“james gleick”

Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission, ebullient bongo-player and storytellet-Feynman played a bewildering assortment of roles in the ... More

The science of chaos cuts across traditinal scientific disciplines, tying together unrelated kinds of wildness and irregularity, from the turbulance of weather to the complicated rythms of the human heart, from the design of snowflakes to the whorls of windswept desert sands. After reading Chaos, yo... More

From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday ... More

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 pre... More

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 effective... More

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleickas groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converg... More

For the past decade change seemed to happen over night, every night. Fueled by the exponential rise of technology, the digital revolution was difficult for many to make sense of, but James Gleick watched and analyzed, criticized and commended, participated in and prophesized about the instantaneous ... More

From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science" (The New ... More

A unique perspective on the technology that has rearranged our world Gleick sets down in chronological order the swirling bits and pieces of change: the new gadgets and the old that now have been given new power and new life. Gleick is the author of... More