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Inventing the Egghead : The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture /

Throughout the twentieth century, popular songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels alternated between representing intelligence as empowering and as threatening. In this book, the author cracks open this paradox by examining representations of intelligence to reveal brainpower's sta...

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Autor principal: Lecklider, Aaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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