James Gleick: 9 books

Blut, Treibstoff, Lebensprinzip - in seinem furiosen Buch erzählt Bestsellerautor James Gleick, wie die Information zum Kernstück unserer heutigen Zivilisation wurde. Beginnend bei den Wörtern, den 'sprechenden' Trommeln in Afrika, über das Morsealphabet und bis hin zur Internetrevolution beleuchtet...

Best Books of 2016 **BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel—a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century.** James Gleick delivers...

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, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to...

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...

The blockbuster modern science classic that introduced the butterfly effect to the world—even more relevant two decades after it became an international sensation For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics...

An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman—a giant of twentieth century physics—from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyond   Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly...

Gli scrittori e il cinema ne hanno fatto un vero e proprio genere; i filosofi ci si sono spaccati la testa; la scienza li ha studiati. La possibilità che la direzione del tempo possa essere “aggiustata” a piacimento è diventata così una vera e propria icona della cultura popolare (e non solo)...

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," a need-everything-yesterday...

H‧G‧威爾斯的《時間機器》，告訴我們動動按鈕就能回到一萬年後？ 殺死希特勒後，卻無法改變死傷慘重的第二次世界大戰？ * 費茲傑羅讓班傑明的生老病死順序與常人相反！ 伍迪‧艾倫讓現代人穿越百年與海明威當朋友！...