Book reviews

Economics of Digital Information – Collection, Storage and Delivery, Edited by Sul H Lee Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press 1997, 120pp $36.00, ISBN: 0 7890 0369 4     

Popular Culture and Advertising

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MADISON AVENUE? ADVERTISING IN THE '90s by Martin Mayer (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991—$22.95, ISBN 0-316- 55154-6, 269 pp.)

THE CODES OF ADVERTISING: FETISHISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MEANING IN THE CONSUMER SOCIETY by Sut Jhally (New York: Routledge, 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-415-90353-X, 225 pp.)

ROCK AROUND THE BLOCK: A HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION by Timothy W. Ryback (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990—$21.95, ISBN 0-19-505633-7, 272 pp.)

MUSIC AT THE MARGINS: POPULAR MUSIC AND GLOBAL CULTURAL DIVERSITY by Deanna Campbell Robinson, Elizabeth B. Buck, and Marlene Cuthbert (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991—$39.95/19.95, ISBN 0-8039- 3192-1 hard, 0-8039-3193-X paper, 312 pp.)

THE MANY LIVES OF THE BATMAN: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO A SUPERHERO AND HIS MEDIA edited by Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio (New York: Routledge, 1991—$39.95/13.95, ISBN 0-415-90346-7 hard, 0-415-90347-5 paper, 213 pp.)

BROADCAST ADVERTISING: A COMPREHENSIVE WORKING TEXTBOOK by Sherilyn K. Zeigler and Herbert H. Howard (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991—$34.95, ISBN 0-8138-0072-2, 358 pp.)

FUNDAMENTALS OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH by Alan Fletcher and Thomas Bowers (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1991—price not given, ISBN 0-534-14778-X, 364 pp.)

THIS BUSINESS OF MUSIC by Sidney Shemel and M. William Krasilovsky (New York: Billboard/Watson-Guptill, 1991—$27.50, ISBN 0-8230-7706-3, 688 pp.)     

Popular culture

SEX, ART, AND AMERICAN CULTURES by Camille Paglia (New York: Vintage, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–679–74101 ‐1,335 pp.)

SHELF LIFE: MODERN PACKAGE DESIGN, 1920–1945 by Jerry Jankowski (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992— $14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8118–0075‐X, 119 pp.)

STAR WARS: FROM CONCEPT TO SCREEN TO COLLECTIBLE by Stephen J. Sansweet (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992—$29.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8118–0101–2 hard, 0–8118–0092–2 soft, 131 pp.)

LAURIE ANDERSON by John Howell (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992—$11.95, paper, ISBN 1–56025–029–1,160 pp.)

JANE & MICHAEL STERN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POP CULTURE (New York: HarperCollins, 1992—$35.00, ISBN 0–06–096972–5, 593 pp.)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FADS by Frank Hoffman and Bill Bailey (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1992—$19.95 paper, ISBN 0‐ 918393–72–8, 377 pp.)

HARD AT PLAY: LEISURE IN AMERICA, 1840–1940 edited by Kathryn Grover (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992— $50.00/16.95, ISBN, 0–87023–792–6 hard, 0–87023–793–4, soft, 262 pp.)

CULTURE WARS: THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE AMERICA by James Davison Hunter (New York: Basic Books, 1992— $13.00, paper, ISBN 0–465‐ 01534–4, 416 pp.)

FREE SPEECH FOR ME—BUT NOT FOR THEE: HOW THE AMERICAN LEFT AND RIGHT RELENTLESSLY CENSOR EACH OTHER by NatHentoff (New York: HarperCollins, 1992— $25.00, ISBN 0–06–019006‐X, 405 pp.),

HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE WAR ON TRADITIONAL VALUES by Michael Medved (New York: Harper Collins, 1992—$20.00, ISBN 0–06–016882‐X, 386 pp.)

CARNIVAL CULTURE: THE TRASHING OF TASTE IN AMERICA by James B. Twitched (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–231–07830–7, 305 pp.)

THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE: MEDIA AND THE URBAN ARTS by Diana Crane (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992— $14.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–3693–1, 198 pp.),

THE CREATION OF JAZZ: MUSIC, RACE, AND CULTURE IN URBAN AMERICA by Burton W. Peretti (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992—$29.95, ISBN 0–252–01708–0, 277 pp.)     

Communications Industries

WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS by Richard Weiner (New York: Prentice Hall Trade Books, 1990—$29.95, ISBN 0-13-969759-4, 533 pp.)

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ECONOMICS: A GUIDE FOR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS by Harold L. Vogel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990—$35.00, ISBN 0-521-38500-8, 432 pp.)

THE VERONIS, SUHLER & ASSOCIATES COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY FORECAST: INDUSTRY SPENDING PREVIEW 1990-1994 (Veronis & Suhler, 350 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022—$500, paper no ISBN given, 247 pp.)     

Motion Pictures (Our 19th Annual Review)

THE GLOBAL MEDIA: THE NEW MISSIONARIES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM by Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney (London and Herndon, VA: Cassell, 1997—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–304–33434–0, 262 pp., notes, index)

BROADCASTING LAW AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS by Rachael Craufurd Smith (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997—£45.00, ISBN 0–19–826221–3,274 pp., notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ROADS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY edited by Herbert Kubicek, William H. Dutton, and Robin Williams (New York: St. Martin's Press/Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1997—$49.95, ISBN 0–312–16569–2 (St. Martin's); 3–593–35739–9 (Campus Verlag), 372 pp., notes, references, tables, charts, abbreviations, index)

ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE by David Crystal (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997—$19.95, ISBN 0–521–59247‐X, 150 pp., maps, charts, bibliography, index)     

Foreign/International Communication

NEWSPAPER POWER: THE NEW NATIONAL PRESS IN BRITAIN by Jeremy Tunstall (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996—£13.99, paper, ISBN 0–19–871133–6, 441 pp.)

UNGLUED EMPIRE: THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE WITH COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES by Gladys D. Ganley (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996—$54.95/24.95, ISBN 1–56750–197–4 hard, 1–56750–198–2, soft, 234 pp.)

COMMUNICATION TRADITIONS IN 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALIA by Graeme Osborne and Glen Lewis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995—$22.00, paper, ISBN 0–19–553511–1,195 pp.)

MEDIA USE AS SOCIAL ACTION: A EUROPEAN APPROACH TO AUDIENCE STUDIES edited by Karsten Renckstorf, et al. (London: John Libbey, 1996—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–86196–485–3, ISSN 0956–9057, 200 pp.)

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS edited by Hugh M. Culbertson and Ni Chen (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996— $79.95/36.00, ISBN 0–8058–1684–4 hard, 0–8058–1685–2 soft, 454 pp.)

THE KNOWLEDGE‐CREATING COMPANY: HOW JAPANESE COMPANIES CREATE THE DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995—$25.00, ISBN 0–19–509269–4, 284 pp.)

JAHRESBIBLIORAPHIE MASSENKOMMUNICATION 1994 by Wilbert Ubbens (Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, 1996—price not given, paper, ISBN 3–89166–189–4, 433 pp.)     

Presidential Communication

PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCES: A CRITICAL APPROACH by Carolyn Smith (New York: Praeger, 1990—$45.00/16.95, ISBN 0-275-93574-4 hard, 0-275-93575-2 paper, 280 pp.)

THE SIX O'CLOCK PRESIDENCY: A THEORY OF PRESIDENTIAL PRESS RELATIONS IN THE AGE OF TELEVISION by Fredrik T. Smoller (New York: Praeger, 1990—$39.95, ISBN 0-275-93598-1, 176 pp.)

THE I'RESS & THE CARTER PRESIDENCY by Mark J. Rozell (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989—$32.50, ISBN 0-8133-0765-7, 235 pp.)

POLLING AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE edited by Paul J. Lavrakas and Jack K. Holley (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991—$36.00/17.95, ISBN 0-8039-4073-4 hard, 0-8039-4074-2 paper, 244 pp.)

LISTENING FOR A PRESIDENT: A CITIZEN'S CAMPAIGN METHODOLOGY by Ruth M. Gonchar Brennan and Dan F. Hahn (New York: Praeger, 1990—$42.95, ISBN 0-275-93245-1, 217 pp.)     

Electronic Media

THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMMING, ADVERTISING, TECHNOLOGY AND GROWTH by Marc Doyle (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1992‐$39.95, ISBN 0–8442–3461–3, 187 pp.)

TELE‐ADVISING: THERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE IN AMERICAN TELEVISION by Mimi White (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992‐$29.95/10.95, ISBN 0–8078–2055–5 hard, 0–8078–4390–3, 218 pp.)

THE FACTS ON FILE DICTIONARY OF FILM AND BROADCASTTERMS by Edmund F. Penney (New York: Facts on File, 1991‐$29.95/14.95, ISBN 0–8160–1923–1 hard, 0–8160–2782‐X paper, 251 pp.)

SOCIETY'S IMPACT ON TELEVISION: HOW THE VIEWING PUBLIC SHAPES TELEVISION PROGRAMMING by Gary W. Selnow and Richard R. Gilbert (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993‐$49.95, ISBN 0–275–94390–9, 240 pp.)

TELELITERACY: TAKING TELEVISION SERIOUSLY by David Bianculli (New York: Continuum, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–8264–0535–5, 315 pp.).

THE RADIO STATION by Michael Keith, with Joseph M. Krause (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1993—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–240–80159–8, 315 pp.)

ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROGRAMMING: STRATEGIES AND DECISION MAKING by Raymond L. Carroll and Donald M. Davis (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–07–010298–8, 532 pp.)

WHY VIEWERS WATCH: A REAPPRAISAL OF TELEVISION EFFECTS by Jib Fowles (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992‐$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–4077–7, 280 pp.)

CRITICAL THINKING IN AN IMAGE WORLD: ALFRED KORXYBSKI'S THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES EXTENDED TO CRITICAL TELEVISION EVALUATION by Geraldine E. Forsberg (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993–18.50, paper, ISBN 0–8191–8971–5, 208 pp.)

TUNED IN: TELEVISION IN AMERICAN LIFE by Lloyd DeGrane (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991‐$11.95, paper, ISBN 0–252–06222–1, about 80 pp.)

BROADCASTING/CABLE AND BEYOND: AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ELECTRONIC MEDIA by Joseph Dominick, Barry Sherman, and Gary Copeland (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–07–017819–4, 493 pp.)

CABLE TELEVISION LAW 1993: LEARNING TO LIVE WITH THE 1992 CABLE ACT (Practicing Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019‐$80.00, paper, two vols, no ISBN given, 1,040 pp.)

BASIC LIGHTING WORKTEXT FOR FILM & VIDEO by Richard K. Ferncase (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–240–80085–0, 109 pp.)

SINGLE‐CAMERA VIDEO PRODUCTION by Robert B. Musburger (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1993‐$22.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80034–6, 195 pp.)

THE AGE OF MISSING INFORMATION by Bill McKibben (New York: Random House, 1992‐$20.00, no ISBN available, 261 pp.)

POLITICAL BROADCAST CATECHISM (National Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N St. NW, Washington, DC 20036–1992, price not given, ISBN 0–89324–151–2, 103 pp.)

DUNCAN'S RADIO MARKET GUIDE 1993 EDITION (Duncan's American Radio, PO Box 90284, Indianapolis, IN 46290‐$265, paper, about 350 pp.)

BROADCAST AND CABLE SELLING by Charles Warner and Joseph Buchman (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–534–19770–1, 447 pp.)

DUNCAN'S RADIO COMMENTS... by James H. Duncan, Jr. (Duncan's American Radio, Box 90284, Indianapolis, IN 46290‐$50.00

PRICING & RATE FORECASTING USING BROADCAST YIELD MANAGEMENT by Shane Fox (Washington, DC: National Association of Broadcasters, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–89324–150–4, 138 pp.)     

Telecommunications technology

USABILITY INSPECTION METHODS edited by Jakob Nielson and Robert L. Mack (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994 ‐$39.95, ISBN 0–471–01877–5, 413 pp.)

CLIENT/SERVER COMPUTING: ARCHITECTURE, APPLICATIONS, AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT by Bruce Elbert and Babby Martyna (Boston: Artech House, 1994‐price not given, ISBN 0 89006–691–4, 352 pp.)

AN INTRODUCTION TO MICROWAVE TUBES (An MS‐DOS compatible 3.5 in. disk [Version 1.0, April 1994], available without charge from Litton Electron Devices 415–591–8411)

CELLULAR RADIO PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING by Asha Mehrotra (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1994 — Price not given, ISBN 0–89006–748–1, 536 pp.)

SMART CARDS by Jose Luis Zoreda and Jose Manuel Oton (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1994 — Price not given, ISBN 0–89006–687–6, 244 pp.)

PROTOCOL TEST SYSTEMS V edited by G. v. Bochmann, R. Dssouli and A. Das (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and New York: Elsevier, 1993 —Price not given, ISBN 0–444–89980–4, 332 pp.)

INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT III edited by Heinz‐gerd Hegering and Yechiam Yemini (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and New York: Elsevier, 1993—Price not given, ISBN 0–444–89982–0, 765 pp.)

COMPUTER NETWORKS, ARCHITECTURE AND APPLICATIONS edited by S.V. Raghavan, G.v. Bochmann and G. Pujolle (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and New York: Elsevier, 1993—Price not given, ISBN 0–444–89968–5, 298 pp.)     

Developing communication systems

SOAP OPERAS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: TOWARD A METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERTAINMENT‐EDUCATION TELEVISION by Heidi Noel Nariman (New York: Praeger, 1993—$47.95, ISBN 0–275–94389–5, 184 pp.)

POWER AND TELEVISION IN LATIN AMERICA: THE DOMINICAN CASE by Antonio V. Menendez Alarcon (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992—$47.95, ISBN 0–275–94275–9, 208 pp.)

BROADCASTING IN THE ARAB WORLD: A SURVEY OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST edited by Douglas A. Boyd (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993— $37.95, ISBN 0–8138–0468‐X, 390 pp.)

CREATIVE COMPROMISE: THE MacBRIDE COMMISSION: A FIRSTHAND REPORT AND REFLECTION ON THE WORKINGS OF UNESCO'S INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS by William G. Harley (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993—$39.50, ISBN 0–8191–8906–5,359 pp.)

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE “THIRD WORLD” by Geoffrey Reeves (New York: Routledge, 1993—$17.95, paper, ISBN 0–415–04762–5, 277 pp.)

TELEVISION, POLITICS, AND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Thomas E. Skidmore (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993—$25.00, ISBN 0–943875–44–7, 188 pp.)

NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE PRIVATIZATION STUDY: EXPERIENCE OF JAPAN AND LESSONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES‐‐World Bank Discussion Papers No. 179 by Yoshiro Takano (World Bank, 1818 H. St NW, Washington, DC 20433—$9.95, paper, ISBN 0–8213–2224–9, 130 pp.)     

History

MARCONI by Giancarlo Masini (Marsilio Publishers, 853 Broadway, New York 10003—$26.00, ISBN 1–56886–028–5, 370 pp.)

PROPAGANDA FOR WAR: HOW THE UNITED STATES WAS CONDITIONED TO FIGHT THE GREAT WAR OF 1914–1918 by Stewart Halsey Ross (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 1996—$42.50, ISBN 0–7864–0111–7, 341 pp.)

RADIO PRIEST: CHARLES COUGHLIN, THE FATHER OF HATE RADIO by Donald Warren (New York: Free Press, 1996—$27.50, ISBN 0–684–82403–5, 376 pp.)

MEDIA MEMOIR: A TWENTIETH‐CENTURY MEMOIR by Erik Barnouw (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 1996—price not given, ISBN 0–8223–1728–1, 264 pp.)     

Recent Film and Photography Production Guides

BEYOND FTS 2000: A PROGRAM FOR CHANGE by Bernard J. Bennington (Washington, DC: National Research Council, 1989—price not given, one volume main report, plus two appendices issued separately, ISBN not given, 219 pp. + 94 pp.+ 50 pp.)

GROWING VULNERABILITY OF THE PUBLIC SWITCHED NETWORKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS (Washington, DC: National Research Council, 1989 price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 119 pp.)

PERSPECTIVES ON THE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY: THE CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE by James H. Alleman and Richard D. Emmerson (New York: Harper &; Row/Ballinger, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-88730-376-5, 324 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICA TIONS SYSTEMS AND SER VICES DIRECTORY edited by John Krol and Julie Winklepleck (Gale Research, Book Tower, Detroit, Ml 48226—price not given, ISBN 0-8103-2241-2,1,238 pp.)

NEWTON'S TELECOM DICTIONARY: THE OFFICIAL GLOSSARY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS A CRONY MS, TERMS AND JARGON by Harry Newton (New York: Telecom Library, 1989—price not given, paper, no ISBN given, 650 pp.)

DATA AND COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS: TERMS, DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS by Gilbert Held (New York: John Wiley, 1989 $39.95, ISBN 0-4710-92066-5, 254 pp.)

E-MAIL by Stephen A. Caswell (Boston: Artech House, 1988—$48.00, ISBN 0-89006-303-6,250 pp.) deals with (as the cover says in its design)

UNDERSTANDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Ronald R. Thomas (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1989—$24.95/17.95, ISBN 0-8306-9229-0 hard and 0-8306-3229-b soft, 243 pp.)

CONSUMER INFORMATION IN TELEPHONE PRICING by Robert C. Rowe (December 1989,70 pp.)

THE INTEREXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: SHOULD REGULATION DEPEND ON THE A BSENCE OF COMPETITION? by Roger D. Colton (December 1989, 50 pp.)

IDENTIFYING CONSUMER CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO DETERMINING THE EXISTENCE OF WORKABLE COMPETITION IN THE INTEREXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY by Roger D. Colton (December 1989,96 pp.)

FUNDAMENTALS AND DISCRETION: A FIXING ALLOCATOR SEPARATIONS MODEL by Jay L. Silberberg (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Information Resources Policy, November 1989—price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 187 pp.)

FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEFINITION OF THE LOCAL CALLING AREA—AN ASSESSMENT OF TRENDS by Raymond Lawton and John Borrows (Columbus, OH: National Regulatory Research Institute, February 1990 price not given, paper, no ISBN given, 121 pp.)

SECRETS OF INSTALLING A TELEPHONE SYSTEM: HOW TO AVOID THE PITFALLS AND LESSEN THE PAIN by Neil Sachnoff (New York: Telecom Library, 1989 $22.95, paper, no ISBN given, 149 pp.)

GMP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION, MAPPING AND POSITIONING NEWSLETTER (International Resource Development Inc., PO Box 1716, New Canaan, CT 06840 $325 per year, monthly, ISSN 1045-6732)

VOICE PROCESSING MAGAZINE (PO Box 42382, Houston, TX 77242—$24.00, periodicity not indicated, ISSN 1042-0460)

NRRI QUARTERLY BULLETIN(Columbus: National Regulatory Research Institute—$120, quarterly, ISSN 8756-632X)

NEWBOOKS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS FROMARTECH HOUSE (ArtechHouse, 685 Canton St., Norwood, MA 02062 free on request)

CATALOG OF BOOKS 1990 (Telecom Library, 12 West 21st St., New York 10010 free on request).     

Popular culture—Part 1 ‐ Gary Edgerton

RHETORIC IN POPULAR CULTURE by Barry Brummett (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994‐$18.66, paper, ISBN 0–312–06539–6, 243 pp.)

GAMES IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: A 50‐NATION STUDY OF ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION by Anne Cooper‐Chen (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1994‐$36.95/ 15.95, ISBN 0–87972–598–2 hard, 0–87972–599–0 soft, 319 pp.)

APOCALYPSE POSTPONED by Umberto Eco and edited by Robert Lumley (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994‐$29.95, ISBN 0–253–31851–3, 227 pp.)

I READ THE NEWS TODAY: THE SOCIAL DRAMA OF JOHN LENNON'S DEATH by Fred Fogo (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994‐$52.50/ 16.95, ISBN 0–8476–7916–0 hard, 0–8226–3034–6 soft, 185 pp.)

AMERICA'S FAVORITE RADIO STATION: WKRP IN CINCINNATI by Michael B. Kassel (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1993‐$40.95/15.95, ISBN 0–87972–584–2 hard, 0–87972–585–0 soft, 206 pp.)

TAKE TWO: ADAPTING THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL TO FILM by Barbara Tepa Lupack (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1994‐$45.95/18.95, ISBN 0–87972–641–5 hard, 0–87972–642–3 soft, 198 pp.)

UNDERSTANDING COMICS: THE INVISIBLE ART by Scott McCloud (New York: Harper Perennial, 1994‐$20.00, paper, ISBN 0–06–097625‐X, 216 pp.)

VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PRESS: POLICING THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN U.S. HISTORY by John Nerone (New York: Oxford, 1994‐$60.00/ 16.95, ISBN 0–19–507166–2 hard, 0–19–508698–8 soft, 320 pp.)

READING FOOTBALL: HOW THE POPULAR PRESS CREATED AN AMERICAN SPECTACLE by Michael Oriard (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 ‐ $29.95, ISBN 0–8078–2083–0, 320 pp.)

LAND OF IDOLS: POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY IN AMERICA by Michael Parenti (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994—$22.95/ 18.66, ISBN 0–312–09497–3 hard, 0–312–09841–3 soft, 208 pp.)

AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE by John Storey (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993‐$30.00/ 14.95, ISBN 0–8203–1590–7 hard, 0–8203–1592–5 soft, 238 pp.)     

Australian Communication

TELEVISION TODAY AND TOMORROW: IT WON'T BE WHAT YOU THINK by Gene F. Jankowski and David C. Fuchs (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995—$25.00, ISBN 0–19–507487–4, 237 pp.)

THE REMAKING OF RADIO by Vincent M. Ditingto (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1995—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80174–1, 142 pp.)

SUPER‐HIGH‐DEFINITION IMAGES: BEYOND HDTV by Sadayasu Ono, et al. (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1995—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–674–4, 154 pp.)

AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL AUDIO by John Watkinson (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1994—$34.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–51378–9, 392 pp.)

DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA CROSS‐INDUSTRY GUIDE edited by Philip V.W. Dodds (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1995— $49.95, ISBN 0–240–80205–5, 321 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT: BROADCAST/CABLE AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES by Barry L. Sherman (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1995—price not given, ISBN 0–07–056698–4, 431 pp.)

FILM INTO VIDEO: A GUIDE TO MERGING THE TECHNOLOGIES by Richard H. Kallenberger and George D. Cvjetnicanin (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1994—$44.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80215–2, 369 pp.)

THE CABLE NETWORKS HANDBOOK edited by Robert G. Picard (Carpelan Publishing, PO Box 2726, Riverside, CA 92516–2726—$39.95, no ISBN given)

AMERICA'S WATCHING: PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD TELEVISION 1995 (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters, 1995—free on request, paper, no ISBN given, 40 pp.)

RADIO: THE FORGOTTEN MEDIUM edited by Edward C. Pease, and Everette E. Dennis (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1995—$19.95, paper, ISBN 1–56000–798–2, 213 pp.)     

F. Memoirs and Biography

ON TELEVISION by Pierre Bourdieu, translated from the 1996 French original by Priscilla Ferguson (New York: The New Press, 1998—$18.95, paper, ISBN 1–56584–407–6, 104 pp., appendix, translator's note, bibliography, notes, index)

BUYER'S GUIDE TO FIFTY YEARS OF TV ON VIDEO by Sam Frank (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999—$22.95, paper, ISBN 1–57392–226–9, 1,498 pp., index)

THE TELEVISION STUDIES BOOK edited by Christine Geraghty and David Lusted (London: Arnold / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998—$59.95/18.95, ISBN 0–340–66232 hard, 0–340–66231‐X paper, 337 pp., index)

WHY WE WATCH: THE ATTRACTIONS OF VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT edited by Jeffrey H. Goldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$49.95/17.95, ISBN 0–19–511820–0 hard, 0–19–511821–9 paper, 270 pp., illustrations, references, subject and name indexes)

BROADCASTING IN AMERICA: A SURVEY OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA by S. W. Head, C. H. Sterling, L. B. Schofield, T. Spann, and M. A. McGregor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998 [8th ed.]—$52.00, paper, ISBN 0–395–87371–1, 337 pp., 280 photos &; graphics, bibliography, index, instructor's manual)

PRIME TIME LAW: FICTIONAL TELEVISION AS LEGAL NARRATIVE edited by Robert M. Jarvis and Paul R. Joseph (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–89089–805–7 hard, 0–89089–808–1 paper, 323 pp., notes, index)

MASTERPIECE THEATRE AND THE POLITICS OF QUALITY by Lawrence A. Jarvik (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999—$60.00, ISBN 0–8108–3204–6, 261 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TELEVISION VIOLENCE: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE edited by P.T. Kelly (Nova Science Publishers, 6080 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 207, Commack, NY 11725—price not given, ISBN 1–56072–299–1, 193 pp., index)

UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND TELEVISION by Paul Monaco (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–275–96057–9, 152 pp., bibliography, index)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TELEVISION NEWS edited by Michael D. Murray (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999—price not given, ISBN 1–57356–108–8, 315 pp., photos, further reading, index)

STUDENT TELEVISION IN AMERICA: CHANNELS OF CHANGE by Tony Silvia and Nancy F. Kaplan (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1998— $29.95, paper, ISBN 0–8138–2160–6, 243 pp., illustrations, selected bibliography, appendixes, index)

LIVING COLOR: RACE AND TELEVISION IN THE UNITED STATES edited by Sasha Torres (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998—$49.95/17.95, ISBN 0–8223–2178–5 hard, 0–8223–2195–5 paper, illustrations, selected bibliography, index)     

Professional Materials

Abstract

LIBRARY USER EDUCATION: POWERFUL LEARNING, POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS. Dewey, Barbara I., ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001, 352 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0810838974. Reviewed by Bill Orme.

INFORMATION LITERACY INSTRUCTION: THEORY AND PRACTICE. Grassian, Esther S. and Joan R. Kaplowitz. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2001, 468 pp., $55.00, includes CD-ROM, ISBN 1555704069. Reviewed by Michelle Toth.

NEAL-SCHUMAN ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM HANDBOOK. Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2001, 225 pp. $75.00, ISBN 1555704077. Reviewed by Janeanne Rockwell-Kincanon.

INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICE APPLICATIONS. Lancaster, F. W. and Amy Warner. Medford, NJ: Published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology by Information Today, 2001, 214 pp., $39.50, ISBN 1573871036. Reviewed by Stephanie Walker.     

5. BOOKS AND LIBRARIES

THE HIGHWAYMEN: WARRIORS OF THE INFORMATION SUPER‐HIGHWAY by Ken Auletta (New York: Random House, 1997—$27.50, ISBN 0–679–45378–0, 346 pp., index)

THE BARRY DILLER STORY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AMERICA'S GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT MOGUL by George Mair (New York: John Wiley, 1997—$24.95, ISBN 0–471–13082–6, 348 pp., notes, photos, index)

MONOPOLY TELEVISION: MTV'S QUEST TO CONTROL THE MUSIC by Jack Banks (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996—$22.00, ISBN 0–8133–1820–3, 291 pp., notes, references, index)

BE SEEING YOU ...DECODING THE PRISONER by Chris Gregory (Luton, England: John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press, 1997—$24.00, paper, ISBN 1–86020–521–6, 228 pp., bibliography and filmography, index)

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHTS ON LILLEHAMMER: HOW THE WORLD VIEWED NORWAY DURING THE 1994 WINTER OLYMPICS edited by Roel Puijk (Luton, England: John Libbey Media/ University of Luton Press, 1997— $40.00, ISBN 1–86020–520–8, 285 pp., appendix)

BROADCAST/CABLE PROGRAMMING: STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES by Susan Tyler Eastman and Douglas A. Ferguson (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1997 [5th ed.]— $58.95, ISBN 0–534–50744–1, 471 pp., abbreviations and acronyms, glossary, annotated bibliography, bookmarks for the world wide web, index to program titles, general index)

TV DRAMA IN TRANSITION: FORMS, VALUES AND CULTURAL CHANGE by Robin Nelson (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997—$55.00, ISBN 0–312–17276–1, 277 pp., notes, references, index)

GLUED TO THE SET: THE 60 TELEVISION SHOWS AND EVENTS THAT MADE US WHO WE ARE TODAY by Steven D. Stark (New York: Free Press, 1997—$17.50, ISBN 0–684–82817–0, 340 pp., appendix, bibliography, index)

GEN X TV: THE BRADY BUNCH TO MELROSE PLACE by Rob Owen (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997—$24.95, ISBN 0–8156–0443–2, 240 pp., photos, bibliography, index)     

10. HISTORY

A. Reference works

AN HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LITERATURE OF CRYPTOLOGY by Joseph S. Galland (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Graduate School “Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities Number Ten,”; 1945; reprinted by AMS Press, 1970; reprinted again by Aegean Park Press [Laguna Hills, CA], 1980—$26.80, paper, ISBN 0–89412–252–5, 209 pp.)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRYPTOLOGY by David E. Newton (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC‐Clio, 1997—$65.00, ISBN 0–87436–772–7, 330 pp., photos, tables, bibliography, index)

SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE IN WORLD WAR II: A RESEARCH GUIDE compiled by Donal J. Sexton (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996—$69.50, ISBN 0–313–28304–4, 165 pp., bibliography, index)

DESCRIPTIVE DICTIONARY OF CRYPTOLOGIC TERMS by the U.S. Army Security Agency (Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1980, 166 pp., ISBN 0–89412–266–5, bibliography)

CODES, CIPHERS &; OTHER CRYPTIC AND CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATION: MAKING AND BREAKING SECRET MESSAGES FROM HIEROGLYPHS TO THE INTERNET by Fred B. Wrixton (New York: Black Dog &; Leventhal, 1998—$17.98, ISBN 1–57912–040–7, 704 pp., diagrams, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index)

B. Historical surveys

THE HISTORY OF CODES AND CIPHERS IN THE UNITED STATES: PRIOR TO WORLD WAR I edited by Wayne G. Barker (Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press “Cryptographic Series,”; 1978—$24.80, paper, ISBN 0–89412–026–3, 159 pp., notes, index)

THE MAN WHO BROKE PURPLE: THE LIFE OF COLONEL WILLIAM F. FRIEDMAN, WHO DECIPHERED THE JAPANESE CODE IN WORLD WAR II by Ronald Clark (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977, ISBN 0–316–14595–5, 271 pp., photos, index)

CRYPTOLOGY YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW edited by Cipher Deavours, et al. (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Artech House Communication and Electronic Defense Library,”; 1987, ISBN 0–89006–253–6, 519 pp., illustrations, notes)

CRYPTOLOGY: MACHINES, HISTORY &; METHODS edited by Cipher Deavours, et al. (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1989, ISBN 0–89006–399–0, 508 pp., illustrations, notes)

SELECTIONS FROM CRYPTOLOGIA: HISTORY, PEOPLE, AND TECHNOLOGY edited by Cipher A. Deavours, et al. (Norwood, MA: Attech House “Artech House Telecommunications Library,”; 1998—$83–00, ISBN 0–89006–862–3, 552 pp., illustrations, notes)

WAR SECRETS IN THE ETHER by Wilhelm F. Flicke, edited by Sheila Carlisle (Laguna Park, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1977, two vols; 1994 [rev. ed.]—$26.80, paper, ISBN 0–89412–233–9, 234 pp., index)

THE FRIEDMAN LEGACY: A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM AND ELIZEBETH FRIEDMAN. (Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologie History, “Sources in Cryptologie History, Number 3,”; 1992, 282 pp., photos, diagrams, notes, index)

THE CODEBREAKERS: THE STORY OF SECRET WRITING by David Kahn (New York: Macmillan, 1967; London: Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1974 [abridged ed.]; New York: Scribner's 1996 [2nd ed.]—$60.00, ISBN 0–684–83130–9, 1, 181 pp., photos, notes, index)

KAHN ON CODES: SECRETS OF THE NEW CRYPTOLOGY by David Kahn (New York: Macmillan, 1983, ISBN 0–02–560640–9, 343 pp., notes, index)

MASKED DISPATCHES: CRYPTOGRAMS AND CRYPTOLOGY IN AMERICAN HISTORY, 1775–1900 by Ralph E. Weber (Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History “United States Cryptologic History, Series 1, Pre‐World War I, Vol. 1,”; 1993, paper, OCLC 29961699, 235 pp., photos, diagrams, notes, bibliography)

THE SIGINT SECRETS: THE SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE WAR, 1900 TO TODAY: INCLUDING THE PERSECUTION OF GORDON WELCHMAN by Nigel West (New York: William Morrow, 1998, ISBN 0–688–07652–1, 347 pp., appendices, photos, notes, bibliography, index)

C. World War I

THE HISTORY OF CODES AND CIPHERS IN THE UNITED STATES: DURING WORLD WAR I edited by Wayne G. Barker (Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press “Cryptographic Series,”; 1979—$24.80, paper, ISBN 0–89412–031‐X, 263 pp., notes, index)

ROOM 40: BRITISH NAVAL INTELLIGENCE 1914–1918 by Patrick Beesly (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982, ISBN 0–15–178634–8, 338 pp., photos, notes, appendix, index)

THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM OF JANUARY 16, 1917 AND ITS CRYPTOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND by William F. Friedman and Charles J. Mendelsohn (Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press “Cryptographic Series,”; 1994— $12.80, paper, ISBN 0–89412–239–8, 58 pp., photo, notes, appendix, index)

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC BUREAUS IN THE WORLD WAR by Yves Gyldén (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935; reprinted by Aegean Park Press “Cryptographic Series,”; 1978, ISBN 0–89412–027–1, 87 pp., notes)

THE CODE BREAKERS OF ROOM 40: THE STORY OF ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM [sic] HALL, GENIUS OF BRITISH COUNTER‐INTELLIGENCE by Admiral Sir William James (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1956, OCLC 408707, 212 pp., photos, index)

THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM by Barbara W. Tuchman (New York: Viking Press, 1958; Macmillan, 1966, OCLC 34683297, 244 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

D. Between the wars

THE HISTORY OF CODES AND CIPHERS IN THE UNITED STATES: DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS edited by Wayne G. Barker (Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press “Cryptographic Series”) as follows:

PART 1: 1919–1929 (1979—$24.80, paper, ISBN 0–89412–039–5, 186 pp., notes, index)

PART 2: 1930–1939 (1978—$24.80, paper, ISBN 0–89412–165–0, 99 pp., photos, notes, index)

INFORMATION AND SECRECY: VANNEVAR BUSH, ULTRA AND THE OTHER MEMEX by Colin Burke (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–8108–2783–2, 467 pp., photos, notes, index)

MACHINE CRYPTOGRAPHY AND MODERN CRYPTANALYSIS by Cipher A. Deavours and Louis Kruh (Norwood, MA: Artech “Artech House Telecommunications Library,”; 1985, ISBN 0–89006–161–0, 259 pp., illustrations, notes, index)

THE STORY OF MAGIC: MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN CRYPTOLOGIC PIONEER by Frank B. Rowlett (Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1998— $32.80, ISBN 0–89412–273–8, 258 pp., photos)

THE AMERICAN BLACK CHAMBER by Herbert O. Yardley (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1931, 375 pp.; London: Faber &; Faber, 265 pp.; reprinted by Ballantine Books “Ballantine Espionage/Intelligence Library,”; 1981, ISBN 0–3452–9867–5, 250 pp., photos)

E. World War II‐general

A HISTORY OF U.S. COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE DURING WORLD WAR II: POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION by Robert Louis Benson (Fort George B. Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History “United States Cryptologic History, Series 4, World War II, Vol. 8,”; 1997, OCLC 40526841, 185 pp., photos, glossary, sources)

HITLER'S JAPANESE CONFIDANT: GENERAL OSHIMA HIROSHI AND MAGIC INTELLIGENCE, 1941–1945 by Carl Boyd (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993, ISBN 0–7006–0569‐X, 271 pp., photos, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index)

U.S. ARMY SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE IN WORLD WAR II: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY edited by James L. Gilbert and John P. Finnegan (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [Center of Military History, United States Army] “CMH Pub 70–43,”; 1993—$24.00, ISBN 0–16–037816–8, 237 pp., photos, appendices)

THE ULTRA‐MAGIC DEALS AND THE MOST SECRET RELATIONSHIP, 1940–1946 by Bradley F. Smith (Novato, CA: Presido, 1992—$12.95, paper, ISBN 0–891414–6, 276 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

F. World War II‐Europe

CODEBREAKING AND SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE edited by Christopher Andrew (London: Frank Cass, 1986, ISBN 0–7146–3299–6, 137 pp., notes, bibliographies)

ULTRA IN THE WEST: THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN OF 1944–45 by Ralph Bennett (New York: Scribners, 1979, ISBN 0–684–16704–2, 336 pp., maps, figures, glossary, bibliography, notes, index).

ULTRA AND MEDITERRANEAN STRATEGY by Ralph Bennett (New York: William Morrow, 1989, ISBN 0–688–08175–4, 496 pp., maps, diagrams, notes, glossary, bibliography, index)

INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS: COLLECTED PAPERS OF RALPH BENNETT by Ralph Bennett (London: Frank Cass “Studies in Intelligence,”; 1996—price not given, ISBN 0–7146–4742‐X hard, 0–7146–4300–0 paper, 216 pp., notes, index)

TOP SECRET ULTRA by Peter Calvocoressi (New York: Pantheon, 1980, ISBN 0–394–51154–9, 132 pp., photos, appendices, index)

THE ENEMY IS LISTENING by Aileen Clayton (London: Hutchinson, 1980, ISBN 0–091–4234–6, 381 pp.; reprinted by Ballantine Books “Ballantine Espionage/Intelligence Library,”; 1982; photos, glossary, notes, bibliography, index)

THE ENGIMA WAR by Jóseph Garliński (New York: Scribner's, 1980—ISBN 0–684–15866–3, 219 pp., photos, maps, diagrams, notes, appendix, bibliography, index)

ENGIMA by Robert Harris (New York: Random House, 1995, ISBN 0–679–42887–9, 320 pp.)

CODEBREAKERS: THE INSIDE STORY OF BLETCHLEY PARK edited by F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–19–820327–6, 321 pp., photos, diagrams, notes, appendices, index)

SEIZING THE ENIGMA: THE RACE TO BREAK THE GERMAN U‐BOAT CODES, 1939–1943 by David Kahn (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991, ISBN 0–395–42739–8, 336 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

ENIGMA: HOW THE GERMAN MACHINE CIPHER WAS BROKEN, AND HOW IT WAS READ BY THE ALLIES IN WORLD WAR TWO by Wladyslaw Kozaczuk, translated by Christopher Kasparek (London: Arms and Armour Press/Lanham, MD: University Publications of America “Foreign Intelligence Book Series,”; 1984, ISBN 0–89093–547–5, 348 pp., photos, diagrams, appendices, bibliography, index)

ULTRA GOES TO WAR: THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF WORLD WAR II'S GREATEST SECRET BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS by Ronald Lewin (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1978, ISBN 0–07–037453–8, 398 pp., notes, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index)

THE ULTRA AMERICANS: THE U.S. ROLE IN BREAKING THE NAZI CODES by Thomas Parrish (New York: Stein &; Day, 1986, ISBN 0–8128–3072–5, 338 pp., photos, notes, sources, index)

THE ENIGMA SYMPOSIUM edited by Hugh Skillen (published by the author, 56 St. Thomas Drive, Pinner, England HA5 4SS; as follows, photos, maps, diagrams, notes):

1992 (1992, reprinted 1997, paper, ISBN 0–9515190–34, 60 pp.)

1994 (1994, £8.50, paper, ISBN 0–9515190–50, about 100 pp.)

1995 (1995, £9.95, paper, ISBN 0–9515190–77, 164 pp.)

1997 (1997, £9.95, paper, ISBN 0–9515190–85, 194 pp.)

1998 (1998, £14.95, paper, ISBN 0–9515–330–01, 205 pp.)

THE SPIES OF THE AIRWAVES by Hugh Skillen (published by the author; address immediately above, 1989—£23.00, ISBN 0–9515190‐X, 550 pp., photos, maps, index)

STATION X: THE CODEBREAKERS OF BLETCHLEY PARK by Michael Smith (London: Channel 4 Books, 1998—£14.99, ISBN 0–7522–2189–2, 184 pp., photos, sources, index)

THE HUT SIX STORY: BREAKING THE ENIGMA CODES by Gordon Welchman (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1982, ISBN 0–07–069180–0, 326 pp., diagrams, notes, bibliography, index)

THE ULTRA SECRET by F. W. Winterbotham (London: Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1974, ISBN 0–297–76832–8, 199 pp., index; numerous reprints)

ULTRA AT SEA: HOW BREAKING THE NAZI CODE AFFECTED ALLIED NAVAL STRATEGY DURING WORLD WAR II by John Winton (London: Leo Cooper; New York: Morrow, 1988, ISBN 0–688–08546–6, 207 pp., photos, glossary, index)

G. World War II‐pacific

MACARTHUR'S ULTRA: CODEBREAKING AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN, 1942–1945 by Edward J. Drea (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas “Modern War Studies,”; 1992, ISBN 0–7006–0504–5, 296 pp., photos, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index)

THE BROKEN SEAL: “OPERATION MAGIC”; AND THE SECRET ROAD TO PEARL HARBOR by Ladislas Farago (New York: Random House, 1967, 439 pp., reference notes, index)

THE AMERICAN MAGIC: CODES, CIPHERS AND THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN by Ronald Lewin (New York: Farrar, Straus &; Giroux, 1982, ISBN 0–374–10417–4, 332 pp., photos, appendices, notes, sources, index)

A PRICELESS ADVANTAGE: U.S. NAVY COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE AND THE BATTLES OF CORAL SEA, MIDWAY, AND THE ALEUTIANS by Frederick D. Parker (Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History, “United States Cryptologic History, Series IV, World War II, Volume 5,”; CH‐E32–93–01, 1993, 88 pp., photos, bibliography, notes)

PEARL HARBOR REVISITED: UNITED STATES NAVY COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE, 1924–1941 by Frederick D. Parker (Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologie History, “United States Cryptologic History, Series IV, World War II, Volume 5,”; CH‐E32–94–01, 1994, photos, notes, appendices, bibliography)

COMBINED FLEET DECODED: THE SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AND THE JAPANESE NAVY IN WORLD WAR II by John Prados (New York: Random House, 1995—$37.50, ISBN 0–679–43701–0, 832 pp., photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index)

LISTENING TO THE ENEMY: KEY DOCUMENTS ON THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE IN THE WAR WITH JAPAN edited by Ronald H. Spector (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1988, ISBN 0–8420–2275–9, 285 pp., notes, tables)

CODEBREAKER IN THE FAR EAST by Alan Stripp (London: Frank Cass “Studies in Intelligence,”; 1989, ISBN 0–7146–3363–1, 204 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index)

THE “MAGIC”; BACKGROUND OF PEARL HARBOR by the U.S. Department of Defense (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978—5 vols published in 8, OCLC 5170297)

DEADLY MAGIC: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE IN WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC by Edward Van Der Rhoer (New York: Scribner's, 1979, ISBN 0–684–15873–6, 225 pp., photos, index)

ULTRA IN THE PACIFIC: HOW BREAKING JAPANESE CODES &; CYPHERS AFFECTED NAVAL OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPAN by John Winton (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993, ISBN 1–55750–856–9, 247 pp., maps, sources, index)

H. Postwar developments

THE PUZZLE PALACE: A REPORT ON AMERICA'S MOST SECRET AGENCY by James V. Bamford (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982, ISBN 0–395–31286–8, 465 pp.; reprinted by Penguin Books with a new 50‐page afterword, 1983, 655 pp., appendix, notes, acronyms, index)

VENONA: SOVIET ESPIONAGE AND THE AMERICAN RESPONSE, 1939–1957 edited by Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner (Washington, DC: National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency [National Technical Information Service], 1996—$50.00, paper, OCLC 35768954, 450 pp., acronyms, chronology, notes; reprinted by Aegean Park Press, 1997, 503 pp. adding an index and several brief NSA monographs on the subject)

VENONA: DECODING SOVIET ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999— $30.00, ISBN 0–300–07771–8, 487 pp., photos, appendices, notes, index)     

Communication law

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, SECOND SUPPLEMENT 1978–1992 by Ralph E. McCoy (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994—$ 100.00, ISBN 0–8093–1583–1, 443 pp.)

COMMUNICATIONS LAW 1993 (Practicing Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, 10019— $90.00, three vols, paper, ISBN not given)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLICY STUDIES, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, edited by Stuart S. Nagel (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994—$195.00, but available in classroom quantity at $65.00, ISBN 0–8247–9142–8, 956 pp.)

THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FOURTH ESTATE by T. Barton Carter, Marc A. Franklin and Jay B Wright (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1994—price not given, ISBN 1–56662–147‐X, 925 pp.)     

Popular culture

READING MATTER: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON MATERIAL CULTURE by Arthur Asa Berger (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1992 — $24.95, ISBN 0–88738–435–8, 148 pp.)

MEN, MASCULINITY, AND THE MEDIA edited by Steve Craig (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992 — $42.00/19.95, ISBN 0–8039–4162–5 hard, 0–8039–4163–3 soft, 271 pp.)

13TH GEN: ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE, FAIL? by Neil Howe and Bill Strauss (New York: Vintage, 1993 — $10.00, paper, ISBN 0–679–74365–0, 229 pp.)

ENLIGHTENED RACISM: THE COSBY SHOW, AUDIENCES, AND THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM by Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $39.95/14.95, ISBN 0–8133–1418–6 hard, 0–8133–1419–4 soft, 152 pp.)

POPULAR WRITING IN AMERICA: THE INTERACTION OF STYLE AND AUDIENCE, 5th ed. edited by Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan (New York: Oxford, 1993 — $22.95, paper, ISBN 0–19–507308–8, 735 pp.)

TRIUMPH OF THE IMAGE: THE MEDIA'S WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF — A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE edited by Hamid Mowlana, George Gerbner, and Herbert I. Schiller (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $55.00/19.95, ISBN 0–8133–1532–8 hard, 0–8133–1610–3 soft, 269 pp.)

POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTORY TEXT edited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1992 — $45.95/23.95, ISBN 0–87972–571–0 hard, 0–87972–572–9 soft, 504 pp.)

VIDEO ICONS & VALUES edited by Alan M. Olson, Christopher Parr and Debra Parr (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991 — $59.50/18.95, ISBN 0–7914–0411–0 hard, 0–7914–0412–9 soft, 189 pp.)

POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT RESEARCH: HOW TO DO IT AND HOW TO USE IT by Barbara J. Pruett (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1992 — $62.50, ISBN 0–8108–2501–5, 592 pp.)

WATERGATE IN AMERICAN MEMORY: HOW WE REMEMBER, FORGET, AND RECONSTRUCT THE PAST by Michael Schudson (New York: Basic Books, 1992 — $24.00, ISBN 0–465–09084–2, 282 pp.)

THE MADONNA CONNECTION: REPRESENTATIONAL POLITICS, SUBCULTURAL IDENTITIES, AND CULTURAL THEORY edited by Cathy Schwichtenberg (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $55.00/17.95, ISBN 0–8133–1396–1 hard, 0–8133–1397‐X soft, 336 pp.)

WEST OF EVERYTHING: THE INNER LIFE OF WESTERNS by Jane Tompkins (New York: Oxford, 1992 — $21.95, ISBN 0–19–507305–3, 245 pp.)

MEDIAMERICA, MEDIAWORLD: FORM, CONTENT, AND CONSEQUENCES OF MASS COMMUNICA TION (5th ed.) by Edward Jay Whetmore (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993 —$36.00, paper ISBN 0–534–17934–7, 492 pp.)

HARDBOILED IN HOLLYWOOD: FIVE BLACK MASK WRITERS AND THE MOVIES by David Wilt (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1991 — $40.95/19.95, ISBN 0–87972–525–7 hard, 0–87972–526–5 soft, 189 pp.)

ADOLF HITLER AND THE THIRD REICH IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES, 1923–1939 by Michael Zalampas (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1989 — $35.95/18.95, ISBN 0–87972–461–7 hard, 0–87972–462–5 soft, 266 pp.)