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The information : a history, a theory, a flood

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.
Print Book, English, 2011
Pantheon Books, New York, 2011
History
526 s. ill.
9780007423118, 9780375423727, 000742311X, 0375423729
1103763466
Drums that talk
Persistence of the word
Two wordbooks
To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work
A nervous system for the Earth
New wires, new logic
Information theory
The informational turn
Entropy and its demons
Life's own code
Into the meme pool
The sense of randomness
Information is physical
After the flood
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