The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms - ISBN:1400069971

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Date: 12 April 2011, 11:21

Free register and download UseNet downloader, then you can FREE Download from UseNet.

Download without Limit " The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms " from UseNet for FREE!

Product Description: By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.
With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.

Download Links:

Download Link (High Speed Download)

Download Link (http://www.filesonic.com/...)

DISCLAIMER:

This site does not store The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms on its server. We only index and link to The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.