James Gleick, Author . Pantheon $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-42233-1
Gleick's most renowned writing falls into one of two categories: vivid character studies or broad syntheses of scientific trends. Here, he fuses the two genres with a biography of the man who was emblematic of a new scientific paradigm, but this
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James Gleick, Author Penguin Books $20 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-009250-9
Gleick here adventurously attempts to describe the revolutionary science of ``chaos,'' a challengingly abstract new look at nature in terms of nonlinear dynamics. ``A ground-breaking book about what seems to be the future of physics,'' praised PW....
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James Gleick, Author Pantheon Books $27.5 (532p) ISBN 978-0-679-40836-9
It would be hard to tell personal stories about the late Nobelist Feynman (1918-1988) better than the subject himself did in What Do You Care What Other People Think? To his credit, Gleick does not try. Rather, he depicts Feynman's ``curious...
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James Gleick, Author Pantheon Books $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-40837-6
Technological advances in time measurement and time-saving devices have been fueled by the ever-quickening pace of our lives. Or is it the other way around? Gleick, twice nominated for the National Book Award (for Chaos: Making a New Science and...
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James Gleick. Pantheon, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-90879-7
In a dazzling voyage through the concept of time, science chronicler Gleick (The Information) explains that, “like all words, time has boundaries, by which I don’t mean hard and impenetrable shells but porous edges,” challenging readers to consider...
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James Gleick, read by Rob Shapiro. Random House Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-3079-1496-5
Overwhelmed as we are with today's unceasing gush of information—some essential, some useless, and much falling into the broad middle of the spectrum—a study of how we got here and the innovators who played a part in creating the dazzling web of...
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James Gleick, read by Rob Shapiro. Random House Audio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-7352-8588-0
Voice actor Shapiro chooses a conversational style of delivery for the audio edition of Gleick’s mind-bending book on the cultural history of the concept of time and that concept’s evolution in literature and science. Shapiro does an excellent job...
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James Gleick, Author, James Geick, Author Viking Books $22.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-670-81178-6
Science readers who have gone through relativity theory, quantum physics, Heisenbergian uncertainty, black holes and the world of quarks and virtual particles only to be stunned by recent Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) will welcome New York Times...
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