A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre
Though the notion of a scientific textbook has been around for almost three centuries, the category has hardly been stable. The plasticity of the textbook genre may be illustrated by recent variations as well as long-term trends. In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful...
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| description | Though the notion of a scientific textbook has been around for almost three centuries, the category has hardly been stable. The plasticity of the textbook genre may be illustrated by recent variations as well as long-term trends. In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful physics books, each published in the mid 1970s, whose production, marketing, and adoption reveal some of the slippage between such categories as textbook, scholarly monograph, and popular best seller. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/829072022-09-27T16:22:13Z A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre Kaiser, David I. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society Kaiser, David I. Though the notion of a scientific textbook has been around for almost three centuries, the category has hardly been stable. The plasticity of the textbook genre may be illustrated by recent variations as well as long-term trends. In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful physics books, each published in the mid 1970s, whose production, marketing, and adoption reveal some of the slippage between such categories as textbook, scholarly monograph, and popular best seller. 2013-12-10T20:45:42Z 2013-12-10T20:45:42Z 2012-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 00211753 15456994 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82907 Kaiser, David. “A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre.” Isis 103, no. 1 (March 2012): 126-138. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/664983 Isis Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf University of Chicago Press/History of Science Society Jstor |
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