- Creative ability, Gifted children, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Popular culture
An engaging study of the nerd in American popular culture and throughout history discussed in such contexts as the rise of online gaming, the science fiction club, ethnicity, Asperger's syndrome, autism, and high school and college debating.
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Classical in form, cool, warm and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Benjamin Nugent
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743288019
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