History

EDISON'S ELECTRIC LIGHT: BIOGRAPHY OF AN INVENTION by Robert Friedel, et al. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986—$27.95 until July 1st, then $35)

ENGINEERS & ELECTRONS: A CENTURY OF ELECTRICAL PROGRESS by John D. Ryder and Donald G. Fink (IEEE Press, 345 East 47th St., New York 10017—price not given)

THE MAKING OF A PROFESSION: A CENTURY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN AMERICA by A. Michal McMahon (New York: IEEE Press, see address to left, 1984—price not given)

IBM'S EARLY COMPUTERS by Charles J. Bashe, et al (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986—$27.50)

THE POWER OF THE PRESS: THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN POLITICAL REPORTING by Thomas C. Leonard (New York: Oxford, 1986—$22.50)     

Telecommunications Technology

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: THE NEW MEDIA IN SOCIETY by Everett M. Rogers (New York: Free Press, 1986—price not given, cloth and paper)

BEYOND THE GUTENBERG GALAXY: MICROCOMPUTERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF POST-TYPOGRAPHIC CULTURE by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. (New York: Columbia University/Teachers College Press, 1986—$8.95, paper)

UNDERSTANDING THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF THE MASS MEDIA by George E. Whitehouse (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986—$14.95, paper)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Loy A. Singleton (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1986—$19.95)

TELECOMMUTING: THE FUTURE TECHNOLOGY OF WORK by Thomas B. Cross and Marjorie Raizman (Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1986—$25.00)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY by R.L. Brewster (Chichester: Ellis Horwood Ltd./New York: John Wiley, 1986—price not given)

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS by Timothy Pratt and Charles W. Bostian (New York: John Wiley, 1986—$42.95)

UNDERSTANDING SATELLITE TELEVISION RECEPTION by S.E. Sutphin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986—price not given

1986 INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE DIRECTORY (Design Publishers, 369 Redwood Ave., Corte Madera, CA 94925—price not given, paper)

COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS: A VISION OF C&C by Koji Kobayashi (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986—$16.95)

DICTIONARY OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS edited by Charles J. Sippl (New York: Halstead Press/John Wiley, 1985—price not given, paper)     

Journalism

THE AMERICAN JOURNALIST: A PORTRAIT OF U.S. NEWS PEOPLE AND THEIR WORK by David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986—$25.00)

THE “UNCENSORED WAR:” THE MEDIA AND VIETNAM by Daniel C. Hallin (New York: Oxford, 1986—$22.50)

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOW: CAMPAIGN '84 AND BEYOND ON THE NIGHTLY NEWS by Keith Blume (Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 670 South Amherst Rd., South Hadley, MA 01075—$29.95/12.95)

POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN AMERICA by Robert E. Denton, Jr. and Gary C. Woodward (New York: Praeger, 1985—$42.95/15.95)

NEWS MEDIA AND PUBLIC POLICY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY edited by Joseph P. McKerns (New York: Garland, 1985—$39.00)

COMMITTED JOURNALISM: AN ETHIC FOR THE PROFESSION by Edmund B. Lambeth (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986—$25.00/8.95)

SUING THE PRESS: LIBEL, THE MEDIA & POWER by Rodney A. Smolla (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986—$18.95)

WORLDLY POWER: THE MAKING OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL by Edward E. Scharff (Beaufort Books, 9 East 40th St., New York 10016—$18.95)

THE ULTIMATE INSIDERS: U.S. SENATORS IN THE NATIONAL MEDIA by Stephen Hess (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1986—price not given, cloth and paper)

THE FLACKS OF WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND THE PUBLIC AGENDA by David Morgan (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1986—$29.95)

ISSUES MANAGEMENT: CORPORATE POLICYMAKING IN AN INFORMATION SOCIETY by Robert L. Heath and Richard Alan Nelson (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1986—no price given)

BEHIND THE LINES: CASE STUDIES IN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING by Margaret Jones Patterson and Robert H. Russell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986—$28.50)

GOVERNING THE PRESS: MEDIA FREEDOM IN THE U.S. AND GREAT BRITAIN by Deborah Holmes (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986—$16.50, paper)

THE UNTAPPED POWER OF THE PRESS: EXPLAINING GOVERNMENT TO THE PEOPLE by Lewis W. Wolfson (New York: Praeger, 1985—$28.95/9/95)     

Books of the Month

THE GENERAL: DAVID SARNOFF AND THE RISE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY by Kenneth Bilby (New York: Harper & Row, 1986—$20.95)

THE BBC: ITS FIRST FIFTY YEARS by Asa Briggs (New York: Oxford University Press. 1985—$24.95)

BETWEEN COVERS: THE RISE AND TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING by John Tebbel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987—$24.95)     

Communications Law

CABLE TELEVISION AND OTHER NONBROADCAST VIDEO: LAW AND POLICY by Daniel L. Brenner and Monroe E. Price (Clark Boardman Co., 435 Hudson St., New York 10014, 1986—$85.00)

THE JOURNALIST'S HANDBOOK ON LIBEL AND PRIVACY by Barbara Dill (New York: Free Press, 1986—$19.95)

THE PRESS AND THE STATE: SOCIOHISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS by Walter M. Brasch and Dana R. Ulloth (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986—$47.50/24.95)

THE TOLERANT SOCIETY: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXTREMIST SPEECH IN AMERICA by Lee C. Bollinger (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986—$19.95)

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COPYRIGHT LAU 1986 (922 pp.)

COUNSELING CLIENTS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY (793 pp.)     

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)     

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)     

Law and Policy

THE LAW OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION by Kent Middleton and Bill Chamberlin (New York: Longman, 1988—$34.95)

SEVEN DIRTY WORDS AND SIX OTHER STORIES: CONTROLLING THE CONTENT OF PRINT AND BROADCAST by Matthew Spitzer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986—$15.00)

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEREGULATION SOURCEBOOK edited by Stuart N. Brotman (Boston: Artech House, 1987—$60.00)

Besen, two Rand reports on intellectual property

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION: AN ENDANGERED RESOURCE OF THE ELECTRONIC AGE—THE FIRST ANNUAL STATE-OF-THE-ART INSTITUTE ( Special Libaries Assn, 1700 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009—$21.75, paper)     

The Information Age

A FEW GOOD MEN FROM UNIVAC by David E. Lundstrom (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987—$19.95)

DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES edited by Indu B. Singh and Vic M. Mishra (Norwood, N j: Ablex Publishing, 1987—$37.50)

HIGH-TECH SOCIETY: THE STORY OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION by Tom Forester (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987—$19.95)

THE IDEOLOGY OF THE INFORMATION AGE edited by Jennifer Daryl Slack and Fred Fejes (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1987—$37.50)

INNOVATION IN ELECTRONIC MAIL by Peter Vervest (Amsterdam and New York: Elsevier Science/North Holland, 1987—$61.00)     

International Communication

TRACING NEW ORBITS: COOPERATION AND COMPETITION IN GLOBAL SATELLITE DEVELOPMENT edited by Donna A. Demac (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986—$35.00)

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF COMSAT by Leland L. Johnson (Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp., 1987—price not given, paper)

TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS edited by Anne G. Keatley (1985—$19.95, paper, 306 pp.)

THE COMPETITIVE STATUS OF THE U.S. ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY IN DETERMINING INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (1984—$10.95, 126 pp.)

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER edited by John R. McIntyre and Daniel S. Papp (Westport, CT: Quorum Books/Greenwood Press, 1986—$45.00)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE USA by Albert Teich and Jill Pace (Detroit: Gale Research, 1986—$95)     

1. CBQ Review Essay: Tintin As An Unproductive Journalist,But A Wholesome Hero

TIME PASSAGES: COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE by George Lipsitz (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990—$14.95, paper, ISBN 0-8166-1806-2)

THE VOICE OF THE CITY: VAUDEVILLE AND POPULAR CULTURE IN NEW YORK by Robert W. Snyder (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989—$19.95, ISBN 0-19-505285-4)

IN THE NINETIES by John Stokes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989—$29.95, ISBN 0-226-77538-0) is complementary to Snyder's study (or vice-versa)

LITERACY AND POPULAR CULTURE: ENGLAND 1750-1914 by David Vincent (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-521-33466-7)

APPALACHIAN IMAGES IN FOLK AND POPULAR CULTURE edited by W.K. McNeil (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989—$44.95, ISBN 0-8357-1972-3)

POPULAR CULTURE by Albert Goldbarch (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-8142-0499-6)

POPULAR CULTURE: SCHOOLING AND EVERYDAY LIFE by Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. Simon (New York: Bergin &; Garvey, 1989—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-89789-186-4)

NO RESPECT: INTELLECTUALS AND POPULAR CULTURE by Andrew Ross (New York: Routledge, 1989-$13.95, paper, ISBN 0-415-90037-9)

BECOMING FEMININE: THE POLITICS OF POPULAR CULTURE edited by Leslie G. Roman and Linda K. Charistian-Smith (London: Falmer Press, 1988—$18,00, paper, ISBN 1-85000-329-7)

WARRIOR WOMEN AND POPULAR BALLADRY, 1650-1850 by Dianne Dugaw (London: Cambridge University Press, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-521-37254-2)     

New Media

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING PLUS: MEDIA FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE edited by Martin Greenberger (White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1985—$45.00/29.95)

NEWSPAPERS AND NEW MEDIA by David A. Patten (White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1986—$34.95/24.95)

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: A TELEVISION MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE by Paul Bortz, et al. (Washington, DC: National Association of Broadcasters, 1986—$40.00, paper)

VIDEO DEMOCRACY: THE VOTE-FROM-HOME REVOLUTION by Richard Hollander (Lomond Publications, P.O. Box 88, Mt. Airy, MD 21771—$14.95)

THE NEW TELEVISION TECHNOLOGIES by Lynne Schafer Gross (Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown, 1986—price not given, paper)

USING COMPUTERS: HUMAN FACTORS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS by Raymond S. Nickerson (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986—$22.50)

THE CULT OF INFORMATION: THE FOLKLORE OF COMPUTERS AND THE TRUE ART OF THINKING by Theodore Roszak (New York: Pantheon, 1986—$17.95)     

JournaIism

MAKING NEWS by Martin Mayer (New York: Doubleday, 1987—$18.95)

BAD NEWS AT BLACK ROCK: THE SELL-OUT OF CBS NEWS by Peter McCabe (New York: Arbor House, 1987—$17.95)

SHARED VULNERABILITY: THE MEDIA AND AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF THE BHOPAL DISASTER by Lee Wilkins (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987—$29.95)

SELLING SCIENCE: HOW THE PRESS COVERS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY by Dorothy Nelkin (New York: Freeman, 1987—$16.95)

COMMUNICATING POLITICS: MASS COMMUNICATIONS AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS edited by Peter Golding, et al. (New York: Holms & Meier, 1986 $35.00/17.50)

MAGAZINES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THEIR ANALYSIS, WITH ANNOTATIONS AND STUDY GUIDE by Fred K. Paine and Nancy E. Paine (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987—$62.50)

THE TRAINING AND HIRING OF JOURNALISTS by Lee B. Becker, et al. (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987—$29.50)

ETHICAL JOURNALISM by Philip Meyer (New York: Longman, 1987—$18.95, paper)     

5. Journalism

MANUFACTURING THE FUTURE: A HISTORY OF WESTERN ELECTRIC by Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999—$34.95, ISBN 0–521–65118–2, 270 pp., photos, appendices, notes, bibliographic essay, index)

HITLER'S AIRWAVES: THE INSIDE STORY OF NAZI RADIO BROADCASTING AND PROPAGANDA SWING by Horst J. P. Bermeier and Rainer E. Lotz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997—price not given, ISBN 0–300–06709–7, 368 pp., photos, notes, appendices, sources, index, compact disc inside back cover)

HOWARD AIKEN: PORTRAIT OF A COMPUTER PIONEER by I. Bernard Cohen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “History of Computing,”; 1999—$34.95, ISBN 0–262–03262–7, 329 pp., photos, appendices, source notes, index)

COMMUNICATION, COMMERCE AND POWER: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AMERICA AND THE DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE, 1960–2000 by Edward A. Comor (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–312–21071‐X, 253 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

THE GREAT RADIO SOAP OPERAS by Jim Cox (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999—$55.00, ISBN 0–7864–0589–9, 331 pp., photos, credits, appendices, annotated bibliography, index)

INFORMATION AGES: LITERACY, NUMERACY, AND THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION by Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998—$29.95, ISBN 0–818–5881‐X, 301 pp., photos, notes, bibliographic essay, index)

ENIAC: THE TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES OF THE WORLD'S FIRST COMPUTER by Scott McCartney (New York: Walker, 1999—price not given, ISBN 0–8027–1348–3, 262 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

MAXWELL ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD: A GUIDED STUDY by Thomas K. Simpson (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press “Masterworks of Discovery: Guided Studies of Great Texts in Science,”; 1997—prices not given, ISBN 0–8135–2362–1 hard, 0–8135–2363‐X paper, 440 pp., diagrams, selected readings, bibliography, index)

THE BRITISH LIBRARY GUIDE TO PRINTING: HISTORY AND TECHNIQUES by Michael Twyman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–8020–8179–7, 88 pp., further readings, illustrations, index)

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRINTED WORD IN EARLY AMERICA: COLONISTS’ THOUGHTS ON THE ROLE OF THE PRESS by Julie Hedgepeth Williams (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press “Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications, No. 55,”; 1999—$65.00, ISBN , 0–313–30923‐X, 298 pp., bibliography, index)     

Media Regulation

AMERICAN BROADCASTING AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT by Lucas A. Powe Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987—$25)

BEYOND BROADCASTING: PATTERNS IN POLICY AND LAW by Don R. Le Due (New York: Longman, 1987—price not given)

CABLE TELEVISION AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT by Patrick Parsons (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987—$24.00)

THE QUESTION OF PORNOGRAPHY: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS by Edward Donnerstein, et al. (New York: Free Press, 1987 $24.95)

PRIVACY IN A PUBLIC SOCIETY: HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICT by Richard F. Hixson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987—$19.95)     

Computers

COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS FOR AN INFORMATION AGE, by Gary Shelly and Thomas J. Cashman (Brea., Calif.: Anaheim Publishing, 1984—price not given, paper)

COMPUTERS: THE NON-TECHNOLOGICAL (HUMAN) FACTORS–A RECOMMENDED READING LIST ON COMPUTER ERGONOMICS & USER FRIENDLY DESIGN, edited by John L. Burch (The Report Store, 910 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 503, Lawrence, KS 66044–$34.95, paper)

HOW TO PREVENT COMPUTER CRIME: A GUIDE FOR MANAGERS, by August Bequai (New York: John Wiley, 1983–$27.95)

VIDEO DISPLAYS, WORK, AND VISION, by the National Research Council (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1983—price not given, paper)

MEMORIES THAT SHAPED AN INDUSTRY: DECISIONS LEADING TO ISM SYSTEM/360, by Emerson W. Pugh (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984—price not given)

HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING DEVICES, by Engineering Research Associates, Inc. (Los Angeles: Tomash Publishers–distribution by MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.—price not given)

THE COMPUTER COMES OF AGE: THE PEOPLE, THE HARDWARE, AND THE SOFTWARE, by Rene Monceau (Cambridge: - MIT Press, 1984—price not given)

FIRE IN THE VALLEY: THE MAKING OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER, by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2600 Tenth Street, Berkeley, Calif. 94710–$9.95, paper)

EXECUCOMP: MAXIMUM MANAGEMENT WITH THE NEW COMPUTERS, by F. Warren Benton (New York: John Wiley, 1983–$19.95)

ONLINE COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE, by Starr Roxanne Hiltz (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984—price not given)

INTRODUCTION TO LOCAL AREA COMPUTER NETWORKS, by K.C.E. Gee (New York: Wiley/Interscience, 1983–$16.95, paper)

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS: ISSUES, PRODUCTS, AND DEVELOPMENTS, by V.E. Cheong and R.A. Hirschheim (New York: Wiley/Interscience, 1983–$29.95)

BUSINESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS: BASIC CONCEPTS, SECURITY, AND DESIGN, by Jerry Fitzgerald (New York: John Wiley, 1984–$30.95)

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, edited by Forest W. Horton and Donald A. Marchand (Information Resources Press, 1700 N. Moore St., Arlington, VA 22209–$48.80 including postage)

ELECTRONIC ILLUSIONS: A SKEPTIC'S VIEW OF OUR HIGH-TECH FUTURE, by Ian Reinecke (New York: Penguin Books, 1984–$7.95, paper)     

World Communication

GLOBAL INFORMATION AND WORLD COMMUNICATION: NEW FRONTIERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by Hamid Mowlana (New York.: Longman, 1986—price not given)

IBM VS. JAPAN: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE FUTURE by Robert Sobel (Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein & Day, 1986—$18.95)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS—ASIA, AMERICAS, PACIFIC: PTC '86 PROCEEDINGS edited by Dan J. Uedemeyer (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986—$45.00, paper)

JAPANESE-U.S. SPACE POLICY ISSUES: COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE AND LAUNCH VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY by Neil W. Davis (Information Resources Policy Program, Harvard University, 200 Aiken, Cambridge, MA 01238—price not given, paper)

FROM TELECOMMUNICATIONS TO ELECTRONIC SERVICES: A GLOBAL SPECTRUM OF DEFINITIONS, BOUNDARY LINES AND STRUCTURES by Robert Bruce, et al (for information contact International Institute of Communications, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9LF)     

Media Policy and Regulation

ZECHARIAH CHAFEE, JR.: DEFENDER OF LIBERTY AND LAW by Donald L. Smith (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986—price not given)

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE by the editors of Broadcasting (1705 DeSales St. NW, Washington, DC 20036—$5.00, paper, with 20% discount for five or more)

MASS MEDIA LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS by Marc A. Franklin (Mineola, NY: Foundation Press, 1986—$33.95)     

Journalism

THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS by Charles Robertson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987—$35.00)

JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE MEDIA: THE FIRST TELEVISION PRESIDENT by Joseph P. Berry, Jr. (Lanhan, MD: University Press of America, 1987—$24.50/11.75)

WHEN YOU ARE THE HEADLINE: MANAGING A MAJOR NEWS STORY by Robert Irvine (Homewood, ILL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987—price not given)

NEWS: THE POLITICS OF ILLUSION by W. Lance Bennett (New York: Longman, 1988—$13.95, paper)     

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)