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The obituaries are little more than wishful thinking, they say. But that doesn't change the fact that <b>univeristy presses are facing a crisis</b>, says Lindsay Waters in <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education</i>...[<a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i32/32b00701.htm" class="l3">more</a>]<br><br> <SPAN class="volume"><a href="/LFDaily/index.html">LFDaily Archive</a></span></p> <A href="/bookworm/biblio/biblio_archive/index.html" class="l3"><IMG src="/images/sections/half/the_bibliofile.gif" width="160" height="38" border="0"></A> <img src="/images/mini_burst_new.gif" width="35" height="25" border="0"><BR> <P class="index">LF's roundup of book reviews. See who said what about new titles of interest.<br><br><b>This week:</b><br>Donald Bogle's <A href="/bookworm/biblio/index.html" class="l3"><i>Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television</i></a><br><br><SPAN class="volume"><a href="/bookworm/biblio/biblio_archive/index.html">The BiblioFile Archive</a></span></p> <A href="/resources/jrcompendium/index.html"><IMG src="/images/sections/full/junior_compend.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"></A> <P class="index"> <img src="/images/mini_burst_new.gif" width="35" height="25" border="0" align="right" hspace="10"> <A href="/resources/jrcompendium/index.html" class="l3">Our Three Year Compendium!</a><br> For the first time ever, Lingua Franca publishes a three year collection of our exclusive and comprehensive listings of junior hirings. </P> <A href="/resources/index.html"><IMG src="/images/sections/half/hirings_tenurings.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"></A><BR> <P class="index"> <A href="/resources/hirings_and_tenurings/index.html" class="l3">Who Got Hired Where</a><br> At long last, the definitive guide is here! Look inside for Lingua Franca's complete listing of Tenurings, Hirings to Tenure and Junior Hirings from 2000-2001. </P> <A href="/print/10/index.html"><IMG src="/images/sections/half/highlights.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"></A><BR> <P class="index">In September 2000, Lingua Franca celebrated ten years of covering the highs and lows of academic life. Take a look into the highlights from our archives:<br><br> <A href="/print/10/index.html#bestof" class="l3">The Best of Lingua Franca</A>: ten of our favorite articles from our first ten years.<br><br> A few of the themes that defined the decade:<br><br> * <A href="/print/10/computing.html" class="l3">Academic Computing</A><BR> * <A href="/print/10/gender.html" class="l3">Gender & Sexuality</A><BR> * <A href="/print/10/labor.html" class="l3">Labor & Tenure</A><BR> * <A href="/print/10/theory.html" class="l3">Theory and its Discontents</A><BR> * <A href="/print/10/politics.html" class="l3">Post Cold War Politics</A><BR> <BR> <SPAN class="volume"> <A href="/archives/index.html">More from our archives</A></SPAN></P> <P class="index">The Lingua Franca Timeline: Our Guide to Academia's Past Decade.<BR> <BR> * <A href="/print/0010/timeline90.html" class="l3">You Must Remember This...</A></P> <p class="index"><b class="l19">Also:</b><br> <A href="/print/10/index.html"><IMG src="/images/sections/half/bestbooks.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"></A><br><br>The results of our reader poll!<BR>"The best academic books of the nineties":<br><br> * <A href="/print/0010/field-bestbooks.html" class="l3">The Winners</A><BR> * <A href="/print/bestbooks/responses.html" class="l3">Selected Reader Responses</A><BR> * <A href="/print/bestbooks/allnominees.html" class="l3">The Nominees</A></P> </TD> <TD width="1" bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"></TD> <TD width="2"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="2" height="1" border="0"></TD> <TD width="1" bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"></TD> <!-- COLUMN 2 --> <TD width="235" valign="top"> <A href="/print/index.html"><IMG src="/images/covers/0104cover_small.gif" width="204" height="197" border="0"></A><BR> <A href="/print/index.html"><IMG src="/images/sections/half/in_the_current_issue.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"></A><BR> <P class="index"><a href="/print/0104/cover_healer.html" class="l3">It Takes a Village Healer</a>: Medical anthropologists suggest an unlikely remedy for Africa's staggering AIDS crisis. Can herbalists and diviner-mediums succeed where Western doctors have failed?</P> <P class="index"><b class="l19">Also:</b><br><br> <a href="/print/0104/feature_hurricane.html" class="l3">Hurricane Hugo</a>: University of Chicago president Hugo Sonnenschein insisted on making the Great Books accountable to the bottom line. Was he a sellout or a savior?<br><br> <a href="/print/0104/feature_bouncing.html" class="l3">Bouncing Off The Walls</a>: Designing a concert hall is no mean feat. But does that make it a science? Acoustics is nothing so exact, say the skeptics.<br><br> <a href="/print/0104/field_sport.html" class="l3">Contract Sport</A>: Picket line of scrimmage: Nobody doubts that college athletics are big business. Does that make football players university employees?</P> <P class="index"><a href="/print/0104/insidepub_beheading.html" class="l3">Invitation to a Beheading</a>: Styron meets Genovese: In each chapter of <i>Novel History,</i> a historian tackles a historical novel, and the novelist has a chance to reply.</P> <P class="index"><a href="/print/0104/hypoth_wisdom.html" class="l3">Hypotheses</A>: Jim Holt on the virtues of self-delusion.</P> <P class="index"><a href="/print/0104/brkthrubooks_death.html" class="l3">Breakthrough Books</A>: Five scholars recommend the best recent books about Mortality.</P> <!-- [[P class="index"]][[a href="/print/0101/letters.html" class="l3"]]Letters to the Editor[[/a]]: Lingua Franca's readers weigh in on [[a href=http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0011/hypoth_lookingglass.html]]the mirror problem[[/a]]: Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down?[[/p]] --> <IMG src="/images/sections/half/conference.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"><BR> <P class="index">Lingua Franca's listing of upcoming <A href="/resources/conferences.html">conferences</A> and events</P> <A href="http://unp.unl.edu/scripts/Cart/smart.pl?command=listitems&ID=3934&tmp=1"><IMG src="/images/sections/half/nowinprint.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"></A> <P class="index"><A href="http://unp.unl.edu/scripts/Cart/smart.pl?command=listitems&ID=3934&tmp=1">The Sokal Hoax</A>: an anthology of responses from around the world to the sham that shook the academy.</P><BR> <A href="/bookworm/index.html"><IMG src="/images/sections/half/bookworm.gif" width="233" height="38" border="0"></A><BR> <P class="index">Visit <A href="/bookworm/index.html">Bookworm</A>, our new set of resources for academic readers and writers.</P> <BR> </TD> </TR><TR> <TD colspan="5" bgcolor="#999999" height="1" width="474"><IMG src="/images/gutter.gif" height="1" width="474"></TD> </TABLE> <BR> </TD> <TD width="1" bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"></TD> <TD width="2"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="2" height="1" border="0"></TD> <TD width="1" bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"></TD> <TD width="166" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top" align="center"> <A href="/print/10/index.html#bestof" class="l3"><IMG src="/images/tabs/short/down/best_of_lf.gif" width="166" height="18" border="0"></a><div align="left"> <ul> <li><a href="/print/10/labor.html">Labor and Tenure</a> <li><a href="/print/10/politics.html">Post Cold War Politics</a> <li><a href="/print/10/gender.html">Gender and Sexuality</a> <li><a href="/print/10/theory.html">Theory and its Discontents</a> <li><a href="/print/10/computing.html">Academic Computing</a> </ul> </div> <!--[[SPAN class="bracket"]][[A href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/linguafranca.com/home;sz=125x125;tile=3;ord=705955258573169?"]][[IMG src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/linguafranca.com/home;sz=125x125;tile=3;ord=705955258573169?" border="0" height="125" width="125"]][[/A]][[/SPAN]][[BR]]--> <A href="/info/subscribers/index.html"><IMG src="/images/tabs/short/up/subscribe.gif" width="166" height="19" border="0"></A><BR> <p class="column3"><b class="l3"><a href="http://www.linguafranca.com/info/subscribers/free_issue.html">Get the full story:</a></b><br>all of Lingua Franca, delivered right to your door, at a special price.</p> <DIV align=center><a href="http://www.linguafranca.com/info/subscribers/free_issue.html"><img src="/images/lingua-4-free125still.gif" border="0"></a></DIV> <BR> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.contentville.com/content/dissertations.asp"><IMG src="/images/tabs/short/up/dissertations.gif" width="166" height="19" border="0"></A> <P class="column3">Our <A href="http://www.contentville.com/content/dissertations.asp">monthly dissertation feature</A> for Contentville brings to light the paper trail left by the good and the great, the famous and the infamous.</P> <BR> <SPAN class="bracket"><IMG src="/images/illustrations/bird.gif" width="120" height="130" border="0"></SPAN> </TD> <TD bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"></TD> </TR><TR> <TD colspan="10" height="1" bgcolor="#999999"><IMG src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"></TD> </TR><TR> <TD colspan="10" align="center"> <BR> <SPAN class="bracket"><A href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/linguafranca.com/home;pos=bot;sz=468x60;tile=2;ord=705955258573169?"><IMG src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/linguafranca.com/home;pos=bot;sz=468x60;tile=2;ord=705955258573169?" border="0" height="60" width="468"></A></SPAN> <P class="bracket"><B class="l5">If you have problems accessing or using any area of this site, please contact us at <A href="mailto:web@linguafranca.com">web@linguafranca.com</A>.</B></P> <P class="bracket"> Copyright © 2001 Lingua Franca, Inc. 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