Author: Suzanne Briet File Type: pdf Born in Paris in 1894, Suzanne Briet was active nationally and internationally in the development of what was then known as Documentation but would now be called Information Management or Information Science. In 1931, she participated in founding the Union Francaise des Organismes de Documentation (UFOD), the French analogue of the American Documentation Institute now called the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She was a leader in developing professional education for this new specialty and designed a plan for what would have been the first school of Documentation Information Science worldwide, had it been established. In 1951, when a school of information science was finally established, Briet was the founding Director of Studies. She became Vice President of the International Federation for Documentation (FID) and acquired the nickname Madame Documentation. What is Documentation? * relates this fascinating story and includes the first English translation of Briets remarkable manifesto on the nature of documentation, Quest-ce que la documentation? * (Paris EDIT, 1951). A pamphlet of 48 pages, Part I sought to push the boundaries of the field beyond texts to include any material form of evidence (Is a living animal a document? she asked). Part II argued that a new and distinct profession was emerging. Part III urged the societal need for new and active documentary services. This tract remains significant due to its continuing relevance towards understanding the nature, scope, and societal impacts of documents and documentation. Briets modernist perspective, combined with semiotics, deserves attention now because it offers a sturdy and insightful alternative to the scientific, positivist view that has so dominated information science and which is increasingly questioned.

Author: Bernie Sanders File Type: epub Presents the Vermont Senators speech from December 10, 2010. Sanders spoke for eight and a half hours to call to action the middle class, encouraging them to save themselves by becoming informed, organized, and prepared to take on the special interests in Washington.On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traffic crashed the Senate server. A huge, positive grassroots response tied up the phones in the senators offices in Vermont and Washington. President Obama reportedly held an impromptu press conference with former President Clinton to deflect media attention away from Sanders speech. Editorials and news coverage appeared throughout the world. In his speech, Sanders blasted the agreement that President Obama struck with Republicans, which extended the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, lowered estate tax rates for the very, very rich, and set a terrible precedent by establishing a payroll tax holiday diverting revenue away from the Social Security Trust Fund, and threatening the funds very future. But the speech was more than a critique of a particular piece of legislation. It was a dissection of the collapse of the American middle class and a well-researched attack on corporate greed and on public policy which, over the last several decades, has led to a huge growth in millionaires even as the United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world. It was a plea for a fundamental change in national priorities, for government policy that reflects the needs of working families, and not just the wealthy and their lobbyists. Finally, Sanders speech-published here in its entirety with a new introduction by the senator-is a call for action. It is a passionate statement informing us that the only people who will save the middle class of this country is the middle class itself, but only if it is informed, organized, and prepared to take on the enormously powerful special interests dominating Washington. Senator Bernie Sanders is the longest-serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress. He has represented Vermont in the Senate for four years and in the House for sixteen years. He served four terms as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, during which time the city was recognized as one of the most livable cities in America.

Author: Liane Moriarty File Type: epub What would happen if you were visited by your younger self, and got a chance for a do-over? Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. So imagine her surprise when, after a fall, she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! she HATES the gym!) and discovers that shes actually thirty-nine, has three children, and is in the midst of an acrimonious divorce. A knock on the head has misplaced ten years of her life, and Alice isnt sure she likes who shes become. It turns out, though, that forgetting might be the most memorable thing that has ever happened to Alice.**

Author: Holly Tucker File Type: epub A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution Thanks to Tuckers sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying. Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlottes Web and Arthur and SherlockAppointed to conquer the crime capital of the world, the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magicnot even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly back-stabbing world of the kings court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Pariss most illustrious churches and cathedrals.As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question Could Louiss mistresses could be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king.From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynies compulsive note-taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tuckers riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe on the page.**ReviewCity of Light, City of Poison is not only a serious, meticulously researched work of nonfiction, it is an irresistible story. Full of danger, mystery, and excitement, it will keep you up well into the night, marveling at this forgotten world of dark intrigue. --(Candice Millard, author of Hero of the Empire) In her fascinating book, Holly Tucker fuses history and mystery to create the dramatic effect of a novel while remaining true to the real-life plots and poisons of Frances seventeenth century A genuinely illuminating study of a remarkably amoral moment in human history. --(Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoners Handbook) At once bewitching and chilling, the dark story of toxic intrigue, murder, and mayhem in the Sun Kings France reads like the most gripping thriller, thanks to Holly Tuckers storytelling flair and relentless research. --(Adrienne Mayor, author of The Poison King) Imagine a novel full of sex and betrayal, conspiracy and politics, murder and magic, detective work and justice. Holly Tucker has written one -- except this isnt fiction it just reads like it. --(Malcolm Gaskill, author of Witchfinders) Tuckers narrative is rich in document and detail, while never losing sight of these historical events as a compelling police procedural, unfolding at a moment when the process of modern police investigation was just being invented. --(Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, author of The Kings Mistresses) About the AuthorHolly Tucker is a professor of French and biomedical ethics and society at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Blood Work A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the author of City of Light, City of Poison Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris. Kate Reading is an Audie Award-winning narrator and has received numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. She is also a theater actor in the Washington, DC, area and has been a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 1987. Her work onstage has been recognized by the Helen Hayes Awards Society, among others. She and her husband live in Hyattsville, Maryland, with their two children.