TY - SER
AU - Beth Luey
CY - Amherst, MA
LA - English
N1 -
Examines how complex academic discoveries and ideas are communicated to the public in ways that are accessible. Focus on the period after World War II.
Contents:
- Non: the prefix that changes what, and how, we read
- A brief history of popularization
- A highly educated public
- From Snow to Sokal
- Academic philanthropists
- Writing to be read
- From author to reader
- Why we read
PB - University of Massachusetts Press
PP - Amherst, MA
PY - 2010
SN - 9781558498167
EP - 218 pp.
TI - Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge
ER -