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Understanding Scientific Prose
Edited by Jack Selzer


"Fascinating . . . I learned a great deal from these approaches, and had enormous fun."—Stephen Jay Gould

Examining science as a rhetorical enterprise, this book takes one scientific essay and probes it from many angles. Written by prominent evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin in 1979, the article is both serious science and vivid prose. Applying methods inspired by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand de Saussure, and others, the contributors employ a range of interpretive strategies. Stephen Jay Gould adds his own comments, and the full text of the essay "The Spandrels of San Marco" is reproduced as an appendix.

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cover of Selzer's book is dark blue with four nice scientific drawings inset.

Back in print
Available now   LC: 93-021870 QH
406 pp. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 line
ISBN 0-299-13904-2 Paper $29.95 s


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