Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters
A social scientist dispels people's tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives.
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- ISBN: 9781668006528 (hardcover)
- Physical Description ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Changing Anything Changes Everything -- Chapter 3: Everything Doesn't Happen for a Reason -- Chapter 4: Why Our Brains Distort Reality -- Chapter 5: The Human Swarm -- Chapter 6: Heraclitus Rules -- Chapter 7: The Storytelling Animal -- Chapter 8: The Lottery of Earth -- Chapter 9: Everyone's a Butterfly -- Chapter 10: Of Clocks and Calendars -- Chapter 11: The Emperor's New Equations -- Chapter 12: Could It Be Otherwise? -- Chapter 13: Why Everything We Do Matters. |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Changing Anything Changes Everything -- Chapter 3: Everything Doesn't Happen for a Reason -- Chapter 4: Why Our Brains Distort Reality -- Chapter 5: The Human Swarm -- Chapter 6: Heraclitus Rules -- Chapter 7: The Storytelling Animal -- Chapter 8: The Lottery of Earth -- Chapter 9: Everyone's a Butterfly -- Chapter 10: Of Clocks and Calendars -- Chapter 11: The Emperor's New Equations -- Chapter 12: Could It Be Otherwise? -- Chapter 13: Why Everything We Do Matters. |
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| 650 | 0. | ‡aConduct of life. | |
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