| Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science Contributor(s): Baake, Ken (Author), Bernhardt, Stephen A. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791457443 ISBN-13: 9780791457443 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Technical Writing - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| LCCN: 2002030479 |
| Series: Suny Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communicati |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.38" W x 8.92" (0.74 lbs) 255 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science. |
