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Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages |
Richly illustrated and exhaustively researched, "Glut" takes readers on an intriguing cross-disciplinary journey through the deep history of human knowledge systems and examines the problem of information overload.
| Indice e argomenti trattati |
| Introduction | | 1 | | | | 5 | | | Family Trees and the Tree of Life |
| | 22 | | | The Ice Age Information Explosion |
| | 39 | | | | 48 | | | Illuminating the Dark Age |
| | 78 | | | A Steam Engine of the Mind |
| | 99 | | | | 122 | | | The Encyclopedic Revolution |
| | 143 | | | | 152 | | | | 165 | | | | 183 | | | | 230 | | | | | John Wilkins's Universal Categories |
| | 239 | | | Thomas Jefferson's 1783 Catalog of Books |
| | 242 | | | | 245 | | | S. R. Ranganathan's Colon Classification |
| | 247 | | | Acknowledgments | | 251 | | | Notes | | 253 | | | Index | | 271 | |
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| I più venduti: History - World |
| I più venduti: Language Arts & Disciplines - Library & Information Science |
| I più venduti: Computers - Information Technology |
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