Reading Popular Physics: Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies

By Elizabeth Leane

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754658503
• ISBN13: 9780754658504
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"