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Author Wurman, Richard Saul, 1935-

Title Information anxiety : what to do when information doesn't tell you what you need to know / Richard Saul Wurman.

Publication Info. New York : Bantam, [1990]
©1990

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  302.234 W968I    Check Shelf
Description 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents The Non -- Information Explosion -- Telltale Signs -- You Can't be too Rich or too Well Informed -- A Word in Search of a Definition -- Anxiety -- Proofing Information -- The Five Rings -- Access is the Antidote to Anxiety -- Order Doesn't Equal Understanding -- What's Missing From This Picture? -- The Understanding Business -- Ode to Ignorance -- Aesthetic Seductions -- Personal Table of Contents -- The Five Ultimate Hatracks -- Vantage Points -- Classifying Lassie: the Dog Story -- The Space Between Things -- The Smart Yellow Pages or Your Personal Guide to Living -- Decision Trees -- Making America Understandable to Americans -- In the Beginning is the end -- The Conversation -- The Art of Listening -- Talk is Deep -- The Lost Art of Conversation -- Teaching the President to Talk -- The Architecture of Instructions -- Giving Good Instructions -- Language: Babel, Seduction, Content -- Which Came First, Language or Thought? -- Mind Your Mouth -- Filler Phrases -- Language is a Laughing Matter -- Renaming the Wheel -- Verbal Geometry -- Sign Language -- William Zinsser on Writing -- The Write Stuff -- Landmines in the Understanding Field -- Polka Dots on an Edsel -- Function is to Performance as a Model t Ford is to a Ferrari -- Traps, Diseases, and Malaises -- Communication Equals Remembering What it's Like not to Know -- Drawing the Line -- Ed Schlossberg Conversation -- What You Take for Granted You Cannot Improve -- Learning is Remembering What You are Interested in -- You Can't Get Lost on the Road to Interest -- Interest Connections -- Discriminating Between Interests and Obligations -- Access Guides -- Getting Permission to Learn -- The Importance of Being Interested -- Education is to Learning as Tour Groups are to Adventure -- Gin-Rummy Memory -- Sacred Bull Fighting -- Seeing, Hearing, Expressing -- Fear of Learning -- Defensive Expenditures -- Learning About Learning -- Conversation with Alan Kay -- Learning Fantasies -- Parallel Learning -- Terror and Confidence -- Information Ownership -- You Only Learn Something Relative to Something you Understand -- Motivating Models -- Theme and Variations -- Learning Means Making Connections -- How Big is an Acre? -- The Numbers Game -- Say I do or Die -- Screenplay Rights on Annual Reports -- Slicing the Pie: the Nature of Recreation -- Comparing Components -- Conversation With John Sculley -- The Joy of Discovery -- Hailing Failing and Still Sailing -- An Ode to Error -- The Proper Management of Failure Breeds Success -- What You Don't Know is as Important as What You do -- Conversation With Paul Kaufman -- You Won't Believe What Went Wrong -- The Breaking Point -- Museum of Failure is Overnight Success -- Information Bulimia: A Reading Disorder -- The Low-Fat Information Diet -- Confessions of an Information Junkie -- Absolutely Essential vs. Guilt -- Paper Weight-Watchers -- Resume Verite -- Resume of Loring Leifer -- Resume of Sally O'Malley -- Distinguish Yourself -- News Information: Violent Wallpaper -- Risk Perception -- Your Personal Media-Measuring Stick -- Everything Takes Place Someplace -- Conversation With Tom Brokaw -- Orientation to Events -- The Glory of Stories -- Radius of Interest -- Stream of Consequence -- Cultural Information: Personal Vision -- The Inequity of Perception -- Selective Perception = Exaggeration -- As the World Turns -- Embellish With Flourish -- Peter Bradford on Painting -- Perceptive Perceptions -- The Map as Communications Currency -- Reference Information: the Map or Mankind's Ability to Perceive -- The Power of Maps -- Maps as Metaphors -- Universal Maps -- Mapmakers -- Maps of Numbers and Ideas -- Diagrams and Chapts -- Nowhere Maps -- Conversation with John Wurman -- User-Participation Maps -- Taxing Forms -- Form and Delivery -- Technomania: Information as Commodity -- The Profit Potential -- Information as Product -- Taxing Information -- Conversation with Dick Brass -- Informational Cacophony -- More is More Expensive -- Information Vulnerability Quotient -- The Rebound Effect -- Prescription for Anxiety -- Fewer, Fewer, Fewer -- Painless Decisions -- So Much Information, so Little Time -- Robust Attitudes -- Robust Actions -- Communication Skills -- Reference Materials -- Media Habits -- Information Involvement Inventory -- Epilogue: Predictions for Understanding.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-348) and index.
Subject Communication.
Mass media.
ISBN 0553348566: $12.95 ($15.95 Can.)
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