Encyclopaedia Of Ignorance
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The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance: Life sciences and earth sciences
Author | : Ronald Duncan |
Publisher | : Pergamon |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780080212319 |
The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance
Author | : Ronald Duncan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780671790875 |
The Encyclopaedia of Medical Ignorance
Author | : Ronald Duncan |
Publisher | : Pergamon |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780080245157 |
This book contains articles on ignorance in the medical field and where the contributing researchers would like research directed.
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
Author | : The Onion |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 031613323X |
Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.
Social History of Knowledge
Author | : Peter Burke |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745676863 |
In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach toexamine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe fromthe invention of printing to the publication of the FrenchEncyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies ofknowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on todiscuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions(especially universities and academies) which encouraged ordiscouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separatechapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics andeconomics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies,states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying,spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chaptersdeal with knowledge from the point of view of the individualreader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of thereliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the seventeenthcentury. One of the most original features of this book is its discussionof knowledges in the plural. It centres on printed knowledge,especially academic knowledge, but it treats the history of theknowledge 'explosion' which followed the invention of printing andthe discovery of the world beyond Europe as a process of exchangeor negotiation between different knowledges, such as male andfemale, theoretical and practical, high-status and low-status, andEuropean and non-European. Although written primarily as a contribution to social orsocio-cultural history, this book will also be of interest tohistorians of science, sociologists, anthropologists, geographersand others in another age of information explosion.
Ignorance
Author | : Peter Burke |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300271263 |
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 “Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which ‘not-knowing’ affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the “giant” of ignorance, and in today’s hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors? In this highly original account, Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity’s ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance—genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious—from the willful politicians who redrew Europe’s borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits.