Aims and Scope: Communication Booknotes Quarterly is a review service for books, reports, documents, and electronic publications on all aspects of mass communication, telecommunication, and the information industry. This journal enjoys the talents of some two dozen Editorial Board members who are active contributors.

Ideas for review essays and volunteers to write such essays are welcome. Individual reviews contributed by others are also welcome, but please contact the editor or assistant editor first. Please direct any questions or suggestions to the editor.

Sample Review: A HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION STUDY: A BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH by Everett M. Rogers (New York: Free Press, 1994, paperback reprint with new introduction, 1997—[Insert price here], ISBN [Please include 13-digit ISBN here], 576 pp., photos, diagrams, appendix, references, index) is the reissue of an important study which did not receive the notice it should have on its original appearance (copies are found in few Washington-area libraries, for example). For this is nothing less than the first detailed attempt at a study of the origins of the study of communications as seen through the lives and work of key figures up to about 1960. Too many of these men (and all of these figures are males) are nearly forgotten today, their pioneering work seamlessly integrated into what we think we know about the process of communication in human life. After an introductory chapter on the life of Wilbur Schramm, Rogers divides his work into three parts: European beginnings of communication study (chapters on Darwin's evolutionary theory, Freud's psychoanalytic approach, and Karl Marx and the critical school); the growth of communication study in America (the Chicago school,Harold Lasswell and propaganda analysis, Paul Lazarsfeld and mass communication effects, Kurt Lewin and group dynamics, Carl Hovland and persuasion research, Norbert Weiner and cybernetics, and Claude E. Shannon's information theory); and establishment of the communications field (a 50-page chapter devoted to the seminal position and impact of Wilbur Schramm as the real father of the field).What makes these in-depth profiles especially compelling is Rogers' useful and insightful way of integrating both their personal and professional lives and how each affected the other. Kurt Lewin, for example, despite his renown, never held a tenured university post and was thus constantly on the outlook for financial support for his research.