Descriptions of new books

A DICTIONARY OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND THERAPY by S. D. Robbins, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Emerson College, formerly President of the American Speech and Hearing Association and for twenty years Chairman of its Nomenclature Committee ... Limited Edition. Attractive stiff paperbound edition, $1.90 postpaid ... Library Text Edition, $2.95 postpaid... Sci‐Art Publishers, Harvard Square, Cambridge 38, Mass.

RADIO CLASSICS, adapted by Norman A. Bailey, Romulus Linney, and Dominik Cascio. Copyright 1956, 169 pages, 8½ × 11, mimeoprint, spiral bound. Price open. Burgess Publishing Company.

THE ABC's OF PLAY PRODUCING by Howard Bailey... 1955. 276 pages, $3.50... David McKay Company, Inc.

NTRODUCTION TO OPERA: A Guidebook Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Edited by Mary Ellis Peltz with an Annotated List of Recordings by C. J. Luten … 332 pages … 51/8 × 81/8… $1.65 (Paperbound Everyday Handbook) ... Barnes & Noble, Inc.

SPEAK CORRECTLY by Lillian Haut, Speech teacher, New York City Schools... 56 pages, soft cover. 5½ × 8½. $1.50 … Speech Handbooks, 105 West 72nd St., New York 23, N. Y.

BUSINESS SPEAKING by James F. Clyne, Charles A. Dwyer, Edward J. Kilduff, Ralph M. Zink, all of the school of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance, New York University ... 246 pages, 10 illus., $3.75, Oxford University Press, Inc. (to be published Fall, 1956.

BASIC PUBLIC SPEAKING by Paul L. Soper, Professor of English and Speech... Chairman of the Speech Staff, University of Tennessee... New second edition. 400 pages. 12 photographs. $3.85 (college ed.) ...Oxford University Press, Inc. (March, 1956)

THE ROAD TO PERSUASION by William Muehl, Associate Professor of Public Speaking, Yale University … 282 pages, $3.95 … Oxford University Press, Inc. (Published September, 1956)

DISCUSSION by William S. Howell, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota, and Donald K. Smith, Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota... 1956, 292 pages, 5¾ × 82½, $4.00 … The Macmillan Company.

COMMUNICATIVE READING, by Otis J. Aggertt, Associate Professor of Speech, Albion College, and Elbert R. Bowen, Professor of Speech and Drama, Central Michigan College … 1956, 480 pages, 5¾× 8½, $4.25 … The Macmillan Company.

SPEECH CORRECTION IN THE SCHOOLS, by Jon Eisenson, Professor of Speech and Director of Speech and Hearing Clinic, Queens College, and Mardel Ogilvie, Assistant Professor of Speech, Queens College ... Published in November ... The Macmillan Company.

LANGUAGE: A MODERN SYNTHESIS, by Joshua Whatmough, Professor of Comparative Philology and Chairman of the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. With Appendixes, Glossary, Index; illustrated with diagrams, spectrogram, and map. Pp. ix+270. 1956. $4.75. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 103 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York.     

The Hollywood Palace

Frank Capra's The Name Above the Title (MacMillan, $12.50). Capra, who produced some of his major hits (“It Happened One Night” etc.)

Essoe, Gale and Raymond Lee. DeMille: The Man and His Pictures ($8.50)

Ladies in Distress ($10.00)

Lahue, Kalton C. Winners of the West: The Sagebrush Heroes of the Silent Screen ($10.00)

Lahue, Kalton C. Dreams for Sale: Rise and Fall of the Triangle Film Corporation ($8.50)

Lee, Raymond, and B.G. Van Hecker. Gangsters and Hoodlums: The Underworld in the Cinema ($8.95)

Lee, Raymond, The Films of Mary Pickford ($8.95)

Philip French's The Movie Moguls: An Informal History of the Hollywood Tycoons (Regnery, $5.95)

Mel Gussow's Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck (Doubleday, $7.95)

Inactive Properties Including Furniture, Decorative, Objects, Paintings, Posters, Set Skeches and other Decorations, Full size and model boats and ships-airplanes and model trains. (McGraw-Hill, $10.00 paperback)

Ivan Butler's The Making of Feature Films: A Guide (Pelican Books Al232, $1.75)

Kenneth H. Roberts and Win Sharpies' A Primer for Film Making: A Complete Guide to 16 MM and 35 MM Film Production (Pegasus (Division of Bobbs-Merrill), $15.00/6.75)

Arthur F. McClure (ed.) The Movies: An American Idiom–Readings in the Social History of the American Motion Picture (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, $15.00)

Gerald Mast's A Short History of the Movies (Pegasus, $12.50/4.95)

Andre Glucksmann's Violence on the Screen (BFI, 81 Dean St., London, WiV 6AA, England, $1.20) which briefly (78 pp.)

Today's Film Maker (American Film Maker Inc., 250 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y., $3.50)     

Popular Music

Frank Tirro Jazz: A History (New York: Norton, 1977—$16.95 in trade edition; $12.95 in text edition, both hardback)

Leonard Feather Inside Jazz (New York: Da Capo, 1977—$4.95, paper)

Jim Haskins The Cotton Club (New York: Random House, 1977—$15.00, with paperback edition available)

Jeff Todd Titon Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977—$16.50)     

Research methods and Guides

The Territory of the Historian by E.. Le Roy Ladurie(Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1979 —S21.00)

Harvard Guide to American History edited by Frank Freidel, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universiry Press, 1974 with 1479 as first date for this paperback edition—$12.50 (on tne book cover) or 39.95 (in the slip inside from the publisher)

Witham Katz Your Library: A Reference Guide (New: York: Holt. Rinehart & Winston, 1919—price not given, gaper)

Alan E. Thompson, Understanding Futurology: An Introduction. to Futures Study (Newton Abbot, U.R /North Pomfret, Vt. : David & ,1979 —$12.50)     

Management of core resources: The case of media enterprises

Abstract

For media firms, convergence is a strategy for value creation. However, the concept of convergence belongs to a field of media research and practice that still is in a pre‐paradigmatic stage (Kuhn). The aim of the analysis is to contribute to the process towards “normal science,”; where the paradox of conceptualisation is solved and the outcome is guiding research as well as business development. The article introduces the concept of “value creation convergence,”; and discusses its potential as a sixth dimension of the convergence concept in relation to Miège's typology of traditional media firms (editorial, press, and flow) and Stabell &; Fjeldstad's typology of value creation configurations (chain, shop, and network).     

David Beckham’s re-invention of the winger

It seems David Beckham is destined to be judged more according to his celebrity status than to his soccer skills. Even as a soccer player occupying one of the most mythic positions on the pitch, the winger, Beckham has constantly fallen short to the inevitable (but also unfair) comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Luis Figo and even earlier prototypes such as George Best or Raymond Kopa, whose basic qualities consisted in dribbling, speed and goal line crosses. The problem with these comparisons is that Beckham, at the outset, is categorized as a winger when he in fact was, initially, a central midfielder. However, because Beckham brings along some of the virtues as a central midfielder – passing skills and combative tackling – when he migrates from the centre of the field to the right, he is able to invent a completely new type of winger. Overall speaking, Beckham fuses a Bergsonian epic quality of durée and accumulating presence with a Nietzschean lyric quality of unexpectedness and abruptness. More specifically, what sets Beckham apart and secures him a seat in the Pantheon of soccer’s great innovators are timing (‘early on and unexpectedly’), sense of spacing (‘halfway’) and the fusion of Euclid and Einstein (‘curled crosses with extreme precision’).     

Reforming teacher education in Tanzania

It is widely acknowledged that in order to improve the quality of education in primary schools in developing countries there is a need to place pedagogy and its training implications at the centre of teacher education reform. Like many countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, Tanzania has introduced various initiatives and reforms to improve the quality of teacher education at the pre- and in-service stages. Drawing on evidence from a baseline study of primary teacher interactional and discourse practices, and a review of teacher training colleges, this paper explores the training needs of teacher educators in Tanzania who, in the light of recent reforms to teacher education, will be responsible for education and training at the pre and in-service levels.