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26%OFFJames Gleick - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - 9780007225743 - V9780007225743
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

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Description for The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: GL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 195 x 41. Weight in Grams: 380.
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In `The Information' James Gleick ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007225743
SKU
V9780007225743
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About James Gleick
James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

Reviews for The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
`An audacious book which offers remarkable insight. Gleick takes us, with verve and fizz, on a journey from African drums to computers, liberally sprinkling delightful factoids along the way. This is a book we need to give us a fresh perspective on how we communicate and how that shapes our world.' The Royal Society Winton Prize Judges ... Read more

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