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DEATH, HEAVEN AND THE VICTORIANS. By John Morley. THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL CATALOG COLLECTION. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: THE PYNE PRESS, 1971. ELVIS: A BIOGRAPHY. By Jerry Hopkins. TEACH-IN: VIABILITY OF CHANGE. Edited by B. D. Owens and Ray B. Browne. APPLEHOOD AND MOTHER PIE: NOTES ON “AMERICAN” VALUES. By Andrew R. Sisson.     

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THE IMAGE EMPIRE: A HISTORY OF BROADCASTING IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1953. By Erik Barnouw. THE MUSTACHE GANG. By Ron Bergman. THE SUITORS OF SPRING. By Pat Jordan. KISS IT GOODBYE. By Shelby Whitfield. RIGHTEOUS CONQUEST: WOODROW WILSON AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE NEW DIPLOMACY. By Sidney Bell. A CASEBOOK ON RALPH ELLISON'S INVISIBLE MAN. Edited by Joseph E. Trimmer. WAYS OF SEEING. By John Berger.     

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Mark Rank, One nation, underprivileged: why American poverty affects us all
August Osterle, Equity choices and long-term care policies in Europe
Chiara Saraceno (ed), Social assistance dynamics in Europe. National and local poverty regimes
Di Guransky, Judy Harvey and Rosemary Kennedy, Case management: policy, practice, and professional business
Chris Warren-Adamson (ed), Family centres and their international role in social action. Social work as informal education     

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The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790–1860. Patricia Anderson. Jim and Tummy—Charismatic Intrigue Inside PTL. Joe E. Barnhart. Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media. David Buckingham, editor. The Lure of the Sea. Alain Corbin. Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture. Gary Cross. Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception. Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis, editors. Business and the Culture of the Enterprise Society. John Deeks. Small Nations, Big Neighbour: Denmark and Quebec/Canada Compare Notes on American Popular Culture. Roger de la Garde, William Gilsdorf and Ilja Wechselmann, editors. Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture. Wu Dingbo and Patrick D. Murphy, editors. Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography. Jocelyn Faris. Christmas in the Good Old Days. Daniel J. Foley. Festivals of Europe. Gordon Cooper. Festivals of Western Europe. Dorothy Gladys Spicer. The Cosby Show: Audiences, Impact, and Implications. Linda K. Fuller. Utopian/Dystopian Literature: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism. Paul G. Haschak. Cultural Studies. Fred Inglis. Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography. Kathy Merlock Jackson. Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News—And Why. Carl Jensen. Leisure in a Changing America: Multicultural Perspectives. Richard Kraus. Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Jack Kugelmass. “Pedlar in Divinity”: George Whitejield and the Transatlantic Revivals. Frank Lambert. Sport and the English Middle Classes 1870–1914. John Lowerson. Dance Marathons; Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Carol Martin. The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats: Women in Films of the 1970s and 1980s. Marsha McCreadie. Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney. Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman. All Talk: The Talkshow in Media Culture. Wayne Munson. Dickens' Journalism: Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers 1833–39. Vol 1. Edited by Michael Slater. The Dark Side of Dickens: Cannibalism, Passion, Necessity. Harry Stone. Fiction, Crime and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism. Jon Thompson. Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society. Edited by Joseph J. Tobin. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies. Edited by Graeme Turner. Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon. Sandra S. Vance and Roy V. Scott. The Show Starts on the Sidewalk: An Architectural History of the Movie Theatre. Maggie Valentine. Ringling: The Florida Years 1911–1936. David C. Weeks. Liquid Nourishment. Edited by C. Arne Wilson. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle: A Bio-Bibliography. Robert Young, Jr. History Laid Bare: Love, Sex and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding. Richard Zacks. How I Wrote “Jubilee.” Margaret Walker. Talking Heads: Political Talk Shows and Their Star Pundits. Alan Hirsch. Populur Culture: East and West. Isaac Sequeira.     

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Books reviewed:
Benjamin O. Fordham, Building the Cold War Consensus: The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51.
Saskia Sassen, Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money
Arnold Fleischmann and Carol Pierannunzi, Politics in Georgia
Marian Meyers, News Coverage of Violence Against Women: Engendering Blame
Frank Levy, The New Dollars and Dreams     

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Books reviewed:
Gustaf Berglund and Erik Abrahamsson, Creative Conversations: Meetings with Family Therapists and Their Ideas
Julia Brannen and Peter Moss, Rethinking Children's Care     

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The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley. David Adler. Creepers: British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Clive Bloom Deathtraps: The Postmodern Comedy Thriller. Marvin Carlson. The Book of Fairs. Helen Augur. Church Symbolism. F.R. Webber. The Easter Book of Legends and Stories. Alice Isabel Hazeltine and Elva Sophronia Smith. Festivals, Holy Days and Saints's Days. Ethel L. Urlin. American Popular Culture/La Culture populaire américaine. John Dean. Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Robin J. Dunitz. Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties. A Radical View. Catherine Itzin, ed. Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power. Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson, eds. Dark Knights: The New Comics in Context. Greg S. McCue, with Clive Bloom. Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, and Lawrence Grossberg, eds.     

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Rock On Almanac: The First Four Decades Of Rock ‘N’ Roll—A Chronology. Complied by Norm N. Nite. The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Rock (sixth edition). Pete Frame, John Tobler, Ed Hanel, Roger St. Pierre, Chris Trengove, John Beecher, Clive Richardson, Gary Cooper, Marsha Hanlon, and Linda Sandahl. The Old Time Rock And Roll: A Chronicle Of An Era, 1954–1963. Richard Aquila. Ayres' The Rock Music Source Book (Doubleday, 1980), Jeff Green's The 1987 Green Book: Songs Classified By Subject (Professional Desk References, 1986), and B. Lee Cooper's A Resource Guide To Themes In Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950–1985 (Greenwood Press, 1986). Inside The Music Business: Music In Contemporary Life. Michael Fink. Review of Simply Cinema. Perry F. Mills. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650–1850. Dianne Dugaw. Handbook Of American Popular Culture—Three Volumes (second edition, revised and enlarged). M. Thomas Inge, editor. Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée. Henri Filippini. Politics in Familiar Places: Projecting Politics through Popular Media. Robert L. Savage and Dan Nimmo, editors. Conversations with Tom Wolfe. Dorothy M. Scura, editor. Television And The Quality Of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience. Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Gene D. Phillips. Constructing a Sociology of the Arts Vera L. Zolberg.     

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Lives Together/World Apart: Mothers and Doughters in Popular Culture. Suzanna Danuta Walters. Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870. Bruce McConachie. Mass Communications in the Caribbean. John A. Lent. Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books. Jerry Griswold. Private Screenings: Television, and the Female Consumer. Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, editors. Lynda S. Boren and Sara DeSaussure Davis, eds. Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou Nazi-Retro Film. Robert C. and Carol J. Reimer. Prime Time and Misdemeanors: Investigating the 1950s TV Quiz Scandal—A D.A.'s Account. Joseph Stone and Tim Yohn. Changing Channels: America in TV Guide. Glenn Co. Altschuler and David I. Grossvogel. The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and Its Audience. Lewis Justin. Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History. John Corner (editor). Acts of Supremacy: The Britsh Empire and the Stage, 1790-1930. J.S. Bratton, Richard Allen Cave, Breandon Gregory, Heidi J. Holder, and Michael Pickering. Sports and Recreation Fads. Frank W. Hoffmann and William G. Bailey. World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime. Jay Robert Nash. Dictionary of Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminolgoy & LAw Enforcement. Compiled by Jay Robert Nash. Popular Culture in Modern France: A Study of Cultural Discourse. Brian Rigby. The Making of Middle Brow Culture. Joan Shelley Rubin. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790–1860. Patricia Anderson. Haven't I See You Somewhere Before? Remakes, Sequels, and Series in Motion Pictures, Videos and Television, 1896–1990. James L. Limbacher. On Coon Mountain: Scenes from a Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills. Glen Ross. Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly. Patrick B. Mullen. James Stewart: A Bio-Bibliography. Gerard Molyneaux. Popular Fiction in England 1914–1918. Harold Orel. Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada and the United States. Richard M. Merelman.     

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TELEVISION AND THE RED MENACE: THE VIDEO ROAD TO VIETNAM, by J. Fred MacDonald. THE TV ARAB. By Jack G. Shaheen. TY COBB. By Charles Alexander. SAD CLOWNS AND PALE PIERROTS: LITERATURE AND THE POPULAR COMIC ARTS IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE. By Louisa E. Jones. ARTHUR SULLIVAN: A VICTORIAN MUSICIAN. By Arthur Jacobs. CLASS, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A NEW VIEW OF THE 1930s. Edited by Frank Gloversmith. ADOLF HITLER: THE UNKNOWN ARTIST. By Billy F. Price. SPORT, CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY. By Jennzjer Hargreaves. HOME REMEDIES. By Martin Pops. THE AMAZING ARMADILLO: GEOGRAPHY OF A FOLK CRITTER. By Larry L. Smith and Robin W. Doughty.     

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DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL! RADIO PROGRAMMING IN AMERICAN LIFE FROM 1920 to 1960. By J. Fred MacDonald. ROCK ‘N” ROLL IS HERE TO PAY. THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY . By Steven Chapple and Reebee Garofalo. TELEVISION: THE CRITICAL VIEW (Second Edition). Horace Newcomb, Editor. BROADCASTING: AN INTRODUCTION, by John R. Bittner.     

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I'll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club. Matthew A. Donahue. Forward through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan. Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart John Jakes: A Critical Companion. Mary Ellen Jones. The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Shawn James Rosenheim. The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey. Entertaining Tsarist Russia. James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds, eds. The Language of Landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn. Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence. The Lost Works of William Carlos Williams: The Volumes of Collected Poetry as Lyrical Sequences. Robert J. Cirasa. For the Time Being: Ethnography of Everyday Life. Richard Quinney. Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism through Children's Books and Magazines. Kathryn Castle. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cecile Whiting. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. Who Is Andy Warhol? Colin MacCabe, ed. Coming of Age in Cyberspace. David S. Bennahum. Masculinities, Spectatorship, and Contemporary Consumption. Sean Nixon. Ministry and Theology in Global Perspective. Don Pittman, Ruben Habito, Herry Much, eds. Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. Kathleen Ragan, ed. Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning. Ien Agn, Ruth Barcan, Helen Grace, Elaine Laly, Justine Lloyd, and Zoe Sofoulis, eds.     

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The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne. The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Preface by Robin W. Winks. Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives. Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham, eds. Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace. Marshall W. Fishwick. Great Cars of the Great Plains. Curt McConnell. Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Ed. James L. Watson. The History of Jazz. Ted Gioia. Puppets and “Popular” Culture. Scott Cutler Shershow. Theater and Society: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Haiping Yan, ed. Armonk Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post‐Elvis Age. David Walley. The Ignorance Explosion: Understanding Industrial Civilization. Julius Lukasiewicz. The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nick Talevski. Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book‐Length Comics. D. Aviva Rothschild. Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride. Horace Logan with Bill Sloan. Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present. Eugenia DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, and Jean O'Barr, eds. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Elizabeth R. Varon. Gender and American Culture series. Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited. Deirdre Boyle. What Evil Means to Us. C. Fred Alford. A Sense of Place: Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Essays in Honor of William and Margery Vandament. Edited by Russell M. Magnaghi and Michael T. Marsden.     

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Book review in this Article
THE MONETARY APPROACH TO THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS by J. A. Frenkel and H. G. Johnson (eds).
PUBLIC HOUSING AND URBAN RENEWAL by Richard D. Bingham. Praeger Publishers
THE FAMILY LIFE OF SICK CHILDREN by Lindy Burton
FAMILIES UNDER STRESS by Tony Manocchio and William Petitt
PLANNING THE HEALTH SECTOR by Oscar Gish.
SOCIAL VALUES, OBJECTIVES AND ACTION by Jimmie Algie.
OBSOLESCENCE IN HOUSING by Ben Nutt, Bruce Walker
IMMIGRANT SCHOOL-LEAVERS AND THE SEARCH FOR WORK by Bridget Fowler
SOCIAL SECURITY IN AFRICA — TRENDS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS by Pierre Mouton.
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES by Irving Louis Horowitz and James Everett Katz.
WORK AND WELFARE IN BRITAIN AND THE U.S.A., by Bruno Stein.
EXPERIMENT WITH CHOICE IN EDUCATION by Alan Maynard, Institute of Economic Affairs
EXPERIMENT WITH CHOICE IN EDUCATION by Alan Maynard, Institute of Economic Affairs     

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THE GODS OF ANTENNA. By Bruce Herschensohn. THE RESPONSIVE CHORD - By Tony Schwartz FACT AND FICTION. THE NEW JOURNALISM AND THE NONFICTION NOVEL. By John Hollowell. THE NEW LANGUAGES: A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO THE MASS MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE. By Thomas H. Ohlgren and Lynn M. Berk. MEDIA, POLITICS, AND DEMOCRACY. By Bernard Rubin. TV SEASON 1975–76. Compiled and Edited by Nina David. TELEVISION. THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS. By Jeff Greenfield. THE SHOW AND TELL MACHINE: HOW TELEVISION WORKS AND WORKS YOU OVER. By Rose K. Goldsen. HOW TO READ A FILM: THE ART, TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE, HISTORY, AND THEORY OF FILM AND MEDIA. By James Monaco. DARK DREAMS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN HORROR FILM. By Charles Derry DOCUMENTARY: A HISTORY OF THE NON—FICTION FILM. By Erik Barnouw. THE TALKIES–ARTICLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A GREAT FAN MAGAZINE 1928–1940. By Richard Griffith. WESTERNS: ASPECTS OF A MOVIE GENRE. By Philip French. ON WITH THE SHOW: THE FIRST CENTURY OF SHOW BUSINESS IN AMERICA. By Robert C. Toll. THE BEST MUSICALS FROM SHOW BOAT TO A CHORUS LINE. By Arthur Jackson. PAUL ROBESON: ALL-AMERICAN. By Dorothy Butler Gilliam. VICTORIAN MAGIC, By Geoffrey Lamb. ENGLISH POPULAR LITERATURE 1819–1851. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Louis James. THE VICTORIAN POPULAR BALLAD. By J.S. Bratton. VICTORIAN MELODRAMAS. By James L. Smith. THEATRE IN THE AGE OF KEAN. By Joseph Donohue. POST—WAR BRITISH THEATRE. By John Elsom.