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Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge
Beth Luey
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Description for Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge
Paperback. Compares fiction and non-fiction - their relative respectability in the eyes of reading experts and in the opinions of readers themselves. This title traces the roots of popularization from the Middle Ages onwards, examining changes in literacy, education, and university politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
This is a lively exploration of how non-fiction books have kept Americans learning long after leaving college. Over the past fifty years, knowledge of the natural world, history, and human behavior has expanded dramatically. What has been learned in the academy has become part of political discourse, sermons, and everyday conversation. The dominant medium for transferring knowledge from universities to the public is popularization - books of serious non-fiction that make complex ideas and information accessible to nonexperts. Such writers as Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Daniel Boorstin, and Robert Coles have attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. ... Read more
This is a lively exploration of how non-fiction books have kept Americans learning long after leaving college. Over the past fifty years, knowledge of the natural world, history, and human behavior has expanded dramatically. What has been learned in the academy has become part of political discourse, sermons, and everyday conversation. The dominant medium for transferring knowledge from universities to the public is popularization - books of serious non-fiction that make complex ideas and information accessible to nonexperts. Such writers as Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Daniel Boorstin, and Robert Coles have attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558498174
SKU
V9781558498174
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Ref
99-15
About Beth Luey
BETH LUEY is author of Handbook for Academic Authors, now in its fifth edition, and editor of Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors. For more than twenty-five years, she directed the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University.
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