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Informatica
Mastering Information through the Ages
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Alex Wright
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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Shannon Christine Mattern, The New School, author of Code and Clay, Data and Dirt:
"An astonishingly wide-ranging book, Glut shows how the organization and management of information is simultaneously social, technical, political, economic, and environmental. In a series of engaging, chronologically organized tales, Alex Wright synthesizes evolutionary biology, archaeology, history of science, history of the book, intellectual history, and information studies."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface to Informatica
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Introduction
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1. Networks and Hierarchies
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2. Family Trees and the Tree of Life
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3. The Ice Age Information Explosion
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4. The Age of Alphabets
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5. Illuminating the Dark Age
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6. A Steam Engine of the Mind
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7. The Astral Power Station
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8. The Encyclopedic Revolution
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9. The Moose That Roared
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10. The Industrial Library
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11. Information as “Science”
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12. The Web That Wasn’t
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13. Memories of the Future
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A. John Wilkins’s Universal Categories
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B. Thomas Jefferson’s 1783 Catalog of Books
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C. The Dewey Decimal System
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D. The Universal Decimal Classification
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E. Ranganathan’s Colon Classification
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 25, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781501768682
Edition:
second edition
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
276
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30
Other:
30 b&w halftones, 4 other
eBook ISBN:
9781501768682
Keywords for this book
information age; information explosion; how information systems emerge; information architecture; information science; information overload; digital revolution
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General/trade;
