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Brian Klaas is hoogleraar mondiale politiek aan de University College London. Hij heeft een wekelijkse column in The Washington Post, is regelmatig te gast bij CCN en BBC News en schrijft onder meer voor The New York Times en The Guardian. Van zijn hand zijn verschenen: The Despot's Apprentice, The Despot's Accomplice en How to Rig an Election. Brian Klaas, afkomstig uit Amerika, woont in Londen.
Meer over Brian KlaasIf 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.