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Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

By: Gleick, James

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Pantheon: August 1999

Seller ID: 279693

ISBN: 0679408371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

By: Gleick, James

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Vintage: January 2000

Seller ID: 300031

ISBN: 067977548X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author 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," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls. Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even seconds being saved, we're still filling our days to the point that we have no time for such basic human activities as eating, sex, and relating to our families. Written...
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

By: James Gleick

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage: November 1993

Seller ID: 320122

ISBN: 0679747044

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating expos of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction.

Now James Gleick, author of the be...
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By: James Gleick

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Pantheon: February 2011

Seller ID: 216824

ISBN: 0375423729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed th...
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Time Travel

By: Gleick, James

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Pantheon: October 2016

Seller ID: 272403

ISBN: 0307908798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Personalized in ink to Dong, from Angel otherwise clean copy, DJ intact, light shelf wear.
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Author:Gleick, James

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Time Travel

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