Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2012: Fragile things break under stress. But, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, there's an entire class of other things that don't simply resist stress but actually grow, strengthen, or otherwise gain from unforeseen and otherwise unwelcome stimuli. Taleb sees degrees of antifragility everywhere, from fasting, mythology, and urban planning to economic, technological, cultural, and biological systems. The wealth of radical thinking in this book astounds; the glossary alone offered more thought-provoking ideas than any other nonfiction book I read this year. That said, A
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Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release date: 28 January 2014
ISBN-10 : 0812979680 | ISBN-13: 9780812979688
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Release date: 28 January 2014
ISBN-10 : 0812979680 | ISBN-13: 9780812979688
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