Risk, Resilience and Fragility

Title: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Author: Tim Harford Publisher: Bond Street Books Format: Hardcover Pages: 309 ISBN: 9780385670241 In this groundbreaking book, Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, shows us a new and […]

Title: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publisher: Random House Release Date: November 27, 2012 Format: Hardcover Pages: 544 ISBN: 9781400067824 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan […]

Title: Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Regional Ecosystems: Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions Author: Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling, Stephen S. Light Publisher: Columbia University Press Release […]

Title: Best Laid Plans: The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences and How to Avoid Them. William A. Sherden. Praeger. Author: William A. Sherden Publisher: Praeger Release Date: February 18, 2011 Format: Hardcover Pages: 208 Marketing methods […]

Title: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Author: Jared Diamond Publisher: Penguin Group Release Date: December 31, 2004 Format: Hardcover Pages: 592 ISBN: 9780670033379 What is more haunting than the specter of a […]

Title: Connectivity, Complexity and Catastrophe in Large-scale Systems Author: John L. Casti Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Release Date: October 17, 1979 Format: Hardcover Pages: 218 ISBN: 9780471276616 Connectivity, complexity, catastrophe: these are loaded words […]

Title: Enterprise Risk Management: A Methodology for Achieving Strategic Objectives Author: Gregory Monahan Publisher: Wiley Release Date: September 29, 2008 Format: Hardcover Pages: 180 ISBN: 9780470372333 Written for enterprise risk management (ERM) practitioners who recognize […]

Title: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publisher: Random House Release Date: October 14, 2008 Format: Hardcover Pages: 368 ISBN: 9781400067930 Now in […]

Title: Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics Author: Mark Buchanan Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Release Date: March 26, 2013 Format: Hardcover Pages: 272 ISBN: 9781608198511 Positive feedback – when […]

Title: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Author: Jared Diamond Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Release Date: 1997 Format: Hardcover Pages: 480 ISBN: 9780393038910 Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate […]