The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleickas groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science...more details Format:Paperback Pages:360
Time rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit, is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds: the microwave oven. In your hurry sickness...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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James Gleick
ISBN:9780316883351
Time is the datum that rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit - is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best conveys the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds: the microwave oven...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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James Gleick
ISBN:9780349105321
Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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James Gleick
ISBN:9781400032952
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral--an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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James Gleick
ISBN:9780007163182
When we seek mathematical laws for economic cycles and human behaviour, we stand on Newton's shoulders. Our very deeming the universe as solvable is his legacy. This was the achievement of a reclusive professor...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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James Gleick
ISBN:9780007163175
When we speak of momentum, of forces and masses, we are seeing the world as Newtonians. When we seek mathematical laws for economic cycles and human behaviour...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
A "New York Times" Notable Book A "Los Angeles Times "and "Cleveland Plain Dealer" Best Book of the Year From the bestselling author of the acclaimed "Chaos "and "Genius" comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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James Gleick
ISBN:9780375423727
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers "Chaos" and "Ge-nius," brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:526
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James Gleick
ISBN:9780307914965
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers "Chaos" and "Genius, " now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood...more details Format:CD
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James Gleick
ISBN:9780349115382
We are quick to acknowledge that our lives have been transformed by technology over the last ten years - that virtual reality has become as permanent a fixture in our lives as material reality; but the arrival of the electronic world over the last ten years was not a single invention...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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James Gleick;Jesse Cohen
ISBN:9781417702282
The first volume in this annual series of the best writing by Americans, meticulously selected by bestselling author James Gleick, one of the foremost chronicles of scientific social history...more details
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James Gleick;Allan Corduner
ISBN:9780060554866
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena...more details Format:CD
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James Gleick;Allan Corduner
ISBN:9780060554859
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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James Gleick;Oliver W Cohen JesseSacks
ISBN:9780694523993
Meticulously selected by bestselling author James Gleick, Harper Audio presents a steller collection of essays written by some of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of our time -- each one read by its creator.
Many of these cutting-edge essays offer glimpses of our new realms of discovery and thought...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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Gleick James
ISBN:9780007225743
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gleick James
ISBN:9780007225736
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa...more details Format:Hardback
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Gleick James
ISBN:9780007423118
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa...more details Format:Paperback / softback