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Understanding Popular Science

By: Broks, Peter

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Science is a defining feature of the modern world, and popular science is where most of us make sense of that fact. Understanding Popular Scienceprovides a framework to help understand the development of popular science and current debates about it. In a lively and accessible style, Peter Broks shows how popular science has been invented, redefined and fought over. From early-nineteenth century radical science to twenty-first century government initiatives, he examines popular science as an arena where the authority of science and the authority of the state are legitimized and challenged. The book includes clear accounts of the public perception of scientists, visions of the future, fears of an â€œanti-scienceâ€ movement and concerns about scientific literacy. The final chapter proposes a new model for understanding the interaction between lay and expert knowledge. This book is essential reading in cultural studies, science studies, history of science and science communication.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335215483

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Media Science before the Great War

By: Peter Broks

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Media Science before the Great War

By: Peter Broks

The rise of the mass media and professional science makes the years before the Great War an important formative period in the history of popular science. Peter Broks explores the magazines of the time and uncovers the scientist as hero and villain; science for and against religion; animal biographies and a new empathy with nature; technology as evolutionary progress; utopian visions and degenerationst fears. Through this cultural analysis of popular science he shows how Victorian hopes turned into Edwardian disillusion.

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192

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Springer

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1349250430

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9781349250431

Molloy

A Novel

By: Paul Broks,Samuel Beckett

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Molloy

A Novel

By: Paul Broks,Samuel Beckett

A neuropsychologist and a runner-up for the prestigious Wellcome Trust Science Prize, Broks writes with a doctor's precision and clarity in a series of narratives about the fascinating world of the neurologically impaired, delving not only into the inner lives of his patients but also into a deeper understanding of how they define who they are.

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Grove Press

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0802141285

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9780802141286

The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars

A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness

By: Paul Broks

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The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars

A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness

By: Paul Broks

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist’s understanding of the mind – its logic, its nuance, how we think about what makes a person – with a poet’s approach to humanity, that crucial and ever-elusive why. It’s a story that unfolds through the centuries, along the path of humankind’s constant quest to discover what makes us human, and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp. It’s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth. But, most importantly, it’s Broks’ story, grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinician—patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are. Tracing a loose arc of loss, acceptance, and renewal, he unfolds striking, imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming.

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Crown

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0307985792

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9780307985798

Understanding Popular Science

By: Broks, Peter

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Media Science Before the Great War

By: Peter Broks

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Media Science Before the Great War

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The rise of the mass media and professional science make the late-nineteenth century an important formative period in the history of popular science. In this lively and provocative book, Peter Broks combines history with media studies and reverses the dominant view of popularization - looking for science in what was popular rather than popularity in what was science. What was most popular were the new-style, mass-circulation magazines. Exploring this rich source of untapped material, the book uncovers the scientist as hero and villain; science for and against religion; animal biographies and a new empathy with nature; technology as evolutionary progress; utopian visions and degenerationist fears; Victorian hopes and Edwardian disillusion. Arguing that the magazines were a cultural space encompassing the scientific and the popular, Peter Broks addresses current concerns over the public understanding of science and calls for a science that is both popular and democratic.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312160194

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9780312160197

On Ego

By: Mick Gordon

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On Ego

By: Mick Gordon

Inspired by 'Into the Silent Land' by Paul Broks How does the brain create a sense of self? A poetic journey into the science of the mind. A philosopher watches as his wife's brain tumour changes her personality. Ego theory and Bundle theory collide in a struggle to define identity. A startling exposé of the illusion of self.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783193611

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