James Gleick's bestselling book, Chaos: Making a New Science, explained chaos theory in layman's terms by focusing on the stories of those scientists who were pioneers in the field and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. A former science writer for the New York Times, Gleick is the author of two bestselling biographies: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, as well as Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. His first book in seven years, The Information shows how our modern information age developed, following the people, technologies, and theories that helped shape it.