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020490
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London, Profile Books Ltd, 2015.
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vi, 266pBlack spine
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For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In Chance, a (not entirely) random selection of the New Scientist's sharpest minds provide fascinating insights into luck, randomness, risk and probability. From the secrets of coincidence to placing the perfect bet, the science of random number generation to the surprisingly haphazard decisions of criminal juries, it will explore these, and many other, tantalising questions. Following on from the bestselling Nothing and Question Everything, this book will open your eyes to the weird and wonderful world of chance - and help you see when some things, in fact, aren't random at all.
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9781781255438 Pb.
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| I01727 | 123.3/BRO | Main | Missing | 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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025619
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Seattle, Compendium Kids, 2017.
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32pWhite Spine
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When a child is given chances to try new things, he is hesitant and lets them go, until he realizes that he doesn't need to be brave all the time, just at the right time, to embrace the opportunities that come his way. A child learns that courage means being a little brave at the right time.
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9781943200733 Hb.
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| 023383 | FIC/YAM | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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