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It was on the new york times bestseller list for three weeks following its debut. A quartercenturyand a few stockmarket crashes, the fall of empires and the. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Acclaimed science writer james gleick presents an eyeopening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human. Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics. Amazon price new from used from kindle edition please retry.
Time travel by james gleick overdrive rakuten overdrive. A history, a theory, a flood authors james gleick date 2012 publisher harpercollins publishers pub place london isbn 9780007225743. A history, a theory, a flood by gleick, james isbn. Mar 01, 2011 and gleick delivers interesting insights into the lives many important characters who advanced the information age babbage, ada lovelace, claude shannon, alan turing, norbert weiner, and more. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. Twentyfive years ago, a young harvard liberalarts graduate named james gleick, then working for the new york times, became fascinated by an emerging body of science that examined the world not as an orderly chain of being but as a complex, scarcely predictable, sometimes scarcely comprehensible mess of events. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light.
He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for the new york times, founded an early internet portal, the pipeline, and has written several books of popular science, including the information. James gleick books list of books by author james gleick. Wilson literary science writing award, and time travel. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called one of the great science writers of all time. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. Central to schwebers book are the biographical studies. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. If time is like a river, are we standing on the bank watching, or are we bobbing along. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood talking drums of africa, james gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. Drum score russian roulette red velvet ebook download. James gleick born august 1, 1954 is an american author, journalist and biographer whose bestselling books include the information.
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