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Chaos by James Gleick
Category: Science & Natural History
This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact. Mathematics may only be able to solve simple linear equations which experiment has pushed nature into obeying in a l ...Show more
Chaos Making a New Science by James Gleick
Category: Science
The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick that reveals the science behind chaos theoryNational bestsellerMore than a million copies soldA work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of ...Show more
Faster : The acceleration of just about everything by James Gleick
Category: Junior Fiction
Do you hit the 'door close' button because the lift doors are taking too long to shut? Did you know we work longer, commute longer, shop longer and sleep 20% less than we did a century ago? W e are obsessed with making more time, yet a microwave saves just four minutes a day - the average amount of time ...Show more
Genius by James Gleick
Category: Science
The fascinating story of Richard Feynman and modern physics.
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Gleick, James
Category: Biography
New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is "a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century" (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic--a ...Show more
Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Category: Science
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has h ...Show more
Isaac Newton by James Gleick
Category: Science
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 presence ...Show more
Isaac Newton by James Gleick
Category: Science & Natural History
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.Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient philosophical riddles of light and motion; he effectively disc ...Show more
The Information - A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Category: Science
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle 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 ou ...Show more
Time Travel by James Gleick
Category: Science
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 of time itself. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells ...Show more