正題名/作者 : The information :/ James Gleick.
其他題名 : a history, a theory, a flood /
作者 : Gleick, James.
出版者 : New York :Pantheon Books,c2011.
面頁冊數 : 526 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
標題 : Information science - History. -
ISBN : 9780375423727 (hbk.)
ISBN : 0375423729 (hbk.)
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