This A-Z reference provides detailed descriptions and definitions of key CIA terms, players, equipment, operations and parallel organizations. It also discusses perceptions of the agency in popular culture, including its portrayal in film, television and fiction.
Popular Science - June 2010Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, including the ASME awards for its journalistic excellence in both 2003 (for General Excellence) and 2004 (for Best Magazine Section). PopSci has been translated into over 30 languages and goes out to at least 45 countries.
John Ashbery: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)John Ashbery, author of over 20 books of poetry, has won numerous prizes and fellowships. Among the poems considered in this volume are "Soonest Mended" and the ever popular "Syringa."
The author, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University and the author of three books has observed Chinese popular culture for 30 years. His book may seem too long for a work that focuses only on the ten years in China since the 1989 Tiananmen mass protest movement, but it has a swift and lively pace. Barm?'s thesisAthat popular culture has developed ways for people to express dissatisfaction without attacking the governmentAis substantiated through his analyses of music, comic books, television shows, ad jingles, screen savers, and T-shirts.
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