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016132
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London, Allen Lane, 2012.
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xix, 519pPink and blue spine
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Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time.
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9781846141560 Hb.
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016203
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London, Penguin Books, 2010.
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xxxiii, 444pOrange Spine
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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.
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9780141034591 Pb.
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| I00792 | 003.54/TAL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016123
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Second edition
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London, Penguin Books, 2005.
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xxxiii,316pOrange Spine
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This is a book about luck. More specifically, it is a book about how we perceive luck, twist it around and regard it as intention or purpose. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" is the bestselling account of the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets. Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist.
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9780141031484 Pb.
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| I00794 | 123.2/TAL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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