Fluke by Brian Klaas - ISBN: 9781668006535
Paperback
Random chance shapes our lives and history in surprising, mind-bending ways.

Fluke

Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    21 January 2025

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Summary

This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” is both “empowering” and “compelling” as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions—by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas, whom Prospect magazine has named one of the world’s “Top 25 Thinkers.”

If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781668006535
ISBN-10:1668006537
Author:Brian Klaas
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Scribner
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:21 January 2025
Weight:272g
Dimensions:25mm x 140mm x 211mm
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Fluke by Brian Klaas - ISBN: 9781668006535
140 × 211 mm
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Critics Review

Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far 2024 Waterstones Best Book of 2024 “Provides a captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world we inhabit [and also] entertainingly reminds us that modern society is a complex adaptive system…Fascinating.” -Financial Times

About The Author

Brian Klaas

Brian Klaas grew up in Minnesota, earned his DPhil at Oxford, and is now a professor of global politics at University College London. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, host of the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast, and frequent guest on national television. Klaas has conducted field research across the globe and advised major politicians and organizations including NATO and the European Union.

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