{"product_id":"how-we-disappear-thomas-s-mullaney-9781324020783","title":"How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur lives are collections of information--from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more evident than in the wake of a parent's death. Yet from all these elusive, even evanescent, data points, history is written and a future is made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis information is stored on clay tablets and wood pulp; in vinyl grooves, compact discs, and magnetic patterns; and relayed over undersea cables and satellite cell networks. But all information decays. Everything that we put \"in formation\" eventually collapses into randomness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney reflects on the deaths of his parents, and on how human lives \"disappear.\" Lyrical and poignant, his erudite, inspiring meditation offers eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas S. Mullaney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324020784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324020783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Thomas S. Mullaney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47930562707711,"sku":"9781324020783","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a614016-545c-45a1-be04-7a70e538d869.jpg?v=1766342663","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-we-disappear-thomas-s-mullaney-9781324020783","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}