Europe

YOURS IN SISTERHOOD: MS. MAGAZINE AND THE PROMISE OF POPULAR FEMINISM by Amy Erdman Farrell (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press “Gender &; American Culture,”; 1998—$39.95/16.95, ISBN 0–8078–2424–0 hard, 0–8078–4735–6 paper, 232 pp.)

WOMEN'S STUDIES SERIALS: A QUARTER‐CENTURY OF DEVELOPMENT edited by Kristin H. Gerhard (New York: Haworth Press, 1998—$49.95, ISBN 0–7890–0541–7, 263 pp.)

A HISTORY OF POPULAR WOMEN'S MAGAZINES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1792–1995 by Mary Ellen Zuckerman (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press “Contributions in Women's Studies, No. 165,”; 1998—$59.95, ISBN 0–3133–0675–3, 272 pp.)     

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)     

International and comparative systems

SWITCHING CHANNELS: IDEOLOGIES OF TELEVISION IN INDIA by Nilanjana Gupta (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–19–564204‐X, 155 pp., tables, notes, reading list, index)

CRIME, THE MEDIA AND THE LAW by Dennis Howitt (Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons “Wiley Series in The Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law,”; 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–471–96905–2 hard, 0–471–97834–5 paper, 233 pp., references, index)

GLOBAL MARKETING AND ADVERTISING: UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL PARADOXES by Marieke de Mooij (London: Sage, 1998—£40.00/17.99, ISBN 0–8039–5969–9 hard, 0–8039–5970–2 paper, 336 pp., tables, charts, tables, photos, index)     

3. PROPAGANDA STUDIES

CONSUMING ENVIRONMENTS: TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE by Mike Budd, Steve Craig, and Clay Steinman (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press “Communications, Media, and Culture,”; 1999— $50.00/22.00, ISBN 0–8135–2591–8 hard, 0–8135–2592–6 paper, 225 pp., photos, tables, charts, bibliography, index)

PACIFICA RADIO: THE RISE OF AN ALTERNATIVE NETWORK by Matthew Lasar (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999—$34.95, ISBN 1–56639–660–3, 277 pp., photos, notes, index)

COPYCAT TELEVISION: GLOBALISATION, PROGRAM FORMATS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY by Albert Moran (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–86020–537–2, 192 pp., illustrations, bibliography, 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)