"Containing nearly 4,000 entries of defined terms, Glaister's encyclopedia remains the definitive source on the book as an object and on bookmaking as a trade. There are entries for people (bookseller Thomas Gosden); businesses (Pelican Press); places (Little Britain); slang terms (the French livres
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cochons for illustrated erotica), pieces of equipment (joiner's press); the parts of a book (foot); printing processes (ink grinding); book-related organizations (the Poetry Book Society); and even individual reference titles (Books in Print). Entries vary in length from a few to more than 3,000 words, with the average being about 80 words. There are four appendixes: a sample of different specimens of typeface, a listing of Latin place-names used in early imprints, British proof-correction symbols, and a bibliography of further readings for the true bibliophile. For this printing of Glaister's standard work, retired librarian Donald Farren has changed the alphabetizing to a letter-by-letter arrangement, from the previous word-by-word system. Also, about a third of the book has been rewritten-1,144 of this edition's entries are new." (American Reference Books Annual 1997 Nr. 554)
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Describes a wide range of democracy assistance activities, among them media assistance, and critically analyses their outcomes.
"How do religious audiences react to and use the mass media? Religion and Mass Media is an audience-centered examination that reveals how a variety of Christian traditions experience media news and entertainment - in the context of institutional religious influences and expectations. Drawing on soci
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al science theories and empirical research methodologies, the contributors explore responses from Roman Catholics, Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Mormons and a variety of other traditions. In the first section, contributors set the framework by describing recent theoretical developments in the sociology of religion and communication theory. Section two provides an overview of the particulars of certain religious beliefs, section three looks at audience behavior, section four describes specific case studies (including one on rap music), and section five looks at the changing information environment and the future." (Publisher description)
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"This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communications to explore what effects the North American Free Trade Agreement will have on the flow of cultural products among Mexico, the United States, and Canada. After an overview of free trade and the
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cultural industries, the book covers the following topics: dominance and resistance, cultural trade and identity in relation to Mexico and to French Canada, and intellectual property rights. Based on present trends, the contributors predict that there will be a steadily increasing flow of cultural products from the United States to its neighbors. This book grew out of a 1994 conference that brought together leaders of the cultural industries, policy makers, and scholars. It represents state-of-the-art thinking about the global influence of U.S. cultural industries." (Publisher description)
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"Global Broadcasting Systems (1996) provides a comprehensive look at broadcasting throughout the world. It covers every continent, region and almost every country in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Within each geographical area, it presents the history, key issues, trends
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and status of broadcasting facilities and penetration; the control, regulation and management of networks and stations by government, domestic and foreign industry and the public; the financing of broadcasting systems; programming types and trends, including foreign imports; media freedom and censorship; and external radio and television services from other countries. The book discusses how new technology and political, social and economic factors influence the global media, and shows how increasing privatization has changed patterns of control and access." (Publisher description)
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"Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda investigates the role of international radio broadcasting in diplomacy during the Cold War period and, in particular, the contribution of the BBC and the Voice of America in the construction and projection of foreign policy, together with their role in the disseminati
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on of international propaganda. In addition the radio broadcasts which were monitored in Britain and the US are scrutinized to ascertain how they contributed to the formulation of foreign policy objectives and reactionary propaganda." (Publisher description)
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"Prepared by a group of experts within the CROP network, this book was a state-of-the-art report on poverty and poverty research in different regions in 1996. As such, it was unique and the first volume ever to cover poverty studies worldwide, and to present the rich variety of concepts, hypotheses
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and data used in different disciplines in different cultural settings. The book contains a great number of ideas and reflections on poverty manifestations, poverty research and poverty strategies, of great value for researchers and policy-makers alike. As such, it is a baseline for ongoing and future research, and a major contribution to setting up the agenda for poverty research in the new millennium." (https://www.crop.org/Publications)
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"In geographically oriented chapters on sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Caribbean and North America (Afro-America), four experts from U.S. universities with numerous publications present the mass media published and influenced by Africans and their descendants in Africa and America. The chapte
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rs are organized according to a uniform scheme: General principles, historical development in the individual states of the region (up to about 1993), personnel and regional characteristics, so that clarity and quick comparisons within the book are assured. Anyone expecting a reference work on the individual media based on the title of the book will be disappointed, because the authors expressly do not want to compile a bibliographical or factual reference work - although one would have liked clearer bibliographical lists and some data compilations - but they want to write an introduction to the African-influenced mass media. It is in the nature of the matter that this was only possible in broad outlines and without numerous details in view of the historical and current diversity, but it makes the book interesting as a first introduction to the subject and at the same time as the first self-portrayal on this scale and with this self-image." (Review by Wilbert Ubbens, Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken (IFB) 5:1-2 (1997)
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