Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. — 245 p.
Introduction: the problem with “rules” and why words will not sit still.
A technical writer at the think tank.
Metaphor: constituting or decorating theory in science.
Metaphors and mathematics: a shared tradition of constituting knowledge in science.
Science writers looking for their audience.
“Complexity”: an etymology leading to a discussion of whether it is a metaphor or something else.
Managing metaphor harmonics and other challenges of making knowledge in science.