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Book reviewed in this article:
L inguistic and L iterary S tyle . Edited by Donald Freeman.
T he A nalysis of C ommunication C ontent : D evelopments in S cientific T heories and C omputer T echniques . Edited by George Gerbner, Ole R. Holsti, Klaus Krippendorff, William J. Paisley, and Philip J. Stone.
I nterpersonal C ommunication : a C ross -D isciplinary A pproach . By Arthur Solomon
P erspecives on O ral C ommunication . By J. Vernon Jensen
T he rhetoric of R eligion : S tudies in L ogology . By Kenneth Burke.     

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Dictionnaire Critique de la Communication (Critical Dictionary of Communication) Edited by Lucien Sfez.
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age Edited by Theresa Enos.
Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press Edited by John C. Nerone.
Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States By Thomas Streeter.
Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse By Richard R. John.
The Power of News By Michael Schudson.
Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent Edited by Theodore L. Glasser and Charles T. Salmon.
Political Style: The Artistry of Power By Robert Hariman.
The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media By John B. Thompson.
The Social Semiotics of Mass Communication By Klaus Bruhn Jensen.
Unstable Frontiers: Techno-medicine and the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS By John Nguyet Erni.
The Death of Discourse By Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover.
Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film By Ed Tan.
Moving Images: Understanding Children's Emotional Responses to Television By David Buckingham.
Smooth Talkers: The Linguistic Performance of Auctioneers and Sportscasters By Koenrad Kuiper.
Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identities in American Scenes By Donal Carbaugh.
American Communication Research: The Remembered History Edited by Everette E. Dennis and Ellen Wartella.
The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States By Michael Kammen.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Perspectives on Communication in Social Conflict edited by Gerald R. Miller and Herbert W. Simons. Discussion: The Process of Group Decision-making by Dennis S. Gouran. The Reluctant Reformation: On Criticizing the Press in America by Lee Brown. Mass Communications: A World View edited by Alan Wells. The Family Guide to Children's Television by Evelyn Kaye. Cognitive Sociology by Aaron V. Cicourel. The Media and Family Planning by J. Richard Udry and associates. Foundations of Linguistics by Franklin C. Southworth and Chander J. Daswani. Mass Media and the Secondary School by Graham Murdock and Guy Phelps. The TV Establishment: Programming for Power and Profit edited by Gaye Tuchman. Human Communication: The New Fundamentals by L. S. Harms. Who Controls the Mass Media? by Martin H. Seiden. Playing in the FM Band: A Personal Account of Free Radio by Steve Post, illustrated by Ira Epstein. Captive Voices: High School Journalism in America. The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into High School Journalism prepared by Jack Nelson. Behind the Front Page: Organizational Self-renewal in a Metropolitan Newspaper by Chris Argyris. Bohater Filmovy Studium Socjologiczne by Kazimierz Zygulski. Technika a Srodowisko Psychiczne Czlowieka by Jozef Banka. Socjologia II. Nauki Humanistycznospoleczne Zeszyt 62 by Janusz Sztumski, ed. Psihologia Colectivelor de Munca (Intreprinderea Industriala) by Traian Herseni Industrializare si Urbanizare. Cercetari de Psihosociologie Concreta la Boldesti by Traian Herseni, ed. The Language of Primary School Children by Connie and Harold Rosen. Intimate Relations by Murray S. Davis. Law and the Student Press by George E. Stevens and John B. Webster. Illness, Immunity, and Social Interaction by Gordon E. Moss. Problem Solving Group Interaction by Bobby R Patton and Kim Giffin.     

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Communication and Sociolinguistics by Fredrick Williams
Presidential Television (A Twentieth Century Fund Report) by Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin, and Lee M. Mitchell.
Living With Change: The Semantics of Coping by Wendell Johnson and Dorothy Moeller.
The Mind Managers by Herbert I. Schiller.
Communication Strategies for Family Planning by Everett M. Rogers.
News From Nowhere: Television and the News by Edward Jay Epstein.
The Early Window: Effects of Television on Children and Youth by Robert M. Liebert, John M. Neale, and Emily S. Davidson.
Content Analysis: A Technique for Systematic Inference From Communications by T. F. Carney.
The Hidden Springs: An Enquiry Into Extra-Sensory Perception by Renée Haynes.
The American Newsreel 1911–1967 by Raymond Fielding.
Mass Media: A Worktext in the Processes of Modern Communication by Ann Christine Heintz, B.V.M., M. Lawrence Reuter, S.J., and Elizabeth Conley.
Children's Television Commercials: A Content Analysis by Charles Winick, Lorne G. Williamson, Stuart F. Chuzmir, and Mariann Pezzella Winick.
Human Connection and the New Media edited by Barry N. Schwartz.
Cable Television: A Guide For Citizen Action by Monroe Price and John Wicklein.
Men, Messages and Media: A Look at Human Communication by Wilbur Schramm.
The Personal Communication Process by John R. Wenburg and William W. Wilmot.
Social Psychology in Natural Settings: A Reader in Field Experimentation edited by Paul G. Swingle.
Conflict Among Humans by Robert D. Nye.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
S cholar's G uide to J ournals of E ducation and E ducational P sychology . By L. Joseph Lins and Robert A. Rees
I nterpersonal C ommunication : S urvey and S tudies . By Dean C. Barnlund.
C ommunicatton and C ommunication S ystems . By Lee Thayer
C ommunication and O rganizational B ehavior : T ext and C ases . By William V. Haney
C ommunication for the C hurch . By Raymond W. McLaughlin
R eadings in A rgumentation . Edited by Jerry M. Anderson and Paul J. Dovre
B asic T echnical W riting . 2nd ed. By Herman M. Weisman
P ractical M ethods in S peech . By Harold Barrett
S tammefung : I ts C orrection T hrough the R e -E ducation of the S peech F unction . By Ronald Muriden.
M ilton and the M iltonic D ryden . By Anne Davidson Ferry
T he T ransparent S elf . By Sidney M. Jourard
I ndividualized R eading : A n A nnotated B ibliography . By Sam Duker
T he S chools H ave F ailed U s . By William A. Burgett
R eading D iagnosis and R emediation . By Ruth Strang
T rends and P racxices in S econdary R eading . By Sterl Artley     

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The RFID Research Center is a subunit of the Information Technology Research Institute located in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville). The Center was officially formed in February 2005, and the Laboratory was opened in June 2005. The mission of the Center is to "to create and extend knowledge in RFID utilization and its impacts on business and society". It receives funding from four main sources: company sponsorships; testing and training services; research grants; and gifts in kind. A variety of companies sponsor the Center, either through monetary gifts (called Business and Strategic sponsors) or gifts in kind (i.e., equipment, software, services, etc.) (called Laboratory sponsors). Representatives from business and strategic sponsors comprise the Board of Advisors. This group meets regularly to help set the direction for the center's activities. An internal steering committee comprised of more than 15 faculty and staff from many different academic disciplines also provides advice to the center's management     

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Convergence: Integrating Media, Information & Communication By Thomas F. Baldwin, D. Stevens McVoy, and Charles Steinfield.
Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property By Ronald V. Bettig.
Regulating Media: The Experience of Six Countries By Wolfgang Hoffman-Riem.
Mass Media and Free Trade: NAFTA and the Cultural Industries Edited by Emile G. McAnany and Kenton T. Wilkinson.
Sign Wars: The Cluttered Landscape of Advertising By Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson.
Monopoly Television: MTV's Quest To Control the Music By Jack Banks.
Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio By Donald Warren.
Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence By Dagmar Barnouw.
Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy by Garth S. Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller.
Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot By Michael Rogin.
History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past By Robert Brent Toplin.
Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics By Leslie A. Baxter and B. M. Montgomery.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India By Arvind Rajagopal. Networking the World, 1794–2000 . By Armand Mattelart A Latina in the Land of Hollywood and Other Essays on Media Culture . By Angharad N. Valdivia. Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond . Edited by Walter Armbrust. Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity . By Gen Doy. The Making of Citizens: Young People, News and Politics. By David Buckingham. Election Studies: What's Their Use ? By Elihu Katz with Yael Warshel. Worlds in Common?: Television Discourse in Changing Europe . By Kay Richardson & Ulrike H. Meinhof. Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition . Edited by Peter Williams Evans. Flophouse: Life on the Bowery . By David Isay & Stacy Abramson, photographs by Harvey Wang. Photography in Boston: 1955–1985 . Edited by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo & Gillian Nagler. Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia . By Nancy Martha West.     

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Book reviewed in this article: “Hello, Central?” Gender, Technology and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems By Michele Martin. Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778–1815 By Mark A. Lause. Rhetoric in an Organizational Society: Managing Multiple Identities By George Cheney. The Transnationalization of Television in Western Europe By Preben Sepstrup. Press Freedom in Africa By Gunilla L. Faringer. Risky Business: Rock in Film By R. Serge Denisoff and William D. Romanowski. The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life By Kenneth Gergen.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Out of Order By Thomas E. Patterson.
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America By T. J. Jackson Lears.
Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor By William J. Puette.
The New Labor Press: Journalism for a Changing Union Movement By Sam Pizzigati and Fred J. Solowey (Eds.)
Adult Comics: An Introduction By Roger Sabin.
Cartoonometer: Taking the Puke of the World's Cartoonists By Joe Szabo and John A. Lent.
Africa on Film: Beyond Black and White By Kenneth M. Cameron.
The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters . By Richard A. Firmage.
The New Typography . By Jan Tschichold. (Ruari McLean, Trans.).
Sampling the Book: Renaissance Prologues and the French Conteurs . By Deborah N. Losse.
The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud . By Marc-Alain Ouaknin.
Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier . By Robin P. Peek & Gregory B. Newby (Eds.)