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Author Klaas, Brian, 1986-

Title Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters / Brian Klaas.

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2024.
1 hold on first copy returned of 7 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3085291~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction-NEW  123.3 KLA    DUE 05-09-24
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction-NEW  123.3 KLA    DUE 05-13-24
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Description ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Chance -- Social aspects.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Conduct of life.
Social psychology.
Forecasting.
Added Title Chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters
ISBN 9781668006528 (hardcover (hardcover))
1668006529
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