Serendipity: Fortune and the Prepared Mind (Darwin College Lectures) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052118181X ISBN 13: 9780521181815

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Insightful, entertaining accounts of the relationship between serendipity and knowledge by some of the most eminent thinkers of this generation.

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About the Authors

Iain Morley is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, where he is Tutor in Archaeology and Anthropology, and a Lecturer for the Institute of Human Sciences. A scholar of archaeology and the evolution of human cognition, he has undertaken archaeological fieldwork around the world, and has published on the origins of music, early ritual and religion.

Mark de Rond is a Reader at the Judge Business School and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, with a particular interest in causation, explanation and imaginations of human importance in organisational life. His published work has received several prestigious awards, including the George R. Terry Book Award and inclusion in the Best of Books 2008 (Financial Times).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052118181X
• ISBN 13: 9780521181815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: De Rond Mark