The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Paperback Politics / Current Events Elizabeth wakes in a hospital

Elizabeth wakes in a hospital

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ISBN: 9780063411166

she discovers a web so beautiful that she's inspired to spin a masterpiece of her own

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Paperback Politics / Current Events Elizabeth wakes in a hospitalNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most influential book of the past seventy five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called "On Robustness and Fragility." A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable,