03508cam a2200481 4500 761593030 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 110126s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780679643685 electronic bk. 0679643680 electronic bk. B004C43F9S Amazon 03bd5d28-4a4f-4da7-83fd-bafbb75b42cd OverDrive (Reserve ID) 481071 OverDrive (Product ID) 210246 210246 210246 (OCoLC)698362014 TEFOD TEFOD TXN TxAuBib Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960- Bed of Procrustes. The bed of Procrustes [Libby] : philosophical and practical aphorisms / Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2010. 1 online resource (xii, 112 p.) Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1050kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Procrustes -- 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 fragility -- 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 -- Postface. By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. Aphorisms and apothegms. Human behavior Quotations, maxims, etc. Electronic books. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=03BD5D28-4A4F-4DA7-83FD-BAFBB75B42CD https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/03B/D5D/28/BedofProcrustesPhilosophicalandPracti9780679643685.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=03BD5D28-4A4F-4DA7-83FD-BAFBB75B42CD&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/03B/D5D/28/BedofProcrustesPhilosophicalandPracti9780679643685.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=03BD5D28-4A4F-4DA7-83FD-BAFBB75B42CD&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/03B/D5D/28/BedofProcrustesPhilosophicalandPracti9780679643685.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=03BD5D28-4A4F-4DA7-83FD-BAFBB75B42CD&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8