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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781400069972
- Subject Area
- Psychology, Business & Economics, Référence, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Subject
- Social, Quotations, General, Social Psychology, Corporate Finance / General
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Series
- Incerto Ser.
- Type
- Not Available
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
About this product
Product Information
The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game. By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his 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. It represents Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness. "Taleb's crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems."-- Financial Times
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400069971
ISBN-13
9781400069972
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99334614
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Publication Name
Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Language
English
Subject
Social, Quotations, General, Social Psychology, Corporate Finance / General
Publication Year
2010
Type
Not Available
Subject Area
Psychology, Business & Economics, Référence, Philosophy
Series
Incerto Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2010-036866
Reviews
Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb “The most prophetic voice of all.� - GQ “The hottest thinker in the world.� -Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times (London) “[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.� - The Wall Street Journal “Idiosyncratically brilliant.� -Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb "The most prophetic voice of all." -GQ "The hottest thinker in the world." -Bryan Appleyard,The Sunday Times(London) "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne." -The Wall Street Journal "Idiosyncratically brilliant." -Niall Ferguson,Los Angeles Times, Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb "The most prophetic voice of all." - GQ "The hottest thinker in the world." -Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times (London) "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne." - The Wall Street Journal "Idiosyncratically brilliant." -Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times , Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb "The most prophetic voice of all." -- GQ "The hottest thinker in the world." --Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times (London) "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne." -- The Wall Street Journal "Idiosyncratically brilliant." --Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb "The most prophetic voice of all." -- GQ "The hottest thinker in the world." --Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times (London) "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne." -- The Wall Street Journal "Idiosyncratically brilliant." --Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
4
Dewey Decimal
082
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pn6271.T35 2011
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