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Author Sica, Alan, 1949-

Title Book matters : the changing nature of literacy / Alan Sica
Published New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2016]

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Contents Chapter Introduction: Distractions from the Printed Word -- part Part One. The Art of Reading and Reviewing -- chapter 1 Speaking One's Mind -- chapter 2 For the (Printed) Book -- chapter 3 Expressing Oneself -- part Part Two. Past Masters Reconsidifered -- chapter 4 Origin of the Public Sphere: Addison and Steele -- chapter 5 The Masses Meet Social Science: Everyman and The Modifern Library -- chapter 6 Noble Muckraking: David Graham Phillips -- chapter 7 Integrated Scholarship: Booker T. Washington, / Robert E. Park -- chapter 8 The Textbook that Codified a School: Robert Park and / Ernest Burgess -- chapter 9 The Maddening University: Upton Sinclair and / Ben Ginsberg -- chapter 10 The Journalist as Social Scientist: Walter Lippmann -- chapter 11 Facing the Irrational Fearlessly: Vilfredo Pareto -- chapter 12 The Necessary Big Picture: Lewis Mumford -- chapter 13 Unsurpassable Greatness: Max Weber -- chapter 14 Founding Feminism for Intellectuals / Simone de Beauvoir -- chapter 15 Micro Meets Macro: Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills -- chapter 16 Sociological Psychiatry: Harry Stack Sullivan -- chapter 17 Postwar America Defined Again: Max Lerner -- chapter 18 When Theory Tipped the Scales: Talcott Parsons and Associates -- chapter 19 2Living Theory3?: A Pedagogical Debate -- chapter 20 Virtuoso Reviewing Today: Andrew Abbott
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Books and reading -- History
Intellectual life -- History.
Learning and scholarship -- History.
Scholarly publishing -- History
Criticism -- History
Social sciences -- History.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Books and reading
Criticism
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship
Scholarly publishing
Social sciences
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016047721
ISBN 9781412864473
141286447X
9781315082080
131508208X