The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Name: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141985022
Price: 14.53 EUR
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By (author): Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A condensed guide to life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms to help you navigate the modern world.

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Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance and erudition against modern philistinism and phoniness. Only by accepting what we don't know, he shows, can we see the world as it really is.

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Weight: 140g
Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
Publication Date: 27 Oct 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780141985022

About Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck uncertainty probability and knowledge and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas as a man of letters as a businessman-trader and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile The Black Swan Fooled by Randomness and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.