Nassim Taleb
273 BOOKS

Nassim Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York University professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.

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Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from ItselfFree The Animal: How To Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo DietA Guide to Econometrics – 4th EditionGood Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and DiseaseSeeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd EditionThe Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic TraditionIdea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable PeopleThinking and DecidingThe Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows OlderSocial Cognition: Making Sense of People
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical AdventureThe Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the RenaissanceThe Secret of Fatima (Father Kevin Thrall Thrillers)Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to PopperMathematics: Its Content, Methods and MeaningProbability Theory (Courant Lecture Notes)Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in LifeInformation: The New Language of ScienceBull!: A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market – and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial CyclesI Think, Therefore I Laugh
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Statistical Models: Theory and PracticeThe Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie MysteryHow Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized CriticalityThe Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and LongevityKant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and CognitionIntellectuals in the Middle AgesA History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of ConsciousnessThe Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century PhilosophyConsciousness: An IntroductionThe Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal
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No Bull: My Life In and Out of MarketsThe Tartar SteppeMapping the MindModelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability)Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook: Assyrian/SyriacPerilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of ChaosThe Mind Doesn't Work That WayThe Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and PracticeThe Statistical Mechanics of Financial MarketsA Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
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Invariances: The Structure of the Objective WorldBody by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a WeekThe Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and BustThe Opposing ShoreExplaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social SciencesThe Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World WarThe RecognitionsUbiquityCritical MassWhy Most Things Fail
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The fractal geometry of natureBerlin DiaryThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi GermanyThe SleepwalkersA philosophical treatise concerning the weakness of human understandingThe DifferenceThe (Mis)behavior of MarketsFinancial DerivativesThinkCognitive neuroscience
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The Modularity of MindIrrational ExuberanceThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceThe MetamorphosisThe Alchemy of FinanceThe nature of rationalityDescartes' ErrorThe Emotional BrainThe OdysseyThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The Story of Civilization (11 books)Manhattan transferThe Millionaire Next DoorThe Practice of Natural MovementFiccionesThe Blank SwanAlchemyZero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FutureThe Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the PoorProbability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular MindHappy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical BreakthroughsFinancial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and MathematicsCritical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools (Springer Series in Synergetics)The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is LessStraw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other AnimalsMean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal InstinctsWhy Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial SystemsThe New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st CenturyStrangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
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Who We Are and How We Got HereThe Count of Monte CristoSafe HavenEssaisLetters From a StoicDominionThe Dawn of EverythingElements of Information Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)The Wealth of NationsConspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
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Chaos KingsScale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and CompaniesIntelligenceNapoleon The GreatA New Kind of ScienceProbability, random variables, and stochastic processesDas KapitalSumma TheologicaThe forge of christendomUn amore
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The Blank SlateLe Labyrinthe des égarésQuand la Chine s'éveillera… le monde trembleraThe Second LawWhat Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?Toxic ExposureThe Haywire HeartWantingThe Seventh LetterCorto Maltese
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Anna KareninaHurst The HeartHarrison's principles of internal medicine. - 18. ed.Socrates in Love: The Making of a PhilosopherLes sceptiques grecsŒuvreThe DecameronMemoirs of a PhysicianLévy statistics and laser coolingThe Quick and the Dead
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The entropy law and the economic processDictionary of the Safaitic InscriptionsDolce VitaThe U.S. Constitution and Other WritingsPossessed, or, The secret of MyslotchThe Mystery-Religions and ChristianityEn Islam iranienAdventures of a Computational ExplorerHuman Scale RevisitedAgainst the Grain
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The Vermont PapersThéodoret de Cyr et le monastère de Saint MarounCounterexamples in ProbabilityThe Sign of ThreeCut the KnotThe IliadBlueprintThe Longevity SolutionAdam SmithThe Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition (Modern Library)
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Wrestling with MosesRisk ThinkingProbability theory and applicationsOn KingsA Phoenician-Punic grammarAtlas des mathématiquesThe VNR Concise Encyclopedia of MathematicsUnderstanding RiskUnderstanding TrumpDebt: The First 5,000 Years
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Guns, Germs, and SteelThe Shock DoctrineThe Soul of the MarionetteA History of Private LifeThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireThe Complete Guide to FastingLa violence monothéistePersian FireBelle du SeigneurMary
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Villa TristeThe End of the AffairUN Taxi MauveA burnt-out caseJourney to the End of the NightA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurAlbertine disparuePaulina 1880Flaubert’s ParrotDeath in Venice
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The Magic MountainAndré BretonThe Razor's EdgeKeep the Aspidistra FlyingMemoirs of HadrianLa condition humaineI, ClaudiusClimatsLa colline inspiréeLe Grand Meaulnes
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JustineThe Sun Also RisesHotel du LacMemoirs of an Anti-SemiteCleaTortilla FlatUna vitaLa StoriaThe Tattered Cloak and Other StoriesLéon, l'Africain
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Auto-da-féHow Proust Can Change Your LifeTravels with my auntNesnesitelná lehkost bytíImmortalityLa noiaLa RomanaA Confederacy of Dunces: A NovelAmerikaThe Complete Sherlock Holmes
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Lady L.Howards EndThe Remains of The DayThe Man Without QualitiesLes Jeunes FillesFerdydurkeInfluence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised EditionBibleSetaModelling Extremal Events
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Chinese Edition)Happy AccidentsOrder without Design: How Markets Shape CitiesThe French Revolution and What Went WrongReflections on the Revolution in FranceSeven Types Of AtheismDeep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)What Do You Care What Other People Think?MeditationsDe bello Gallico
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The RepublicThe Book of the CourtierRational DecisionsDemonsAn Introduction to Probability Theory and Its ApplicationsThe Dao of CapitalThe Power and the GloryThe Road to SerfdomThe Measure of RealityWhat I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
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Thinking, Fast and SlowA Perfect MessThe PlagueHow Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're BuiltAtlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)The FountainheadThe Management MythIn the Shadow of the SwordLaughing Gas, Viagra, and LipitorDe beneficiis
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LevantLa rebellion française. mouvements populaires et conscience socialeThe First Six Books of the Elements of EuclidThe immortalization commissionOn the Origin of SpeciesThe Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of MusicThe AeneidThe World of YesterdayStatistical ModelsChance
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Matière et mémoireFire the Bastards!Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good SocietyHopping over the Rabbit HoleThe Elements of Statistical LearningPlato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .Mean Genes1,000 Foods To Eat Before You DieThe FormulaThe Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with FailureThe Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central BankingMarket Wizards