The Drunkard's walk : how randomness rules our lives

By Leonard D. Mlodinow. 2009

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Citations in the corpus

• Naturalistic investigations and models of reasoning about complex indeterminate causation (2011, background): “For example, Mlodinow (2008) describes the case of Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures.”
• Motivational dynamics in language learning (2015, background): “For example, random events are said to ‘rule our lives’ (Mlodinow, 2008), where accidental occurrences can become life-changing occasions.”