The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 3-01. First edition with a 9 below stated. Hardback. Fair/poor and tattered, stained. this is a first edition the dust jacket has some coffee stains in the back where on the edges the coffee stains and coffee stains on the book as you look at it and also on the bottom or they might be TV you need by this or a reading copy is great it's not been well treated the rest the book inside is remarkably clean there are no writing names or any other scribblings it has that wonderful the regular edge believes as they were putting to the spine spine is tight there is shelve wear on the top and bottom of book underneath the dust jacket book is read on the spine with black covers the titling is a silver....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 the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading...About the author (2011) James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and modern technology. His first book, Chaos, a National Book Award finalist, has been translated into twenty-five languages. His best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, were short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize... The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Author James Gleick Edition illustrated Publisher Pantheon Books, 2011 ISBN 0375423729, 9780375423727 Length 526 pages Subjects Language Arts & Disciplines › Library & Information Science › General Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General Science / History Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects Technology & Engineering / History Used books are the "green" way to read and reduce your carbon footprint, we also try to reuse packing materials whenever possible keeping them out of landfills sooner rather than later..Ruth Reaser...LAX Vespa... Books and rags...This will be shipped through United States Post via media mail to fulfill your order, keeping it all in the Postal Family......, it comes from the Los Angeles Area at whatever PO is closest to my errands or my life that day since I carefully pack your book then have to hop on my Vespa and visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system...Your purchase helps a middle aged college girl buy more books and the occasional pedicure. .. a dental visit or two .In addition, I need to downsize my personal library built over the years. ..also by purchasing multiple books can save you significantly on shipping costs through Biblio

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