About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Marshall McLuhan, Richard Goldstone, Vladimir Kvint, Eloisa James, Meena Alexander, Cornelius L. Reid, Paul Levinson, John Stallo, Louis F. Budenz, Daniel Berrigan, Avery Dulles, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, John E. Sprizzo, Elizabeth Johnson, Charles Beirne, Bradley Tusk, Deal W. Hudson, Victor Francis Hess, George Haley, Bryan Joseph McEntegart, John M. Culkin, Mario Einaudi, Charles E. Rice, Joseph Abboud, Brian Davies, William L. Reilly, Ernest van den Haag, John Feerick, Harley Parker, Barbara Kellerman, Bruce Andrews, Mehrdad Izady, Werner Stark, Richard Digby Day, Cynthia Cruz, Judith Vladeck, Lawrence Boadt, Marcus Daly, Clare Shore, Thomas Patrick Melady, Deborah Batts, Robert Araujo, William O'Malley, Terry A. Osborn, Michael J. Garanzini, Diana Villiers Negroponte, Robert E. Gould, Oskar Halecki, Marleen Barr, Joseph Campbell, Jennifer Gordon, Jeffrey Paul von Arx, Sarah Gambito, Saul Cornell, Peter Steinfels, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, John J. McNeill, Francis Patrick McFarland, Brian Leftow, Morgan Jenness, Mark S. Massa, Amy Aronson, David Budescu, Elizabeth Hess, James DiGiacomo, John Greco. Excerpt: Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented. Although he was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, his influence waned in the years before and after his death and he continued to be a controversia...
