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Books and Arts
Nature 444, 819 (14 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444819a; Published online 13 December 2006
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Jon Turney1
"There is no serious or stringent idea available of what makes a book a worthy example of popularization," grumbled the British literary critic Martin Green when he tried to make sense of the science books he found in the early 1960s. Forty years later, it is still true.
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