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Hardcover • 2011 • English • 1. edition

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By James Gleick

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About the book

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 our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the st...Show more

Language and Linguistics

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9780007225736

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Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2011

Language

English

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1

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Hardcover

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