Praeger Publishers

Two excellent titles deserve ongoing recommendation as excellent college-level references for specialty libraries. Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, And Television In Arab Politics (0275982122, $49.95, Praeger Press) by William Rugh is an essential guide for any who would understand the nature and state of Arab news reporting today. William Rugh is CEO of the America-Midwest Educational and Training Services nonprofit group dedicated to promoting cooperation between Americans and Middle Easterners: fluent in Arabic, he's the perfect professor to analyze the state and nature of newspaper, radio and television reporting in Arab media and politics. Wesley Britton's Spy Television (0275981630, $39.95) is the latest addition to "The Praeger Television Series" and deserves ongoing mention as a powerful contribution not only to Praeger's television collection, but to television analysis as a whole. Or half a century, television spies have been trained pros and businessmen alike who have featured the spy lifestyle in television sitcoms and presentations: Spy Television considers the history of spy shows on the screen, why they succeeded or failed, and how fact and fiction have been molded by them. Britton earned his doctorate in literature and has established himself as a critic and columnist over the years, making him the perfect choice for an in-depth analysis such as Spy Television provides.