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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2010
- Book Title
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (...
- ISBN
- 9781400069972
- Publication Name
- Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Series
- Incerto Ser.
- Type
- Not Available
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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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
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400069971
ISBN-13
9781400069972
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Series
Incerto Ser.
Type
Not Available
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
4
Lc Classification Number
Pn6271.T35 2011
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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
Copyright Date
2011
Topic
Social, Quotations, General, Social Psychology, Corporate Finance / General
Lccn
2010-036866
Dewey Decimal
082
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Psychology, Business & Economics, Référence, Philosophy
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