The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America 9780226821498, 9780226821481, 0226821498

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Reading

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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
9780226821498, 9780226821481, 0226821498

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Readi

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For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Reading

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Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greetin

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Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but thr

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Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the

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Once in a while a book comes along that can reshape the thinking of the world. One person at a time. "Reading the M

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From gruesome self-experimentation to exhausting theoretical calculations, stories abound of scientists willfully surren

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The individual insights employed in this reading of the Purgatorio are those of a twentieth-century mind, as are the aut

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Psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, reveals how to join forces with your unconscious to make better decisions, find mo

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The Republic of Color delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and exam

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