"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive...

Lars is a polar bear who meets and befriends a seal named Robby. Then when Lars is stranded on an island, he makes friends with a hippo, an eagle, and a killer whale. Next Lars and his friends plot to crash a ship that has been stealing all the fish out of the sea.