International Handbook of Distance Education Available to Purchase

It was a welcome surprise to receive for review a book by the publishers of Reference Reviews. And what a polished and weighty book it is too! It compares well to handbooks by mainstream publishers such as Gower and Blackwell. Weighty both physically and in content, distance education was not, I thought, a subject that could sustain or justify 46 chapters by 60 experts covering close on 900 pages. Silly me! This is no basic introduction or middle‐brow textbook: it is an intellectual tour de force and handbook par excellence, a worthy tome for academics and administrators, teachers and...