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| Title Statement | Fluke: chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters / Brian Klaas. |
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| Author | Klaas, Brian P.(Brian Paul), 1986- |
| Publication | New York: Scribner,2024. |
| Edition | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Extent of Item | ix, 323 pages |
| ISBN | 9781668006528 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07316676 |
| Contents | Introduction --Changing anything changes everything --Everything doesn't happen for a reason --Why our brains distort reality --The human swarm --Heraclitus rules --The storytelling animal --The lottery of earth --Everyone's a butterfly --Of clocks and calendars --The emperor's new equations --Could it be otherwise? --Why everything we do matters. |
| Summary | In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point' and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'The Black Swan', 'Fluke' is a provocative challenge to how we think our world works-and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything. Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Brian Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen-all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives. |
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| By Topic | Chance--Social aspects |
| Chaotic behavior in systems | |
| Conduct of life | |
| Forecasting | |
| Forecasting--Psychological aspects | |
