Jerome Agel Livres

Marshall McLuhan is the man who predicted the all-pervasive rise of the modern mass media. Blending text, image and photography, his 1960s classic The Medium is the Massage illustrates how the growth of technology utterly reshapes society, personal lives and sensory perceptions, so that we are effectively shaped by the means we use to communicate. This concept, and his ideas such as rolling, up-to-the-minute news broadcasts and the media 'global village' have proved decades ahead of their time.

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.