Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding: The Authorized Biography
by W. Terrence Gordon
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The originator of such widely used phrases as "the global village" and "the medium is the message," Marshall McLuhan -- the prescient media guru -- is finally attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s, McLuhan blazed the intellectual territory which we are only coming to grips with today. This couldn't be a better time for a readable, full-scale treatment of his writings, a book that reflects the range and depth of his thought accurately and accessibly. Marshall McLuhan: show more Escape into Understanding fills this gap. show lessTags
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W. Terrence Gordon Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University , Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada , and part-time lecturer in Linguistics at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada. He is the author of McLuhan's biography: Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding.
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 302.23 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Mass Communication & Media Communication Media (Means of communication)
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- P92.5 .M3 .G67 — Language and Literature Philology. Linguistics Communication. Mass media
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