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  • Fooled by Randomness

    The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Book 1 - Incerto
    Fooled by Randomness 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 The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Incerto 5-Book Bundle

    Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series series Incerto
    The landmark five-book series—all together in one ebook bundleThe Incerto is an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientific discussions, in non-overlapping volumes that can ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

    by Carlo M. Cipolla ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world"A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan • "A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times**Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Black Swan: Second Edition

    The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Book 2 - Incerto
    NEW 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Skin in the Game

    Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series series Incerto
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from theauthor of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityIn his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Antifragile

    Things That Gain from Disorder

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Book 3 - Incerto
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Antifragile 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, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ancestors

    Identity and DNA in the Levant

    by Pierre Zalloua ...
    An eye-opening investigation into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that synthesizes thousands of years of genetic history in the region to question what it means to be indigenous to any land“Ancestors transcends geography to launch an eye-opening inquiry into the relationship of genetics and identity. It’s a transformational read for us all.”—Jason Roberts, author of Every Living Thing and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Man for All Markets

    From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

    by Edward O. Thorp ...
    The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack table. As a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Safe Haven

    Investing for Financial Storms

    by Mark Spitznagel ...
    What is a safe haven?What role should they play in an investment portfolio? Do we use them only to seek shelter until the passing of financial storms? Or are they something more? Contrary to everything we know from modern financial theory, can higher returns actually come as a result of lowering risk? In Safe Haven, hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel—one of the top practitioners of safe haven ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

  • Rewiring Narratives

    New Media Art from the Arab World

    by Haytham Nawar, Ala Younis, Shumon Basar, Yasmin Desouki, Bassem El Baroni, Ahmed El Shaer, Melissa Gronlund, Samia Halaby, Laura Marks0, Ahmed Mater1, Yasser Mongy2, Laila Shereen Sakr3, Abdel Aziz Taleb4, Akram Zaatari5, Rutger Fuchs7 ...
    Rewiring Narratives: New Media Art from the Arab World rethinks the positioning of artistic and media practices from the Arab world in the grander discourse of New Media Art; not through the mere filling of representational gaps, but through a rethinking of the field as a whole. Emphasizing localized histories, cultural frameworks, political contexts, and technological conditions, this volume maps ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Bed of Procrustes

    Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Book 4 - Incerto
    The author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditations—now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover.The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All the Battles

    A Novel

    by Maan Abu Taleb ...
    Translated by Robin Moger ...
    Series series
    When he first showed up at Captain Ali's run-down boxing club, Saed was mocked for his bourgeois manners then humiliated in the ring. After barely a year of training, he has been consumed by the world of boxing and tipped for greatness. As his star rises, Saed is faced with the challenger he came for, but at what cost? Maan Abu Taleb's debut novel is one of heady victories and crushing defeats. ... Read more

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