Books received

THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS VS. PUBLIC ACCESS. By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. New York: Praeger, 1976. 296 pp. $17.50 &; $6.95.

THE GOOD GUYS, THE BAD GUYS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: FREE SPEECH VS. FAIRNESS IN BROADCASTING. By Fred W. Friendly. New York: Random House, 1976. 268 pp. $10.00.

TUBE OF PLENTY: THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN TELEVISION. By Erik Barnouw. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. 518 pp. $14.95.

CLIVE: INSIDE THE RECORD BUSINESS. By Clive Davis with James Willwerth. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. 346 pp. $1.95 (paper).

CONTROL OF THE DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE: VALUES IN CONFLICT. By The Aspen Institute. Palo Alto, CA.: Aspen Institute, 1974. 156 pp. $3.00 (paper).

GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE POLICY: INTELSAT, POLITICS AND FUNCTIONALISM. By Joseph N. Pelton. Mt. Airy, MD.: Lomond Books, 1974. 183 pp. $14.50.

REGULATION AND CONTROL OF DIRECT BROADCASTING FROM SATELLITES: THE UN INVOLVEMENT. By Benno Signitzer. New York: Praeger, 1976. 112 pp. $12.50.

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE FIRST DECADE OF INTELSAT. By Marcellus S. Snow. New York: Praeger, 1976. 170 pp. $16.50.     

An annotated bibliography of articles on broadcasting law and regulation in law periodicals, 1920–1955

USING THE MASS MEDIA: COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. By Steven H. Chaffee and Michael J. Petrick. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1975. 264 pp. $6.95 (paper).

THE GREAT AMERICAN BLOW‐UP: PUFFERY IN ADVERTISING AND SELLING. By Ivan L. Preston. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 368 pp. $11.95.

TELEVISION AS A SOCIAL FORCE: NEW APPROACHES TO TV CRITICISM. Edited by Richard Adler. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. 171 pages. $15.00/$3.95.

RADIO BROADCASTING: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOUND MEDIUM. Edited by Robert L. Hilliard. New York: Hastings House 1974 (2nd ed.). 312 pp. $10.95/$6.95.

COURSE HANDBOOKS of the Practicing Law Institute. Titles as follows. New York: PLI, 1973–75. $20.00 each, with student price available (paper).

COMMUNICATIONS LAW: 1975. (Handbook 67) 835 pp.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CATV: 1974. (Handbook 56) 551 PP.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COPYRIGHT LAW: 1975. (Handbook 64–65, two volumes) 476 and 356 pp.

LEGAL AND BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY: 1975. (Handbook 63) 345 pp.

LEGAL AND BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY. (Handbook 37) 606 pp.

LEGAL AND BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF THE RECORD INDUSTRY: 1975. (Handbook 61) 603 pp.

PACKAGING FOR TELEVISION AND MOTION PICTURES. (Handbook 43) 312 pp.     

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)     

World Communication

WORLD BROADCASTING IN THE AGE OF THE SATELLITE by W. J. Howell, Jr. (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986—$45.00/27.50)

MEDIA IN COMPETITION: THE FUTURE OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN 22 COUNTRIES by George Wedell and Georg-Michael Luyken ($30.00, paper, 173 pp.)

LOCAL RADIO AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE by Philip Crookes and Patrick Vittet-Philippe ($26.00, paper “Media Monograph No. 7,” 162 pp.)

NEW MEDIA POLITICS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by Denis McQuail and Karen Siune (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1986—$40.00/14.95)

THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE GLOBAL SPREAD OF VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS AND PROGRAMMING by Gladys Ganley and Oswald Ganley (Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, 200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 price not given, paper)

XEROX: AMERICAN SAMURAI by Gary Jacobson and John Hillkirk (New York: Macmillan, 1986—$18.95)

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE—THE INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION: THE MEDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES by Gunnar Garbo (Paris: Unesco Communication Documentation Centre, [or, write Public Information, Unesco, 2 United Nations Plaza, Room 900, NY 10017] 1986(?)—price not given, paper)     

International Communications

THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA MACHINE by Martin Ebon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987—$22.95)

CLANDESTINE RADIO BROADCASTING: A STUDY OF REVOLUTIONARY AND COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION by Lawrence C. Soley and John S. Nichols (New York: Praeger, 1987—$47.95)

ASSIGNED TO LISTEN: THE EVESHAM EXPERIENCE, 1939–43 by Olive Renier and Vladimir Rubinstein (London: BBC External Services, 1986—L3.95, paper, plus 25% more to cover postage and packing outside of the U.K.)

INDEPENDENCE, LIBERATION, REVOLUTION: AN APPROACH TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE THIRD WORLD by Tran Van Dinh (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987—$37.50)

FOLLOWING THE FOOTPRINTS: PROTECTING FILM AND TV RIGHTS IN THE WORLD SATELLITE MARKETPLACE edited by Charles Firestone and Daniel Brenner (Communications Law Program, UCLA School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles 90024—price not given, paper)     

New books

PUBLIC SPEAKING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. By Giles Wilkeson Gray and Waldo W. Braden. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951; pp. xiv + 581. $4.00.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEAKING. By Wilbur E. Gilman, Bower Aly, and Loren D. Reid. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1951; pp. vx + 608. $4.00.

BASIC EXPERIENCES IN SPEECH. By Seth A. Fessenden and Wayne N. Thompson. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1951; pp. xii + 427. $3.75.

ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE: TECHNIQUES OF A FREE SOCIETY. By James H. McBurney, James M. O'Neill, and Glen E. Mills. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1951; pp. vii + 336. $3.50.

GROUP LEADERSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC ACTION. By Franklyn S. Haiman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951; pp. vii + 309. $2.50.

DISCUSSION AND DEBATE. By Henry Lee Ewbank and J. Jeffry Auer. Second Edition. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1951; pp. x + 492. $3.50.

DISCUSSION METHODS: By J. V. Garland. Third Edition Revised. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1951; pp. 376. $3.00.

CREATIVE BROADCASTING With Twelve Scripts for Broadcast. By H. J. Skornia, Robert H. Lee, and Fred Brewer. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1950; pp.x + 407. $4.50.

TEACHING SPEECH IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL. By Karl F. Robinson. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1951; pp. vii + 438. $4.00.

GERRIT J. DIEKEMA, ORATOR. By William Schrier. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1950; pp. xix + 269. $3.50.

A TREASURY OF THE THEATRE: From Agamemnon to A Month in the County. Edited by John Gassner. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951; pp. xvii + 718. $4.50.     

An Examination of Privacy Rules for Academic Advisors and College Student-Athletes: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective

HOW TO MAKE BETTER SPEECHES. By William G. Hoffman. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1948; pp. 266. $3.00.

YOU AND YOUR SPEECHES. By E. C. Buehler. (Revised edition) . Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press, 1949; pp. 266. $3.00.

ESSENTIALS OF COMMUNICATIVE SPEECH. By Robert T. Oliver, Dallas C. Dickey, and Harold P. Zelko. New York: The Dryden Press, 1949.

FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEECH. A Text‐Handbook of Principles and Methods. By Roy C. McCall. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. 240. $12.50.

PRACTICAL DEBATING. By Luther W. Courtney and Glenn R. Capp. New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1949; pp. xii: 308.

THE ART OF ACTING. By John Dolman, Jr. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1949; pp. xx + 313. $3.50.

LIVING LITERATURE FOR ORAL INTERPRETATION. By Moiree Compere. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1949; pp. xii + 451. $3.00.

HANDBOOK OF RADIO PRODUCTION. By Erik Barnouw. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1949; pp. xii + 324. $3.25.

VOICE AND DICTION. By Victor A. Fields and James F. Bender. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. ix + 368. $4.00.

SPEECH METHODS IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Carrie Rasmussen. New York: The Ronald Press, 1949; pp. 340. $3.50.

SPEECH IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Lorna Shogren Werner. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Co., 1947; pp. 222. $2.00.     

Books in review

DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN BROADCASTING. Edited by Frank J. Kahn. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1968. 598 pp. $4.95 (paper).

RADIO, TELEVISION AND AMERICAN POLITICS. By Edward W. Chester. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969. 342 pp. $7.50/3.45.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY. New York: Bantam Books, 1970. 700 pp. $1.65 (paper).

HOW TO TALK BACK TO YOUR TELEVISION SET. By Nicholas Johnson. Boston: Little‐Brown, 1970. ix+228 pp. $5.75. [re‐issued with added bibliographies and an index by Bantam Books, 1970. 245 pp. 95¢.]

MEDIA SOCIOLOGY: A READER. Edited by Jeremy Tunstall. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. x+574 pp. $12.50.

TELEVISION: SELECTIONS FROM “TV GUIDE” MAGAZINE. Edited by Barry G. Cole. New York: Free Press, 1970. 605 pp. $12.50/5.95.

INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATIONS. By Edwin Emery, Phillip H. Ault, and Warren K. Agee. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1970 (third edition). 444 pp. $8.95.

THE MASS MEDIA AND MODERN SOCIETY. By William L. Rivers, Theodore Peterson, and Jay W. Jensen. San Francisco: Rinehart Press, 1971 (second edition). 342 pp. $8.95.

THE COMMUNICATIVE ARTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA. By Charles S. Steinberg. New York: Hastings House, 1970. 371 pp. $10.00/6.00.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE BOOMING TECHNOLOGY. By Ronald Brown. New York: Doubleday, 1970. 191 pp. $5.95.

THE EMMY AWARDS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY. By Paul Michael and James Robert Parish. New York: Crown, 1970. 384 pp. $9.95.     

International Media

AMERICA'S OTHER VOICE: THE STORY OF RADIO FREE EUROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY by Sig Mickelson (New York: Praeger, 1983—price not given).

PRESS CONTROL AROUND THE WORLD edited by Jane Leftwich Curry and Joan R. Dassin (New York: Praeger, 1982—price not given).

METHODS FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH edited by William B. Gudykunst and Young Yun Kim (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications 1984—S28.00/$14.00).

A STUDY OF FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE VOICE OF AMERICA IN THE CHANGING WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING by John E. Ward, et al. (Research Program on Communications Policy, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139—$10.00, paper).     

Popular culture—Part 1 ‐ Gary Edgerton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

History

THE BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE: THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RADIO AND TELEVISION by Pat Weaver with Thomas M. Coffey (New York: Knopf, 1994—524.00, ISBN 0–679–40835–5, 276 pp.)

TELEVISION'S GREATEST YEAR: 1954 by R.D. Heldenfels (New York: Continuum, 1994— $24.95, 238 pp.)

TELECOM HISTORY (Telephone History Institute, Box 2818, Dublin, CA 94568–0818— $25.00 for first year, two issues, no ISSN given, 116 pp.)

THE TELEGRAPH: A HISTORY OF MORSE'S INVENTION AND ITS PREDECESSORS IN THE UNITED STATES by Lewis Coe (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994—$25.95, ISBN 0–89950–736–0, 184 pp.)

BYLINES IN DESPAIR: HERBERT HOOVER, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND THE U.S. NEWS MEDIA by Louis W. Liebovich (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994—552.95, ISBN 0–275–94843–9, 256 pp.)     

Propaganda

CUBAN-AMERICAN RADIO WARS: IDEOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Howard H. Frederick (Norwood, NJ : Ablex, 1986—$34.50)

IMPERIALISM, MEDIA, AND THE GOOD NEIGHBOR: NEW DEAL FOREIGN POLICY AND UNITED STATES SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING TO LATIN AMERICA by Fred Fejes (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986—$32.50)

PROPAGANDA AND PERSUASION by Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1986 price not given)

EXPORTING THE FIRST AMENDMENT: THE PRESS-GOVERNMENT CRUSADE OF 1945–1952 by Margaret A. Blanchard (New York: Longman, 1986—$39.95)

COMMUNICATION FOR ALL: NEW WORLD INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ORDER edited by Philip Lee (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986—$11.95, paper)

WESTERN BROADCASTING OVER THE IRON CURTAIN edited by K.R.M. Short (New York: t. Martin's Press, 1986—$32.50)     

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)     

7. German and Scandinavian Media Studies

CRITICAL IDEAS IN TELEVISION STUDIES by John Corner (New York: Oxford University Press “Oxford Television Studies,”; 1999—$52.00/19.95, ISBN 0–19–874221–5 hard, ISBN 0–19–874220–7 paper, 139 pp., references, index)

USES OF TELEVISION by John Hartley (London: Routledge, 1999—$75.00/22.99, ISBN 0–415–08508‐X hard, 0–415–08509–8 paper, 246 pp., figures and pictures, appendixes, references, index)

WAVES OF RANCOR: TUNING IN THE RADICAL RIGHT by Robert L Hilliard and Michael C. Keith (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe “Media, Communication, and Culture in America,”; 1999—$32.95, ISBN 0–7656–0131–1, 288 pp., appendices, notes, index)

THE HIDDEN SCREEN: LOW‐POWER TELEVISION IN AMERICA by Robert C. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999—prices not given, ISBN 0–7656–0419–1 hard, 0–7656–0420–5, 212 pp., photos, notes, further reading, index)

ACTIVE RADIO: PACIFICA'S BRASH EXPERIMENT by Jeff Land (St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press “Commerce and Mass Culture,”; 1999—$42.95/16.95, ISBN 0–8166–3156–5 hard, 0–8166–3157–3 paper, 179 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, program index, text index)

MAKING SENSE OF TELEVISION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AUDIENCE INTERPRETATION by Sonia Livingstone (London: Routledge “International Series in Social Psychology,”; 1998 [2nd ed.]—$85.00/25.99, ISBN 0–415–18623–4 hard, 0–415–18536‐X paper, 212 pp., tables, bibliography, author and subject indexes)

TELEVISION: A MEDIA STUDENT'S GUIDE by David McQueen (London: Arnold, 1998—$55.00/18.95, ISBN 0–340–719764 hard, 0–340–70604‐X paper, 275 pp., illustrations, suggested readings, index)

HANDBOOK ON RADIO AND TELEVISION AUDIENCE RESEARCH by Graham Mytton (New York: UNICEF House, 1999 [Rev. and expanded ed.]—$20.95, paper, ISBN 92–806–3393–7, 191 pp., appendices, bibliography, glossary, references)

A BROADCAST ENGINEERING TUTORIAL FOR NON ENGINEERS (Washington, DC: NAB, 1999 [2nd ed.]—$49.95/29.97, paper, ISBN 0–89324–275–6, 209 pp., diagrams, index)

DIGITAL TELEVISION IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY: OPPORTUNITIES FOR BROADCASTERS by A. T. Kearney (Washington, DC: NAB, 1998— $164.99/98.99, paper, ISBN 0–89324–316–7, about 100 pp., charts, tables, notes, glossary)

NAB ENGINEERING HANDBOOK edited by Jerry Whitaker, et al (Washington, DC: NAB, 1999 [9th ed.]—$379.95/228.00, ISBN 0–089324–258–6, 1,572 pp., charts, diagrams, tables, chapter references and bibliography, CD‐ROM disc, index)

STATION CONSOLIDATION: A TECHNICAL PLANNING GUIDE FOR RADIO STATIONS by the NAB Science &; Technology Department (Washington, DC: NAB, 1997—$89.95/53.97, paper, ISBN 0–89324–311–6, 80 pp., diagrams, maps, appendices)

TOWER SITE REGULATION HANDBOOK by the NAB Science &;. Technology Department (Washington, DC: NAB, 1998—$99.95/59.95, paper, ISBN 0–89324–312–4, 533 pp., tables, diagrams, appendices)

UNITED STATES RBDS STANDARD: SPECIFICATION OF THE RADIO BROADCAST DATA SYSTEM (RBDS) by the National Radio Systems Committee of the Electronic Industries Association and the National Association of Broadcasters (Washington, DC: NAB, 1998—$49.95/29.97, paper, no ISBN provided, 202 pp., diagrams, tables, glossary, annexes)

RACE IN SPACE: THE REPRESENTATION OF ETHNICITY IN STAR TREK AND STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION by Micheal C. Pounds (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999—$32.50, ISBN 0–8108–3322–0, 252 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index)

PLAYERS ALL: PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY SPORT by Robert E. Rinehart (Bloomington: Indiana University Press “Drama and Performance Studies,”; 1998—$35.00 /15.95, ISBN 0–253–33426–8 hard, 0–253–21223–5 paper, 188 pp., notes, index)

DIRECTING FOR TELEVISION: CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN TV DIRECTORS by Brian G. Rose (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999—$32.50, ISBN 0–8108–3591–6, 227 pp., index)

BROADCASTING FREEDOM: RADIO, WAR, AND THE POLITICS OF RACE, 1938–1948 by Barbara Dianne Savage (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press “John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture,”; 1999—$45.00/18.95, ISBN 0–8078–2477–1 hard, 0–8078–4804–2 paper, 391 pp., illustrations, photos, notes, bibliography, and index)

TELEVISION AND NEW MEDIA AUDIENCES by Ellen Seiter (New York: Oxford University Press “Oxford Television Studies,”; 1999—$65.00/19.95, ISBN 0–19–871152–5 hard, 0–19–871141–7 paper, 154 pp., photos, bibliography, index)

UNTOUCHABLES by Tise Vahimagi (London: British Film Institute, 1998 [available from Indiana University Press]—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–563–4, 112 pp., photographs, index)     

Electronic Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)     

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.)     

Books in review

PRIME TIME: THE LIFE OF EDWARD R. MURROW. By Alexander Kendrick. Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. 548 pp. $8.95.

BROADCASTING AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. Edited by John H. Pennybacker and Waldo W. Braden. New York: Random House, 1969. x +176 pp. $2.50 (paper).     

New books

LANGUAGE ‐ MAN ‐ SOCIETY: READINGS IN COMMUNICATION. Ed. Harold E. Briggs. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1949; pp. xv + 707. $3.50.

THE ART OF FORCEFUL SPEAKING. By Richard C. Reager. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1949; pp. xvi + 302. $1.49.

HOW TO PUT YOUR IDEAS ACROSS. By Richard W. Wetherill. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1949; pp. x + 435. $2.75.

PUBLIC SPEAKING WITHOUT FEAR AND TREMBLING. By Mark Hanna. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. 166. $2.75.

BASIC PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Paul L. Soper. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949; pp. xxi + 394. $2.50.

HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. Revised Edition. By A. R. Thompr son. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949; pp. xix + 177. $1.50.

BASIC TRAINING IN SPEECH. Brief Edition. By Lester Thonssen and Howard Gilkinson. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1949; pp. 249. $2.25

HOW TO TALK MORE EFFECTIVELY. By Jean Bordeaux and T. W. Tanaka. Chicago: American Technical Society, 1949; pp. x + 218. $2.75.

DEMOCRACY THROUGH DISCUSSION. By Bruno Lasker. New York: The W. H. Wilson Co., 1949; pp. xvii + 376. $3.50.

THE HUMAN NATURE OF PLAYWRITING. By Samson Raphaelson. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. viii + 267. $4.00.

PLAY PRODUCTION AND DIRECTION. By C. Lowell Lees. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1948; pp. xiii + 311. $5.00.

HOW TO SPEAK THE WRITTEN WORD. By Nedra Newkirk Lamar. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1949; pp. 175. $2.50.

THE ART OF GOOD SPEECH. By Dwight Bolinger and Ralph Weiman. 4 v. Philadelphia: Russell Press, 1948; pp. 159. $9.50.

GENERAL SPEECH: AN INTRODUCTION. By A. Craig Baird and Franklin H. Knower. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1949; pp. ix + 500. $3.50.

PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR BUSINESS. By William G. Hoffman. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1949; pp. xiii + 412. $3.50.

THE LANGUAGE OF WISDOM AND FOLLY: BACKGROUND HEADINGS IN SEMANTICS. Ed. Irving J. Lee. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1949; pp. xxii + 361. $3.00.     

U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS: OUR 21st ANNUAL REVIEW

TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: VULNERABLE VALUES IN WEST EUROPEAN BROADCASTING edited by Jay G. Blumler (London: Sage, 1992—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–8650–5, 242 pp.)

DYNAMICS OF MEDIA POLITICS: BROADCAST AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by Karen Siune and Wolfgang Truetzschler (London: John Libbey, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8039–8574–6, 306 pp.)

RADIO 2000: THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RADIO SERVICES IN EUROPE by George Wedell and Philip Crookes (London: John Libbey, 1991— , paper, ISBN 0–948195–28–2, 274 pp.)

THE FUTURE FOR HDTV IN EUROPE by Michael Niblock (Manchester, England: European Institute forthe Media/London: John Libbey, 1991— , paper, ISBN 0–948195–32–0, 162 pp.)

SMALL NATIONS, BIG NEIGHBOR: DENMARK AND QUEBEC, CANADA COMPARE NOTES ON AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE edited by Roger de la Garde, William Gilsdorf, and Ilja Wechselmann (London: John Libbey, 1993—$36.00, ISBN 0–86196–343–1, ISSN 0956–9057, 335 pp.)

AID FOR CINEMATOGRAPHIC AND AUDIO‐VISUAL PRODUCTION IN EUROPE by Jean‐Noel Dibie (London: John Libbey, 1993—$60,000, ISBN 0–86196–397–0, 214 pp.)

THE BBC: 70 YEARS OF BROADCASTING by John Cain (BBC Publications, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA—about $16.00, ISBN 0‐ 563–36750–4, 160 pp.)

RESEAUX: THE FRENCH JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION (English ed.) (John Libbey, 13 Smiths Yard, Summerley St., London SW18 4HR, England—$90 institutions/$45 individuals, twice a year, ISSN 0969–9864)

MASS MEDIA IN GREECE byThimiosZaharopoulos and Manny E. Paraschos (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993—$45,00, ISBN 0–275–94106‐X, 240 pp.)

OFFICE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1992 ANNUAL REPORT (London: HMSO, 1993—L16.80, paper, ISBN 0–10–271893–8, 148 pp.)