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Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters  Cover Image Book Book

Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters / Brian Klaas.

Summary:

In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point' and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'The Black Swan', 'Fluke' is a provocative challenge to how we think our world works-and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything. Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Brian Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen-all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781668006528 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2024.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Changing anything changes everything -- Everything doesn't happen for a reason -- Why our brains distort reality -- The human swarm -- Heraclitus rules -- The storytelling animal -- The lottery of earth -- Everyone's a butterfly -- Of clocks and calendars -- The emperor's new equations -- Could it be otherwise? -- Why everything we do matters.
Subject: Chance > Social aspects.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Conduct of life.
Forecasting.
Forecasting > Psychological aspects.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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