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Understanding media; the extensions of man [by] Marshall McLuhan.
Author
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, McGraw-Hill [1965]
Description
xiii, 364 pages 19 cm
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Forrestal Annex - Stacks
P90 .M26 1965
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
2004.607.1965
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Communication
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Communication and traffic
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Technology and civilization
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Mass media
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Series
McGraw-Hill paperbacks
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Bibliographic references
Bibliography: p. 361-364.
Contents
Medium is the message
Media hot and cold
Reversal of the overheated medium
The gadget lover: narcissus as narcosis
Hybrid energy: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Media as translators
Challenge and collapse: the nemesis of creativity
The spoken word: flower of evil?
The written word: an eye for an ear
Roads and paper routes
Number: profile of the crowd
Clothing: our extended skin
Housing: new look and new outlook
Money: the poor man's credit card
Clocks: the scent of time
The print: how to dig it
Comics: Mad vestibule to TV
The printed word: architect of nationalism
Wheel, bicycle, and airplane
The photograph: the brothel-without-walls
Press: government by news leak
Motorcar: the mechanical bride
Ads: keeping upset with the Joneses
Games: the extensions of man
Telegraph: the social hormone
The typewriter: into the age of the iron whim
The telephone: sounding brass or tinkling symbol?
The phonograph: the toy that shrank the national chest
Movies: the reel world
Radio: the tribal drum
Television: the timid giant
Weapons: war of the icons
Automation: learning a living.
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Extensions of man.
LCCN
64016296
OCLC
1128634
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Understanding media : the extensions of man / Marshall McLuhan ; [with a new introd. and bibliography by the author].
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