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 Honor & Respect: The Official Guide to Names, Titles, and Forms of Address $75.00 Review from Library Journal, December 2008 *BOTTOM LINE* *One doesn't need to update this type of reference book often, but this one is made to last and well worth the price. An essential purchase for all libraries* Full Review: Hickey*, Robert. *Honor & Respect: The Official Guide to Names, Titles, and Forms of Address*. Protocol School. 2008. 576p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-615-19806-4. $75. REF A reference source on forms of address is a standard in all types of libraries. The best known is probably A&C Black's /Titles and Forms of Address: A Guide to Correct Use/, which will be in its 22nd edition in 2009. This work is the Protocol School of Washington's first attempt at compiling such a guide, and it is well worth the wait.Hickey, deputy director of the school, has written the most extensive guide to honorifics and titles available *Part 1 *("Terms, Style & Use") provides an extensive glossary of terminology, offices, and agencies, as well as information on the use of various forms of address. *Part 2 *("Forms of Address") supplies entries on how to address private citizens, professionals and academics, military personnel, diplomats, clergy, officials in the United States, and British, Canadian, Australian, and International officials. Each entry includes the address for an official envelope, a letter salutation and closing, an address on a social and inside envelope, the form for a place card, an introduction, and guidance for addressing one in conversation. *Part 3 *("Country Names & Officials") lists the official names of each country and how to address top officials. Other features include a section on precedence and joint forms of address. The organization is clear, the layout is clean with plenty of white space, and each entry heading is in large, bold type with adequate spacing between entries. Although most library patrons will have little use for information on the correct forms of address for foreign dignitaries, the tips on the use of badges and place cards, letters, and introductions are of general interest. Brides-to-be, of course, will seek out the instructions on preparing social and inside envelope addresses for private citizens and professionals. *BOTTOM LINE* *One doesn't need to update this type of reference book often, but this one is made to last and well worth the price. An essential purchase for all libraries*. [Available in print only.] *-- Rosanne M. Cordell, Indiana Univ. Lib., South Bend*  Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Leonardo Books) $17.95 Alexander Galloway seems to have something profound to say about networks but not the confidence to say it clearly. Galloway sets out to prove that "protocol" is to distributed postmodern networks (i.e. the Internet) what Foucault's "panopticon" was to modernist social hierarchies. Since Foucault is, for me, the best example of why postmodern 'theory' is still worth taking seriously, I got pretty excited about this book. Galloway begins ambitiously, clearly stating his thesis (the book's subtitle), identifying his intellectual opponents (naive techno-libertarians), and situating his work within the literature (he invokes figures as diverse as Vannevar Bush and Gilles Deleuze). By page 65, the book seems really to be going somewhere, as Galloway walks us through the history of protocol, using TCP/IP and DNS as exemplars. The writing is technically crisp and hard-headed. But just as I started to get really interested, Galloway seemed to back off his argument, retreating into vague pronouns and undefined terms. Derrida appeared briefly. There was some general derision of 'late capitalism.' I finally got lost on his discussion of Sergei Eisenstein's attempt to adapt Das Kapital for the movie screen ("What does this have to do with networks?" I thought.) In the end, I never figured out what Galloway meant by "protocological control." It was not clear which (if any) agent does the controlling, what the limits of protocological control are, or how we could exercise control if we wanted to. I was left with the distinct impression that protocological control amounts to the simple requirement that nodes on a network speak a common language. It's hard to see this as particularly insidious, or even politically relevant. There may be more going on here, but I can't find it.  The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice, Second Edition $18.95 This book offers lots of protocol formats that can be used to analyze work and for classroom instructional purposes. Must have book. |
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