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X-Events

The Collapse of Everything
William Morrowerschienen am01.07.2012
I am an assiduous reader of John Castis books. He is a real scientific intellectual.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Fooled by RandomnessCasti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting everyday examples to illustrate them.New York Times Book ReviewIn his highly provocative and grippingly readable book, X-Events, author John Casti brilliantly argues that todays advanced, overly complex societies have grown highly vulnerable to extreme events that will ultimately topple civilization like a house of cards. Like Nassim Talebs The Black Swan meets Jared Diamonds Collapse, Castis book provides a much-needed wake-up callsounding a fascinating and frightening warning about civilized societys inability to recover from a global catastrophe demonstrating how humankind could be blasted back into the Stone Age by a meteor strike, nuclear apocalypse, worldwide contagion, or any number of unforeseeable X-Events.mehr
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KlappentextI am an assiduous reader of John Castis books. He is a real scientific intellectual.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Fooled by RandomnessCasti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting everyday examples to illustrate them.New York Times Book ReviewIn his highly provocative and grippingly readable book, X-Events, author John Casti brilliantly argues that todays advanced, overly complex societies have grown highly vulnerable to extreme events that will ultimately topple civilization like a house of cards. Like Nassim Talebs The Black Swan meets Jared Diamonds Collapse, Castis book provides a much-needed wake-up callsounding a fascinating and frightening warning about civilized societys inability to recover from a global catastrophe demonstrating how humankind could be blasted back into the Stone Age by a meteor strike, nuclear apocalypse, worldwide contagion, or any number of unforeseeable X-Events.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9780062088307
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum01.07.2012
Seiten336 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.1803684
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Genre9201

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American complexity scientist and systems theoristJohn Casti, is cofounder of The X-Center, a Viennabasedresearch institute focusing on human-causedextreme events and how to anticipate them. Casti haspublished nearly twenty volumes of academic and popularscience and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from theUniversity of Southern California. He lives in Vienna,Austria.