Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan

Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Talebâ€™s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we donâ€™t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumesâ€”Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new materialâ€”are now together in one ebook bundle.
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ANTIFRAGILE
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â€œStartling . . . richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal
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Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls â€œantifragileâ€ is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. Spanning politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style, Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world.
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THE BLACK SWAN
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â€œ[A book] that altered modern thinking.â€â€”The Times (London)
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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. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows that black swan events underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives, and yet weâ€”especially the expertsâ€”are blind to them.
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FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
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â€œ[Fooled by Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Lutherâ€™s ninety-five theses were to the Catholic Church.â€â€”Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
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Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? Fooled by Randomness is about luck: more precisely, about how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skillâ€”the marketsâ€”Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in our lives.
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THE BED OF PROCRUSTES
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â€œTalebâ€™s crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems.â€â€”Financial Times
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This collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Talebâ€™s major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical views of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.

Country	USA
Author	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780812997699
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
PublicationDate	2016-01-26
Publisher	Random House
ReleaseDate	2016-01-26
Studio	Random House

Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

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