Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” (Financial Times) is both “empowering” (The New Statesman, UK) and “compelling” (New Scientist) 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...