| Description |
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Inventions and dreams -- Experimenting with illusion -- Elementary education, basic economics -- Dramatizing science -- Taking the audience's pulse -- Saving planet earth : fictions and facts -- Adjusting the lens : documentaries -- Monsters and diamonds : the price of exclusive access -- In splendid isolation : the public's television -- Defining what's new(s) about science -- Entrepreneurial popularization -- Warning : children in the audience -- Rarae aves : television's female scientists -- The Smithsonian's world : exclusivity and power -- All science, all the time. |
| Subject |
Science television programs -- History.
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Science television programs. |
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History. |
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Television in science education -- History.
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Television in science education. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| ISBN |
0226921999 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0226922014 (e-book) |
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9780226921990 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780226922010 (e-book) |
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