European and international communication

THE MEDIA IN WESTERN EUROPE: THE EUROMEDIA HANDBOOK by the Euromedia Group (London: Sage Publications “Communications in Society,”; 1997 [2nd ed.]—price not provided, ISBN 0–7619–5405–8 hard, 0–7619–5406–6 paper, 274 pp., tables, references, index)

TELEVISION UNDER THE TORIES: BROADCASTING POLICY 1979–1997 by Peter Goodwin (London: British Film Institute; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998—$55.00/24.95, ISBN 0–85170–613–4 hard, 0–85170–614–2 paper, 248 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF TELEVISION IN CHINA: THE EVOLUTION OF IDEOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND MEDIA SINCE THE REFORM by Junhao Hong (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–275–95998–8, 165 pp., tables, 1956–96 chronology, bibliography, index)

MEDIA IN EUROPE: THE YEARBOOK OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR THE MEDIA 1998 edited by Jo Langham‐Brown (The European Institute for the Media, Kaistrasse 13, D‐40221 Düsseldorf, Germany—price not given, paper, ISBN 3–929673–30–4, 338 pp., tables, maps, charts, notes)

TELEVISION AND CULTURE: POLICIES AND REGULATIONS IN EUROPE by Emmanuelle Machet and Serge Robillard (Düsseldorf, Germany: The European Institute for the Media, 1998—35 DM, paper, ISBN 3–929673–29–0, 182 pp., tables, notes, bibliography)

1998 GLOBAL TELECOMS TAX PROFILES: A RESOURCE FOR BUSINESS, TAX AND MARKET STRATEGIES edited by Dennis J. McCarthy, et al. (New York: John Wiley, 1998 [2nd ed.]—$150, paper, ISBN 0–471–31841–8, about 500 pp., tables, index)

CAPITALISM AND THE INFORMATION AGE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE GLOBAL COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION edited by Robert W. McChesney, et al. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998— $43.00/16.00, ISBN 0–85345–988–6 hard, 0–85345–989–4 paper, 254 pp., notes, index)

STRUCTURAL AND REGULATORY CHANGES AND GLOBALIZATION IN POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES: THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIMENSION (Geneva: International Labour Organization “Report for Discussion at the Tripartite Meeting...,”; 1998—17.50 Swiss francs, paper, ISBN 92–2‐110966–6, 90 pp., tables, charts, bibliography)

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS: WORLD DATA FLOWS, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AND THE EUROPEAN PRIVACY DIRECTIVE by Peter P. Swire and Robert E. Litan (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1998—$39.95, ISBN 0–8157–8240–3, 269 pp., notes, table, index)

ELECTRONIC EMPIRES: GLOBAL MEDIA AND LOCAL RESISTANCE edited by Daya Kishan Thussu (London: Arnold/New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$75.00/19.95, ISBN 0–340–71895–1 hard, 0–340–71896‐X paper, 310 pp., tables, charts, notes, references, index)

TRANSFORMING ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE CHANGING ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN AN ERA OF TELECOM DEREGULATION by Michael Tyler (Geneva: ITU “Briefing Report, Regulatory Colloquium No. 7,”; 1998—60 Swiss francs, paper, ISBN 92–61–06751–4, 120 pp., tables, charts, notes, appendices, glossary, bibliography)

WORLD COMMUNICATION REPORT: THE MEDIA AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES by Lotfi Maherzi (1998—about $50.00, paper, ISBN 92–3‐103428–6, 298 pp., photos, tables, charts, notes, bibliography, glossary)

WORLD INFORMATION REPORT 1997/98 edited by Yves Courrier and Andrew Large (1997—about $52.00, paper, ISBN 92–3‐103341–7, 390 pp., photos, tables, charts, index)     

Telecommunications policy

TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY: THE NEW LANDSCAPE edited by Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997—$30.00/15.00, ISBN 0–262–01162‐x hard, 0–262–51101–0 paper, 325 pp., diagrams, notes, index)

PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Fred H. Cate (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997—prices not given, ISBN 0–8157–1316–9 hard, 0–8157–1315–0 paper, 248 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index)

PRIVACY ON THE LINE: THE POLITICS OF WIRETAPPING AND ENCRYPTION by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998—$30.00/15.00, ISBN 0–262–04167–7 hard, 0–262–54100–9 paper, 360 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index)

COMPETITION AND COOPERATION: FROM BIOLOGY TO BUSINESS REGULATION by P. H. Longstaff (October 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–879716–51–8, Paper P‐98–4, 58 pp., charts, notes, glossary, bibliography)

UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF ELECTRONIC MONEY: THE MISSING FACTOR IN POLICY by Supriya Singh (November 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–86444–758–2, 25 pp., charts, tables, notes, acronyms)

KNOWLEDGE AS A STRATEGIC BUSINESS RESOURCE by William H. Read (January 1999—price not given, ISBN 1–879716–53–4, 27 pp., tables, notes)

SEMINAR ON INTELLIGENCE, COMMAND, AND CONTROL: GUEST PRESENTATIONS, FALL 1997 (January 1999—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–879716–54–2, 186 pp., diagrams, tables, notes)

THE WORLD WIDE WEB: A MASS COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVE by Barbara K. Kaye and Norman J. Medoff (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1999—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–7674–0030–5, 404 pp., chapter links, references, charts, tables, appendix, glossary, index)

STATE UNIVERSAL FUNDING AND POLICY: AN OVERVIEW AND SURVEY by Edwin A. Rosenberg and John D. Wilhelm (September 1998— price not given, paper, NRRI 98–20, 84 pp., tables, notes, appendix)

QUALITY‐OF‐SERVICE AND MARKET IMPLICATIONS OF ASYMMETRIC STANDARDS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Michael Clements (October 1998—price not given, paper, NRRI 98–24, 32 pp., tables, figure, notes)

A TIME SERIES AND CROSS‐SECTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF STATE REGULATORY POLICY ADOPTED FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS; DIVESTITURE TO PRESENT (1984–1998) by Jaison R. Abel and Michael E. Clements (December 1998—price not given, paper, NRRI 98–25, 107 pp., tables, references)

A COMPILATION OF “BEST PRACTICES”; TO IMPLEMENT THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 by Bob Rowe and Vivian Witkind Davis (April 1999—price not given, paper, NRRI 99–07, 100 pp.)

DIGITAL CAPITALISM: NETWORKING THE GLOBAL MARKET SYSTEM by Dan Schiller (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999—$29.95, ISBN 0–262–19417–1, 294 pp., notes, index)     

Telecommunications policy

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIO‐ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT edited by Stuart Macdonald and Gary Madden (Amsterdam: North‐Holland, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–444–82648–3, 444 pp., tables, notes, index)

DEVELOPMENTS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BETWEEN GLOBAL AND LOCAL edited by Edward Mozley Roche and Henry Bakis (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1997—price not given, ISBN 1–85972–418–3, 345 pp., figures, maps, tables, appendices, references)

COORDINATING TECHNOLOGY: STUDIES IN THE INTERNA‐ TIONAL STANDARDIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Susanne K. Schmidt and Raymund Werle (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “Inside Technology,”; 1998—$32.50, ISBN 0–262–19393–0, 365 pp., photos, diagrams, notes, references, index)     

Technology and culture

INTERFACE CULTURE: HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMS THE WAY WE CREATE AND COMMUNICATE by Steven Johnson (San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997‐$24.00, ISBN 0–06–251433–4, 272 pp., index)

IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY: ART AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS edited by Mary Anne Moser with Douglas MacLeod (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997‐$22.50, ISBN 0–262–63183–0, 368 pp., technical glossary, 64 illustrations, 18 in color)

INTERNET DREAMS: ARCHETYPES, MYTHS, AND METAPHORS by Mark Stefik (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996‐$30.00/$15.00, ISBN 0–262–19373–6 hard, 0–262–69202–3 paper, 412 pp., further reading, sources, contributors, index)

POSTMORTEM FOR A POSTMODERNIST by Arthur Asa Berger (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press/Sage, 1997‐$36.00/17.95, ISBN 0–8039–8910–2 hard, 0–8039–8911–0 paper, 184 pp., cartoons, bibliography, index)

THE NETWORKED SOCIETY: HOW TECHNOLOGIES ARE TRANSFORMING MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: A Report of The Fifth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, Aspen, Colorado, August 15–18, 1996 by David Bollier and Charles M. Firestone (Washington: The Aspen Institute, 1997‐$10.00, ISBN 0–89843–213–8, 43 pp., endnotes, appendix)

THE McDONALDIZATION OF SOCIETY: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE by George Ritzer (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997 [2nd ed.]—$17.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–9076–6 hard, 0–8039–9077–4 paper, 265 pp., bibliography, index)

PARCHMENT, PRINTING, AND HYPERMEDIA: COMMUNICATION IN WORLD ORDER TRANSFORMATION by Ronald J. Deibert (New York: Columbia University Press “New Directions in World Politics,”; 1997‐$49.50/$ 17.50, paper, ISBN 0–231–10712–9 hard, 0–231–10713–7 paper, 329 pp., illustrations, charts, index)

BEYOND THE HORIZON: COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE by Stephen Lax (Luton, England: John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press, 1997—price not given, ISBN 1–860–20514–3 paper, 133 pp., technical illustrations, index)

CYBERSCHOOLS: AN EDUCATION RENAISSANCE by Glenn R. Jones (Englewood, MA: Jones Digital Century, Inc., 1997—$19.95, ISBN 1–885400–60–8, 180 pp., appendices, index)

THE ORYX GUIDE TO DISTANCE LEARNING: A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF ELECTRONIC AND OTHER MEDIA‐ASSISTED COURSES by William E. Burgess (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1997 [2nd ed.]—$98.50, ISBN 1–57356–073–1, 497 pp.)

THE U.S. ALL MEDIA E‐MAIL DIRECTORY: COMMUNICATE VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL WITH MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, TV AND RADIO MEDIA AND CONTACTS NATIONWIDE by Paul J. Krupin (Kennewick, WA: Direct Contact Publishing, 1997‐$49.00, ISBN 1–885035–03–9, 229 pp., index)

THE RISE, DECLINE, AND RENEWAL OF SILICON VALLEY'S HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY by Dan M. Khanna (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1997‐$52.00, ISBN 0–8153–2724–2, 182 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index)

THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWLEDGE‐BASED RESOURCES IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY by Russell W. Wright (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1997‐$37.00, ISBN 0–8153–2785–4, 108 pp., tables, diagrams, bibliography, index)

MOTHS TO THE FLAME: THE SEDUCTIONS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY by Gregory J. E. Rawlins (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997‐$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–262–68097–1, 184 pp., subject index)

TIME DETECTIVES: HOW SCIENTISTS USE MODERN TECHNOLOGY TO UNRAVEL THE SECRETS OF THE PAST by Brian Fagan (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995‐$14.00, paper, ISBN 0–684–81828–0, 288 pp., index)

COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Gerald Sussman (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997‐$56.00/$27.95, ISBN 0–8039–5139–6 hard, 0–8039–5140‐x paper, 317 pp., tables, references, subject index)

THE NEW COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES by Michael M.A. Mirabito with contributions by Barbara Morgenstern (Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1997 [3rd ed.]—$32.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80258–6, 256 pp., index)

COORDINATING THE INTERNET edited by Brian Kahin and James H. Keller (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “Publication of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project,”; 1997‐$25.00, paper, ISBN 0–262–11230–2 hard, 0–262–61136–8 paper, 491 pp., glossary of acronyms, tables, charts, notes, index)

THE INTERNET & WORLD WIDE WEB: THE ROUGH GUIDE by Angus J. Kennedy (London and New York: Rough Guides [distribution by Penguin Group], 1997‐$8.95, paper, ISBN 1–85828–288–8, 432 pp., illustrations, index)

TELECOMMUTING: MODELING THE EMPLOYER'S AND THE EMPLOYEE'S DECISION‐MAKING PROCESS by Adriana Bernardino (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1996‐$46.00, ISBN 0–8153–2723–4, 169 pp., tables, charts, references survey instruments, index)     

A. Reference

THE GORDIAN KNOT: POLITICAL GRIDLOCK ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY by W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, and Richard Jay Solomon (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997—$20.00, ISBN 0–262–14061–6, 324 pp., notes, references, index)

PERSUASION AND PRIVACY IN CYBERSPACE: THE ONLINE PROTESTS OVER LOTUS MARKETPLACE AND THE CLIPPER CHIP by Laura J. Gurak (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997—$25.00, ISBN 0–300–06963–4, 181 pp., appendix on doing research on the Internet, notes, glossary, references, index)

PROTECTING YOURSELF ONLINE: THE DEFINITIVE RESOURCE ON SAFETY, FREEDOM AND PRIVACY IN CYBERSPACE by Robert B. Gelman with Stanton McCandlish (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1998—$15.00, paper, ISBN 0–06–25151–8, 210 pp., charts, appendix, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEREGULATION by James Shaw (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Artech House Telecommunications Library,”; 1998—$69.00, ISBN 0–89006–960–3, 394 pp., diagrams, appendices, glossary, index)

FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by J. Gregory Sidak (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1997— $29.95, ISBN 0–226–75626–2, 443 pp., notes, bibliography, appendix, index)

THE TWENTY‐ONE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT STATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY by Thomas W. Bonnett (Washington: Council of Governors’ Policy Advisors; distribution by National Governors’ Association [voice: 301–498–3738], 1997—$10.00, paper, ISBN not provided, 126 pp., notes, tables, references)

EXEMPT TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES AND SOME STATE COMMISSION REGULATORY IMPLICATIONS OF ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE CONVERGENCE by Robert E. Burns ("NRRI 97–21,”; September 1997, 27 pp., table, notes)

PRIVATIZATION OF STATE‐OWNED UTILITY ENTERPRISES: THE ALASKA CASE REVISITED THIRTY YEARS LATER by Douglas N. Jones and Bradford H. Tuck ("Occasional Paper, No. 21, NRRI 97–24,”; November 1997, 36 pp., tables, notes)

ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION: ENSURING THE RELEVANCE OF PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONS by David W. Wirick, et al. ("NRRI 98–06,”; February 1998, 116 pp, charts, tables, notes)

PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD CABLE TELEVISION: THE ECONOMICS OF RATE CONTROLS by Thomas W. Hazlett and Matthew L. Spitzer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “AEI Series in Telecommunications Deregulation,”; 1997—$32.50, ISBN 0–262–08253–5, 253 pp., charts, tables, glossary, references, index)     

German Communication Books

REFLECTIONS ON AND BY MARSHALL MCLUHAN: FORWARD THROUGH THE REARVIEW MIRROR edited by Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997—$25.00, paper, ISBN 0–262–52233–0, 208 pp., photographs, sources)

CONDUCTING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH: CRITICAL THEORY, NEO‐PRAGMATISM, AND RHETORICAL INQUIRY by Omar Swarz (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$41.95/19.95, ISBN 0–7619–0498–0 hard, ‐7619–0499–9 soft, 198 pp., notes, references, index)

PUBLIC RELATIONS HISTORY: FROM THE 17TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY by Scott M. Cutlip (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995—$59.95/ 32.50, ISBN 0–8058–1780–8 hard, 0–8058–1779–4, paper, 300 pp., notes, index)

PUBLISHING BOOKS edited by Everett E. Dennis, et al. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997—$19.95, paper, ISBN 1–56000–905–5, 167 pp.)

ORGANIZATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE by Christopher Spicer (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997—$79.95/36.00, ISBN 0–8058–1837–5 hard, 0–8058–1838–3 paper, 324 pp., tables, references, notes)     

B. Telephone

DEMOCRATIZING COMMUNICATION? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION AND POWER edited by Mashoed Bailie and Dwayne Winseck (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press “The Hampton Communication Series,”; 1997—$85.00/32.50, ISBN 1–57273–064–1 hard, 1–57273‐O65‐X paper, 450 pp., photos, tables, charts, notes, references, index)

INTERNATIONAL MEDAI RESEARCH: A CRITICAL SURVEY edited by John Corner, Philip Schlesinger, and Roger Silverstone (London/New York: Routledge, 1997—$100.00/24.00, ISBN 0–415–09035–0 hard 0–415–18496–7 paper, 238 pp., notes, index)

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY OF BRITISH BROADCASTING by Andrew Crisell (London and New York: Routledge, 1997—£12.99 [paper], ISBN 0–415–12802–1 hard, 0–415–12803‐X paper, 280 pp., bibliography, index, chapter recommended readings)

THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY RESEARCH SERIES (CRC Press, 2000 Corporate Blvd. NW, Boca Raton, FL 33431) offers three volumes on important Asian countries. Specifically:

THE KOREAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Michael Pecht, et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3172–2, 126 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES by Donald Beane et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3171–4, 103 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Chung‐Shing Lee and Michael Pecht (1997—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3170–6, 157 pp., tables, charts, references).

EUROPEAN MEDIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW (Media Group, Business Research &; Development Centre, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland [fax: 011–358–2‐3383–515 or e‐mail: mmr@tukkk.fi ]‐$195.00 per year/5 issues, ISSN not given, first issue January 1998)

CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION: EASTERN PERSPECTIVES edited by David French and Michael Richards (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage “Communication and Human Values,”; 1996—$52.00/24–95, ISBN 0–8039–9282–3 hard, 0–8039–9283–1 paper, 371 pp., references, tables and figures, index)

TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Andrew Hart (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum “LEA's Communication Series,”; 1998—prices not given, ISBN 0–8058–2476–6 hard, 0–8058–2477–4 paper, 208 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index)

GETTING TO WAR: PREDICTING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT WITH MASS MEDIA INDICATORS by W. Ben Hunt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997—$49.50, ISBN 0–472–10751–8, 304 pp., tables, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RESTRUCTURING WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS WORLDWIDE edited by Harry C. Katz (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press “Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, No. 32,”; 1997— $49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8014–3286–3 hard, 0–8014–8361–1 paper, 401 pp., tables, notes, references, index)

SECRET STATE SILENT PRESS: NEW MILITARISM, THE GULF AND THE MODERN IMAGE OF WARFARE by Richard Keeble (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1997—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–860–20–539, 222 pp., bibliography, index)

EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION: WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? edited by Manfred Meyer (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media “Communication Research and Broadcasting, No. 12,”; 1997—$32.00 paper, ISBN 1–86020–528–3, 246 pp., photos, tables, diagrams, notes, abbreviations)

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION edited by Ali Mohammadi (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$75.00/26.95, ISBN 0–7619–5553–4 hard, 0–7619–5554–2 paper, 228 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASI edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1997—$55.00, ISBN 0–19–510202–9, 244 pp., tables, charts notes, references, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1998—$65.00, 1SBN0–19–510200–2, 265 pp., tables, chapter references, index)

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR GOVERNMENT (Paris: Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development “STI: Science, Technology, Industry,”; 1997—$9.00 paper, ISBN 92–64–15512–0, 84 pp., annex, notes)

MEDIA COURSES UK edited by Lavinia Orton (London: British Film Institute/Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997 [5th ed.]—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–649–5, 230 pp., appendices, index)

MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: NATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, AND U.S. PERSPECTIVES by Emmanuel E. Paraschos (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1998—$44.95, ISBN 0–8138–2807–4, 288 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK ‘98: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE (European Audiovisual Observatory, 76 Allee de la Robertsau, F‐67000 Strasbourg, France—890ff or about $150.00, paper, ISBN 92–871–3590–8, 412 pp., charts, tables, notes)

CHANGING CHANNELS—THE PROSPECTS FOR TELEVISION IN A DIGITAL WORLD edited by Jeanette Steemers (Luton, England: John Libbey Media, University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, ISBN 1–86020–544–5, 156 pp., figures, bibliography, index)

NETWORK COMPETITION FOR EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Oliver Stehmann (Oxford University Press, 1995—£40.00, ISBN 0–19–828925–1, 327 pp., figures, tables, glossary, index)     

Books and publishing

RECIPES FOR READING: COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS, STORIES, HISTORIES edited by Anne L. Bower (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997‐$45.00, ISBN 1–558–49088–4, 271 pp., photographs, bibliographical references)

FROM A SINGLE WINDOW: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PRESS, 1947–1997 by Maurice Hungiville (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998‐no price available, ISBN 0–8701–3429–9, 150 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT: ACCESS IN THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY edited by Maureen Pastine (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1997–149.95, ISBN 0–7890–0385–6, 225 pp., bibliographies), is an uneven collection of contributed essays co‐published as a special issue of the journal Collection Management (22: 1–2, 1997).

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER edited by Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996‐price not given, ISBN 0–262–16157–5, 363 pp., notes, index)     

6. GENERAL COMMUNICATION

MONOPOLY AND COMPETITION IN BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE by John Harper (London, Pinter, 1997 L50.00, ISBN 1–85567–455–6, 240pp, foreword, figures, notes glossary, index, appendices)

CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS: WORLDWIDE MARKET DEVELOPMENT by Garry A. Garrard (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Mobile Communications Series,”; 1997—$85.00, ISBN 0–89006–923–9, 514 pp., tables, charts, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS TAKE‐OFF IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES edited by Karl‐Ernst Schenk, Jorn Kruse and Jurgen Muller (Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1997— L37.50, ISBN 1–85972–572–4, 252 pp., tables, charts, glossary, index)

MASS COMMUNICATION IN JAPAN by Ann Cooper‐Chen with Miiko Kodama (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997—$39.95, ISBN 0–8138–2710–8, 276 pp., tables, photos, time‐line, references, index)

MASS MEDIA IN REVOLUTION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ROMANIAN LABORATORY by Peter Gross (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1996—$42.95, ISBN 0–8138–2670–5, 224 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index)     

British and European communications

EUROPE'S NETWORK INDUSTRIES: CONFLICTING PRIORITIES by Lars Bergman, et al. (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research “Monitoring European Deregulation 1,”/Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998—$25.00, paper, ISBN 1–898128–37–5, 258 pp., tables, charts, notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

GERMAN COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK edited by Hans‐Bernd Brosius and Christina Holtz‐Bacha (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999—$26.50, paper, ISBN 1–57273–296–2, 304 pp., tables, charts, references)

A DECADE OF EU BROADCASTING REGULATION: THE DIRECTIVE “TELEVISION WITHOUT FRONTIERS”; by Emmanuelle Machet (Düsseldorf, Germany: The European Institute for the Media, 1999—DM 20.00, paper, ISBN 929673–33–9, 100 pp., tables, notes, bibliography)

CONVERGENCE IN EUROPEAN DIGITAL TV REGULATION edited by Chris Marsden and Stefaan Verhulst (London: Blackstone Press “Law in Its Social Setting,”; 1999—£19.95, paper, ISBN 1–85431–990–6, 247 pp., notes, references, index)

MEDIA POLICY: CONVERGENCE, CONCENTRATION & COMMERCE edited by Denis McQuail and Karen Siune (London: Sage, 1998—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–7619–5940–8, 231 pp., charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index)

TELEVISION AND THE PRESS SINCE 1945 by Ralph Negrine (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press”; Documents in Contemporary History,”; 1998; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999—$79.95/24.95), ISBN 0–7190–4920–2 hard, 0–7190–4921–0 paper, 212 pp., tables, bibliography, references)

THE MEDIA IN BRITAIN: CURRENT DEBATES AND DEVELOPMENTS edited by Jane Stokes and Anna Reading (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999—$59.95, ISBN 0–312–22528–8 [St. Martin's], 316 pp., charts, tables, references, index)     

7. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE WEB

HISTORY OF THE MASS MEDIA IN THE UNITED STATES edited by Margaret A. Blanchard (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998—price not given, ISBN 1–57958–012–2, 752 pp., photos, bibliographies, index)

MANIPULATING THE ETHER: THE POWER OF BROADCAST RADIO IN THIRTIES AMERICA by Robert J. Brown (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998— $45.00, ISBN 0–7864–0397–7, 312 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, sources of broadcast recordings, index)

SALANT, CBS, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM: THE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD S. SALANT edited by Susan and Bill Buzenberg (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998—$27.00, ISBN 0–8133–9091–5, 326 pp., photos, chronology, index)

FATHER CHARLES E. COUGHLIN: SURROGATE SPOKESMAN FOR THE DISAFFECTED by Ronald H. Carpenter (Westport, CT: Greenwood “Great American Orators No. 28,”; 1998—$69.50, ISBN 0–313–29040–7, 224 pp., bibliography, index)

A HISTORY OF MODERN COMPUTING by Paul E. Ceruzzi (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “History of Computing,”; 1998—$35.00, ISBN 0–262–03255–4, 398 pp., photos, tables, notes, bibliography, index)

ELECTRONIC INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES: ELECTRONICS FROM ITS EARLIEST BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY by G.W.A. Dummer (Bristol, England and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997 [4th ed]—$40.00, paper, ISBN 0–7503–0493–6, 284 pp., charts, tables, diagrams, bibliography, index)

ON THE AIR: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD‐TIME RADIO by John Dunning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–19–507678–8, 822 pp., index)

RUBEN SALAZAR: BORDER CORRESPONDENT, SELECTED WRITINGS, 1955–1970 edited by Mario T. García (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998—$18.95, paper, ISBN 0–520–21385–8, 283 pp., index)

EDISON: A LIFE OF INVENTION by Paul Israel (New York: John Wiley, 1998—$30.00, ISBN 0–471–52942–7, 552 pp., photos, diagrams, notes, index)

THE AIRWAVES OF NEW YORK: ILLUSTRATED HISTORIES OF 156 AM STATIONS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA, 1921–1996 by Bill Jaker, Frank Sulek, and Peter Kanze (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–7864–0343–8, 205 pp., photos, bibliography, index)

ROUGH NEWS, DARING VIEWS: 1950s’ PIONEER GAY PRESS JOURNALISM by Jim Kepner (Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press “Gay and Lesbian Studies,”; 1998—$49.95/24.95, ISBN 0–7890–0140–3 hard, 0–56023–896–8 paper, 462 pp., notes, index)

BLACKLISTED: A JOURNALIST'S LIFE IN CENTRAL EUROPE by Paul Lendvai (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998—$39.95, ISBN 1–86064–268–3, 213 pp. photos, index)

THE COMMERCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE: SELECTIONS FROM THE TATLER AND THE SPECTATOR edited by Erin Mackie (New York: St. Martin's Press “Bedford Cultural Editions,”; 1998—$45.00, ISBN 0–312–16371–1, 617 pp., selected bibliography)

THE DECADE THAT SHAPED TELEVISION NEWS: CBS IN THE 1950s by Sig Mickelson (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—$39.95, ISBN 0–275–95567–2, 242 pp., photos, notes, index)

MATHEW BRADY AND THE IMAGE OF HISTORY by Mary Panzer with an essay by Jeana K. Foley (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997—$39.95, ISBN 1–56098–793–6, 232 pp., illustrations, chronology, notes, appendix, index)

THE CORONA PROJECT: AMERICA'S FIRST SPY SATELLITES by Curtis Peebles (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997—price not given, ISBN 1–55750–688–4, 351pp., photos, notes, index)

EDISON'S KINETOSCOPE AND ITS FILMS: A HISTORY TO 1896 by Ray Phillips (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press “Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture No. 65,”; 1997—price not given, ISBN 0–313–30508–0, 209 pp., photos, diagrams, bibliography, index)

REPORTING VIETNAM: AMERICAN JOURNALISM 1959–1975 (New York: The Library of America, 1998—$35.00 each or $70.00 for the set, two vols., chronologies, notes, photos, glossary of military terms, index; as follows:)

Part One: 1959–1969 (ISBN 1–883011–58–2, 858 pp.)

Part Two: 1969–1975 (ISBN 1–883011–59–0, 857 pp.)

HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF WAR JOURNALISM edited by Mitchel P. Roth (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997—$85.00, ISBN 0–313–29171–3, 496 pp., appendices, index)

TEXAS SIGNS ON: THE EARLY DAYS OF RADIO AND TELEVISION by Richard Schroeder (College Station: Texas A&;M University Press “Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students No. 75,”; 1998—$29.95, ISBN 0–89096–813–6, 247 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

THE DAYS OF LIVE: TELEVISION'S GOLDEN AGE AS SEEN BY 21 DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA MEMBERS edited by Ira Skutch (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press “Directors Guild of America Oral History No. 16,”; 1998—$49.50/26.00, ISBN 0–8108–3491‐X hard, 0–8108–3492–8 paper, 211 pp., index)     

Motion pictures

THE FILMS OF MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI by Peter Brunette (New York: Cambridge University Press “Cambridge Film Classics,”; 1998—$49.95/paper price not given, ISBN 0–521–38085–5 hard, 0–521–38992–5 paper, 186 pp., selected bibliography, filmography, notes, photos, index)

BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN: NEW ESSAYS ON THE WESTERN edited by Edward Buscombe and Roberta E. Pearson (London: British Film Institute, 1998—$60.00/22.50, ISBN 0–85170–660–6 hard, 0–85170–661–4 paper, 218 pp., chapter notes, photos, color advertising plates, index)

REPRESENTING THE WOMAN: CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS by Elizabeth Cowie (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997—$18.95 paper, ISBN 0–8166–2913–7 hard, 0–8166–2913–7 paper, 397 pp., chapter notes, photos, index)

TRACKING KING KONG: A HOLLYWOOD ICON IN WORLD CULTURE by Cynthia Erb (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press “Contemporary Film and Television Series,”; 1998—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–8143–2686–2, 238 pp., bibliography, chapter notes, index)

IMAGES OF THE PASSION: THE SACRAMENTAL MODE IN FILM by Peter Fraser (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—$65.00/22.95, ISBN 0–275–96464–7 hard, 0–275–96465–5 paper, 201 pp., bibliography, filmography, chapter notes, photos, index)

DOCUMENTING THE DOCUMENTARY: CLOSE READINGS OF DOCUMENTARY FILM AND VIDEO edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998—$27.50, paper, ISBN 0–8143–2639–0, 488 pp., film and video distributors’ address list, chapter notes, general bibliography, index)

HOLLYWOOD RENAISSANCE: THE CINEMA OF DEMOCRACY IN THE ERA OF FORD, CAPRA, AND KAZAN by Sam B. Girgus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998—$59.95/paper price not given, ISBN 0–521–62388‐X hard, 0–521–62552–1 paper, 258 pp., index, chapter notes, filmography, B&W photos)

IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN: CONTEMPORARY FEMALE FRIENDSHIP FILMS by Karen Hollinger (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998—$47.95/18.95, ISBN 0–8166–3177–8 hard, 0–8166–3178–6 paper, 275 pp., chapter notes, photos, index)

INDIGENOUS AESTHETICS: NATIVE ART MEDIA AND IDENTITY by Steven Leuthold (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998—$35.00/16.95, ISBN 0–292–74702–0 hard, 0–292–74703–9 paper, 238 pp., bibliography, filmography, photos, index)

PASSPORT TO HOLLYWOOD: HOLLYWOOD FILMS, EUROPEAN DIRECTORS by James Morrison (Albany: State University of New York Press “SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture,”; 1998—$65.00/21.95, ISBN 0–7914–3937–2 hard, 0–7914–3938–0 paper, 310 pp., bibliography, chapter notes, photos, index)

EDISON MOTION PICTURES, 1890–1900: AN ANNOTATED FILMOGRAPHY by Charles Musser (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998—$75.00, ISBN 1–56098–567–4, 720 pp., illustrations, bibliography, indexes for film titles, personal and corporate names, subjects, and locations)

THE FILMS OF JOHN FRANKENHEIMER: FORTY YEARS IN FILM: JOHN FRANKENHEIMER TALKS ABOUT HIS LIFE IN THE CINEMA TO GERALD PRATLEY by Gerald Pratley (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 1–900541–40–8, 294 pp., photos, film credits, index)

SAVAGE CINEMA: SAM PECKINPAH AND THE RISE OF ULTRAVIOLENT MOVIES by Stephen Prince (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998— $35.00/18.95, ISBN 0–292–76581–9 hard, 0–292–76582–7 paper, 282 pp., bibliography, chapter notes, photos, index)

FOR THE LOVE OF PLEASURE: WOMEN, MOVIES, AND CULTURE IN THE TURN‐OF‐THE‐CENTURY CHICAGO by Lauren Rabinovitz (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998—$49.00/19.00, ISBN 0–8135–2533–0 hard, 0–8135–2534–9 paper, 233 pp., film index, bibliography, chapter notes, photos, index)

REALITY TRANSFORMED: FILM AS MEANING AND TECHNIQUE by Irving Singer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998—$25.00, ISBN 0–262–19403–1, 216 pp., notes, photos, index)

THE NEW HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY by Anthony Slide (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–8108–3426‐X, 267 pp., resource libraries and institutions addresses, index)

FRAMING LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA: CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Ann Marie Stock (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press “Hispanic Issues, Vol. 15,”; 1997—$47.95/18.95, ISBN 0–8166–2972–2 hard, 0–8166–2973–0 paper, 269 pp., chapter notes, photos, index)

MODES OF REPRESENTATION IN SPANISH CINEMA edited by Jenaro Talens and Santos Zunzunegui (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press “Hispanic Issues, Vol. 16,”; 1998—$54.95/21.95, ISBN 0–8166–2974–9 hard, 0–8166–2975–7 paper, 346 pp., chapter notes, index)

WORKING GIRLS: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN POPULAR CINEMA by Yvonne Tasker (New York: Routledge, 1998—hardcover price not given/$19.99, ISBN 0–415–14004–8 hard, 0–415–14005–6 paper, 234 pp., bibliography, chapter notes, filmography, photos, index)

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NOVELS INTO FILM edited by John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh (New York: Facts on File, 1998—$48.00, ISBN 0–8160–3317‐X, 522 pp., filmographies, references, appendices including biographical sketches of authors, selected bibliography, index)

GUIDE TO AMERICAN CINEMA, 1930–1965 by Thomas R. Whissen (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press “Reference Guides to the World's Cinema,”; 1998—$79.50, ISBN 0–313–29487–9, 389 pp., appendixes, bibliography, index)

ALLEGORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS IN MODERN BRAZILIAN CINEMA by Ismail Xavier (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997—$54.95/21.95, ISBN 0–8166–2676–6 hard, 0–8166–2677–4 paper, 285 pp., chapter notes, photos, index)     

4. PROPAGANDA

RESIDENTIAL BROADBAND by George Abe (Indianapolis: Macmillan Technical Publishing “Cisco Press Design and Implementation Series,”; 1997—$55.00, ISBN 1–57870–020–5, 500 pp., charts, graphs, acronyms list [inside covers], appendix directory of companies, index)

INTRODUCTION TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ENGINEERING by Tarmo Anttalainen (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Communications Library,”; 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–984–0, 297 pp., diagrams, chapter problem and review sets, references, index)

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS: STANDARDS, REGULATION, AND APPLICATIONS by Rudi Bekkers and Jan Smits (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Mobile Communications Series,”; 1998—$95.00, ISBN 0–89006–806–2, 467 pp., diagrams, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index)

HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS, PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING by Dimitris Chorafas (Basingstoke: Macmillan “Business,”; 1997—£45.00, ISBN 0–333–66683–6, 340 pp., figures, tables, charts, list of contacts, index)

DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING: TECHNOLOGY, STANDARDS, AND REGULATIONS by Ronald de Bruin and Jan Smits (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Digital Audio and Video Library,”; 1999—$73.00, ISBN 0–89006–743–0, 315 pp., diagrams, references, glossary, index)

FROM TALKING DRUMS TO THE INTERNET: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY by Robert Gardner and Dennis Shortelle (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC‐Clio, 1997—$65.00, ISBN 0–87436–832–4, 355 pp., photos, diagrams, references, bibliography, index)

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE edited by August E. Grant and Jennifer Harman Meadows (Woburn, MA: Focal Press, 1998 [6th ed.]—$35.00, paper, ISBN 0–240–80326–4, charts, diagrams, tables, notes, chapter bibliographies, glossary)

ISDN EXPLAINED: WORLDWIDE NETWORK AND APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY edited by John M. Griffiths (Chichester, England and New York: John Wiley, 1998 [3rd ed.]—$74.95, ISBN 0–471–97905–8, 291 pp., charts, tables, notes, glossary, index)

DICTIONARY OF COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: TERMS, DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS by Gilbert Held (New York: John Wiley, 1998 [3rd ed.]—$160.00, paper, ISBN 0–471–97517–6, 672 pp., tables, charts, appendices)

RESIDENTIAL BROADBAND: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO THE BATTLE FOR THE LAST MILE by Kim Maxwell (New York: Wiley, 1998—$39.99, paper, ISBN 0–471–25165–8, 390 pp., diagrams, tables, bibliography, index)

MAKING MICROCHIPS: POLICY, GLOBALIZATION, AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY by Jan Mazurek (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “Urban and Industrial Environments,”; 1999—$30.00, ISBN 0–262–13345–8, 245 pp., charts, references, index)

UNDERSTANDING MODERN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY by John G. Nellist and Elliott M. Gilbert (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1999—$49.00, ISBN 0–89006–322–2, 285 pp., photos, diagrams, charts, chapter bibliographies, glossary, index)

WORLD‐CLASS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE DEVELOPMENT by Ellen Ward (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Telecommunications Library,”; 1998—$59.00, ISBN 0–89006–922–0, 260 pp., diagrams, acronyms list, index)

UNDERSTANDING CELLULAR RADIO by William Webb (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Mobile Communications Series,”; 1998—$59.00, ISBN 0–89006–994–8, 283 pp., diagrams, glossary, index)     

Communication

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: VISIONS AND REALITIES edited by William H. Dutton (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996— price not given, ISBN 0–19–877459–1 hard, 0–19–877496–6 paper, 464 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index)

ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS by J. Vernon Jensen (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997—$49.95/ 27.50, ISBN 0–8058–2035–3 hard, 0–8058–2036–1 paper, 236 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TEXT ANALYSIS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: METHODS FOR DRAWING STATISTICAL INFERENCES. FROM TEXTS AND TRANSCRIPTS edited by Carl W. Roberts (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997—$74.50/ 34.95, ISBN 0–8058–1734–4 hard, 0–8058–1735–2 paper, 316 pp., charts, notes, references, index)

TOTAL PROPAGANDA: FROM MASS CULTURE TO POPULAR CULTURE by Alex Edelstein (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997—$79.95/29.95, ISBN 0–8058–0892–2 hard, 0–8058–0892–2 paper, 345 pp., notes, index)

RELIGION, AND CULTURE by Stewart M. Hoover and Knut Lundby (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997‐$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–7619–0171‐X, 332 pp.. notes, index)     

3. HISTORY

MEGAMEDIA: HOW GIANT CORPORATIONS DOMINATE MASS MEDIA, DISTORT COMPETITION AND ENDANGER DEMOCRACY by Dean Alger (Lanham, MD: Rowman &; Littlefield, 1998—$27.95, ISBN 0–8476–8389–3, 277 pp., cartoons, notes, index)

UNDER THE RADAR: TALKING TO TODAY'S CYNICAL CONSUMER by Jonathan Bond and Richard Kirshenbaum (New York: Wiley “Adweek Books,”; 1998—$27.95, ISBN 0–471–17469–6, 226 pp., photos, credits, index)

MEDIA IN AMERICA: THE WILSON QUARTERLY READER edited by Douglas Gomery (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 [rev. ed.]—$40.00/17.95, ISBN 0–943875–86–2 hard, 0–943875–87–0 paper, 303 pp., index)

THE ADVERTISING AGENCY BUSINESS: THE COMPLETE MANUAL FOR MANAGEMENT &; OPERATION by Eugene J. Hameroff (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1998 [3rd ed.]—$39.95, ISBN 0–8442–3169‐x, 275 pp., index)

MEDIA MANAGEMENT: A CASEBOOK APPROACH by Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, et al. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates “LEA's Communication Series,”; 1998 [2nd ed.]—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8058–3026‐X, 383 pp., tables, notes, references, index)

GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS: LABOR IN THE MAKING OF THE “INFORMATION SOCIETY”; edited by Gerald Sussman and John Lent (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press “Communication Series,”; 1998—$65.00, ISBN 1–57273–171–0, 317 pp., map, charts, tables, references, index)

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ECONOMICS: A GUIDE FOR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS by Harold L. Vogel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 [4th ed.]—$39.95, ISBN 0–521–59438–3, 490 pp., charts, tables, chapter readings, references, glossary, appendices, index)

MEDIA MERGERS edited by Nancy J. Woodhull and Robert W. Snyder (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books “Media Studies Series,”; 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–7658–0409–3, 184 pp., charts, further reading, index)     

Popular and critical studies

FACING DIFFERENCE: RACE, GENDER, AND MASS MEDIA edited by Shirley Biagi and Marilyn Kern‐Foxworth (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997—$27.95, ISBN 0–8039–9094–4 soft, 285 pp., tables, charts, illustrations, notes, references, index)

THE CIVIL WAR IN POPULAR CULTURE: A REUSABLE PAST by Jim Cullen (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997—$13.95, paper, ISBN 1–56098–687–7, 254 pp., illustrations, notes, index)

AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE AT HOME & ABROAD edited by Lewis H. Carlson and Kevin B. Vichcales (Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press, 1996—$40.00/20.00, ISBN 0–932826–42–3 hard, 0–932826–43–1 soft, 388 pp., footnotes)

DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE: THE JFK ASSASSINATION IN ART AND FILM by Art Simon (Philadelphia: Temple University Press “Culture and the Moving Image,”; 1996—$49.95/18.95, ISBN 1–56639–378–7 hard, 1–56639–379–5 soft, 265 pp., illustrations, notes, index)

IN THE ZONE: THE TWILIGHT WORLD OF ROD SERLING by Peter Wolfe (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997— $39.95/19.95, ISBN 0–87972–729–2 hard, 0–87972–730–6 soft, 217 pp., works cited, index)     

Foreign communications

JAPANESE CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: CRITICAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS by Ray T. Donahue (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998—$59.00/39.50, ISBN 0–7618–1248–2 hard, 0–7618–1249–0 paper, 377 pp., notes, references, index)

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE: 1999 EDITION by the European Audiovisual Observatory (Strasbourg, France: European Audiovisual Observatory, 1999— 900ff or about $160, paper, ISBN 92–871–3885–0, 415 pp., tables, charts, notes, bibliography)

MODERN HISTORY OF INDIAN PRESS by Sunit Ghosh (New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1998—no price available, ISBN 81–7020–697–9, 394 pp., index)

ASIAN COMMUNICATION HANDBOOK edited by Anura Goonasekera and Duncan Holaday (Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre and School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 1998—$65.00, ISBN 9971–905–65–5, 446 pp.)

PUBLIC PURPOSES IN BROADCASTING: FUNDING THE BBC edited by Andrew Graham (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1999—£10.95, paper, ISBN 1–86020–561–5, 168 pp., tables, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN AFRICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1999—$75.00, ISBN 0–19–510201–0, 306 pp., tables, chapter bibliographies, index)

LIBERALIZING THE EUROPEAN MEDIA: POLITICS REGULATION AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE by Shalini Venturelli (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998—£50.00, ISBN 0–19–823379–5, 316 pp., index, bibliography)     

Communications

CONGLOMERATES AND THE MEDIA by Erik Barnouw, et al. (New York: The New Press, 1998‐$23.00, ISBN 1–56584–386‐X, 190 pp., photos, notes)

THE MEDIA IN QUESTION: POPULAR CULTURES AND PUBLIC INTERESTS by Kees Brants, Joke Hermes, and Liesbet van Zoonen (London: Sage, 1998‐$26.50, paper, ISBN 0–7619–5723–5, 184 pp., references, index)

POLITICS IN WIRED NATIONS: SELECTED WRITINGS OF ITHIEL DE SOLA POOL edited by Lloyd S. Etheredge (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998‐$44.95, ISBN 1–56000–344–8, 395 pp., tables, figures, notes, bibliography of Pool's works, index)

FREE EXPRESSION AND CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA by Herbert N. Foerstel (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997‐$65.00, ISBN 0–313–29231–0, 260 pp., table of cases, bibliography, index)

BANNED IN THE MEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO CENSORSHIP IN THE PRESS, MOTION PICTURES, BROADCASTING, AND THE INTERNET by Herbert N. Foerstel (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998‐price not given, ISBN 0–313–30245–6, 252 pp., notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

MEDIAMAKING: MASS MEDIA IN A POPULAR CULTURE by Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998‐$31.95, ISBN 0–7619–1177–4, paper, 442 pp., diagrams, boxed features, references, index)

SEMINAR ON INTELLIGENCE, COMMAND, AND CONTROL: GUEST PRESENTATIONS, SPRING 1997 (Incidental paper 1–98–2, April 1998, ISBN 1–879716–47‐X, 220 pp.)

AT THE HEART OF EVOLVING LITERACY: A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION by Morris L. Ernst (Publication P‐97–3, December 1997, ISBN 1–879716–44–5, 115 pp.)

STANDARDS FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES by David J. Goodman (Publication P‐98–1, April 1998, ISBN 1–879716–46–1, 64 pp.)

CONTEXT FOR DECISIONS: GLOBAL AND LOCAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ISSUES by Anthony Oettinger (Incidental Paper I‐98–1, January 1998, ISBN 1–879716–3, 23 pp.)

PLUNKETT'S ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA INDUSTRY ALMANAC by Jack W. Plunkett (Houston, TX: Plunkett Research, 1998‐$149.99, ISBN 0–9638268–6‐7, 626 pp., tables, index)

MEDIA LITERACY by W. James Potter (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998‐price not given, paper, ISBN 0–7619–0925–7, 406 pp., tables, boxed features, references, annotated chapter guides to further reading, index)

MEDIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW edited by Charles Warner (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997‐$39.50/22.50, ISBN 0–8058–1787–5 hard, 0–8058–1788–3 paper; 197 pp., tables, notes, index)     

6. FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL

TELECOM REFORM: PRINCIPLES, POLICIES AND REGULATORY PRACTICES by edited by William H. Melody (Lyngby, Denmark: Den private Ingeniørfond, Technical University of Denmark, 1997‐$39.00, paper, ISBN 7–7381–071–1, 557 pp., tables figures notes, index, glossary, appendix)

RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL: VOICE OF A MIDDLE POWER by James L. Hall (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, “Canadian Series No. 7,”; 1997—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–87013–420–5, 295 pp., photos, notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

BITS ACROSS BORDERS: POLICY CHOICES FOR INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL SERVICES: A Report of the Second Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on International Telecommunications, Berlin, Germany, June 19–22, 1996, by Kenneth G. Robinson and Charles M. Firestone (Queenstown, MD: The Aspen Institute, 1997—$10.00, ISBN 0–89843–208–1, 55 pp., appendix)

IT'S A WIRED WORLD by Anne C. Leer (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press [Universitetsforlaget], 1996—L27.50, ISBN 82–00–42310–7, 188 pp., figures, appendices, notes, glossary)

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNICATION: RETHINKING AND RENEWAL by Vincent Mosco (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996—$39.95/13.95, ISBN 0–8039–8560–6 hard, 0–8039–8561–4 paper, 320 pp., figures, tables, notes, index)

EBU YEARBOOK 1997 (Geneva: European Broadcasting Union, 1997—free by contacting the EBU, no ISSN given, 52 pp., tables, charts, photos)

LIVE, DIRECT AND BIASED? MAKING TELEVISION NEWS IN THE SATELLITE AGE by Brent MacGregor (London: Arnold/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997—prices not given, ISBN 0–340–66224–7 hard, 0–340–66225–5 paper, 234 pp., table, references, index)

GLOBAL INFORMATION AND WORLD COMMUNICATION: NEW FRONTIERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by Hamid Mowlana (London: Sage, 1997 [2nd ed.] $29.95, ISBN 0–7619–5256‐X hard, ISBN 0–7619–5257–8 soft, 270 pp., figures, selected bibliography, index)