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010       89018662 
020    0553348566:|c$12.95 ($15.95 Can.) 
035    (OCoLC)20931968 
040    DLC|beng|cDLC|dSTJ 
049    STJJ 
050 10 P90|b.W8 1990 
082 00 302.23/4|220 
092    302.234|bW968I 
100 1  Wurman, Richard Saul,|d1935- 
245 10 Information anxiety :|bwhat to do when information doesn't
       tell you what you need to know /|cRichard Saul Wurman. 
264  1 New York :|bBantam,|c[1990] 
264  4 |c©1990 
300    358 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-348) and 
       index. 
505 0  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.  
650  0 Communication. 
650  0 Mass media. 
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