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

Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) Hardback - 2008

by Kluger, Jeffrey

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"Time" magazine reporter Kluger adeptly translates cutting-edge theory into high-octane history that surrounds the notion of simplexity--that simple things can be more complicated than they seem, and complex things more simple--and how this affects everyone.

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  • Title Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
  • Author Kluger, Jeffrey
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-05-01
  • Features Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002177027
  • ISBN 9781401303013 / 1401303013
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.96 x 1.04 in (21.08 x 15.14 x 2.64 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Science, Simplicity
  • Dewey Decimal Code 500

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2008, Page 18
  • Discover, 06/01/2008, Page 80
  • Kirkus Best Books, 01/15/2008, Page 4
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2008, Page 405
  • Library Journal, 06/01/2008, Page 112
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/14/2008, Page 49

About the author

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.