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  1. Edinburgh University, UK

    V. G. Kiernan (professor emeritus of history)

  2. New College of Hofstra University, USA

    Robert Sobel (professor of business history)

  3. School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers University, USA

    Brent D. Ruben

  4. the University of California, Irvine

    John Dombrink (sociologist and assistant professor in the Program in Social Ecology)

  5. Syracuse University, USA

    Louis Kriesberg (professor of sociology)

  6. Lander College, USA

    Stjepan Mestrović (assistant professor of sociology)

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He has written on Marxist theory, English literature, imperialism, military history, and modern India.

He is the author of The Age of Giant Corporations, The Worldly Economists,and, most recently, Car Wars: Detroit and the Japanese Challenge.He is currently writing The Struggle for the Future: IBM vs. the World.

His publications include Communication and Human Behaviorand, coauthored with Richard Budd, Beyond Media.He is the editor of Information and Behavior,a new series forthcoming from Transaction Books.

His current research interests include the legalization of vice, the distinction between organized crime and white-collar crime, and nontraditional strategies in drug-law enforcement.

He is the author of Mothers in Poverty, Social Conflicts,and Social Inequality;and editor of the annual series Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change.

He is the author of articles in Social Science and Medicine, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry,and Social Forces.

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Kiernan, V.G., Sobel, R., Ruben, B.D. et al. Books in review. Society 21, 76–88 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02696042

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