Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the most entertaining and enlightening business books of recent years.

Taleb’s new book, The Black Swan, has just been published and the excellent Book design review blog discusses the unconventional UK cover (the image on the right) versus the more traditional US cover (see: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, US and UK and The Black Swan redux).

Publishing a book cover with no title is a risky strategy, although Fooled by Randomness was such a hit that it will be difficult to judge the impact of this particular cover.

If The Black Swan is anywhere near as edgy and interesting as Taleb’s previous book, his readers are in for a treat. For a preview, the New York Times has published the book’s first chapter.

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