The best General Library & Information Sciences books: Reddit reviews

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> Is his source intentionally giving bad info to cause attrition backstage , to mess with him and hurt his cred ,

No high-quality professional journalist would have such low standards as to fall prey to a single bad source, because professional journalists do things like independently corroborate stories. If they're not able to corroborate a story, but think their source is reliable, they will note that in their report. Seriously,it's as though Meltzer doesn't even own a style guide.

I’m reading the book about him right now. Amazing story! Friend gave it to me because we shared some time in the region.

The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Goes well with their holocaust denial.

Edit such an amazing institution of American values: http://magaimg.net/img/5uzk.jpg

First of all, let me suggest you a book to read (on Amazon!): https://www.amazon.com/Four-Hidden-Amazon-Facebook-Google/dp/0525501223

That said, antitrust was created for a reason, and now doesn't work anymore simply because some companies are so big they just buy off the people that should rule against them (or fire those who will criticize them, like Google).

Amazon has a lot of workers? Of course it does, it's basically the #1 company with Apple, both have a lot of workers. Yet if you compare the two to, lets say, Ford at its peak, you can see both together have less workers that Ford, while generating (inflation adjusted) a whole lot more money. That's not good for the market.

These companies started small, but at this time no one can really compete anymore because they just buy off anyone who is threatening them, see what FB did with WhatsApp and InstaGram.

I'd recommend "The Information," by James Gleick. It's about the ways that people have developed to communicate with one another and the ways that communication shapes culture and society.

https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235

Thank you. I found this book on the topic by Floridi:

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Information-Luciano-Floridi/dp/0199232393

Does Kant have anything to say about the philosophy of information, or is the topic well after his time ?

i highly recommend everyone reads these two books of his:

the other wes moore is the stories of him and another boy with the exact same name, originally from the same area of baltimore, and how different their stories turned out because this wes moore was able to break the cycle, but the other one couldn't.

discovering wes moore is an autobiography that highlights his childhood and how he was able to be successful

both are very good books. i'm very hopeful about him.

Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper > An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the ethos of mid-century America, all led The Times to consistently downplay news of the Holocaust. It recalls how news of Hitler's 'final solution' was hidden from readers and - because of the newspaper's influence on other media - from America at large. Buried by The Times is required reading for anyone interested in America's response to the Holocaust and for anyone curious about how journalists determine what is newsworthy.

All the News That’s Fit to Print

I once read a really good book called "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood" by James Gleick that starts with a chapter about tribes/nations in colonial era Africa that, for all intents and purposes, invented the first form of long-distance, near-instant communication. They created massive drums and would communicate messages across great distances by drumming something like morse code or the drum beats of regionally recognizable songs out into the world, and the people who needed to hear it would drum a message back. And they could out-pace the British or Portuguese or Flemish or whichever group of Europeans that was trying to colonize or interrupt their affairs along the coast, and they were of course unaware that they were fighting people with Iron-age cell phones.

So drums are a great way to convey information across long distances.

>https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Ass-Librarians-Timbuktu-Precious-Manuscripts/dp/1476777411

Not the person you replied to, but I've just put this book on hold at my local library. Thank you for this.

Keep in mind that photojournalism requires different equipment based on what you are shooting. The World Cup requires fast frames per second cameras with long lenses. Shooting breaking news, etc requires mostly wider lenses. When I was shooting political events in Iowa, the standard gear was 2 camera bodies. One with a 24–70 lens, and the other a 70-200. Would also carry a 17-40 and a 400 when needed.

May I suggest you do some reading about PJ first? There’s a lot to learn about ethics, how to conduct yourself, etc., that should be learned before diving into gear.

here is a good start

the Bible

There's actually a book about this, where the author explains how one of Apple's marketing strategies is their products' appeal as luxury items. The book is called The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Gallaway.

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https://www.amazon.com/Four-Hidden-Amazon-Facebook-Google/dp/0525501223

I’m not seeing the textbook they made me buy but this style guide would likely have all of that.

https://www.amazon.com/Associated-Press-Stylebook-2019-Briefing/dp/1541699890/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=journalism+textbook&qid=1598720021&sprefix=journalism+text&sr=8-12

It’s going to be some form of textbook, one way or another.

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Ass-Librarians-Timbuktu-Precious-Manuscripts/dp/1476777411

To anyone interested in reading about this stuff, I'd very highly recommend "The Information" by James Gleick. It's probably my second favorite book and discusses information starting with African tribal villages sending messages with drums, going through to the telegraph, Shannon's creation of Information Theory, etc. A decent amount of the book is dedicated to Shannon and it's generally a great read.

I'm not a math genius. I installed Anaconda which includes the Spyder IDE. I'm using that to go through the scikit-learn tutorials.

Yesterday I ordered the book The Philosophy of Information by Luciano Floridi. I've been doing some brain-storming and I've realized that information is not the same as knowledge. What we really want to do is convert information into knowledge using a process. This seems obvious, but you really need to think about it on a deep, theoretical level to understand your true goal. Information only becomes knowledge when some kind of action is performed on it. You really need to break down these actions into logical steps to go from information to knowledge.

When I was in J-School this was a required text: https://www.amazon.com/Photojournalism-Professionals-Approach-Kenneth-Kobre/dp/075068593X Along with: https://www.amazon.com/Associated-Press-Guide-Photojournalism-Handbooks/dp/0071363874/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6NZV54XKAY02PNWDG14H

I don't remember the details. But I do remember that this book goes into a bit of detail on how communication through the drums occurs.

https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235

All the times a similar situation would occur on loveline or something, Drew and Adam would usually say. Well best thing is not to say anything, and if you have to say something, don't lie. However, don't tell them all the bad shit. Just tell them the important stuff and omit anything that could be an issue.

In your situation, it would go something like this:

Your dad was my good friend, explain his great qualities, omit anything bad.

Then end on the very important note that he had addiction/alcoholism in the family genes and that he should steer clear of drugs and alcohol, because once the gene is triggered, it's 50% chance that it's game on.

There is a great book about 2 different guys with the same name who grew up a few blocks from each other. One had a dad who was a hero and died, and the other had a druggy dad that abandoned him. The difference in just this knowledge of what kind of man their father was is pretty crazy.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-Wes-Moore-Fates/dp/0385528205

If I was you, I would give him a book or some books to read to help him understand his father and some of his potential issues in the future. Maybe make it a thing for him to have to read a book before you tell him a couple more things each time.

There's probably something in here that applies http://www.reddit.com/r/DrDrew/comments/2670lq/books_often_recommended_by_dr_drew_for_everyone/

Yeah it was great. Alan turning was a genius.

One of my favorite books about information theory and entropy for all the nerds out there:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235

It's a good time for history of computer science books. We had Gleick's The Information last year, and George Dyson (Freeman's son) just published Turing's Cathedral.

Thanks for the upvote. Have one from my side too. :-)
But that certainly isn't a semaphore station but indeed a windmill.
Semaphores and semaphore stations became somewhat popular starting from the end of the 18th century. The Ruisdael-painting dates from halfway the 17th century.
Furthermore (Chappe) semaphores had 2 arms, with 1 articulation each. The Ruisdael windmill clearly has 4 blades or sails.
If you want to learn some more about semaphores and sempahore stations there's an insightful chapter on that subject in James Gleick's book The Information.

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.

I'm reading it right now (cough, cough), and it's amazing. It'll really blow your mind. It's about everything from African talking drums to quantum physics, presented in a really easy to read and understand way, with a really engaging story.

Non-Designers Design Book.

You could drastically improve the current design simply with better use of space. Text shouldn't be touching the border!!

Tangentially-related experience will be your game. Get a series of temp jobs. You'll be surprised at the skills you can pick up at these jobs.

From a design perspective, there's too much white space in your resume. That can be a supporting if not sufficient reason to fill up the page more with more detail about your working past, as insomniaclyric suggests.

With regard to resume format, I think you should do some mugging on resume advice websites. It seems very simple, but try to go through the websites over the course of a week and distill the good advice from the bad.

With regard to resume layout, try to buy this book. http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-Principles/dp/1566091594/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265645414&sr=8-3

There's a very good chance your library can help you out here, so do ask them first, but I do recommend buying it if possible. Seriously, it's worth the money. You can get it used from Amazon for less than one buck! Given that you'll be applying its advice to your resume, the purchase should be easily justified.