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Author: Erkki Huhtamo Publisher: MIT Press – 438 pages Book Review by: Krishnan Ramamurthy Still and moving panoramas of many types that were created in the nineteenth century are the subject of this unique book by Errki Huhtamo, a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California in Los Angeles. In simple terms, a panorama is a form of visual story-telling. Huhtamo is described in this book as a media historian and a media archaeologist. If you do not know any media historian or media archaeologist, you are about to meet one, if not...

Author: Thomas J. Jablonsky Publisher: Marquette University Press – 438 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This is the story of Marquette, the largest private university in Wisconsin and the first Catholic college or university in the world to become a co-educational institution by admitting women. The author Thomas Jablonsky has been with the Milwaukee-based Marquette University since 1995, and is currently director of its Institute for Urban Life, so he is uniquely qualified as the author of this book. He has expertly researched and laid out the materials in this book with great care, and he has written...

Author: Gerald A. Hauser Series Editor: Thomas W. Benson – Studies in Rhetoric / Communication Publisher: University of South Carolina Press – 283 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Five case studies of abuse of humans form the core of this eye-opening and enlightening book. These indignities took place twice in South Africa; and once each in Iraq, in Northern Ireland and in the Soviet Union. Thomas W. Benson, the editor of a series of books in rhetoric and communication (which includes this book) published by the University of South Carolina Press, describes Prisoners of Conscience as a “work...

Author: Jim Garry Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press – 208  pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar The famous, pioneering Lewis & Clark Expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, was named after Capt. Meriwether Lewis and 2nd Lt. William Clark of the United States Army. They were assigned by President Jefferson to find a feasible and safe route to the Western portion of this geographically-expanding country. The main purpose of this voyage – also known as the Corps of Discovery – was to map the newly acquired territory.  The mission of the 33 team...

Author: Aric Putnam Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press – 156 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This highly informative book is about the African-American identity crisis in the 1920s and 1930s. Aric Putnam, an associate professor of communication at the College of St. Benedict / St. John’s University, writes in this book about Black Americans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who struggled to resist efforts by the public to de-Africanize them. They recalled their personal past and memorable experiences, stressed their African roots, emphasized their distinct culture and traditions, and invoked their uniquely different values in their...