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From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life.
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Contemporary, spare, cool and earnest.
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- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 421
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Dongnyeok Science
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- French, Spanish, Japanese, heb
- ISBN
- 9780141889238
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