This edition features a wealth of new material on urban warfare, including a computer simulation of EW architecture alternatives for land-based forces based on urban constraints.

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Acclaimed by hobbyists as the best book on radio ever written, Empire of the Air traces the lives of the three visionaries behind the modern communications age--Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff--in this fascinating, ...

A new look at the early history of wireless communication.

Craig provides an in-depth examination of radio's changing role in American political culture between 1920 and 1940.

Providing a thorough overview of each major medium, this text's discussion is enhanced by three integrated themes: media as business, media and technological change, and media and political, social, and cultural institutions.

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Using a systems framework, this textbook clearly explains how individual elements contribute to the overall performance of a radio system.

In 1942 an impartial commission was formed to study mass communication, evaluate the performance of the media, and make recommendations for possible regulation of the press. This book is the general report of that commission.