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Chaos by James Gleick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact. Mathematics may only be able to solve simple linear equations which experiment has pushed nature into obeying in a l ...Show more
Chaos Making a New Science by James Gleick
$44.00 AUD
Category: Science
The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick that reveals the science behind chaos theoryNational bestsellerMore than a million copies soldA work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of ...Show more
FASTER by James Gleick
$0.00 AUD
Category: Science
"We are in a rush. We are making haste. A compression of time characterizes the life of the century ." As the new millennium begins, National Book Award nominee James Gleick considers our rapidly changing perceptions of time. These are changes that radically altered our lives in the 20th century, and wi ...Show more
Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has h ...Show more
Isaac Newton by James Gleick
$25.95 AUD
Category: Science
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 presence ...Show more
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle 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 ou ...Show more
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