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9781400096237 | Vintage Books, March 6, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
Miscellaneous:
9780307379573 | Pantheon Books, February 15, 2011, cover price $28.95
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9780307914965 | Unabridged edition (Random House, March 1, 2011), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
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Product Description: The blockbuster modern science classic that, two decades ago, introduced the butterfly effect to the world and became an international sensation—now updated with video and modern graphics In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers upset the rigid foundation of modern scientific thinking by placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore...read more
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9781558001411 | Dove Entertainment Inc, February 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The blockbuster modern science classic that, two decades ago, introduced the butterfly effect to the world and became an international sensation—now updated with video and modern graphics In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers upset the rigid foundation of modern scientific thinking by placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore.
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Product Description: Read by the author3 cassettes / approx. 5 hoursWe are always trying to save it. We fit more and more into less and less of it. But no matter what we do, there is never enough of it. With acute insight and mordant wit, James Gleick examines the biological, psychological, and cultural considerations that define our very human limits where time is concerned...read more
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9780679408376 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Presents a study of the human fascination with time from a psychological, biological, and cultural perspective, tracing the development of measuring time and exploring ways in which we try to stretch our allotted time
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9780679775485 | Vintage Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents a study of the human fascination with time from a psychological, biological, and cultural perspective, tracing the development of measuring time and exploring ways in which we try to stretch our allotted time.
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9780788740671 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 1999), cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Read by the author3 cassettes / approx.
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9781439504062 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Read by the author3 cassettes / approx.
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9780375422331 | Pantheon Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A portrait of one of the world's greatest scientific minds traces the evolution of Isaac Newton's scientific thought, from his early years at Cambridge University through his critical contributions to the history of science.
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9781400032952 | Vintage Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A portrait of one of the world's greatest scientific minds traces the evolution of Isaac Newton's scientific thought, from his early years at Cambridge University through his critical contributions to the history of science.
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9780060554866 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, May 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A portrait of one of the world's greatest scientific minds traces the evolution of Isaac Newton's scientific thought, from his early years at Cambridge University through his critical contributions to the history of science.
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9780060554859 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, May 1, 2003), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A portrait of one of the world's greatest scientific minds traces the evolution of Isaac Newton's scientific thought, from his early years at Cambridge University through his critical contributions to the history of science.
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9780375421778 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, May 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Discusses how technology has transformed the modern world through a series of essays that examime recent technological developments, the hype surrounding the electronic world, and the implications and opportunities of technology.
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9780375713910 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In an illuminating analysis of the ways in which technology has transformed the modern world, the author of Chaos: Making a New Science presents a series of essays in which he examines recent technological developments, the hype surrounding the electronic world, and the implications and opportunities of technology.
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9780670811786 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Examines the new science of chaos--a scientific revolution that is dramatically altering established perceptions and understandings of the world--and reveals a new way of seeing order and pattern in the universe
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9780143113454 | Anv rep edition (Penguin USA, August 26, 2008), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time.
9780140092509 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1988), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Explains the meaning and application of chaos--the study of patterns emerging from seemingly random phenomena--and introduces the scientists responsible for major discoveries in this field
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9781590071120 | Abridged edition (New Millenium Audio, May 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Explains the meaning and application of chaos--the study of patterns emerging from seemingly random phenomena--and introduces the scientists responsible for major discoveries in this field.
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9780316609425 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, October 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Faster and the acclaimed photographer explore the diverse patterns, harmonies, and interrelationships among the seeming disorder and wildness of nature.
Miscellaneous:
9780759521186 | Grand Central Pub, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.99 | also contains Nature's Chaos
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Presents a study of the human fascination with time from a psychological, biological, and cultural perspective, tracing the development of measuring time and exploring ways in which we try to stretch our allotted time.
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9780446960816 | Little Brown & Co, September 15, 2000, cover price $8.99
9780446931304 | Little Brown & Co, September 15, 2000, cover price $8.99
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9780375408878 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents a study of the human fascination with time from a psychological, biological, and cultural perspective, tracing the development of measuring time and exploring ways in which we try to stretch our allotted time.
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9780375408861 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a study of the human fascination with time from a psychological, biological, and cultural perspective, tracing the development of measuring time and exploring ways in which we try to stretch our allotted time.
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9780060197346 | Ecco Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.
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9780060957360 | Ecco Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.
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9780694523993 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, September 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.
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9780140118704 | Viking Childrens Books, December 1, 1999, cover price $10.01
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9780679408369 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Profiles the life and achievements of iconoclastic physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, describing his unique vision of science and his revolutionary legacy
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9780679747048 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A biography of the flamboyant Nobel Prize-winning scientist describes how Feynman cracked safes, played the bongos, studied the behavior of Jell-O, and conducted experiments in seduction, all in the name of science
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9780679416944 | Random House, October 1, 1992, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Chaos profiles the life and achievements of iconoclastic physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, describing his unique vision of science and his revolutionary legacy.
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9780819189349 | Univ Pr of Amer, March 1, 1992, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The role of chaos in science and mathematics is examined in detail by the essays that comprise this work.
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