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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