Jerome Agel Knihy

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward in the dense and poorly organized Understanding Media. McLuhan's ideas about the nature of media, the increasing speed of communication, and the technological basis for our understanding of who we are come to life in this slender volume. Although originally printed in 1967, the art and style in The Medium is the Massage seem as fresh today as in the summer of love, and the ideas are even more resonant now that computer interfaces are becoming gateways to the global village.

Twinkie defense? A message to Garcia? Darwin's bulldog? What exactly do these phrases mean? This absorbing cultural dictionary identifies and explains 1,200 verbal allusions, shedding light on world events as well as the verbal shorthand inherited from past generations.

With The Cosmic Connection extraterrestrial life emerges as an idea whose time has come. Writing in non-technical language for the citizens of planet Earth, Dr. Carl Sagan describes the quest for life out there and relates the new astronomical discoveries to the deepest human problems.

Mesiac vždy pôsobil ako záhadný a silný objekt. V mýtoch, legendách a poverách na celom svete sa mu oddávna pripisovala hlboká a fascinujúca moc nad ľudským životom... Dôkazy, ktoré teraz zhromaždil Dr. Arnold L. Lieber, odhaľujú tajomný vplyv Mesiaca. Kniha napísaná aj laikovi prístupným štýlom má podporiť výskumy v novom vednom odbore kozmobiológie, ktorá má korene v najstarších mýtoch a dejinách ľudskej civilizácie.