# Standard Deviations

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- Book: [Standard Deviations](https://www.bookquiver.com/karl-taro-greenfeld/standard-deviations) ([Standard Deviations.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/karl-taro-greenfeld/standard-deviations.md))
- Authors: [Karl Taro Greenfeld](https://www.bookquiver.com/karl-taro-greenfeld)
- Publisher: villard
- ISBN: 978-08-1299-269-4
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2002-07-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy...