2010 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2007, 2010 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2007.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Taleb, Nassim.
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable /
Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
p. cm.
Contents: Part one—Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek
validation—Part two—We just can't predict—Part three—
Those gray swans of extremistan—Part four—The end.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60418-1
1. Uncertainty （Information theory）—Social aspects.
2. Forecasting. I. Title.
Q375.T35 2007
003′.54—dc222006051093

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