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Product Description: The author of Zero and Proofiness explains how to tell truth from fantasy in the digital world, and why it mattersToday, the Internet allows us to spread information faster and to more people than ever before—never mind whether it’s true or not...read more

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9780143127673 | Penguin USA, August 4, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author of Zero and Proofiness explains how to tell truth from fantasy in the digital world, and why it mattersToday, the Internet allows us to spread information faster and to more people than ever before—never mind whether it’s true or not.

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Hardcover:

9780670026081 | Viking Pr, June 26, 2014, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780314566713, titled "Insurance Law in a Nutshell" | 2nd edition (West Group, October 1, 1989), cover price $15.95 | also contains Insurance Law in a Nutshell

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Product Description: Starting from the characteristics of information, this book discusses in detail the information theory and quantum computing and shows us an unbelievable Byzantine universe scenario, involving the essence of life, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, multiple universes, and the fate of the universe...read more

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9780670034413 | Viking Pr, February 2, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Introduces information theory, explaining how theorists believe that information is a fundamental element of the physical world and can offer insights into physics, the nature of space and time, and the creation of the universe.

Paperback:

9780143038399 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 30, 2007), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An accessible introduction to information theory and its relevance within modern scientific circles explains how theorists now believe that information is a fundamental element of the physical world and can offer new insights into the mysteries of physics, the nature of space and time, and the creation and destruction of the universe.

Prebinding:

9781435282483 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Starting from the characteristics of information, this book discusses in detail the information theory and quantum computing and shows us an unbelievable Byzantine universe scenario, involving the essence of life, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, multiple universes, and the fate of the universe.

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Draws on the latest cosmological discoveries to reveal what today's scientists are learning about the beginning and fate of the universe, citing theories about dark matter, dark energy, and the particle zoo to make predictions on how the universe will end. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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9780670031795, titled "Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe" | Viking Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Draws on new cosmological discoveries to reveal what today's scientists are learning about the birth and fate of the universe, citing theories on dark matter, dark energy, and the particle zoo to predict how the universe will end.

Paperback:

9780142004463 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Draws on new cosmological discoveries to reveal what today's scientists are learning about the birth and fate of the universe, citing theories on dark matter, dark energy, and the particle zoo to predict how the universe will end.

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A 'biography' of the most vexing and troublesome number in human history reveals how the Babylonians invented it, why the Greeks were afraid of it and the Hindus worshipped it, the role it played in hunting down heretics in the Middle Ages, and its place in the Y2K issue. Read by the author.

Hardcover:

9780670884575 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A 'biography' of the most vexing and troublesome number in human history reveals how the Babylonians invented it, why the Greeks were afraid of it and the Hindus worshipped it, the role it played in hunting down heretics in the Middle Ages, and its placein the Y2K issue

Paperback:

9780140296471 | Penguin USA, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The history of a controversial but important number begins with its inventors, the Babylonians, and follows its tumultuous and fascinating story to the present era of supercomputers and quantum physics.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781590073544 | Unabridged edition (New Millenium Audio, June 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A 'biography' of the most vexing and troublesome number in human history reveals how the Babylonians invented it, why the Greeks were afraid of it and the Hindus worshipped it, the role it played in hunting down heretics in the Middle Ages, and its placein the Y2K issue.
9781575110707 | Unabridged edition (Publishing Mills, December 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An examination of the most vexing and troublesome number in human history reveals how the Babylonians invented it, why the Greeks were afraid of it and the Hindus worshipped it, the role it played in hunting down heretics in the Middle Ages, and its place in the Y2K issue.

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