- Resilience (Personality trait), PSYCHOLOGY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General, Long Now Manual for Civilization
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them.
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Spare, contemporary, cool and epic.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 639
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Da Kuai Wen Hua/Tsai Fong Books, Booket
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Chinese, French, English, heb
- ISBN
- 9781846141577
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