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Paperback • 2012 • English • 1. edition

The information: a history, a theory, a flood

By James Gleick

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About the book

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code.In `The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep w...Show more

Language and Linguistics

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ISBN

9780007225743

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2012

Language

English

Edition

1

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Paperback

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