"I am an assiduous reader of John Casti's books. He is a real scientific intellectual."
--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness

"Casti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting everyday examples to illustrate them."
--New York Times Book Review

In his highly provocative and grippingly readable book, X-Events, author John Casti brilliantly argues that today's advanced, overly complex societies have grown highly vulnerable to...

"Mood Matters" makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the rise and fall of civilizations are biased by the attitudes a society holds toward the future. When the "social mood" is positive and people look forward to the future, events of an entirely different character tend to occur than when society is pessimistic. The book presents many examples from every walk of life in support of this argument. In addition, methods are given to actually measure the social mood and to project it into the future in order to forecast what s likely or...