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We rarely think of the possible beneficial results of training in something “everyone knows how to do”—such as learning from television. This article is drawn from Mr. May's M.A. thesis, completed in 1963 at the University of Maryland under the direction of Prof. George F. Batka. Mr. May is presently working toward a PhD. in the University of Wisconsin, as a teaching assistant in the Division of Radio-Television-Film.

MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS. Charles S. Steinberg (ed.), New York: Communication Arts Books (Hastings House, Publishers), 1966. 530 pp. including index. $11.50. (Paper $5.95.)THE ORIGINAL OLD RADIO GAME. By Ed Callahan, Bill Shilling, and Mal Whyte. San Francisco, California: Pisani Press, 1965. 48 pp. $1.00.UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: THE EXTENSIONS OF MAN. By Marshall McLuhan. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. vii + 359 pp. $7.50. (Also in paper at $1.95.)THE GUTENBERG GALAXY. By Marshall McLuhan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962. vi + 294 pp. $5.95.THE.TECHNIQUE OF THE TELEVISION CAMERAMAN. By Peter Jones. With a preface by J. A. Youngman. New York: Communication Art Books, Hastings House, Publishers, 1965. pp. 243. $10.00.IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING BY TELEVISION. Edited by Barton L. Griffith and Donald W. MacLennan. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1964. xii+238 pp. $4.00.HOW GOOD ARE TELEVISION RATINGS? By Martin Mayer. (Report on work of Committee on Nationwide Television Audience Measurements.) February, 1966. 26 pp.ABCs OF RADIO AND TELEVISION. December, 1965. 20 pp.THE TELEVISION STATION MANAGER. By Charles Winick. (Reprint of article from Advanced Management Journal, January, 1966, pp. 53-60.)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS OF BROADCASTING: THEIR HISTORY, OPERATION AND CONTROL. By Walter B. Emery. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1969. xxxi + 752 pp. $12.50.THE TV DIRECTOR/INTERPRETER. By Colby Lewis. New York: Communication Arts Books, Hastings House, Publishers, 1968. 255 pp. including index. $8.95. (Also in paper at $5.95.)VIOLENCE AND THE MASS MEDIA. Edited by Otto Larsen. New York, Harper and Row, 1968. 310 pp. (paper, $4.50).THE PEOPLE MACHINE. By Robert MacNeil. New York: Harper and Row. 1968. 333 pp., $7.50.