James Gleick:The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Taschenbuch 2017, ISBN: 9780375423727
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UK,slim 8vo HB,no dw/dj-as issued,1st edn. FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear cover - virtually as or like new. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, matt,wrap-around off… Mehr…
UK,slim 8vo HB,no dw/dj-as issued,1st edn. FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear cover - virtually as or like new. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, matt,wrap-around off-white/very pale grey background with glossy,capitalised black+red lettered part-title and dull black-lettered sub-title, and a glossy colour pictorial monster by Eli Bowes, illustrated front panel of dw/dj,and capitalised,dull black-lettered author name,spine/backstrip with repeated paart-title lettering,similarly coloured+ lettered author name as front cover and publisher's glossy, black illustrated colophon to foot of same,colour illustrated monster and black lettered blurb.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping to edges and corner's - no nicks,tears or splits present - and immaculate plain red endpapers.Top +fore-edges are clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,soild and sound -virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.UK,slim 8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,8-58pp [paginated] includes an A to Z alphabet of mishaps and misadventures accompanied with a colour illustrated monster and accompanying text for each letter; plus [unpaginated] half-title with a coloured monster illustration to its reverse,title page with author/illustrator Thanks,coloured monster illustrated Introduction with monster illustrated frntis to its reversecapitaled,black-lettered strap line - SOMEONE SOMEWHERE (OR SOMETHING) SHARES YOUR PAIN . . . and to the rear as last pages,a 2pp colour illustrated empty boxed checklist,a 2pp A-Z headed blank lines for WHAT ARE YOUR DISAPPOINTED MONSTERS?,reverse of last page with coloured monster illustration. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. It really is an exceptional, exemplary copy for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of faults. These are the daily setbacks that turn us all into monsters,and yet make us all human. Featuring gloriously gloomy illustrations,plus checklists for you to tick-off all those disappointed monsters you encounter in your own reality,this is the perfect gift to give your most morose friends and relatives. Each letter introduces a daily setback familiar to us all, experienced by a crestfallen creature from the imagination of author and illustrator Eli Bowes. They range from Alarm (a disappointed monster who wakes at 6:15 am on a Saturday, having neglected to switch off his workday alarm) to Zip (a disappointed monster whose expensive hoodie has suffered a fastening malfunction) via an array of fantastically illustrated beings sinking into everyday ennui due to flat-pack furniture, a bad first date, a hair-choked drain, or an empty toilet paper roll. So, next time you're furiously scrubbing jam off the carpet before your parents arrive, remember that somewhere, someone (or something) shares your pain. Eli Bowes is a London-based illustrator and animator. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only, unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., UK.LEWES,EAST SUSSEX.AMMONITE PRESS'an imprint of Guild of MasterCraftsman Publications Ltd.,2017., 5, London: Fourth Estate, 1999. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Small plain label to inside front cover. The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in 23 pairs of chromosomes, is nothing less than an autobiography of our species. Spelled out in a billion three-letter words using the four-letter alphabet of DNA, the genome has been edited, abridged, altered and added to as it has been handed down, generation to generation, over more than three billion years. With the first draft of the human genome due to be published in 2000, we, this lucky generation, are the first beings who are able to read this extraordinary book, and to gain hitherto unimaginable insights into what it means to be alive, to be human, to be conscious or to be ill. By picking one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 human chromosomes, and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. He finds genes that we share with bacteria, genes that distinguish us from chimpanzees, genes that can condemn us to cruel diseases, genes that may influence our intelligence, genes that enable us to use grammatical language, genes that guide the development of our bodies and our brains, genes that allow us to remember, genes that exhibit the strange alchemy of nature and nurture, genes that parasitise us for their own selfish ends, genes that battle with each other and genes that record the history of human migrations. From BSE to cancer, he explores the applications of genetics: the search for understanding and therapy, the horrors of eugenics, and the philosophical implications for understanding the paradox of free will. 344pp., Fourth Estate, 1999, 3, Good Human Books, 2017-09-25. Paperback. Used:Good., Good Human Books, 2017-09-25, 0, Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1979. cloth. 8vo. cloth. viii, 272 pages. Preface by the editor, table of contents, subject and author indices. Supplements the work Arthur E. Gropp. Arranged alphabetically by subject., The Scarecrow Press, 1979, 0, Syracuse, NY: G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co, 1912. Wraps. Good. Color illustrated wraps. 16 pp., including covers. Color illustrations throughout. A promotional work for Hanford's Basalm, a patent medicine used topically by humans or animals. Written for children, the book contains an alphabetical bestiary of rhymes on different animals, with promotional statements, and suggestions for use, interspersed. GOOD condition. Some toning, soiling and staining to the wrappers, with creasing, curling and scuffing along the extremities. Small triangular areas of loss to the lower corners of the rear cover, presumably insect damage. Faint dampstaining throughout the interior., G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co, 1912, 2.5, NY, Putnam's Sons, 1988. Hard Cover. 349 p., index, tables, charts. "While the hope of the Institute in compiling this volume is to provide sound information on 'nutrition fads,' the goal is still to encourage the public's increasing interest in nutrition as an important factor in good health." Alphabetically arranged, from Additives to Zinc. Dj; VG+. stock#24524., NY, Putnam's Sons, 1988, 0, Portland, ME: Tower Publishing Company, 1980 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Spine strip has faint sticky residue. A comprehensive State of Maine register and directory including listings for the State of Maine, State Government, governmental and political information, historical information, agriculture, business and industry, communications/media, education, health care and medical services, recreation/sports, social, cultural and human services, zip code directory, geographical directory, classified business directory, and alphabetical directory of Maine manufacturers.., Tower Publishing Company, 1980, 3, Paperback / softback. New., 6, Duke University Press Books, 2008-06-25. Paperback. Used: Good., Duke University Press Books, 2008-06-25, 2.5, nice hard cover- Sebastian Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, haunting creationMike Engleby."My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university."- 319 pages, has dust jacket although dust jacket is clipped, so is probably remaindered at some time interior the book is clean and unmarked there is no writing names etc., clean dust jacket- buff colored has some scratches and dirtiest to it, dark gray boards wrapped black spine red titling on spine- jacket design by John Fontana book design by Caroline Cunningham .. Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for fourteen years before taking up writing full-time in 1991. In 1995 he was voted Author of the Year by the British Book Awards for Birdsong, his fourth novel and his second, following A Fool's Alphabet, to be published in the United States. He is also the author of Human Traces,On Green Dolphin Street,Charlotte Gray,The Fatal Englishman, andT he Girl at the Lion d'Or. He lives in London with his wife and three children.- Title Engleby: A Novel - Sebastian Faulks- Pub- Doubleday, 2007 ISBN 0385524056, 9780385524056 - 319 pages -Fiction ' Literary inv bmk6 2867 or 1484, Doubleday, 2007, 3, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 3-01. First edition with a 9 below stated. Hardback. Fair/poor and tattered, stained. this is a first edition the dust jacket has some coffee stains in the back where on the edges the coffee stains and coffee stains on the book as you look at it and also on the bottom or they might be TV you need by this or a reading copy is great it's not been well treated the rest the book inside is remarkably clean there are no writing names or any other scribblings it has that wonderful the regular edge believes as they were putting to the spine spine is tight there is shelve wear on the top and bottom of book underneath the dust jacket book is read on the spine with black covers the titling is a silver....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. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading...About the author (2011) James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and modern technology. His first book, Chaos, a National Book Award finalist, has been translated into twenty-five languages. His best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, were short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize... The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Author James Gleick Edition illustrated Publisher Pantheon Books, 2011 ISBN 0375423729, 9780375423727 Length 526 pages Subjects Language Arts & Disciplines › Library & Information Science › General Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General Science / History Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects Technology & Engineering / History Used books are the "green" way to read and reduce your carbon footprint, we also try to reuse packing materials whenever possible keeping them out of landfills sooner rather than later..Ruth Reaser...LAX Vespa... Books and rags...This will be shipped through United States Post via media mail to fulfill your order, keeping it all in the Postal Family......, it comes from the Los Angeles Area at whatever PO is closest to my errands or my life that day since I carefully pack your book then have to hop on my Vespa and visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system...Your purchase helps a middle aged college girl buy more books and the occasional pedicure. .. a dental visit or two .In addition, I need to downsize my personal library built over the years. ..also by purchasing multiple books can save you significantly on shipping costs through Biblio good reading copy, if you need it sooner expedited non-media mail shipping, this will fit in a legal size priority mail envelope if you like pictures send me an e-mail so I can take a few with my cell phone., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 3-01, 1.5<
