Posts Tagged ‘book review’

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

This book review was contributed by Lena Phoenix: The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is a book about randomness, a topic that most people, unless they happen to be mathematicians or have a strange fascination with statistics, probably don’t think too much about. As a species, in fact, we generally prefer not to ...Read more.

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

This book review was contributed by Lena Phoenix: I was not at all in the mood for another non-fiction book about human behavior when my husband asked if I wanted to read Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior before he returned it to the library. I half-heartedly decided to scan a few pages before ...Read more.