Among other recent books by
Ohio University faculty and alumni:
- Removing College Price Barriers: What Government Has Done and Why
It Hasn't Worked ($24.95 paperback, $74.50 hard cover, State University
of New York Press), by Associate Professor of Political Science Michael
Mumper, explores why federal and state government efforts to make a
college education affordable have failed. Mumper analyzes trends in college
finance and evaluates several plans to reform the college finance system,
including the new direct lending program and the national service option
to repaying tuition debt.
- Living Ethics: Developing Values in Mass Communication ($27.95,
Allyn & Bacon), by Professor of Journalism Michael Bugeja, is
a journalism text that challenges students to enhance their ethics and value
systems. The book, which includes essays by such well-known journalists
as Helen Thomas and Dan Rather and contributions from Ohio University faculty
and staff, examines topics such as plagiarism, hoaxes and sexual harassment.
Bugeja, poetry columnist for Writer's Digest, also recently published
the following books: Poet's Guide ($12.95, Story Line Press), a poetry textbook;
the American edition of The Visionary ($10, Orchises Press), a poetry collection;
and Little Dragons (Negative Capability Press), a collection of short fiction.
- Time in Transit ($14.95, Literary House Press, Washington College,
Chestertown, Md.) is the first collection of poems published by new Ohio
University Press Director David Sanders. Many of the 24 poems first
appeared in the New Orleans Review, Poetry East and other poetry publications.
- Booking Pleasure (cloth $24.95, paperback $14.95, Ohio University
Press) is a series of essays by Distinguished Professor of English Jack
Matthews. An avid book collector and well-known author, Matthews describes
"booking" as the "covetous foraging for old and rare books."
- In Barns of the Midwest (cloth $50, paperback $25, Ohio University
Press), Professor of Geography Hubert Wilhelm and co-author Allen
Noble contend that barns leave an identifiable mark on the American
landscape. They claim that those found in Midwestern America are representative
of the agrarian values associated with German and English settlers who built
barns in the region.
- The Consultant's Craft: Improving Organizational Communication
($22, St. Martins Press), by School of Interpersonal Communication Director
Sue DeWine, takes a practical approach to solving workplace communication
problems by offering tips on improving listening behaviors, making meetings
less boring, coping with "difficult people," and managing office
friendships and romances.
- The Grammar of the Machine, Technical Literacy and Early Industrial
Expansion in the United States ($27.50, Yale University Press), by Professor
of Curriculum and Instruction Edward Stevens, analyzes the dramatic
changes in technologies that took place in pre-Civil War America, and challenges
they posed for education.
- Ohio University in Perspective II: The Annual Convocation Addresses
of President Charles J. Ping, 1985-1993 ($24.95, Ohio University Press)
focuses on Ping's second decade of service, and includes two significant
documents from the period: "Toward the Third Century: Issues and Choices
for Ohio University" and "Enhancing the Core Curriculum."
- Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa ($35 hard cover, $14.95 paperback,
Indiana University Press), by alumna Louise Bourgault, MA '72, PHD
'80, is considered one of the most insightful books on African media. Bourgault,
a professor at Northern Michigan University, analyzes how historical, political,
economic, social and cultural factors have helped shape content and control
over the media in the Sub-Saharan area.
- Enquiring Minds and Space Aliens: Wandering Through the Mass Media
and Popular Culture ($14.95, Mayfly Productions) is a collection of
reworked columns on contemporary social issues by Walter Brasch,
PHD '74. Brasch, who has written 10 books, is a syndicated newspaper columnist
and professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
- Design Spirits: Bars, Brewpubs & Techno Clubs ($42.50, PBC
International Inc.), by Gail Bellamy, AB '71, is a full-color design
book for restaurant, bar and nightclub architects and owners. Bellamy is
senior editor of Restaurant Hospitality magazine, a national trade magazine.
- The Search for the Origin of Birds ($21.90, Franklin Watts) is
the first book by Lawrence Witmer, an assistant professor in the
Department of Biological Sciences and College of Osteopathic Medicine. The
illustrated book, aimed primarily at young readers between the fourth and
seventh grades, won an award from the National Science Teachers Association/Children's
Book Council.

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