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02155cam a2200385Ii 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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953173374 |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20190729110410.0 |
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928613983 |
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160707s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng d |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316256544 |
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0316256544 |
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9780316395069 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316395064 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)953173374 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
T7B |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
T7B |
| Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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ON8 |
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FM0 |
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BTCTA |
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YDXCP |
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BDX |
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GK8 |
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OCLCQ |
| 050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
BD175 |
| Item number |
.P674 2016 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Poundstone, William, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Head in the cloud : |
| Remainder of title |
why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
William Poundstone |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Little, Brown and Company, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 340 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort |
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1 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Knowledge, Theory of |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Big data |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Information behavior |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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| Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) |
u609526 |
| 903 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT C, LDC (RLIN) |
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32998 |