Broadcasting in America, Brief Version delivers a succinct version of the original survey text and covers the major areas of broadcasting: history, technology, economics, programming, ratings, regulation, and international issues. In 14 concise chapters, BIA, Brief is tailor-made for a semester’s worth of study. New to this edition is its holistic approach to broadcasting, examining the convergence of various electronic media and taking a global view. With an authoritative and focused tone, the authors’ craft a text that is richly informative. Supplemental exhibits include case studies, diagrams, charts, vignettes, and personality profiles. This text presents a distinctive view that media is both a product of social forces and a social force in its own right.

Four novellas constitute a biography of a generation living in a police state and ravaged by fifty years of history, enduring war, the Holocaust, revolution, social change, and the triviality of the ordinary

Journeying by luxury liner to the United States, where he launches a triumphant grand tour, eccentric curmudgeon and dandy Maurice Ravel travels aboard a series of fabled trains while smoking a precious stash of Gauloises, in an evocation of the last ten years of the music genius's life.