including e-mail addresses) about the chapter authors. Lists of cepts of culture and society come with lots of baggage, and none of the authors come to grips. No one in the book attempts references conclude all chapters. The subject index contains the usual, difficult to detect lacunae, both at the page and entry to define culture, differentiate culture and society, or indicate that culture is a complex concept that should be uttered with levels. For example, a major insight about the future of cyberspace on page 29 is not one of the four pages listed after the some caution and humility. Raymond Williams and other students of these two keywords before keywords were cool must entry for cyberspace in the subject index. The absence of an entry for a chapter subheading on ''Loss of Novelty'' (I checked be rolling and writhing. Evidently all revolutions, including the computer sort, result in some forgetfulness. It must be a coping under both L and N) is an example of entry-level lacunae. Unevenness of indexing is another problem. ''Proprietary mechanism or survival strategy. fame'' is indexed, but not its complement, ''performance fame''. Another key concept, ''patron swapping,'' is not indexed. Its meaning is not naughty, so it does not pose a threat Thomas A. Peters to decency, regardless of what the acknowledged legislators of University Libraries the real world may assert.
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