The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableFrom the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random

and with breathtakingly detailed historical research

Af Klint is now widely regarded as one of the world’s pioneers of 20th-century abstract art

to song writing choices

in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life

'Do the Understanding' already bears the hallmarks of a new Australian classic

This expansively illustrated publication on Disney animation gathers hundreds of images as well as essays by Disney experts

David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman — have dominated cinema screens both locally and internationally and starred in some of the biggest films of their eras — including The Adventures of Robin Hood

“I am in love with beauty

first released in October 1993

The source of the family fortune was vague

extraordinary life but the cultural forces that shaped it' - Sean O'Hagan

and music scholar Shana L