Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest and racing the sled dogs

and racing the sled dogs that assisted them in their work

Smith looks back to his painfully normal childhood to see where all the trouble really began

their history

and forests for whom the weather is a daily force to be reckoned with

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest and racing the sled dogsThe flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth and seventeenth century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information