"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big stepwith a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Likethe Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses,people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile notonly withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modernworld dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is arevolutionary vision from one of the most subversive andimportant thinkers of our time"--

• Book 1. The antifragile : an introduction
• Book 2. Modernity and the denial of antifragility
• Book 3. A nonpredictive view of the world
• Book 4. Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility
• Book 5. The nonlinear and the nonlinear
• Book 6. Via negativa
• Book 7. The ethics of fragility and antifragility