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Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
Antifragile 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, and The Bed of ...Show more
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$31.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Fooled by Randomness 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 The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
Skin in the Game["Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life"] by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work? The answer- too many people running the world don't have skin in the game. In this provocat ...Show more
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work? The answer- too many people running the world don't have skin in the game. In this provocati ...Show more
The Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In a climate when iconoclasm is the smartest intellectual stance - whether against bankers, traders, politicians, the energy industry, or journalists - one of today's most prominent rabble-rousers gives his quick-witted and snappy guide to questioning the status quo. With characteristic panache and brio ...Show more
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world's earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which ...Show more
The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The Black Swan 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, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle chara ...Show more
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