Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

by Brian Klaas

Book Overview

In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan comes a provocative challenge to how we think our world works--and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything, by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas.

If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668055848
• ISBN13: 9781668055847
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Explores Complexity and Non-Linear Systems Applied to Sociology and Life

As a fan of the Santa Fe Institute and the cutting-edge research of Complexity Science, I found this to be an informative, fun, and provocative read. The author challenges established ways of viewing the world by embracing the unknown, the chaotic, the mysterious. While, in his conclusion, he bends to a more deterministic view of the world, and I bend more to the emergent, his arguments are nevertheless compelling and worth exploring. After I finished reading it, I was inspired to read it again. Lots of food for thought.