With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profounfly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we belive. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's illuminating look at how chance and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire. 'Mlodinow thinks in equations but explains in andecdote, and occasional burst of neon... The results are mind-bending'-FORTUNE 'Even if you begin The Drunkard's Walk as a skeptic, by the time you reach the inal pages, you will gain an understanding-if not acceptance-of the intuitively improbable ways that probability biases the outcomes of life's uncertainties'-BARRON'S 'Delightfully entertaining.'-SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN