Elizabeth Leane's Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. Focusing particularly on five bestselling books-A Brief History of Time, The First Three Minutes, Chaos, Complexity, and The Dancing Wu Li Masters-Leane analyzes the textual strategies by which popularizers of science influence the public. Her book offers readers a fresh perspective on this highly visible and influential genre.Collections of essays are thus often multidisciplinary, and journals such as Public Understanding of Science, Science as ... 13 Examples of literary analyses of popular science texts include those cited in note 17 below as well as Whitworth, anbsp;...
Title | : | Reading Popular Physics |
Author | : | Elizabeth Leane |
Publisher | : | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. - 2007 |
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