TY - BOOK AU - Taleb,Nassim Nicholas TI - The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable SN - 9780141034591 AV - Q375 .T35 2008 U1 - 003.54 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Uncertainty (Information theory) KW - Forecasting N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index N2 - This book is all about black swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from best sellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they are nearly impossible to predict, yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them ER -