare and clean your data to use it for exploratory analysis, data manipulation, and data wranglingDiscover supervised, unsupervised, probabilistic, and Bayesian machine learning methodsGet to grips with graph processing and sentiment analysisBook DescriptionData analysis enables you to generate value fro...

Understand data analysis pipelines using Python Data Analysis, machine learning, pandas, scikit-learn, and data visualization techniques. Build scalable workflows for time series, NLP, image analytics, and big data processing. Key FeaturesPrepare, clean, and transform data with Python, pandas, and exploratory data analysis techniquesApply machine learning with Python using regression, classification, clustering, PCA, and Bayesian methodsScale a...

About the BookAahana and the Two Brains is a gentle yet powerful children’s book that invites young readers into a story where they learn how different kinds of thoughts shape feelings, choices, and actions.The book is thoughtfully designed with 13 short, independent chapters, each just 3–4 pages long, making it easy for children to read, absorb, and apply without feeling overwhelmed. Every chapter focuses ...

'SUCCESS IS NOT A SINGLE PEAK, IT IS A SERIES OF ASCENTS.'On a freezing morning in January 1990, Avinash Kaul, seventeen, rode pillion on his father's scooter as they drove silently through the desolate streets of Srinagar, fleeing home with whatever they could carry. Displaced, he found himself studying in makeshift refugee-camp schools. Yet, against all odds and injustices, he persevered.In The Next Mountain, Kaul shares his life story in his unfiltered style. A ...

Have you ever experienced an orgasm? Billions of people around the earth have no idea of what an orgasm is! "And remember, ejaculation is not an orgasm. Ejaculation is a release of energy which is simply burdening the body, but which could be used instead for the explosion, which actually an orgasm could bring to us", says Ma Deva Pyari. She wants to encourage people - with this book - to explore "their sexuality", but with awareness and a curious spirt, in order to discover whats lays hid...