![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Eliot Porter wrote the brief Foreword, the book's date and editorial work by Janet Russek suggests it was published posthumously. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION for this brilliant collection of Porter's large format color photos. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He covered science and technology there, chronicling the rise of the Internet as the Fast Forward columnist, and in 1993 founded an Internet startup company called The Pipeline. He has been called "one of the great science writers of all time." Gleick is also the author of Chaos: Making a New Science (1987), which is about chaos theory. James Gleick was born in New York and began his career in journalism, working as an editor and reporter for the New York Times. (He was also a Harvard-trained engineer & M.D.!) James Gleick (born 1954) is an American author and historian of science. With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is 'a groundbreaking book about what seems to be the future of. Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990), famed American nature photographer noted for his detailed and exquisite colour images of birds and landscapes. In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us. Near square quarto (11 1/4" x 10 3/8") light gray-blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting seaweed by Eliot Porter, profusely illustrated with select color photos by Porter, light gray endpapers, 125 pages + Sources for Further Reading. ![]()
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