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| fixed length control field | 01384cam a2200205 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780375423727 |
| Terms of availability | TZS 12,000/= |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MUL |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | AACR |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 020.9 GLE |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Gleick, James. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The information : |
| Sub Title | a history, a theory, a flood / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | James Gleick. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Pantheon Books, |
| Year of publication | c2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 526 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index. |
| 505 0# - Formatted Contents | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 -- New news every day. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | eng |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Information science |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Information society. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS | |
| Item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Accession Number | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Mzumbe University Main Campus Library | Mzumbe University Main Campus Library | 11/05/2014 | Book Support and Trust | 020.9 GLE | 0078832 | 1 | 12/12/2022 | Book | ||||
| Mzumbe University Main Campus Library | Mzumbe University Main Campus Library | 11/05/2014 | Book Support and Trust | 020.9 GLE | 0078834 | 2 | 12/12/2022 | Book |