Describes and assesses the activities of the National Security Agency, the nation's most secret government agency--established in secrecy, many times larger than the CIA, and in control of a huge budget and a vast technology.

作者：（美国）约书亚·瑞夫纳 （Joshua Rovner） 美国南方卫理公会大学政治学副教授，兼任约翰·古德温·托尔政治学研究中心主任，专注国际政治、国家安全等方面的研究。曾任美国海军战争学院战略与政策学副教授，还曾任教于哥伦比亚大学和威廉姆斯学院。

The NSA is the largest, most secretive and most powerful intelligence agency in the world. It dwarfs the CIA in budgets, manpower and influence. Using internal documents and interviews with NSA officials, this text offers details about the workings of the agency. It exposes the role the NSA played in many Soviet bloc Cold War conflicts and discusses its undercover involvement i...(展开全部)

How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the colours and patterns of an eggshell created, and why do they vary? And which end of an egg is laid first – the blunt end or the pointy end? These are just some of the questions The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outsi...(展开全部)

How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the colours and patterns of an eggshell created, and why do they vary? And which end of an egg is laid first – the blunt end or the pointy end? These are just some of the questions The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outsi...(展开全部)

Running the World is an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the "most powerful committee in the history of the world"-the men and women closest to the president of the United States who make America's decisions affecting war and peace, who are the architects of everything from covert operations to market bailouts to combating terrorism. This is the National Security Council...(展开全部)

戴维•罗特科普夫，卡内基国际和平基金会访问学者，加滕•罗特科普夫国际咨询公司（总部驻华盛顿特区与纽约）总裁。他以评论员的身份出现在各大广播节目、有线电视节目及无线电台节目中，为全球许多份重要报刊撰写了100多篇有关国际安全和国际经济的社论。他曾担任信桥公司的主席兼执行总裁及基辛格联合咨询公司的总经理，并在克林顿政府时期出任负责国际贸易的商务部副部长帮办。

Running the World is an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the "most powerful committee in the history of the world"-the men and women closest to the president of the United States who make America's decisions affecting war and peace, who are the architects of everything from covert operations to market bailouts to combating terrorism. This is the National Security Council...(展开全部)

戴维•罗特科普夫，卡内基国际和平基金会访问学者，加滕•罗特科普夫国际咨询公司（总部驻华盛顿特区与纽约）总裁。他以评论员的身份出现在各大广播节目、有线电视节目及无线电台节目中，为全球许多份重要报刊撰写了100多篇有关国际安全和国际经济的社论。他曾担任信桥公司的主席兼执行总裁及基辛格联合咨询公司的总经理，并在克林顿政府时期出任负责国际贸易的商务部副部长帮办。

Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic tradition...(展开全部)