You spent forty-seven minutes choosing coffee beans while a decision worth $50,000 sat untouched on your desk.Sound familiar?Overthinking isn't a personality trait. It's not a sign of intelligence or being detail-oriented. It's a systematic misallocation of mental resources—and it's costing you far more than you realize. Missed opportunities. Chronic exhaustion. Eroded confidence. The constant background hum of decisions you haven't made, draining energy you need for the th...

You make 35,000 decisions every day. Most of them are draining you—not because they're hard, but because there are too many options.The cereal aisle has 137 choices. Netflix has thousands. Your career has infinite paths. Dating apps offer endless swipes. And your brain—which evolved to choose between two berry bushes—is drowning.The 3-Choice Rule is a decision-making framework built on one counterintuitive principle: limiting your options doesn't restrict your life—it recla...

DNAPL Site Evaluation covers long-term contamination of ground water by DNAPL (dense non-aqueous phase liquids) chemicals. The book develops a framework for planning and implementing DNAPL site characterization activities. It provides detailed methods to identify, characterize, and monitor sites and analyzes their utility, limitations, risks, availability, and cost. Methods to interpret contaminant fate and transport are identified, and new site characterization methods are assessed. DNAPL...

Seventeen emerging and established authors from around the world reimagined clocks and wove them into beautiful speculative and dark stories.As you move from one narrative to the next, you'll find yourself lost in fog, grasping at a young love, risking it all to save a dying world. Pages will swallow you whole as you slip through time, challenge what it means to live, and create an automaton. With poignant representations of queerness, disability and mental health issues, grief, lo...

You're not lazy. You're not weak. You're not broken. So why do you keep destroying the very things you've worked so hard to build?The career that stalls right before the promotion. The relationship that implodes the moment it gets serious. The goal that derails just as you start seeing results. You've watched yourself get close to what you want—and then do something to blow it up. Again.Stop Getting In Your Own Way finally explains why smart, capable, successful pe...

Master tech product strategy and lead cross-functional teams with absolute confidence, even without formal authority. Perfect for your morning commute, this actionable guide strips away startup hero myths to deliver the pragmatic business skills needed to navigate tight deadlines. Whether breaking into the tech industry or steering a complex enterprise portfolio, you will feel calm, focused, and driven to execute.Follow the realistic journeys of professionals battling incomplete da...

A lyrical, spellbinding picture book exploring the world of dreams from James Mercer, founder of the Grammy-nominated band The Shins, with stunning art by longtime collaborator Jacob Escobedo.You might dream about dragons or tigers or ghosts.And the next night, you're sailing to a faraway coast!You might zoom past the planets until the earth looks so small . . .or create your own universe and fly through it all.Inspired by conversation...

You're doing it right now. Or you were thirty seconds ago. Or you will be thirty seconds from now.That unconscious reach for your phone. That automatic flick of the thumb when your brain hits the smallest speed bump. It happens before you notice it. Before you decide. Your hand is on the phone before your brain catches up to what's going on.That's not a discipline problem. That's an automation problem. And it's destroying your ability to focus.The Scroll Reflex

Standing at a ticket window, stuck on the first word. Trying to be polite in a café, but the sentence in your head is far too long. Wanting to show respect in French, yet afraid you'll say something clumsy or rude. Short trips don't need long courses. They need a small set of reliable phrases you can say straight away. This compact phrasebook focuses on complete, courteous sentences for the situations travellers actually face: arrivals, tickets, taxis, check-in, ordering food, small talk, ...

James remembers the day he began to plot to kill his father, Harry: It was the day before his seventh birthday, and he finally realized his mom was not going to leave him.Whenever Harry would beat his mom, James would think, No, Dad! Stop beating Mom. Look over here at me. Im the one you are angry with. Im your sissy son, remember?Eventually, Harry would banish James from their Texas home, telling him he was going to pray hed get AIDS and die. Our family has been shamed and...

In 2015, a deep-seated, chilling hatred for the first black president of the United States grows. America First, a Christian militia, thinks it has found a way to eliminate the president and reduce government control: on July 4, they will create a mega tsunami that will devastate the eastern seaboard—including Washington, DC. If all goes well, America will be free again. The one thing America First lacks is the expertise to carry out their plan. Dr. Mark Malloy―the geologist they have kidn...

"Apart from herpes and Lulu – everything is eventually swept away"Just one shimmering pearl of wisdom from pop-star and polymath James Maker, whose worldly observations will (like herpes) once again be on everyone's lips thanks to his award-winning memoir, remastered with new chapters.If you hadn't heard of rock bands Raymonde or RPLA – fronted by James in the 80s and 90s – you might be forgiven for mistaking AutoFellatio for fiction. But here fact is more fantastical than ...