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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356 books

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Pebble in the Sky
Surfacing
Mort
A Green and Ancient Light
Oryx and Crake

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79 books

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Neuromancer
The Glass Hotel
Piranesi
Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

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802 books

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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

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James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
Executive Privilege
The God of the Hive
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sh*t My Dad Says

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Too Boring To Continue

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The Wordy Shipmates
The Tapestry Shop
Gloriana's Torch
A Murder of Crows
The messiah
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Never Finished

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Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day
The messiah
From Dawn to Decadence
The orphan in the tower
The Lost Temple
Royal blood
How Rome Fell

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179 books

Science

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What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
The World Without Us
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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34 books

Scholarly

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The Great Sea
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Women in the Ancient World
Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church through the Middle Ages
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Vanished kingdoms the rise and fall of states and nations

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The Value of Nothing
Our Share of Night
My Year of Meats
The Lost Bookshop
The Sentence
The Amberlough Dossier

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Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

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Cs Programming

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Django Girls Tutorial
A Byte of Python
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code
Hacking The Art Of Exploitation
Reversing Secrets of Reverse Engineering

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96 books

Maths

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Innumeracy
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
What Is Mathematics?
How to Lie with Statistics

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The Carpet People
The Eternal Champion: Book 1 of Erekosë Trilogy
Anathem
Speak Easy
The Sorcerer's House
Bloodchild and Other Stories

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Non Fiction

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
Hitch 22: A Memoir
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Your Inner Fish

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The Fountainhead
Snow Crash
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stranger in a Strange Land
Eon
I Am a Strange Loop
Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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The Fountainhead
Snow Crash
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stranger in a Strange Land
Eon
I Am a Strange Loop
Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood