The Dictionary of Media and Communications is an invaluable resource that is readable, comprehensive, and authoritative. It is more than a reference book. Because of the centrality of media and communications in modern life, it is, in effect, an introduction to contemporary culture and to the wide-ranging theories and concepts that scholars have developed to better understand the world—some would say the “brave new world”—in which we now live.
This dictionary will be a useful quick-identification source suitable for a school or small public library. Larger, more expensive titles, such as Roy Porter's Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (1994), John Daintith's Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists (1994), and Gale's Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists (4v., 1995), are available for further information.
Environmental Engineering Dictionary and Directory
The Environmental Engineering Dictionary and Directory gives you a complete list of brand terms, brand names, and trademarks - right at your fingertips.
The New York School started in the 1950s and was one of the most influential movements of American poetry—from the last half of the 20th century to today. In more than 400 entries, Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets is an encyclopedic A-to-Z reference to writers of the New York School, including John Ashbery, who is often considered America’s greatest living poet. This new book is a compelling examination of this significant movement in literary history and its development through the years.
This set offers more than 700 entries addressing various cultural, political, economic, and social events, trends, movements, and developments that shaped American history from precolonial times through present day. Articles have been written by a team of authors and editors, are arranged alphabetically, and range from a couple paragraphs to several pages. Black-and-white illustrations, reproductions, archival photographs, maps, sidebars, and inserts accompany the text. Cross-referenced subjects appear in bold print.
