Book Received

Mittelman, James H. The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 272 pp., 6 x 9, 3 tables, cloth (ISBN (0-691-00987-2) $49.50, paper (ISBN 0-691-00988-0) $17.95
Based mainly on analyses of Eastern Asia and Southern Africa, this textbook examines globalization as a set of ideas and as a policy framework, propelled by changes in the division of labor and power, manifested in regionalism, and challenged by fledgling resistance movements.

Scheuer, Jeffrey. The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind. NY: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999. 240 pp., notes, biblio., 5 3/4 x 8 1/2, cloth (ISBN 1-56858-141-6) $23.95
Argues with compelling and infuriating insight that the structures of television favor conservative political ideas in America.

Tourish, Dennis, and T. Wohlforth. On the Edge: Political Cults of the Left and Right. New York: ME Sharpe. Defines cults and the communication dynamics of their hold on people, with examples from the right and left (along with some overtly political psychotherapy groups) to argue that they exert more influence than commonly supposed.