| 1. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man | 
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By: Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham
Publisher: The MIT Press
October 20, 1994
I have read this book at least ten times. I learn something new each time.
If you are trying to understand "what society has become" or "what society is becoming", you must read this book. McLuhan was quite the visionary. He predicted it all.
Do not be discouraged if you find it a difficult read. It IS challenging. My advice would be to skip ahead a few chapters if you... more
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| 2. The Medium is the Massage |
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By: Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
Publisher: Gingko Press
2005-10
McLuhan was a prophet of his time for communications. His message is timeless and provides expert ideas seamlessly through this book!... more
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| 3. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition | 
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By: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: Gingko Press
2003-11
At 16 (1977) I discovered the original paperback Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and it changed my world and the way I perceive every aspect of modern culture and technology forever. Throughout college, graduate school and a life of writing I have consistently supported my arguments and theories with ideas and quotes found within these pages. Fortunately I have not been alone, as entire... more
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| 4. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man |
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By: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
March 01, 1962
The Gutenberg Galaxy, McLuhan's second book, is one of his best, but the reader should be forewarned that it is also one of his most difficult to read and does not make a good introduction for the beginner. One of the reasons for this difficulty is that it is written in mosaic style, in which McLuhan -- like Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project -- creates a text that is largely composed of quotations... more
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| 5. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man |
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By: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: New American Library
1964
UNDERSTANDING MEDIA IS THE BOOK THAT'S MAKING TODAY A REVIEW OF UNDERSTANDING MEDIA.
"The oracle of the information age" -- LIVE
"The oracle of the blogosphere" -- NEWSFEED... more
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| 6. The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (Communication and Society (New York, N.Y.).) | 
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By: Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
June 01, 1989
Powers says that this book is not about "final answers." By God he's right! And he proceeds to effloresce a wondrous garden wrought of the print medium brimming over with fresh probes, "osmic space," brains "astonied," the secret lives of "sense ratios," and other electrific, outsized insights and invitations into the futurepresent. One could readily argue and effectively so that "The Global... more
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| 7. The Essential Mcluhan |
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By: Eric Mcluhan, Frank Zingrone
Publisher: Basic Books
July 11, 1996
Measuring the impact of Marshall McLuhan on media studies is akin to measuring the impact of media on man. Modern man's entire scope of understanding is impacted by and funneled through media forms, and the field of media study is almost entirely funneled through the groundbreaking work of Marshall McLuhan. He may not be the least appreciated genius of the 20th century, but he is at least among the... more
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| 8. The Mechanical Bride - Facsimile |
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By: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: Gingko Press
June 30, 2008
Although it was published in 1951, the critical analysis of advertising saturation that McLuhan presents in this book applies equally in the 21st century. Although the mechanisms of media delivery have changed, the message that they deliver has not. Although the once-contemporary references may require additional research on the part of a younger reader, the book does not suffer overtly because of... more
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| 9. Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews |
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By: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: The MIT Press
April 01, 2005
For anyone remotely interested in McLuhan, I recommend this book for the following reasons.
It is a much easier read than most of McLuhan's work, as it is a collection of interviews and speeches which are necessarily more concise, and were for me much more involving.
It gives an insight into McLuhan's theories which can be quite puzzling and abstruse at first. In his speeches and essays... more
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| 10. The Book of Probes | 
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By: Marshall McLuhan, David Carson, Eric McLuhan, William Kuhns, Mo Cohen, Terrance Gordon
Publisher: Gingko Press
2003-11
The art in THE BOOK OF PROBES starts early, with pictures and computer graphics generated by David Carson going out of the blue and into the black on pages 4-400 including 33 pages preceding the author, title, list of editors, and contents, which lists "Probes 8 - 545" for pages that have a mixture of such art, Commentary on pages 403-448 and Fragments, before the Album with regular pictures, explanations... more
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