The author, a broadcast adviser and founder of a media consulting firm, has written a small and effective book. Shane explains by posing a riddle: the more information that the media and advertising worlds beam at their audience the less... Read More

Currently, country music is synonymous in most people’s minds with Nashville. During its formative years, however, from the 1920s through the 1940s, the music flourished in towns and cities all over America. Talent sprang up everywhere... Read More

“Piano playing, be it ever so faultless, must not be considered sufficient.” Addressed to the Mozart performer, this is Brendel’s piece of advice in his first essay. Given that, one could say the famous pianist proceeds in the... Read More

Marshall McLuhan said it and Duggan confirms it: the medium is the message. Harkening back to the late nineteenth century, Duggan traces the development of the national press. She analyzes the way wide-circulation newspapers created a... Read More

Religious scholars might consider Hooker’s book timeless and relevant, though at the outset non-academics may find that absorbing a work composed during the author’s lifetime (1586?1647) is a challenge. The author writes in the style... Read More

Champion, author of four other Bomber Hanson books, delivers an old-fashioned murder mystery complete with Las Vegas mobsters, a suspicious butler, and a “knockout” model named Cheryl Darling (a parody in itself). Cheryl has been... Read More

From the moment of his birth he’d heard the throb of the mills. It was as much a part of him as the sound of his heart beating beneath his skin. The Tempering is the story of one young man’s transition from schoolboy to workingman,... Read More

In the introduction to her collection of essays and interviews, activist Hollibaugh asks a series of brutally honest question, the kind of straightforward queries one would expect from such a candid and insightful woman. Why should her... Read More