The telephone burst onto the world stage 150 years ago and began to transform every part of life: from business to warfare, from news gathering to sex work. James Gleick shows how this commonplace object irreversibly changed not only the world but who we are as human beings.
A mind-bending exploration of time travel—from its origins in literature and science to its influence on our understanding of time itself. The book vividly explores physics, technology, philosophy, and art as each relates to time travel and tells the story of the concept’s cultural evolutions—from H.G. Wells to Doctor Who, from Proust to Woody Allen.
A History, A Theory, A Flood Winner of the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. The Information is so ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it. Don’t make the mistake of reading it quickly...
“The biography of choice. . . . Newton the man emerges from the shadows.” The New York Times Book Review “A masterpiece of brevity and concentration. Isaac Newton sees its angular subject in the round, presenting him as scientist and magician, believer and heretic, monster and man. . . . It will surely stand as the definitive study for a very long time to come. Fortunate Newton...
A collection of James Gleick’s articles from the era when the internet was born, ranging from condemnations of maddeningly pervasive bugs in Microsoft software to the invisible shackles we wear in an inescapably connected” world
"A book that has not only stood the test of time but has grown all the more perceptive and prescient in the years since. Gleick’s Faster is immeasurably insightful in its entirety and often strikingly prophetic.”
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman “A rare, jewel-like biography… terrifically readable. It achieves an almost perfect balance between the physicist’s work and his life… Gleick is a consummate craftsman.” Washington Post Book World This life story of the legendary physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (New York Review of Books)...
From Edward Lorenz’s discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum’s calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot’s concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick’s engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science. In Chaos, Gleick opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe