Books & Conferences
2 Billion under 20
2 Billion under 20
Authors: Stacey Ferreira & Jared Kleinert
A very British revolution
A very British revolution
Author:Jonathan Glancey
To Audrey with love
To Audrey with love
Author: Hubert de Givenchy
The best place to work
The best place to work
Author:Ron Friedman
The Outsiders
The Outsiders
Authors: Jeffrey Bowman, Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten
How to be Parisian
How to be Parisian
Authors: Anne Berest, Caroline De Maigret, Audrey Diwan and Sophie Mas
Antifragile
Antifragile
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Random House
Comments: *Although not recent, this book has been extensively mentioned in recent month. Indeed, it has generally been assumed that there are two types of systems: fragile which is vulnerable to disruptions, and robust which is strong enough to withstand shocks. Taleb develops a third type which are resilient, and which survive shocks precisely because they do change, adapt and learn. For example, the banking system is fragile, whereas Switzerland, because it is decentralised, allows for experimentation which makes it “antifragile”.
In his earlier book, The Black Swan, Taleb shows that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, he stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events.*
The Craft and the Makers
The Craft and the Makers
Authors: Ducan Campbell, Marie Le Fort and Charlotte Rey
Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Authors: Theresa Payton & Ted Claypoole
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Comments: Theresa Payton who was the White House CIO and appeared on the TV show “Hunted”, and Ted Claypoole, a technology attorney, show the many ways our personal information is collected and used in today’s society. They are quick to point out the beneficial aspects of technological advancements in commercial, private, and government settings. However, any collection of personal data is susceptible to malicious use. The authors go on to elaborate on the everyday possibilities of hacking, wiretapping, and other big data strategies by marketers and cybercriminals. Most alarming are the implications of data mining for everyday citizens: cybercriminals can and will steal any information, through government or commercial enterprises. They suggest ways to adjust our behaviours and activities to recapture our privacy, and to regain data and identity security.
Real Luxury
Real Luxury
Authors: Misha Pinkhasov & Rachna Joshi Nair
Neiman Marcus cooks
Neiman Marcus cooks
Author: Kevin Garvin with John Harrisson
Capital in the twenty-first century
Capital in the twenty-first century
Author:Thomas Piketty
The second machine age
The second machine age
Author:Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
2014 cookbooks
2014 cookbooks
An updated selection of cookbooks for 2014 in which features "First Prize Pies" by Allison Kave, "A La Mère De Famille" by Julien Merceron, and "Dim Sum" by Janice Wong and Ma Jian Jun, among others ...
