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Information and Intrigue
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology. In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Haviland Field established the Concilium Bibliographicum, a Switzerland-based science information service that sent millions of index cards to American and European scientists. Field's radical new idea was to index major ideas rather than books or documents. In his struggle ...
Judge Not
Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his own experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment.Gide's obsession with crime and punishment was not just a morbid hobby; rather, it struck at the heart of his themes as a writer. In the literary tradition of Dostoyevsky and Conrad, Gide frequently used criminals as central characters to explore human nature and the individual's place in society.In the first essay in Judge Not, "A Memoir of the Assize Court," Gide writes about his experience as a...
A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776
A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776: With a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia.
The Schales Book
Caspar Schales (b.1817), son of Johaness Schales (b.1785) and Maria Elisabeth Lindt, immigrated from Germany to Perry County, Indiana in 1838, and married Charlotte Foster in 1845. His parents and their youngest son, Jacob, immigrated to join Caspar in 1846. Descendants lived in Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestors to the early 1700s and their descendants in Germany.
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