Home  - Authors - Gleick James

Books Baby Camera Phones Computers Games DVD Electronics Kitchen Magazines Music Garden Software Tools Toys Video Apparel & Accessories Jewelry & Watches Musical Instruments Health & Personal Care Beauty Sports & Outdoors Office Products

e99.com Bookstore

Images

Newsgroups

61-80 of 80    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Gleick James:     more books (78)

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick, 1992 Chaos making a new science 1988 Penguin paperback by James Gleick author of Genius The Ife and Science of Richard Feynman, 1988 Chaos Making a New Science by James Gleick, The Pantheon Nonfiction Reader: Fall 1992 by Julian and James Gleick, M F K Fisher, June Jordan, Barth David Schwartz, Theodore H White Evans, 1992 Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick, 1988-01-01 GENIUS the Life and Science of Richard Feynman by JAMES GLEICK, 1992 Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick, 1988-12 WHAT JUST HAPPENED; A Chronicle from the Information Frontier by James Gleick, 2002 Caos. La Creación De Una Ciencia (español) by James Gleick, 1994-01-01 Isaac Newton, Edition: 1 by James Gleick, 2003-01-01 Faster (Unabridged on 9 CDs) by editor James Gleick, 1999 Genius: Richard Feynman [Library Edition Cassettes] by James Gleick, Read by Dick Estell, 1996 Genius by James Gleick, 1994-09-26 Chaos Making a New Science by James Gleick, 1980

lists with details

61. Roundtable: James Gleick's "Is One Microsoft Enough?"
    james gleick's Is One Microsoft Enough? . Subject james gleick's Is One MicrosoftEnough? james Love (love@cptech.org) Date Sat, 13 Feb 1999 141218 0500.  
    http://www.cni.org/Hforums/roundtable/1999-01/0045.html
    
    Extractions: Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 14:12:18 -0500 Message-Id: <36C5CE92.13D3974C@cptech.org> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 14:12:18 -0500 From: James Love <love@cptech.org> To: roundtable@cni.org Subject: James Gleick's "Is One Microsoft Enough?" James Gleick's "Is One Microsoft Enough?" This column examines the

62. Roundtable: James Gleick: It's Your Problem (Not Theirs)
    james gleick It's Your Problem (Not Theirs). Subject james gleickIt's Your Problem (Not Theirs) james Love (love@cptech.org) Date  
    http://www.cni.org/Hforums/roundtable/1998-02/0084.html

63. Making A New Science, James Gleick
    Chaos Making a new science by james gleick. The copy I have was publishedin hardback by Heinemann, 1988. ISBN 0 434 29554 X. If  
    http://www.dallaway.com/pondlife/gleick.html
    
    Extractions: version of book online at Amazon All of the history in this web site comes more-or-less straight out of Gleick's book. Except I will have skipped bits and probably got other bits wrong. Ah well. Anyway, my way of paying for quoting from the text is to give you the temptimg cover blurb from the book: The science of chaos cuts across traditional scientific disciplines, tying together unrelated kinds of wildness and irregularity: from the turbulence of weather to the complicated rhythms of the human heart, from the design of snowflakes to the whorls of windswept desert sands. Highly mathematical in its origin, chaos nonetheless is a science of the everyday world, addressing questions that every child has wondered about: how clouds form, how smoke rises, how water eddies in a stream. In Chaos, James Gleick tells the remarkable story of an ideaan idea that at once frightened and fascinated the scientists who began to explore it. Gleick describes the stunning and unexpected insights of these scientists: Edward Lorenz's discovery of the Butterfly Effect that underlies weather's unpredictability and constancy; Mitchell Feigenbaum's calculation, prompted by his meditations on nature and art, of a universal constant; Benoit Mandelbrot's concept of fractals, which has created a new geometry of nature.

64. James Gleick Ends Faster Tour At MIT
    james gleick, one of America’s most established science writers, wrapped up hislatest book tour promoting Faster The Acceleration of Just About Everything  
    http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N60/60gliek.60n.html

65. Frontwheeldrive.com: James Gleick Interview
    The Chaos of Time james gleick by roy christopher. james gleick isone of the best science writers alive today. His body of work  
    http://frontwheeldrive.com/james_gleick.html
    
    Extractions: James Gleick [by roy christopher] James Gleick is one of the best science writers alive today. His body of work includes the phenomenal Chaos: Making a New Science Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (both of which were Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists in the United States) and countless articles for New York Times Magazine He just finished his next book titled Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything which is due out in September. frontwheeldrive : Could you preface your new book Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything ? In light of this, Moore's Law and other recent concepts of time - such as Stewart Brand and Danny Hillis' Clock of the Long Now - where do you stand on the seeming elasticity of time and the general population's perception thereof (where responsibility, coping and the eventual circumstances are concerned)? James Gleick : I guess I'm going to have to learn how to compress my view of all this into a few words. Somehow it was easier to ramble on for the length of a book. We know life is speeding up; Moore's Law just makes it official, in one small domain. We know we're surrounding ourselves with time-saving technologies and strategies, and we don't quite understand how it is that we feel so rushed. We worry that we gain speed and sacrifice depth and quality. We worry that our time horizons are foreshortened - our sense of the past, our sense of the future, our ability to plan, our ability to remember. That's the (worthy) motivation for the Clock of the Long Now, I think.

66. B_0_chaos
    Císlo 0. Chaos james gleick Nakladatelství Ando Publishing, distribuceMata. Preklad knihy, která od svého vydání v roce  
    http://www.baraka.cz/baraka/Baraka/b_0/b_0_chaos.html
    
    Extractions: Nakladatelství Ando Publishing, distribuce Maa Jako kluk v pubertì jsem s èervenýma ušima vzrušením èítával Infeldovu knihu Fyzika jako dobrodružství poznání. Gleickova kniha Chaos je dobrodružstvím poznání nejvyššího øádu. Otevírá bránu do bran pøíštího vìku. Pomáhá orientovat se i v dalších souèasných trendech vìdeckého, ale i spoleèenského vývoje svìta, který žijeme. Prokazuje i tìm, kteøí zmìny paradigmatu odmítají vzít na vìdomí, že žijeme pøevratnou dobu, a že v jejích chaosu je, zatím skrytý, øád. Není co dodat, staèí jen èíst a vychutnat si možnost být témìø u toho. "Svìt by byl lepší, kdybychom každému zaèínajícímu studentovi dali kalkulaèku a poradili mu, aby si pohrál s logistickou diferenèní rovnicí. Jednoduchý výpoèet by mohl pomoci èelit zvrácené pøedstavì o možnostech svìta, která pochází ze standartního vzdìlání souèasného vìdce," cituje Gleick matematika a biologa Maye, a dodává: "Chaos by se mìl vyuèovat. Nastal èas uznat, že obvyklé vzdìlání vytváøí ve vìdcích mylný dojem." Nevadí, že je zkratka delší, zato je ménì pohodlná, øíkával s oblibou mùj švagr. Èasto jsem, když jsem ho pozoroval pøi opravách auta, oceòoval, že pøestože utrhal šroubkùm závity a tu a tam nìco ponièil, nakonec všechno zase nìjak dal dohromady a "spravil". Když tak hovoøím s rùznými jógíny, zenovými mistry, šamany a jinými taoisty života, a když ètu èlánky renomovaných lékaøù o tom, že akupunktura je pavìda a nemùže fungovat, èi fyzikù, že hvìzdy na nás nemají žádný vliv (jakoby Slunce nebylo hvìzda), myslím na to, že když se prý reprezentanti souèasné vìdy koneènì došplhali na vrchol hory Poznání, uvítali je taoista, buddhista a šaman slovy: "Kde jste byli tak dlouho?"

67. Australian IT - You Have Spam (James Gleick, MARCH 17, 2003)
    HOME SPOTLIGHT. You have spam james gleick MARCH 17, 2003. I KNOWwhat your inbox looks like, and it isn't pretty. It looks like  
    http://www.australianit.com.au/articles/0,7204,6140040^15302^^nbv^,00.html
    
    Extractions: To find your real email, you must wade through the torrent of fraud and obscenity known politely as "unsolicited bulk email" and colloquially as spam. In a perverse tribute to the power of the online revolution, we are all suddenly getting the same mail. The spam epidemic has just a few themes and variations: phone cards, cable descramblers, holiday prizes. Easy credit, easy weight loss, free holidays, free girlz. Inkjet cartridges and black-market Viagra, get-rich schemes and every possible form of pornography. The crush of these messages on the world's networks is now numbered in billions per day. One anti-spam service measured more than five million unique spam attacks last December, almost three times as many as there were a year earlier. The well is poisoned. Spam is not just a nuisance. It absorbs bandwidth and overwhelms internet service providers. Corporate tech staffs labour to deploy filtering technology to protect their networks. The cost is now widely estimated (though all such "estimates" are largely guesswork) at billions of dollars a year. The social costs are immeasurable - people fear participating in the collective life of the internet, they withdraw or they learn to conceal their email addresses, identifying themselves as user@domain.invalid or someone@nospam.com.

68. Australian IT - You Have Spam (James Gleick, MARCH 17, 2003)
    HOME LAW/POLITICS. You have spam james gleick MARCH 17, 2003. I KNOWwhat your inbox looks like, and it isn't pretty. It looks like  
    http://www.australianit.com.au/articles/0,7204,6140040^15391^^nbv^,00.html
    
    Extractions: To find your real email, you must wade through the torrent of fraud and obscenity known politely as "unsolicited bulk email" and colloquially as spam. In a perverse tribute to the power of the online revolution, we are all suddenly getting the same mail. The spam epidemic has just a few themes and variations: phone cards, cable descramblers, holiday prizes. Easy credit, easy weight loss, free holidays, free girlz. Inkjet cartridges and black-market Viagra, get-rich schemes and every possible form of pornography. The crush of these messages on the world's networks is now numbered in billions per day. One anti-spam service measured more than five million unique spam attacks last December, almost three times as many as there were a year earlier. The well is poisoned. Spam is not just a nuisance. It absorbs bandwidth and overwhelms internet service providers. Corporate tech staffs labour to deploy filtering technology to protect their networks. The cost is now widely estimated (though all such "estimates" are largely guesswork) at billions of dollars a year. The social costs are immeasurable - people fear participating in the collective life of the internet, they withdraw or they learn to conceal their email addresses, identifying themselves as user@domain.invalid or someone@nospam.com.

69. Chaos - Making A New Science - James Gleick (1987)
    and Informational Resources on Nonlinear systems, Chaos theory, Fractals and theirapplication to Nature (3) Chaos Making a New Science - james gleick (1987  
    http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/chaos_03.htm
    
    Extractions: This book by James Gleick represents one of the earliest popular works on the emergent field of chaos, and is rarely absent from any bibliographical resource. On the back jacket of the edition published by Cardinal is the following succinct review by Martin Gardner: The author presents his subject with a depth commensurate to his decades of experience as a science writer for the New York Times. Historically researched, accurate and informed, with many bundles of unique gatherings of interviews with the scientists involved in the progressive expansion of this new science - and their peers, James Gleick's work is indeed a ground-breaking adventure into new frontiers. The following represents my brief research notes in the reading of this work. As the theme of this website will attest, all of my research notes are available for my use on the web.

70. Happened.htm Review Of The James Gleick SF Novel What Just Happened
    Review of the james gleick Science Fact book What Just Happened, science fact,Science Fact books, Science Fact book reviews, reviews, james gleick  
    http://www.concatenation.org/nfrev/happened.html
    
    Extractions: Science Fact Book Review What Just Happened What Just Happened (2002) James Gleick, Abacus, £12.99, pbk, 301pp, ISBN 0-349-11538-9 This is a collection of Gleick's articles from The New York Times Magazine from August 1992 ("Chasing Bugs in the Electronic Village") to April 2001 ("Inescapably Connected"), plus one from The New Yorker ("Flotsam on the Move", May 1999), detailing the rise and rise of the Internet and/or World Wide Web (if you still care to make the distinction). It's a fascinating read, not least because it is all too easy, given the modern pace of change, to forget just how quickly these developments have altered our world. And while in one sense this is not Gleick's thorough overview of a subject, as with his books Chaos Genius and Faster , it is still a quite complete description of 'what just happened'. Also, while I am already an admirer of Gleick's science writing, it was delightful to read his articles which, on the whole, tend to be more humorous than his 'book' work (including all the pops at MicroSoft and the hysteria surrounding the 'Y2K bug'). Just about any associated subject is covered, from online commerce to e-cash, 'beep' research to sex, identity theft to privacy, and dot com greed to patent madness. All human life is here. And more. Recommended for those who are still a bit bewildered by what their browser brings them... Tony Chester [Up: Non-Fiction Index Concatenation Contact Privacy

71. Powells.com Interviews - James Gleick
    james gleick Catches Up With Time. A compression of time characterizesthe life of the century now closing, james gleick writes in Faster.  
    http://westbynorthwest.org/winter00/james/index.shtml
    
    Extractions: Dave Weich , Powells.com Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything opens at the Directorate of Time, a compound so oddly reminiscent of old science fiction novels you could be forgiven for thinking the author is only trying to illustrate a point: that our society has become obsessed with time. In fact, the Directorate is real – on a hillside in Washington D.C., dozens of atomic clocks networked with others around the globe keep our planet's "official" time. "A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing," James Gleick writes in Faster . Consider, for example, overnight mail, itself a fairly recent phenomenon. "In the world before FedEx, when 'it' could not absolutely, positively be there overnight, it rarely had to," Gleick explains. "Now that it can, it must." And now, only a few years later, faxes, email, and the Internet have rendered even FedEx too slow for many jobs. Do people really want to live at this pace? Clearly, some do. But what are the costs? "It might be simplest to recognize that there is time – however much time – and we make choices about how to spend it, how to spare it, how to use it, and how to fill it," Gleick writes. Those choices, of course, will go a long way toward determining the pace if not the quality of our lives.

72. Jedi Girl - Review - Chaos: Making A New Science - James Gleick
    Chaos Making a New Science by james gleick ISBN 0140092501 james gleick, a formerscience writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category.  
    http://www.jedigirl.com/www/cool_books/chaos/chaos-james_gleick.html
    
    Extractions: I n his book, 'Chaos: Making a New Science' James Gleick chronicles the emergence of chaos theory from the first romantic insights to the dire ordeals endured by a few courageous thinkers. F ew writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. J ames Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times , resides in this exclusive category. T his is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A s for chaos itself, Gleick does an outstanding job of explaining the thought processes and investigative techniques that researchers bring to bear on chaos problems. Rather than attempt to explain Julia sets, Lorenz attractors, and the Mandelbrot Set with gigantically complicated equations, Chaos relies on sketches, photographs, and Gleick's wonderful descriptive prose.

73. Publishers Weekly | Reed Business Information
    The truth is, we're all mutitasking. I really don't think of myselfas a science writer, says james gleick, one of the nation's pr.  
    http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/esec/Article_167259.htm
    
    Extractions: Sections News Features PW Interview Audio ... Letters Resources Authors on the Highway Bestseller Lists Críticas Library Journal ... School Library Journal Newsletters PW Rights Alert PW NewsLine PW Daily Religion BookLine ... Links Inside PW About Us Submissions Advertise Editorial Calendar ... Working with PW Powered By: This site is best viewed with New York Times science reporter, columnist for the Times Sunday Magazine Maybe so. But few people have made as much of a mark in general interest science books in such a short time. Gleick was a relative newcomer to the field in 1987, when Viking published Chaos , a narrative about the scientists developing new theories to explain disorder in the universe, which became an instant hit. His next book

74. Guardian Unlimited Books | Extracts | James Gleick: How The World Got Faster
    Whoah! Is it any wonder we've lost the knack of doing nothing, asks james gleickSaturday September 9, 2000 We are in a rush. Copyright © james gleick.  
    http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,366046,00.html
    
    Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Soulmates Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Home Guardian Review By genre Reviews ... Help

75. Collected Thoughts - James Gleick
    Subject. james gleick, The Alternative To Doubt Is Authority. LastModified Mon, Feb 5, 2001. You are visitor number to this page.  
    http://www.collectedthoughts.com/oldsite/indices/author/gleick_james.html

76. FabTime Book Reviews: Faster By James Gleick
    All Book Reviews. Book Reviews Faster The Acceleration of JustAbout Everything, by james gleick. January 1st, 2001 seems to be  
    http://www.fabtime.com/faster.shtml

77. Arts/Literature/Authors/G/Gleick,_James
    Our search portal also gives you the option to conduct a query using our intelligentsearch feature. / Arts / Literature / Authors / G / gleick, james.  
    http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Authors/G/Gleick,_J
    
    Extractions: Search: Welcome to arts-entertainment-recreation.com, the comprehensive search portal dedicated to the arts. We have located some of the finest art and entertainment resources from across the Web and accumulated them into a single directory. Here you can choose from a wide variety of documents, reviews, articles, and Web sites about your favorite activities. Whether you enjoy film, Broadway shows, television, books, fine art, or travel, there is something here for you. As you peruse the directory, you will notice several categories pertaining to the arts. Feel free to navigate through these categories, from broad art-related topics to specific information on selected subjects. Our search portal also gives you the option to conduct a query using our intelligent search feature. Arts Literature Authors G Gleick, James Faster: The Acceleration of Practically Everything The author's own self-maintained (and therefore "official") website with information on his books and online texts on a variety of science- and technology-related subjects. "Mainly this site is home for a few articles that may be of interest to the online community. Operating as we are in real time I get to add postscripts here and there with the advantage of hindsight."

78. James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration Of Just About Everything
    james gleick, Faster The Acceleration of Just About Everything (Pantheon,1999). We are all limited by our culture in many ways, and  
    http://www.rambles.net/gleick_faster.html
    
    Extractions: We are all limited by our culture in many ways, and I believe our most significant limitations are the ones that seem so natural to us that we don't even see them. Reading, I think, offers us a way of peeking around our culture's and period's boundaries; for me, this is its greatest charm. James Gleick, in Faster , puts our current culture's passion for speed into a context, historically, technically, and psychologically. We are a culture inclined towards extremism. Seldom do we create an ability to do something and then choose to foreswear it for the sake of other values; more usually we embrace it and integrate it as thoroughly as we can. Gleick shows us how the ability to measure time in ever more exact ways has affected us and the world in which we live, in ways more diverse than I would have recognized prior to reading this book. Several of these were especially striking to me. The chapter on watches is titled "Your Other Face." I seldom wear a watch myself, and when I do I check it infrequently. I now have a better idea why I've been making these choices for so long. The ability to measure time so easily and accurately affects the way we approach the world. In particular, being able to accurately measure a delay or wait seems to increase its psychological duration for the person waiting, and thus increases impatience. (Gleick's chapter on elevators ties in to this, too.) I've noticed this in myself: when I wear a watch and wait, I focus on the passage of time; when it's not as convenient to measure the time passing I can focus on other things and am not quite as bothered by the delay.

79. Katalog - Wirtualna Polska
    Serwis Katalog w Wirtualna Polska S.A. pierwszy portal w Polsce.  
    http://katalog.wp.pl/DMOZ/Arts/Literature/Authors/G/Gleick%2C_James

80. You Are Gast In Lib PopSci Home Menu Search Options Help
    http://infosoc.uni-koeln.de/popsci/html/item_list.php3?en=a&list=463

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

61-80 of 80    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4