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  • Published: 11 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141026473
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99

The Drunkard's Walk

How Randomness Rules Our Lives




An exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world

An exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world

Leonard Mlodinow reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting, winning the lottery to road safety, and reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes and film stars, and even how to make sense of a blood test.

The Drunkard's Walk is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world - read it, so you won't be left a victim of chance.

Leonard Mlodinow has a Ph.D., has been a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology and a television writer in Hollywood, as well as developing many award winning CD-Roms. He is currently Vice President of Emerging Technologies and R&D at Scholastic Inc. and lives in New York City. His previous books include A Brief History of Time, which he co-authored, and Euclid's Window and Some Time with Feynman both published by Penguin.

  • Published: 11 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141026473
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Leonard Mlodinow

Leonard Mlodinow is the best selling author of The Drunkard's Walk, Subliminal and Elastic. He co-authored two books with Stephen Hawking and later wrote an acclaimed memoir, Stephen Hawking, about their time together. He has written for television, including multiple episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as helping Steven Spielberg and Robin Williams make a video game. There are now over one million copies of Leonard Mlodinow's books in print.

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