![]() ![]() Information has been used to measure and compare things in the past. For example, information can include things such as objects and symbols that convey meaning. It can be defined as facts that we know, but it can also mean more than that. ![]() It can be defined as facts that we know, but it can also mean more than that. Information is a difficult term to define. ![]() Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human. Information is a difficult term to define. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. ![]() From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.Īcclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. ![]()
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![]() But as the investigation draws them all closer to Anna, Evan’s true nature betrays itself and the question of what’s in the child’s best interest becomes not so clear anymore. Standing in the young woman’s way is Evan Meade, the boy’s guileful and mean-spirited father, who hires a private investigator when the efforts of the embattled local sheriff, Monroe Rossi, fail to track them down. ![]() Told in prose that is both stripped-down and overpowering, Gilbert shapes the everyday conflict of child custody into a stunning search for sense of worth. When a district court awards custody of Oliver to his father, she abducts the five year old and flees to Italy where with her family’s help they disappear into the fabric of her native homeland. Summary: A Lovely, Indecent Departure is the riveting and emotionally-charged debut from a promising new voice in literary thrillers, and a captivating story about a mother’s love and desperation set amidst the heart wrenching landscape of child custody.Īnna Miller wants only one thing, her son, and she will do anything to keep him. ![]() ![]() There can be no happy ending in this world, at least for a very, very long time, if ever. We follow Paxton, a member of the security team for Cloud, and Zinnia, a picker, who processes orders for Cloud, and Gibson, the founder of Cloud. The only other choice is to be out from under the protection of Cloud, in the world that Cloud helped to destroy, a world that is barren and hot and has barely enough for survival. It's a life where people have learned to be happy with a sterile existence of working until they fall onto a thin futon, doing the same thing every single day, eventually just going through the motions, day in and day out. ![]() People can no longer really exist outside of the world of Cloud and living in the world of Cloud is an existence not worth living. ![]() The world of The Warehouse is a bleak world and sadly much too close to our real world than I would like to acknowledge. ![]() ![]() ![]() Largely all advertising rather questionable cures to various ailments, including: Dr J. This edition with several advertisements, 4 pages within, one to verso of front cover, and one on the back cover. A crime has been committed by an unknown assassin, within a short distance of the principal street of this great city, and is surrounded by an impenetrable mystery.” “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction. First published in Melbourne in 1886 and then in Britain the following year, it was an astronomical success, outselling Conan-Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, and has been called Australia’s first international bestseller. N.d.Ī sensational novel set in Melbourne about a homicide where a corpse is discovered in a horse-drawn hansom cab. ![]() ![]() London, The Hansom Cab Publishing Company. original black and white pictorial wrappers. First printing in the UK (preceding the American edition of 1888). ‘One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand’. ![]() ![]() The second is the “road map” concluded by the “quartet” (the United States, United Nations, European Union, and Russia) in April 2003.The map comprises the first framework accepted, albeit with some reservations, by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the outbreak of violence in September 2000. ![]() The Initiative constituted the first attempt by the Arab world at large to shape the regional environment in an effort to pave the road to Palestinian-Israeli peace. The first of these building blocks is the Saudi Initiative as amended and adopted by the 2002 Arab League Summit in Beirut. In the post–Iraq War era, there are at least two building blocks which together-if properly developed-provide an array of hope for advancing the prospects of Palestinian-Israeli peace, despite the many obvious reasons for despair with regard to such prospects. ![]() |