Antifragile : things that gain from disorder /
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only... Full description
| Main Author: | Taleb, Nassim. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : Random House, 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Contents: | Book 1. The antifragile : an introduction -- Book 2. Modernity and the denial of antifragility -- Book 3. A nonpredictive view of the world -- Book 4. Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility -- Book 5. The nonlinear and the nonlinear -- Book 6. Via negativa -- Book 7. The ethics of fragility and antifragility. |
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| Oshkosh | Adult New Nonfiction | 155.24 T143a | Due: 06/24/2013 |
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