Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW SELF-HELP
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2024
EDITION
First Scribner hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
ix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781668006528, 1668006529 :, 1668006529, 9781668006528, 9781668055847, 1668055848, 1668006529, 9781668006528
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- Changing anything changes everything -- Everything doesn't happen for a reason -- Why our brains distort reality -- The human swarm -- Heraclitus rules -- The storytelling animal -- The lottery of Earth -- Everyone's a butterfly -- Of clocks and calendars -- The emperor's new equations -- Could it be otherwise? -- 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