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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
James Gleick
This book brings together all the work in a new field of physics, the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics. The author shows how computers have been able to…
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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world’s leading prize for popular science writing.
In an illuminating analysis of the ways in which technology has transformed the modern world, the author of Chaos: Making a New Science presents a series of essays in which…
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From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that not only paints a…
Gleick examines the phenomenon of hurry sickness that has taken hold of today’s society through cell phones, computers, faxes and remote controls. Illustrations.
Do you stand at the microwave for the minute and a half it takes to cook a ‘ready meal’? Or is that long enough to make a quick call, or…
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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding…
From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith.
Brings together work in the field of chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact.
The life of Richard Feynman and the story of modern physics itself.
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In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton’s significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance…
The author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius presents his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality–the blood, the fuel, the…
