This book caused a storm when first published in 1969, battering up the bestseller list to #1, charming readers from Topeka to Timbuktu, and finally, brilliantly, blessedly giving the world an answe
The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence
Accident investigation and risk assessment have always focused on the human factor, particularly human error. This bias towards the study of performance failures leads to the assumption that there is
Why do things go wrong? Why do things go right? Why are weather forecasts always wrong? Why are economic forecasts even worse?John Legge explains that uncertainty is part of the Universe: spending m
