Book reviews

Interactive Television. TV of the future or the Future of TV Eds. Jens F. Jensen & Cathy Toscan, Media & Cultural Studies 1, Aalborg University Press, Aalborg, Denmark, 1999, ISBN 87–7307–625–2 / ISSN 1399–1752 http://www.forlag.auc.dk/en/

Killer Content: Strategies for Web Content and E‐Commerce written by Mai‐Ian Tomsen. Addison‐Wesley, 2000, 224 pages, ISBN: 0201657864. http://www.aw.com

The Business of Digital Television written by Chris Forrester. Focal Press, Oxford, Auckland, Boston, Johannesburg, Melbourne, New Delphi, 2000. ISBN 0 240 51606 0. http://www.focalpress.com     

Book reviews

Access Denied in the Information Age edited by S. Lax, Palgrave, 2001, 236 pages, ISBN: 0 333 92019 8, http://www.palgrave.com/

Managing in the Media written by Peter Block (editor), W. Houseley, T. Nicholls, R. Southwell. Focal Press 2001, 388 pages, ISBN 0240515994, http://www.focalpress.com

Mobilising the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity written by Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller, Oxford University Press, 2000, 516 pages, ISBN 0198295561, http://www.oup.com

Electronic Media Law and Regulation 3rd edition written by Kenneth C. Creech, Focal Press, 2000, 336 pages, ISBN 0240803590, http://www.focalpress.com     

Book reviews

Foundations of Communications Policy written by Philip M. Napoli. Hampton Press, Inc., 2001., Pp. viii, 344. ISBN 1-57273-343-8

Branding @ the Digital Age written by Herbert M. Meyers and Richard Gerstman (Eds.). Palgrave, 2001. 178 pages. ISBN 0-333-94769-X. http://www.palgrave.com

The Eleven Immutable Laws of Internet Branding written by Al Ries and Laura Ries. Harper Business Publications, New York, 2000, 175 pages. ISBN 00601196211. http://www.harpercollins.com     

Book review

Handbook of telecommunications economics, volume I. structure, regulation & competition. Cave, M., Majumdar; S. & Vogelsang (eds.). Elsevier Science, B.V., 2002, 726 pages, ISBN 0–444–50389–7, www.elsevier.com

Cost proxy models and telecommunications policy. Farid Gasmi, D. Mark Kennett, Jean‐Jacques Laffont, William W. Sharkey. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2002, 275 pages, ISBN 0–262–7237–8

Media institutions and audiences: Key concepts in media studies by Nick Lacey. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2002, 275 pages, ISBN 0–262–7237–8. Palgrave, 2002, 235 pages, ISBN 0–333–65870–1, www.palgrave.com

Copyright in the cultural industries edited by Ruth Towse. Edward Elgar, 2002, 263 + xxii pages, ISBN 1–84064–661–6, www.e‐elgar.co.uk

Telecommunications management. Industry structures and planning structures. by Richard A. Gershon. 365 pages, ISBN 0–8058–3002–2, www.erlbaum.com

Understanding media economics by Gillian Doyle. Sage Publications, 2002, vii +184 pages, ISBN 07619 6874

Media and power by James Curran. Routledge, London and New York, 2002, 308 pages, ISBN 0–415–07740–0, www.routledge.com     

Literacy,Culture and History

The World on Paper. David R. Olson. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 318 + xix pages. ISBN: 0–521–44311–3.     

Libraries and reference

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE [website] (http://www.afionline.org), reviewed 9 June 1999.

GOING DIGITAL: STRATEGIES FOR ACCESS, PRESERVATION, AND CONVERSION OF COLLECTIONS TO A DIGITAL FORMAT edited by Donald L. DeWitt (New York: Haworth Press, 1998—$45.00, ISBN 0–7890–0521–2, 232 pp., index)

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION [website] (http://www.eff.org), reviewed 17 April 1999. Founded in 1990 by John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor (of Lotus 1–2‐3 fame)

FACT: FIRST AMENDMENT CYBER‐TRIBUNE [website] (http://w3.trib.com/FACT), reviewed 17 April 1999. FACT is hosted by Wyoming's Casper Star‐Tribune and edited by Charles Levendosky (a columnist and editor for that newspaper)

THE HISTORY CHANNEL [website] (http://www.historychannel.com), reviewed 11 June 1999.

THE NATURE OF THE BOOK: PRINT AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE MAKING by Adrian Johns (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998—$40.00/no paper price, ISBM 0–226–40121–9 hard, 0–226–40122–7 paper, 753 pp., bibliography, index)

K.I.S.S. OF THE PANOPTICON [website] (http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu /panop/home.htm), reviewed 12 May 1999.

THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES SITE (MCS): CONSTRUCTIVISM AT WORK [website] (http://www.aber.ac.uk/‐dgc/media.html), reviewed 23 April 1999.

MEDIA AWARENESS NETWORK [webstite] (http://www.media‐awareness.ca/), reviewed 11 March 1999.

CIVIC SPACE/CYBERSPACE: THE AMERICAN PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999—$30.00, ISBN 0–262–13346–6, 259 pp., appendix, notes, bibliographical references, index)

RADIO VATICAN CITY [website] (http://www.wrn.org/vatican‐radio/), reviewed 12 May 1999.

SARAH ZUPKO'S CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER [website] (http://www.popcultures.com/), reviewed 12 May 1999.     

Book review

Stay tuned. A history of American broadcasting, Third Edition written by Christopher H. Sterling and John Michael Kittross. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, London, 2002, 975 pages, ISBN 0–8058–2624–6, www.erlbaum.com

Media Ownership, written by Gillian Doyle. Sage, London, 2002, ISBN 007619–6680–3/007619–6681–1 (pbk)

Internet management issues: A global perspective, edited by John D. Haynes. Idea Publishing Group, 2002, 340 pages, ISBN 1–930708–21–1, www.idea-group.com     

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.)     

Foreign/International Communication

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

History

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

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

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

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

Television

PLAYING DOCTOR: TELEVISION, STORYTELLING, AND MEDICAL POWER by Joseph Turow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989—$24.95, ISBN 0-19-504490-8)

COMIC VISIONS: TELEVISION COMEDY AND AMERICAN CULTURE by David Marc (Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman [formerly Allen & Unwin], 1989—$10.95, paper, ISBN 0-04-445285-3)

NERVOUS LAUGHTER: TELEVISION SITUATION COMEDY AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC IDEOLOGY by Darrell Y. Hamamoto (New York: Praeger, 1989—$39.95, ISBN 0-275-92861-6)

INSIDE GILUGANS ISLAND: FROM CREATION TO SYNDICATION by Sherwood Schwartz (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988—$29.95, ISBN 0-89950-339-X)

THE CRITICS' CHOICE-THE BEST OF TV SITCOMS by John Javna (New York: Harmony Books, 1988—$8.95, paper, ISBN 0-517-56922-1)

TELEVISION STUDIES: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS edited by Gary Bums and Robert Thompson (New York: Praeger, 1989—$39.95, ISBN 0-275-92745-8)

THE USE AND ABUSE OF TELEVISION: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGING SCREEN by J. Mallory Wober (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988—$34.50, ISBN 0-89859-662-9)

AMERICA'S WATCHING: 30TH ANNIVERSARY 1959-1989 actually issued by the now-defunct Television Information Office, but distributed through NAB)

TELEVISION IN TRANSITION: THE VALUE OF BROADCAST TELEVISION IN A CHANGING MARKETPLACE by Philip Jursek and Norman Hecht (1989—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-89-324-067-2)

NAB GUIDE TO ADVANCED TELEVISION SYSTEMS

TELEVISION STATION OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT edited by Robert Hilliard (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1989—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0-240-80027-3)

THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION TV by John Javna (New York: Harmony Books, 1989—$8.95, paper, ISBN 0-517-56650-8)

CATALYST IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST is the name of the 1988 CPB annual report (Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1111 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington DC 20036—free on request, paper)

EXPLORING CAREERS IN VIDEO by Paul Allman (New York: Rosen, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-8239-1018-0)     

Motion Pictures (Our 19th Annual Review)

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

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

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

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

Telecommunications technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hoover's,Inc.

Abstract

Introduction. Reviewed by Judith M. Nixon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Communications Industries

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

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

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

Communication History

PRINTERS AND PRESS FREEDOM: THE IDEOLOGY OF EARLY AMERICAN JOURNALISM by Jeffery A. Smith (New York: Oxford, 1987—$24.95: ISBN 0-19-505144-0)

COMMUNICATIONS AND HISTORY: THEORIES OF MEDIA, KNOWLEDGE, AND CIVILIZATION by Paul Heyer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988—$37.95: ISBN 0-313-26157-1)

WHEN OLD TECHNOLOGIES WERE NEW: THINKING AB0UT COMMUNICATIONS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Carolyn Marvin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988 $34.50: ISBN 0-19-50*4468-1)     

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)     

11. JOURNALISM

THE AMERICAN BOOK BUYERS STUDY “conducted and prepared”; by Bruno and Ridgway Research Associates for Publishers Weekly and the Book Industry Study Group (New York: Cahners Publishing Company, September 1997—$295.00, paper [additional copies $60.00 for BISG voting Members, $80.00 for BISG non‐voting members], ISBN 0–940016–68–0, approximately 550 pages [various pagings], tables, charts, appendixes)

BOOKS, BRICKS &; BYTES: LIBRARIES IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY, edited by Stephen R. Graubard and Paul LcClerc (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction, 1998—$24.95 paper, ISBN 1–56000–986–1, 361 pp.)

BOOKNOTES: AMERICA'S FINEST AUTHORS ON READING, WRITING, AND THE POWER OF IDEAS by Brian Lamb (New York: Times Books, 1997— $15.00, paper, ISBN 0–8129–3029–0, 426 pp., illustrations, appendix, index)

EXPERIMENTATION AND COLLABORATION: CREATING SERIALS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group 12th Annual Conference edited by Charlene N. Simser and Michael A. Somers (New York: Haworth Press, 1998—$69.95, ISBN 0–7890–0525–5, 442 pp., index)     

History

AM STEREO AND THE FCC: CASE STUDY OF A MARKETPLACE SHIBBOLETH by Mark J. Braun (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994—$39.50/19.50, ISBN 0–89391–966–7 hard, 0–56750–000–5, paper, 216 pp.)

PHILCO RADIO 1928–1942: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR RADIOS by Ron Ramirez and Michael Prosise (Schiffer Publishing, 77 Lower Valley Rd., Rt. 372, Atglen, PA 19310—$29.50, paper, ISBN 0–88740–547–9, 188 pp.)

SEE IT NOW CONFRONTS McCARTHYISM: TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION by Thomas Rosteck (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–8173–0705–2, 247 pp.)

THE HOUSE THAT ROONE BUILT: THE INSIDE STORY OF ABC NEWS by Marc Gunther (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994— $23.95, ISBN 0–316–33151–1, 381 pp.)

SCIENCE OF COERCION: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH & PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE 1945–1960 by Christopher Simpson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–19–507193‐X, 204 pp.)

FIGHTING FOR AIR: IN THE TRENCHES WITH TELEVISION NEWS by Liz Trotta (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1994—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8262–0952–1, 399 pp.)     

General Communication

COMMUNICATION AS CULTURE: ESSAYS ON MEDIA AND SOCIETY by James W. Carey (Winchester, MA: Unwin Hymen [formerly Allen & Wnwin], 1989—$12.95, paper, ISBN 0-04-445064-8, with a clothbound version available)

CHALLENGING GENDER VALUES edited by Pamela J. Creedon (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1989—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0-8039-3448-3)

PROGRESS IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES, VOLUME DC edited by Brenda Dervin and Melvin Voigt (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1989—$49.50 to institutions; $29.50 personal, ISBN 0-89391-474-6)

THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & STRUCTURAL ISSUES edited by Jerry L. Salvaggio (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989—$24.95, ISBN 0-8058-0103-0)

MEDIA, SPORTS & SOCIETY by Lawrence A. Wenner (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989—$14.95, paper, ISBN 0-8039-3244-8, with a clothbound edition available)

THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: TRANSFORMATIONS IN WORLD LIFE AND MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989—$29.95, ISBN 0-19-505444-X)