A History Time Travel is another of James Gleick’s superb, unclassifiable books—rich in obscure and illuminating information, laced with lyricism, wit, and startling and convincing insights. It is an exploration not only of the (theoretical) phenomenon of time travel but of our understanding of ‘time’ itself.” Joyce Carol Oates A mind-bending exploration of time travel—from its...
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...
Making a New Science “An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch.” Douglas Adams The 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos, finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves...
“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...
The Acceleration of Just About Everything 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.” —Maria Popova
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)...
A Chronicle from the Information Frontier A marvellous journey around our technology-drenched world … The work of a master.” The Independent Here’s some of what just happened: Millions of ordinary, sensible people came into possession of computers. These machines had wondrous powers, yet made unexpected demands on their owners. Telephones broke free of the chains that had shackled them to...