Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

Kluger, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 1401303013 / ISBN 13: 9781401303013

Editore: Hachette Books, 2008

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• Titolo: Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
• Editore: Hachette Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1401303013
• ISBN 13: 9781401303013
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Acceptable

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Riassunto

The author of Splendid Solution draws on cutting-edge theories to describe the basic workings of everyday objects and principles in accessible language, covering a wide variety of topics from cell phones and viruses to economics and parenting. 125,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jeffrey Kluger joined TIME Magazine in 1996, mainly writing science stories, and was named a senior writer in 1998. With astronaut Jim Lovell, he wrote Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the 1995 movie Apollo 13 movie was based. He's written several other books, most recently Splendid Solution, which is about Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine. Mr. Kluger and two other colleagues won the 2002 Overseas Press Club of America's Whitman Bassow Award for their "Global Warming" cover package (April 9, 2001), garnering first place for the best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues. Before joining TIME, Mr. Kluger was a staff writer for Discover Magazine and a writer and editor for the New York Times Business World Magazine, Family Circle, and Science Digest.