This book presents a clear, concise and critical introduction to contemporary media and cultural studies. The book will be of interest to all students about to embark on courses in which knowledge of the mass media, cultural identities, popular culture, film, or television, forms a part of their programme. But the book is also aimed at those who are interested in how media and cultural identities can be studied in relation to audiences and industries in the context of local and global media.

A huge volume of knowledge, we would call this book no less than a bible... it is something to be studied and not simply read.

In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links between. Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know exactly how words are understood or have any methodology for finding out.

John F. Kennedy on Leadership: The Lessons and Legacy of a President by John A. Barnes.
Another book on John F. Kennedy? What is there left to be studied that hasn't been studied already? His leadership. Remarkably, given the spate of "leadership" books that have been published in the decade since Donald Phillips's Lincoln on Leadership created the genre, no one has attempted a book examining the leadership style of the modern American president who is probably most closely identified with the term.