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

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內容簡介 Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far 2024Waterstones Best Book of 2024如果你可以將生活倒帶到最初，然後按下播放鍵，一切會如同當初一樣嗎？也許僅僅一個偶然的電話或錯過一個高速公路出口，可能不僅改變你的生活，還會改變整個歷史的進程？在《Fluke》(偶然)一書中，社會科學家布萊恩·克拉斯深入探討了隨機機會的現象及其可能帶來的混亂，破解迷思，直擊大多數人對現實整齊、簡化的版本。本書主要論點：我們有意無視一個令人困惑的事實：只需少數幾個小改變，我們的生活、甚至我們的社會都可能截然不同。《Fluke》提供一個全新視角，探索我們的世界是如何運作的——受奇妙互動和顯得隨機的事件驅動。為什麼一對夫婦的假期能導致10萬人喪命？我們早晨按下延遲按鈕的決定會徹底改變我們人生的軌跡嗎？人類的進化是必然的，還是我們不過是一連串偶然事故的產物？克拉斯結合社會科學、混沌理論、歷史、進化生物學和哲學，為我們提供了一個精彩的全新視角，解釋為什麼事情會發生——同時提供許多挑戰我們既有認知的課題，告訴我們如何活得更聰明、更快樂，更充實。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 an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself?In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas takes a deep-dive into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and tidy version of reality. The book’s argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives—and our societies—could be radically different.Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events. How did one couple’s vacation cause 100,000 people to die? Does our decision to hit the snooze button in the morning radically alter the trajectory of our lives? And has the evolution of humans been inevitable, or are we simply the product of a series of freak accidents?Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen—all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives.

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各界推薦 “Provides a captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world we inhabit [and also] entertainingly reminds us that modern society is a complex adaptive system…Fascinating.”—Financial Times“Fluke is provocative and compelling, bringing the complex relationship between order and chaos vividly alive. There is every chance you will love it.”—New Scientist“The book can provoke existential unease, but it also helps explain the cockamamie nature of the way things are, and it’s an always-interesting read. A handy user’s manual to a surprising, improbable, ‘infinitely complex’ world.”—Kirkus Reviews

作者介紹

作者介紹 Brian KlaasBrian Klaas grew up in Minnesota, earned his DPhil at Oxford, and is now a professor of global politics at University College London. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, host of the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast, and frequent guest on national television. Klaas has conducted field research across the globe and advised major politicians and organizations including NATO and the European Union. You can find him at BrianPKlaas.com and on X @BrianKlaas.

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最佳賣點 : Amazon/ Waterstones 2024年度最佳書籍。
世界究竟如何運作？人類的演化是必然還是偶然？社會科學家Brian Klaas提出全新觀點。我們無法控制所有的事情，卻會影響每件事！