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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

by Frank Wilson [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[22.Aug.07] :. The principal theme of Taleb's book is this: how important what we do not know is to a proper understanding of things.

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