Bureau of Labor Statistics

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PHANTOMS IN THE BRAIN: PROBING THE MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN MIND. V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee. New York: William Morrow &; Company, Inc., 1998. xix + 328 pp. End notes, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-688-15247-3. Reviewed by Renata G. Coates.     

SHORTER NOTICE

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THE EXTREME SEARCHER'S INTERNET HANDBOOK: A GUIDE FOR THE SERIOUS SEARCHER. 2nd ed. Randolph Hock. Medford, N.J.: CyberAge Books, 2007. xxvii, 326 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-910965-76-7. Reviewed by Jim Cole.     

Savingsbonds.gov

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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CITING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION RESOURCES: AMANUAL FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE AND BUSINESS RESEARCH, 3rd edition. Cheney, Debora (Ed.). Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis; Congressional Information Service, 2002, 222 pp., $40.00, ISBN 088692586X. Reviewed by Meg Meiman.

BUSINESS STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES: PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC CHANGE, 10th Edition. Lantham, MD: Bernan Press, 2004, 545 pp., $147.00, ISBN 1-886222-24-X. Reviewed by Stacey Marien.

THE SKEPTICAL BUSINESS SEARCHER: THE INFORMATION ADVISOR'S GUIDE TO EVALUATING WEB DATA, SITES, AND SOURCES. Berkman, Robert. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2004, 281 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-910965-66-8. Reviewed by Linda S. Dausch.

THE DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS TO BUSINESS CATALOGS, 13th Edition. Gottlieb, Richard (Ed.). Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2005, 686 pp., $165.00, ISBN: 1-59237-064-0. Reviewed by Jim Galbraith.

THE DIRECTORY OF MAIL ORDER CATALOGS, 19th Edition. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2005, 1,563 pp., $250.00, ISBN: 1-59237-066-7. Reviewed by Jim Galbraith.

THE TECHNOMIC TOP 500. UPDATEANDANALYSIS OF THE 500 LARGEST U.S. RESTAURANT CHAINS. Chicago, IL: Technomic Information Services, $495.00. Reviewed by Jim Galbraith.

INDUSTRY RESEARCH USING THE ECONOMIC CENSUS: HOW TO FIND IT, HOWTO USE IT. Boettcher, Jennifer C., and Leonard M. Gaines. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004, 305 pp., $85.00, ISBN 1-57356-351-X. Reviewed by Kevin R. Harwell.

HANDBOOK OF U.S. LABOR STATISTICS: EMPLOYMENT, EARNINGS, PRICES, PRODUCTIVITY, &; OTHER LABOR DATA, 8th Edition. Lantham, MD: Bernan Press, 2005, 484 pp., $147.00, ISBN 1-886222-20-7. Reviewed by Stacey Marien.

O'DWYER'S DIRECTORY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRMS. NewYork, NY, 2004, 375 pp., $175.00, ISBN: 0-941424-62-6. Reviewed by Jim Galbraith.     

Telecommunication History

THE CONQUEST OF THE MICROCHIP by Hans Queisser (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-674-16296-X)

BLUE MAGIC: THE PEOPLE, POWER AND POLITICS BEHIND THE IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER by James Chposky (CORRECT) and Ted Leonsis (New York: Facts on File, 1988—$19.95, ISBN 0-8160-1391-8)

FUMBLING THE FUTURE: HOW XEROX INVENTED, THEN IGNORED, THE FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTER by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander (New York: Wm. Morrow, 1988—$18.95, ISBN 0-688-06959-2)

PORTRAITS IN SILICON by Robert Slater (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987—$24.95, ISBN 0-262-19262-4)     

REVIEWS

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PREPARING THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL: AN AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE. Sajjad Ur Rehman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, ISBN 0-313-30673-7. Reviewed by Isabel Espinal.

DEVELOPING AND MANAGING ELECTRONIC JOURNAL COLLECTIONS: A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL FOR LIBRARIANS (How To Do It Manual for Librarians, No. 102). Donnelyn Curtis, Virginia M. Scheschy, and Adolfo R. Tarango. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2000, ISBN 1-55570-383-6. Reviewed by Andrew Osmond.

FUNDAMENTAL REFERENCE SOURCES, 3rd Ed. James H. Sweet-land. Chicago: American Library Association, 2001, ISBN 0-8389-0780-6. Reviewed by Selma C. Etter.     

PROFESSIONAL READING

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IT'S ALL ABOUT STUDENT LEARNING: MANAGING COMMUNITY AND OTHER COLLEGE LIBRARIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Edited by David R. Dowell and Gerard B. McCabe. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005, xvi + 345 pp., $45.00, ISBN 1-59158-149-4. Reviewed by Beatrice R. Pulliam.

THE NEXTGEN LIBRARIAN'S SURVIVAL GUIDE. By Rachel Singer Gordon. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2006, xiv + 208 pp., $29.50, ISBN 1-57387-256-3. Reviewed by Annie Epperson.

IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIBRARY SERVICES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. Edited by Peter Hernon and Philip Calvert. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006, xii + 232 pp., $45.00, ISBN 1-59158-300-4. Reviewed by Scott Sheidlower.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY: BEST PRACTICES FOROPERATINGAND MANAGING INTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICES IN ALL LIBRARIES. By Lee Andrew Hilyer. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2006, xix + 150 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-7890-3129-9. Reviewed by Elizabeth Harper Garlish.

THE LIBRARIAN'S INTERNET SURVIVAL GUIDE: STRATEGIES FOR THE HIGH-TECH REFERENCE DESK, 2nd ed. By Irene E. McDermott. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2006, xxiii + 298 pp., $29.50, ISBN 1-57387-235-0. Reviewed by Michael LaMagna.

NET CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: OUTMANEUVERING WEB SPAMMERS, STALKERS, AND CON ARTISTS, 2nd ed. By J.A. Hitchcock. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2006. xxix + 459 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-910965-72-2. Reviewed by Joshua Lambert.

GUIDING STUDENTS FROM CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM TO HONESTY AND INTEGRITY. By Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005, xix + 264 pp., $35.00, ISBN 1-59158-275X. Reviewed by Anne-Marie Deitering.

MANAGING THE MYSTERY COLLECTION: FROM CREATION TO CONSUMPTION. Edited by Judith Overmier and Rhonda Harris Taylor. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Inc., 2006, 220 pp., $22.95, ISBN 0-7890-3154-X. Reviewed by Melissa Aho.

PARADIGMS LOST: THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF THE PRINTED WORD. By William Sonn. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006, iv + 393 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-8108-5262-4. Reviewed by Melissa Aho.

CREATING THE ONE-SHOT LIBRARY WORKSHOP: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE. By Jerilyn Veldof. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006, vii + 170 pp., $42.00, ISBN 0-8389-0913-2. Reviewed by James Watson.     

Political Communication

ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING by Kathleen Hall Jamieson (New York: Oxford, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-10-503826-6)

TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AND PUBLIC POLICY by Sidney Kraus (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988—$14.95, paper, ISBN 0-8058-0008-5)

THE SPOT: THE RISE OF POLITICAL ADVERTISING ON TELEVISION by Edwin Diamond and Stephen Bates (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988—$25.00/10.95, ISBNs 0-262-04095-6 and 0-262-54049-5)

THE ELECTRONIC COMMONWEALTH: THE IMPACT OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES ON DEMOCRATIC POLITICS by Jeffrey B. Abramson, et al.(New York: Basic Books, 1988—$21.95, ISBN 0-465-01878-5)

TEE IOWA PRECINCT CAUCUSES: THE MAKING OF A MEDIA EVENT by Hugh Winebrenner (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987—$15.95, ISBN 0-8138-1001-9)     

Broadcasting

TALK RADIO AND THE AMERICAN DREAM by Murray B, Levin (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987—$22.00)

WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF? THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TELEVISION WESTERN by J. Fred MacDonald (New York: Praeger, 1987—$29.95)

LIVE TV: AN INSIDE LOOK AT DIRECTING AND PRODUCING by Tony Verna (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1987—$22.95)

TV CAREERS BEHIND THE SCREEN by Jane Blanksteen and Avi Odeni (New York: John Wiley, 1987—$12.95, paper)

THE BROADCASTER'S DICTIONARY by James R. McDonald (Windriver Books, Box 481, Broomfield, CT 80020—$20.00 incl. postage, paper)

Three recent publications by the National Association of Broadcasters (Publications Dept., 1771 N St. NW. Washington, DC 20036)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT: THE BROADCAST &; CABLE INDUSTRIES by Barry L. Sherman (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987—$29.95)

CHANNELS OF DISCOURSE: TELEVISION AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM edited by Robert C. Allen (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987—$25.00/7.95)

THE HOUR OF TELEVISION: CRITICAL APPROACHES by N.D. Batra (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. 1987—$29.50)     

Popular Culture

WAITING FOR PRIME TIME: THE WOMEN OF TELEVISION NEWS by Marlene Sanders and Marcia Rock (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988—$19.95, ISBN 0-252-01435-9)

FAIR PLAY: CBS, GENERAL WESTMORELAND, AND HOW A TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY WENT WRONG by Burton Benjamin (New York: Harper &; Row, 1988—$17.95, ISBN 0-06-015928-6)

BEHIND THE FRONT PAGE: A CANDID LOOK AT HOW THE NEWS IS MADE by David S. Broder (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987—$8.95, paper, ISBN 0-671-65721-6)

BAD TIDINGS: COMMUNICATION AND CATASTROPHE edited by Lynne Masel Walters, Lee Wilkins, and Tim Walters ((Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-89859-951-2)

MEDIA, MYTHS AND NARRATIVES: TELEVISION AND THE PRESS edited by James W. Carey (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988—$35.00/16.95, ISBN 0-8039-3049-6, paper)

PREDICTIONS OF PUBLIC OPINION FROM THE MASS MEDIA: COMPUTER CONTENT ANALYSIS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING by David P. Fan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988—$42.95, ISBN 0-313-26296-9)

JOURNALISTS AT WAR: THE DYNAMICS OF NEWS REPORTING DURING THE FALKLAND'S CONFLICT by David E. Morrison and Howard Tumber (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988—$49.95/18.95, ISBN 0-8039-8057-4, hard 0-8039-8058-2, soft)

NEWS COVERAGE OF THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION by Joshua Muravchik (American Enterprise Institute, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706—$19.95/9.95, ISBN 0-8447-3661-9 hard, and 0-8447-3662-7, soft)

IMAGE WARS: PROTECTING YOUR COMPANY WHEN THERE'S NO PLACE TO HIDE by Stan Sauerhaft and Chris Atkins (New York: John Wiley, 1989—$22.95, ISBN O471-60936-6)

THE IQ CONTROVERSY: THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC by Mark Snyderman and Stanley Rothman (Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-88738-151-0)

NEWS AS HEGEMONIC REALITY: AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE FRAMING OF NEWS ACCOUNTS by Allan Rachlin (New York: Praeger, 1988—$37.95, ISBN 0-275-92534-X)

BEYOND MALICE: THE MEDIA'S YEARS OF RECKONING by Richard M. Clurman (Transaction Books, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903—$24.95, ISBN 0-88738-234-7)

MASS MEDIA, CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS AND STREET GOSSIP: HOW COMMUNICATION AFFECTS THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN AN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD by W. Phillips Davison (New York: Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University, 1988—price not given, paper, ISBN not provided)

NEWS AND NUMBERS: A GUIDE TO REPORTING STATISTICAL CLAIMS AND CONTROVERSIES IN HEALTH AND OTHER FIELDS by Victor Cohn (Iowa State University Press, 2121 South State Ave., Ames, Iowa 50010—$17.95, ISBN 0-8138-1442-1)     

British Media Works

DYNAMICS OF THE BRITISH PRESS, 1961–1984: PATTERNS OF CIRCULATION AND COVER PRICES by Harry Henry (NTC Publications, Symot House, 22 Reading Rd., Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1AG, 1986, 178 pp.—L40, paper, no ISBN)

STRIKES AND THE MEDIA: COMMUNICATION AND CONFLICT by Nicholas Jones (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986, 220 pp.—L17.50, ISBN 0-631-14697-0)

LEARNING THE MEDIA: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA TEACHING by Manuel Alvarado, et al. (Basingstoke: Macmillan Educational, 1987, 306 pp.—L25, ISBN 0-333-30522-1)

POWER WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY: THE PRESS AND BROADCASTING IN BRITAIN by James Curran and Jean Season (London: Routledge, 1988, 372 pp. price not given, paper, ISBN 0-415-00653-8)

IMAGES INCORPORATED: ADVERTISING AS INDUSTRY AND IDEOLOGY by John Sinclair (London: Croom Helm, 1987, 214 pp.—L9, paper, no ISBN given)

NOISE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MUSIC by Jacques Attali (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985, 180 pp.—L7.50, paper, no ISBN given)

POLICING DESIRE: PORNOGRAPHY, AIDS AND THE MEDIA by Simon Watney (London: Comedia, 1987, 160 pp—L7, paper, no ISBN given)

BEHIND AND IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN: TELEVISION'S INVOLVEMENT WITH FAMILY LIFE by Barrie Gunter and Michael Svennevig (London: John Libbey, 1987, 98 pp.—L9.50, paper, no ISBN given)

TELEVISION AND SOCIAL CONTROL by Mallory Wober and Barrie Gunter (Aldershot: Gower, 1988, 274 pp.—L25, ISBN 0-566-00764-9)

VIOLENCE ON TELEVISION: WHAT THE VIEWERS THINK by Barrie Gunter and Mallory Wober (London: John Libbey & Co. Ltd., 1988, 74 pp.—L9.50, paper, ISBN 0-86196-172-2)

SEX, CLASS AND REALISM: BRITISH CINEMA, 1956–1963 by John Hill (London: British Film Institute, 1986, 228 pp.—L7.95, paper, ISBN 0-85170-133-7)

BOND AND BEYOND: THE POLITICAL CAREER OF A POPULAR HERO by Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott (Basingstoke: Macmillan Educational, 1987, 316 pp.—L6.95, paper, ISBN 0-333-28621-9)

CINEMA, LITERATURE & SOCIETY: ELITE AND MASS CULTURE IN INTERWAR BRITAIN by Peter Miles and Malcolm Smith (London: Croom Helm, 1987, 271 pp.—L25, no ISBN given)

NATIONAL BROADCASTING UNDER SEIGE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN, ISRAEL, AND WEST GERMANY by Eva Etzioni-Halevy (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1987, 228 pp. price and ISBN not given)

THE UN, UNESCO, AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE by Clare Wells (London: Macmillan, 1987, 282 pp., L29.50, no ISBN given)

WORLD NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY by Peter J.S. Dunnett (Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1988, 276 pp.—L30, ISBN 0-07099-0834-2)

TRUTH BETRAYED by W. J. West (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1987, 262 pp.—L13, ISBN 0-7156-2182-3)

COMMUNICATIONS SATELITES: THE TECHNOLOGY OF SPACE COMMUNICATIONS by Larry Blonstein (London: Wm. Heinemann, 1987, 162 pp.—L12.95, paper, ISBN 0-434-90153-9)

EDUCATION ON DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITES IN EUROPE: REPORT TO THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY by George Wedell, et al. (Manchester: The European Institute for the Media, 1987, 148 pp. price and ISBN not given, paper)

THE QUESTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE edited by Brian P. Bloomfield (Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1987, 286 pp.—L25, no ISBN given)

COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APLICATIONS by Dennis Harris (New York and London: Chapman & Hall, 1984, 174 pp.—L21.00, paper, no ISBN given)

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: STUDIES IN MELODRAMA AND THE WOMEN'S FILM edited by Christine Gledhill (London: British Film Insitute, 1987, 366 pp.—L7, paper, no ISBN given)

BOXED IN: WOMEN AND TELEVISION by Helen Baehr and Gillian Dyer (London and New York: Pandora Press, 1987, 234 pp.—L8, paper, no ISBN given)

A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO JOBS IN FILM AND TELEVISION by Ann Ross Muir (London and New York: Pandora Press, 1987, 342 pp.—L7, paper, no ISBN given)

G.C.H.Q.: THE SECRET WIRELESS WAR, 1900–1986 by Nigel West (London: Coronet Books, 1987, 400 pp. L3.95, paper, ISBN 0-340-41197-X)

2MT WRITTLE: THE BIRTH OF BRITISH BROADCASTING by Tim Wander (Capella Publications, Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK, 1988, 179 pp.—L12.95, ISBN 0-946443-10-6)

THE LAST DAYS OF THE BEEB by Michael Leapman (London: Coronet Books, 1987, 381 pp.—L3.50, paper, ISBN 0-340-41107-4)

THE ECONOMICS OF TELEVISION: THE UK CASE by Richard Collins, et al. (London/Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1988, 136 pp.—$29.95, ISBN 0-8039-8112-0)     

Hoover's,Inc.

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Introduction. Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.

INDUSTRY INQUIRY TRENDS: A STUDY OF THE METHODS USED BY PURCHASE DECISION-MAKERS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM ADVERTISERS. Cleveland, OH: Penton, 1998, 232 pp., $129.95, ISBN 0-961182-8-8. Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.

INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BUSINESS HISTORY. Goodall, Francis, Terry Gourvish, and Steven Tolliday (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 1997, 668 pp., $160.00, ISBN 0-415-08641-8. Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.

KEY BUSINESS SOURCES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Stan-inger, Steven W., Susan Riehm Goshorn, and Jennifer C. Boettcher (Eds.). Chicago: Reference and User Services Associations (American Library Association), 1998, 81 pp., $21.95 ($19.95 for RUSA members), ISBN 0-8389-7949-1. Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.

THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS AND THE LAW. Newman, Peter (Ed.). London: Macmillan Reference Limited, 1998, 3 vols., 2,210 pp., $550.00, ISBN 0333-67667 X. New York: Stockton Press, 1998, ISBN 1-76159-215-3. Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.

WORLD DIRECTORY OF TRADE AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, 2nd. Edition. London: Euromonitor, 1997, 497 pp., $590.00, ISBN 0-86338-754-3 (Available from http://www.euromonitor.com/). Reviewed by Hal P. Kirkwood.

WORLD DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS INFORMATION LIBRARIES, 3rd. Edition. London: Euromonitor, 1998, 355 pp., $550.00, ISBN 0-86338-799-3 (Available from http://www.euromonitor.com). Reviewed by Hal P. Kirkwood.

INFORMATION RULES: A STRATEGIC GUIDE TO THE NETWORK ECONOMY. Shapiro, Carl and Hal R. Varian. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998, 384 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-87-584863-X. Reviewed by Timothy A. Dixon.

STATE OF THE NET: THE NEW FRONTIER. Clemente, Peter. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, 179 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-07-011979-1. Reviewed by Timothy A. Dixon.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INFORMATION: HOW TO FIND IT, HOW TO USE IT, 2nd. Edition. Pagell, Ruth and Michael Halper-in. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1998, 445 pp., $100.00, ISBN 1-57356-050-2. Reviewed by Theodora T. Haynes.

THE O?NET: DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES. Farr, J. Michael and LaVerne Ludden (Eds.). Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works Inc., 1998, 625 pp., $39.95, ISBN 1-56370-510-9. Reviewed by Hal P. Kirkwood.

STATE OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK. Bianco, David (Ed.). Detroit: Gale Research, 1998, 759 pages, $95.00, ISBN 0-7876-1705-9, ISSN 1096-2859. Reviewed by Brent Alan Mai.

NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD REFERENCE WORKS . Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.     

Telephone History

DISCONNECTING PARTIES—MANAGING THE BELL SYSTEM BREAK-UP: AN INSIDE VIEW by W. Brooks Tunstall (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985--$17.95)

THE TELEPHONE ENTERPRISE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BELL SYSTEM'S HORIZONTAL STRUCTURE, 1876-1909 by Robert W. Garnet (210 pp.---$22.50)

THE ANATOMY OF A BUSINESS STRATEGY: BELL, WESTERN ELECTRIC, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN TELEPHONE INDUSTRY by George David Smith (237 pp.---$20.00)

FROM INVENTION TO INNOVATION: LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY by Neil H. Wasserman (160 pp.--$17.50)

THE TELEPHONE BOOK: BELL, WATSON, VAIL AND AMERICAN LIFE, 1876-1983 by H.M. Boettinger (available from AT&T Corporate Archives, 195 Broadway, New York, N.Y.---$35.00, paper)     

The Basic Business Library: Core Resources and Services by Eric Forte and Michael R. Oppenheim (Eds.)

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FINANCE CAREER GUIDE 1997, Duncan, Ronald J. and William E. Quigley (Ed.). Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1996, $24.95, ISBN 0-87584-733-I, ISSN 0899-7089. Reviewed by Tim Dixon.

GOLDSMITHS'-KRESS LIBRARY OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE CATALOG: A GUIDE TO THE PRIMARY SOURCE MEDIA MICROFILM COLLECTION. In U.S.: Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 1 CD-ROM disk, $1,995.00, ISBN 1-57803-053-6. Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.

THE PRENTICE HALL DIRECTORY OF ONLINE BUSINESS INFORMATION 1997. Engholm, Christopher and Scott Grimes. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996, 524 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-13-255282-5. Reviewed by Brent Alan Mai.     

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.)     

Managing Change and Changing Management in Academic Libraries

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THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY: ITS CONTEXT, ITS PURPOSES, AND ITS OPERATION. By John M. Budd. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998. xiv, 372 p. $58.00. ISBN 1-56308-614-X.

LYLE'S ADMINISTRATION OF THE COLLEGE LIBRARY. 1997 Text Edition. By Caroline M. Coughlin and Alice Gertzog. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. xiv, 187 p. $38.00. ISBN 0-8108-3333-6.

RESTRUCTURING ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE WAKE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. Edited by Charles A. Schwartz. (ACRL Publications in Librarianship, no. 49). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1997. xi, 289 p. $28.00. ISBN 0-8389-3478-1.

IMPLEMENTATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION: STUDIES OF ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES. By Peter Clayton. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1997. xiii, 208p. $59.95. ISBN 0-12-174860-X.     

AICPA Online

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THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY. Yost, Jeffrey R. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, 264 pp., $79.00, ISBN 0-313-32844-7. Reviewed by Cory Tucker.

THE REAL LIFE GUIDE TO ACCOUNTING RESEARCH: A BEHINDTHESCENES VIEW OF USING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS. Humphrey, Christopher and Bill Lee. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier, 2004, 539 pp., $100.00, ISBN 0080439721. Reviewed by John P. Heintz.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD TRADE: FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Northrup, Cynthia Clark (Ed.). Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2005, 4 vols., 1,552 pp., $425.00, ISBN 0-7656-8058-0 (set). Reviewed by Deborah Lee.

BUSINESS PLANS HANDBOOK: A COMPILATION OF ACTUAL BUSINESS PLANS DEVELOPED BY BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA, Volume 10. Detroit: Gale Group, 2004, 555 pp., $170.00, ISBN 0-7876-6485-5 (full set-10 volumes, annual, 1995-2004), Volume 11 due in Fall/Winter 2005. Reviewed by Terry Zarsky.

THE CORPORATE DIRECTORY OF U.S. PUBLIC COMPANIES. San Mateo, CA: Walker's Western Research, 2005, 2,700 pp., $360.00, ISBN 1-879346-51-6. Reviewed by Terry Zarsky.

TRADE SHOWS WORLDWIDE. Jones, Keith. Detroit: Gale Group, 2005, 1,900 pp., $415.00, ISBN 0-7876-8967-X. Reviewed by Terry Zarsky.

THE GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT, 2004-2005. World Economic Forum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 624 pp., $99.95, ISBN 1403949131. Reviewed by John Eric Juricek.

BUSINESS ETHICS. London: Sage Publications, 2005, 3 vols., $775.00, ISBN 1-4129-0254-1. Reviewed by Mary M. Mintz.

THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MANAGEMENT. Cooper, Cary L., Chris Argyris and William H. Starbuck. (Eds.). 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2005, 13 vols., $1,950.00, ISBN 0631233172. Reviewed by Alex R. Hodges.     

Telecommunications Management

DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Leo A. Wrobel (Boston: Artech House, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-89006-460-1,112 pp.)

LONG DISTANCE SERVICES: A BUYER'S GUIDE by Daniel D. Briere (Boston: Artech House, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-89006-439-3,293 pp.)

ADVANCES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT edited by Jagdish Sheth and Garly Frazier (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1990—$63.50 each, ISBN as listed below)

MANAGING THE R&D/MARKETING INTERFACE FOR PRODUCT SUCCESS: THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOCUS edited by Massoud Saghafi and Ashok K. Gupta (1990—ISBN 1-55938-144-2,218 pp.)

PURCHASING IN THE 1990S: THE EVOLUTION OF PROCUREMENT IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY edited by Wesley J. Johnston (1990—ISBN 1-55938-145-0,257 pp.)     

5. Radio and Television

ANCHORS: BROKAW, JENNINGS, RATHER AND THE EVENING NEWS by Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg (New York: Birch Lane/Carol Publishing, 1990—$19.95, ISBN 1-55972-019-0, 399 pp.)

FDR AND THE NEWS MEDIA by Betty Houchin Winfield, 1990—$34.95, ISBN 0-252-01672-6, 276 pp.) takes a broad view of the legendary president and his administration's varied relations with the press throughout his presidency (1933-45)

FOREIGN POLICY AND THE PRESS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' COVERAGE OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY by Nicholas 0. Berry (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990—$39.95, ISBN 0-313-27419-3, 184 pp.)

SOB SISTER JOURNALISM by Phyllis Leslie Abramson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990—$35.00, ISBN 0-313-26513-5, 144 pp.)

THE COURSE OF TOLERANCE: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN NINETEENTH–CENTURY AMERICA by Donna Lee Dickerson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990—$45.00, ISBN 0-313-27534-3, 272 pp.)     

Mass communication

MEDIA EDUCATION AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF CULTURE by David Sholle and Stan Denski (Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey/Greenwood, 1994— $55.00, ISBN 0–89789–254–2, 200 pp.)

CULTURES AND THE AD: EXPLORING OTHERNESS IN THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING by William M. O'Barr (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994— $59.99/17.95, ISBN 0–8133–2196–4 hard, 0–8133–2197–2 paper, 212 pp.)

MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: CONTEMPORARY METHODS AND APPLICATIONS by Michael Singletary (New York: Longman, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–8013–0882–8, 473 pp.)

MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: ON PROBLEMS AND POLICIES—THE ART OF ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS edited by Cees Hamelink and Olga Linne (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–89391–738–9, 417 pp.)

GENDERED LIVES: COMMUNICATION, GENDER, AND CULTURE by Julia T. Wood (Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth, 1994—no price given, paper, ISBN 0–534–20316–7, 359 pp.)

FATAL WORDS: COMMUNICATION CLASHES AND AIRCRAFT CRASHES by Steven Cushing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994—$23.50, ISBN 0–226–13200–5, 162 pp.)

THE DISABLED, THE MEDIA, AND THE INFORMATION AGE edited by Jack A. Nelson (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994— $55.00, ISBN 0–313–28472–5, 264 pp.)

COMMUNICATION ETHICS: METHODS OF ANALYSIS by James A. Jaska and Michael S. Pritchard (Belmont, CA: Wads‐worth, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–534–19896–1,244 pp.)

THE ROLE OF PRINT ON PAPER IN THE PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE FUTURE by Joost Kist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, 1993—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–879716–05–4, 23 pp.)

MEDIA IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA by Shirley Biagi (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–534–20184–9, 564 pp.)

RACE—AMERICA'S RAWEST NERVE, Media Studies Journal 8:3 (Summer 1994, 180 pp.)

RESETTING THE COMPASS: NEWS COVERAGE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE COLD WAR is an 11‐page report on a November 1993 meeting held in Zurich by the same Freedom Forum. This report ties to the Fall 1993 Media Studies Journal topic.     

Children's and Young Adult Librarians:

Abstract

STOP TALKING, START DOING: ATTRACTING PEOPLE OF COLOR TO THE LIBRARY PROFESSION. Reese, Gregory L. and Ernestine L. Hawkins. American Library Association, 1999, 136 pp., paperback, 4-p index and 4-p bibliography, $30.00, ISBN 0-8389-0762-8. Reviewed by Gertiana Williams.

SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE STORY INDEX, 1926-1995. Murray, Terry A. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland &; Company, Inc., 1999. Reviewed by Ann Babits Grice.

THE BEST OF TIMES: A PERSONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ODYSSEY. Wasserman, Paul. Detroit, Michigan: Omnigraphics, Inc., 458 pp., clothbound, $48.95, ISBN 0-7808-0433-3. Reviewed by Keith Swigger.