chapter No Way Around It. Introduction. -- chapter 1 In One Line And Close. Permutations as Linear Orders. Runs. -- chapter 2 In One Line And Anywhere. Permutations as Linear Orders. Inversions. -- chapter 3 In Many Circles. Permutations as Products of Cycles. -- chapter 4 In Any Way But This. Pattern Avoidance. The Basics. -- chapter 5 In This Way, But Nicely. Pattern Avoidance. Followup. -- chapter 6 Mean and Insensitive. Random Permutations. -- chapter 7 Permutations vs. Everything Else. Algebraic Combinatorics of Permutations -- chapter 8 Get Them All. Algorithms and Permutations.