Taleb, Nassim Nicholas  1960- <br/><br/>
The bed of Procrustes  philosophical and practival aphorisms$dNassim Nicholas Taleb 

 - Random House trade paperback edition 
 - XIII, 156 Seiten 
 - Incerto / Nassim Nicholas Taleb$l .
 - Taleb, Nassim Nicholas  1960-  Incerto. .
<br/><br/> "Revised and updated'--Cover  "With fifty percent more material than the hardcover"--Page 4 of cover 
<br/><br/> Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, Living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and antifragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812982404 9780141985022 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aphorisms and apothegms<br/>Human behavior--Quotations, maxims, etc
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN6271 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>082