Books by Paul Young

Teaches the structure and function of plants and surveys the entire plant kingdom.

Reveals the complexity of the ties between Hollywood and media. This book looks at the American cinema's imaginative constructions of three electronic media - radio, television, and the Internet - at the times when these media seemed to hold limitless possibilities.

This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.

Young traces the evolution of the term information from its general linguistic use into the mainstream of modern science, proposing an entirely new definition of information as a mass-energy phenomenon.