The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By
James Gleick
James Gleick
2011 • 544 pages

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

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