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Author Klaas, Brian, 1986- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2024.
©2024
8 holds on first copy returned of 12 copies

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  123.3 KLAAS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  123.3 KLAAS    DUE 05-04-24
 Bristol, Main Library - New Materials  123.3 KLAAS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult New Materials  153.4 KLAAS    DUE 05-02-24
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Lucky Day Book (no holds)  LUCKY DAY 123 KLAAS    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  123 KLAAS    DUE 05-03-24
 New Britain, Main Library - New Materials  123 KLA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  123.3 KLAAS    DUE 05-05-24
 Plainville Public Library - New Materials  123.3 KLA    DUE 05-04-24
 Portland Public Library - New Materials  123.3 KLA    DUE 05-15-24

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description ix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [269]-305) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Chance -- Social aspects.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Conduct of life.
Social psychology.
Causation.
Forecasting.
social psychology. (CStmoGRI)aat300054452
ethics (philosophical concept) (CStmoGRI)aat300055939
ISBN 9781668006528 (hardcover)
1668006529 (hardcover)
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