The Black Swan

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The Black Swan

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ISBN: 9780141034591
author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
publishing house: Penguin
publication date: 2008 -2
binding: Paperback
price: 99.0
number of pages: 400

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`Great fun ... brash, stubborn, entertaining, opinionated, curious,
`Hugely enjoyable - compelling'
`Idiosyncratically brilliant'
`A fascinating study of how we are regularly taken for suckers by the unexpected'
`A deeply intelligent, provocative book'
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'A deeply intelligent, provocative book ... Taleb succeeds in
bringing sceptical empiricism to the masses' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'A richly enjoyable read with an important message' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'A provocative macro-trend tome in the tradition of The Wisdom of
Crowds and The Tipping Point' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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