Are extraterrestrials providing the military with alien technology in exchange for carte blanche abduction rights? Are crop circles the pranks of drunken Englishmen or just alien graffiti? Who, really, are Men in Black, and why are they making movies? UFO culture has penetrated America with a vengeance and UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Mythology examines these questions and more.
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The five-volume reference work gathers more than 10,000 entries, including in-depth essays by internationally known experts, and short keynotes explaining essential terms and phrases. In addition, expert editors contribute detailed introductory chapters to each of 43 topic fields ranging from the fundamentals of neuroscience to fascinating developments in the new, inter-disciplinary fields of Computational Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy. Some 1,000 multi-color illustrations enhance and expand the writings.
The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia Greenwood Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0313304483 | 368 pages | PDF
This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings. Included are more than 250 alphabetically arranged entries on Pound's acquaintances, publications, and interests. The entries are written by roughly 100 expert contributors and cite works for further reading. In addition, the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.
This Rabia Pocket Dictionary is the latest one in the market. Though there is no dearth of dictionaries in the market yet there is always room at the top. Keeping it in view, this dictionary is up-to-date and reliable. For translation, it covers the everyday vocabulary of all kinds of students as well as the vocabulary of their extraordinarily varied contemporary environment. This Dictionary is also a general work for ordinary reader as well. It contains translation of words in all the main subjects he is likely to meet in conversation, in books, in broadcasts and telecasts, and in motion pictures. All the new words have been included which have arisen lately. The dictionary gives particular attention to new words and phrases which we come across in our daily life and new meanings that have come into use as a result of present progress. An important feature of this dictionary is the large number of words which has been included. All these words are more necessary today then ever before, since less reading is done by many of the literate than in former times when leisure occupations were fewer and less varied.
