James Gleick is a leading American science journalist, historian, and biographer. He is the author of Chaos: Making a New Science, which was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist in 1987, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, which won the Royal Society's Winton Prize for Science and PEN's Hessell-Tiltman History Prize in 2012, among several others.
His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He was the editor of the first Best American Science Writing anthology in 2000, the founder of an early Internet service in 1993, and the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989. He contributes to The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and New York Magazine.
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 information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language...
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. From Edward Lorenz’s discovery of the...
