01946nam a22002654a 4500 44804 BD-DhAAL 250916t2010 enk 000 0 eng d 2010036866 9780241954096 DLC DLC DLC BD-DhAAL PN6271 .T35 2010 818.602 22 Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960- 36298 The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms / Nassim Nicholas Taleb. London : Penguin Books, 2011. x, 112 pages ; 21 cm Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and fragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface. Donated by Farhana Zahir, Assistant Professor, BRAC Business School, BRAC University 44804 Aphorisms and apothegms. 48119 Human behavior Quotations, maxims, etc. 59344 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 47546 47546 0 0 ddc 0 818_602000000000000_TAL 0 78200 BRACUL BRACUL NEW 2025-09-16 Donated by Farhana Zahir, Assistant Professor, BRAC Business School, BRAC University 4 8 818.602 TAL 3010044804 2026-06-02 2026-05-20 2026-05-20 1 2025-09-16 BK Donated by Farhana Zahir, Assistant Professor, BRAC Business School, BRAC University ; £9.99