The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas TalebIn Black Swan: The Impact of The Highly Improbable, the author projects randomness and uncertainty as a single idea. He puts forth a theory that promotes the idea and value of a society that stands robust in the face of negative events, and manipulates the positive ones to its advantage. According to Taleb, a Black Swan event is a rare event that has large magnitude and powerful consequences owing to its unpredictability. Such an event is initially a

Not only that

A rich American film director has been murdered

Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans

she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight

Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year"

Astrology is an ancient art in which the movements of the stars and planets can divine the future

in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument

there's an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs

The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data

and student to mentor in business

who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart

‘one of the most monumental discoveries in biology’ (New York Times)