About this title: 30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, Uso pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered'. McLuhan's remarkable observation that "societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. Ex-Libris. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Reveals how the medium, or process of our time-electronic technology-is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of your personal life. How it is forcing your to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought and every institution your formerly took for granted. Wraps are scuffed with mild edgewear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. P. 11 is detatched but present. Prior owner name on front reverse. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. No Jacket. Good. No Jacket Good. No DJ Issued Store's name stamp inside and name in pen of the former owner and spine crease. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; *** Very Good-condition. Binding tight, pages clean. No previous owner names. *** read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. The Medium is the Massage remains Marshall McLuhan's most popular book, perhaps as influential as Understanding Media. It is still one of the most insightful and provocative works ever to have been published on our modern culture. With every technological advance, McLuhan's theories reveal how prescient ... read more
Edition: First edition. Thus
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. This book is near fine shape, clean and attractive with slightly edgewear. 159 p. : chiefly ill.; 18 cm. Includes Illustrations. Black and illustrated cover with white title. Social Science; Alibris.0011352. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone, New York
Date Published: 1989
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very little wear. Text is clean. 'A joyous, eye-opening, mind-opening treasure trove of McLuhanisms. ' Illustrated. 154+ pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York: Bantam Books
Description: Soft Cover. Nearly Fine/None as Issued. Presumed 1st. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall. 2 books as a set and both books are profusely illustrated with fascinating B/W photos, drawings and cartoons and have light cover wear: 1. Medium: 1967, 160pp. Light spine crease. 2. War: 1968, 192pp. Small chip at head and tail of spine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Date Published: 1967-01-01
Description: Very Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket in very good condition with normal shelf or use wear. Dust jacket has a few tears around the edges and a few scratches. Tight binding. Clean unmarked text. No highlighting or pen/pencil markings. We ship daily. read more
Binding: Hardback.
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1967
Description: Fair condition dust jacket. Has edgewear, some closed tears, discoloration and scratch-marks. In mylar. Very good condition. 157 p. (chiefly illus. ) 29 cm. Mild toning and discoloration to white parts of boards. read more
"This is pretty much a 20pg article padded out to be book-length by a wonderfully engaging layout/graphic elements (no complaints here, as the form is, of course in this case, part of the content). However, this is something that I think still warrants reading today. I feel like maybe it's something that should be read and discussed in early High School, or at least by college, in a public curriculum. Mostly sets forth ideas I already shared, but it's nice to read them and think about them further in such a dynamic format."
"One of those books that can cause a paradigm shift in your world view. Or at the least be a fun read for anyone interested in sociology and technology."
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