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“Heavy Tails” is a category for books that explore worlds where rare, extreme events dominate outcomes. It gathers nonfiction on risk, complex systems, and power-law phenomena—covering market crashes, pandemics, climate extremes, infrastructure and network failures, cybersecurity, and decision-making under uncertainty—alongside fiction that imagines improbable-but-plausible cascades and tipping points. These books focus on outliers, black swans, and long-run consequences; they probe fragility and resilience, early warning signals, and precautionary thinking, showing how small triggers can unleash disproportionate impacts and why understanding tail risk changes how we prepare, invest, design, and live.

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