The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Book Overview

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game. By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400069971
• ISBN13: 9781400069972
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"