
Reading Popular Physics
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Prize: Shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science book prize of 2007. 'Elizabeth Leane's pioneering exploration of physics popularizations richly illuminates their larger significance as well as their vagaries. Filled with apt examples and keen readings, this book opens perspectives important to all concerned with science and its place in human thought.' Peter Pesic, St John's College, New Mexico, author of Abel's Proof and Sky in a Bottle '... anyone who wants to consider popular science seriously will want to start here.' Times Higher Education Supplement '...based on exhaustive scholarhip... Leane analyzes many aspects of the relation between popular science literature and the 'other' culture...An interesting book, packed with information, for a good college library... Recommended.' Choice 'Focusing upon several well known texts [...] the result is an eye opener... Perhaps, as scientists, we need to step back and ask just what we want to achieve through the popularisation of science and the portrayal of scientists; Leane's book is a good place to start.' Australian Physics '... tightly argued and fascinating study... The book's lengthy bibliography offers further riches for specialists, while the main text remains accessible to readers with no background in literary criticism. Reading Popular Physics is a sophisticated, engaging book on the ways we talk about science - and their consequences.' Science 'This slim volume is self-admittedly a call for further literary analysis of popular science writing, and it is this effort that has been pursued most fully, as Reading Popular Physics offers a usefully detailed introduction to and analysis of the field against which literary-critical analyses of popular science writing could proceed. The writing is clearest and the thinking best developed in reporting the relevant histories of popular science writing, the shaping of science studies as a discipline, and the later-twMore details
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