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Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 2010) is a book by American intellectual historian Ann M. Blair. The book deals with the concept of information overload. Blair argues that the feeling of being overwhelmed by information is not unique to the digital age. Instead it has existed since ...
Time by William S. Burroughs, with illustrations by Brion Gysin, is a saddle stapled pamphlet described in its publisher's forward as "a book of words and pictures." [1] It is an example of Burroughs' use of the cut-up technique, with which he began experimenting in the fall of 1959. [2]
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
My father looked me over, and as he stood there for what felt like a very long time, I was sure he was going to hand me my head. And not on a platter. "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," he said.
Pseudonymous Bosch (/ ˈ s uː d ən ɪ m ə s b ɒ ʃ, b ɔː ʃ, b ɔː s /) is the pen name of Raphael Simon (born October 25, 1967), the author of The Secret Series and The Bad Books series of fiction books, as well as The Unbelievable Oliver chapter book mysteries and two stand-alone titles. He has written 12 books, each widely read. [1]
The writers of Atlanta Nights, a deliberately bad book intended to embarrass the publishing firm PublishAmerica, [citation needed] used the pen name Travis Tea. Additionally, the credited author of The Expanse , James S. A. Corey , is an amalgam of the middle names of collaborating writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck respectively, while S. A ...
Reference books are either used very frequently—a dictionary or an atlas, for example—or very infrequently, such as a highly specialized concordance. Because some reference books are consulted by patrons too frequently to have enough copies and others so infrequently that replacing it would be difficult, libraries prefer to make them ...
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know", a phrase used by Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828) to describe her lover Lord Byron; Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Dead or Alive album), 1986; Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (EP by Joolz Denby with New Model Army), 1986; Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (The Cross album), 1990 "Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know", a ...