Over Ruled highlights how the massive growth of complex federal laws and regulations impacts ordinary Americans, leading to administrative overreach and eroding individual liberty. Through compelling stories—from a fisherman facing felony charges to citizens burdened by licensing—the book argues that this "Law's Empire" threatens core constitutional freedoms, demanding a return to foundational rule-of-law principles, transparency, and federalism.
Mitch Rose's Dreams of Presence presents a geographical theory of culture focusing on claiming rather than difference. The book argues that human culture emerges as an existential response to universal vulnerability and precarity, rooted in the concepts of dwelling. Geography is fundamental because it provides the material structure—a necessary illusion—allowing these claims to sovereignty to appear as a stable dream of presence.
Quantum Theory and Fuzzy Systems traverses uncertainty in complex Group Decision-Making and Social Networks. This research introduces advanced models, integrating quantum graphs, Pythagorean linguistic information, and linguistic Z-Numbers. Crucially, it uses Quantum Decision Theory within Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making approaches like TOPSIS and TODIM to explicitly model expert psychological behavior and opinion interference effects across diverse applications, including green supplier selection and brain network analysis.
This collection presents fascinating physics paradoxes and sophisms covering mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, optics, and atomic structure. It investigates puzzling scenarios like gravitational forces, apparent violations of energy conservation, and unique electromagnetic phenomena. Studying these problems enhances analytical skills and fosters the nonstandard thinking valued by scientists such as Einstein.
Discover the Problem Solver Profile (PSP) framework to revolutionize your decision-making approach. Learn your archetype—Adventurer, Detective, Listener, Thinker, or Visionary—to gain deeper self-knowledge and maximize inherent strengths. Problem Solver helps you identify and limit cognitive biases (blind spots) using practical tools like the AREA Method and strategic Cheetah Sheets. This powerful system fosters dynamic problem-solving, improves collaboration, and enhances success in all aspects of life.
The Phoenix Complex critiques the widespread belief in nature's infinite renewal from destruction. This cross-cultural philosophical predicament, embodied by the mythical phoenix, motivates environmentally destructive practices. The complex is driven by impatience with finitude and disgust with natural decay, promoting harmful self-substitution mechanisms across politics, technology, and religion. Analyzing figures from Plato to Russian Cosmism, the text argues that recognizing nature's absolute nonrenewability is crucial for overcoming this crisis.
Learn advanced quantitative portfolio optimization methods, utilizing Python for practical implementation beyond traditional mean-variance models. This guide segments the process into robust parameter estimation, selecting advanced allocation models (convex risk, risk parity, robust optimization), and rigorous multiasset backtesting. Key topics include hierarchical clustering and graph theory applications, equipping financial practitioners and students with cutting-edge skills for designing customized investment strategies.
This essential resource advances the science of developing leaders and leadership, differentiating individual capacity (human capital) from collective capacity (social capital). It champions rigorous evidence-based developmental systems over limited programs, introducing Five First Principles. Key insights focus on leveraging lifelong experience, assessment, challenge, and support to foster crucial leader self-views like identity and self-efficacy, requiring dedicated long-term, longitudinal study to chart complex change trajectories.
This book reveals the surprising history of vector and tensor analysis, mathematical revolutions essential to modern science. It charts their evolution from ancient ideas through pioneers like William Rowan Hamilton (quaternions) and James Clerk Maxwell (electromagnetism). The text details the shift to modern vector analysis (Gibbs/Heaviside) and its crucial role, alongside tensors, in understanding space, time, and diverse applications, including relativity, computing, and machine learning.
This essential guide introduces quantum technology for economists, focusing on quantum computing and finance. It explores how groundbreaking quantum algorithms offer exponential speedups for optimization, derivative pricing, and solving complex economic models. It also addresses quantum financial technology, detailing novel quantum money schemes and defenses like post-quantum cryptography against future quantum attacks.
Ersilia Vaudo's astrophysics narrative traces five revolutions, starting with Newtonian gravity. It details Einstein's relativity, promoting the speed of light to an absolute constant, intertwining space and time, and defining gravity as space-time geometry. Key discoveries discussed include the expanding Universe, the Big Bang, cosmic inflation, and the ongoing mysteries of dark matter, dark energy, and the survival of matter over antimatter.
The Journey of Leadership details a human-centric leadership approach, informed by McKinsey’s Bower Forum, where CEOs learn to lead from the inside out. This shift emphasizes developing personal attributes—humility, confidence, and vulnerability—to achieve self-awareness and resilience. Successful modern leaders must move beyond the old imperial CEO model to effectively empower teams and instill purpose, driving organizational change in a complex world.
Unlock the enjoyment of architecture with this guide focusing on everyday experience and visual pleasure. Learn tools to observe and understand buildings, enhancing appreciation beyond conventional interpretation or historical context. The book investigates fundamental design concepts: Style, Composition, Space, Materials, Structure, and Use. This approach moves past stylistic prejudice, offering a comprehensive way to value all built environments.
A neopragmatist approach to horizontal geographies provides a meta-theoretical framework for complex spatial research, challenging essentialism and representation. The program uses multi-level triangulation and philosophical pragmatism to create useful, contingent redescriptions of regions and landscapes. Focusing on Richard Rorty's ideas, the ultimate goal is maximizing life chances and promoting an open, anti-authoritarian society through methodological pluralism and irony.
The book advocates moving beyond tactical GenAI improvements to establish the AI-Centered Enterprise (ACE). This transformation hinges on Context Aware AI (CAI), systems grasping both content and intent in unstructured data. Leaders must utilize advanced techniques like retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, and agentic systems to enhance organizational interactions and unlock collaboration. A structured 3C framework—Calibrate, Clarify, Channelize—guides executives in navigating this radical strategic shift across tasks, interactions, and internal marketplaces. Context Aware AI promises massive productivity gains by overcoming information constraints.
This book concludes a project on Frege's sense, reference, and modes of representation. It critiques the Naïve Conception of Communication, arguing successful understanding requires Knowledge of Reference, not sharing identical Thoughts. The work introduces Formal Relationism to address Frege's Puzzle regarding belief contents. A core argument asserts that philosophical debates, such as the Substitution Argument and Kripke's critique of descriptivism, must avoid reliance on appeals to "intuition."
This comprehensive playbook covers cybersecurity controls from fundamentals to advanced strategies for small, medium, and large enterprises. It details a risk-based approach utilizing major frameworks like NIST, ISO, and CIS Controls. Core concepts include control testing, continuous improvement, and threat mapping using MITRE ATT&CK and DEFEND. Crucially, the guide emphasizes leveraging AI for automation, real-time threat detection, and GRC efficiency against evolving cyber threats.
This expert volume studies systemic financial risk through an emerging market perspective. It examines new risk facets like green finance, ESG resilience, and geopolitical spillovers in BRICS. The monograph details quantitative catastrophic risk models and analyzes Russian banking stability concerning household income and capital adequacy. Regulatory chapters cover macroprudential policies and evolving digital systemic risks.
Nanonetworks define the future of nanoscale communication and computation, navigating resource constraints and complex interdisciplinary challenges. The field merges concepts from physics, chemistry, and computer science to develop nanodevices. Critical topics include component construction using materials like DNA, implementing computational models, and analyzing diverse communication modalities. Primary applications revolve around advanced medical systems, such as personalized health monitoring and targeted drug delivery, alongside addressing legal and ethical concerns.
This book rigorously connects mathematics and philosophy to analyze pattern and change universally. It formalizes pattern through dynamic systems, emphasizing core concepts like measure, events, and invariance. The study explores probability, information theory, and entropy, applying these ideas across complex phenomena, including chaos, symmetry, and quantum physics. Drawing on systems thinking, the text reveals the profound coherence and predictable structure emerging from nature’s continuous flux.