Time Travel

On THE INFORMATION: 'Mind-stretching but enlightening ... the power and breadth of the ideas involved cannot but make you marvel.' Daily Mail 'Magisterial...It is not merely a history of information, but also a theory and a prospectus. To describe it as ambitious is to engage in almost comical understatement.' The Times 'A deeply impressive and rather beautiful book.' Observer 'This is a work of rare penetration, a true history of ideas whose witty and determined treatment of its material brings clarity to a complex subject.' Daily Telegraph On ISAAC NEWTON: 'The book has the magic of a wonderful laboratory experiment...A masterpiece of clarity - so difficult to write, so easy to read.' Michael Holroyd 'A fresh and brilliant portrait of his personality and life, the people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him, and the contexts of his achievements.' Oliver Sacks 'After reading Jim Gleick's beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as if I'd spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius.' Alan Lightman 'It's beautifully paced and very stylishly written: compact, atmospheric, elegant. It offers a brilliant and engaging study in the paradoxes of the scientific imagination' Richard Holmes On WHAT JUST HAPPENED: 'Untangling anything from an interview with Microsoft is hard; putting it into context harder; making that readable, and even enjoyable, the work of a master. Gleick does it. It's a pleasure flying with him' Independent On FASTER: 'It's an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don't hang around - go out and buy it right now.' Robert Macfarlane