However modern the master, he must build on the thought of the past; and the most modern of masters can usually be shown to belong to some well-defined tradition. This, Jonathan Miller believes, is particularly true of Marshall McLuhan. Tunnelling through McLuhan's medium into his message, he finds . . . But the reader must be free to follow Miller's intellectual detective story to its appropriate, paradoxical end. 'I can still recall', he concludes, 'the intense excitement with which I first read McLuhan in 1960. Not that I remember a single observation which I now hold to be true, nor indeed a single theory which even begins to hold water. And yet, as a result of reading him . . .' As well as writing about McLuhan, Jonathan Miller has recently directed several plays (including The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest) and a film. He is also well known for his part in the famous review Beyond the Fringe; for his film of Alice in Wonderland; and as a TV director and editor. He has contributed to a wide variety of periodicals including the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. But all Miller's many activities (he was trained as a doctor and is a member of the Royal Society study group in non-verbal communication) are guided by one - a passion for ideas and their ancestry, as his book clearly shows.

McLuhan (Fontana modern masters)

Politics & Social Sciences

Jonathan Miller

Social Sciences

Fontana

Corners bumped, bookseller's marks, some marking to pages, pop ups worn but all working. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

The Human Body

Medical Books

David Pelham

Basic Sciences

Viking Press

The Facts of Life - 1995 publication.

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Viking Pr,1995

A director's brilliant inquiry into the problems--and solutions--of staging, filming, and acting classics for modern audiences. 90 black-and-white and color illustrations.

Subsequent Performances. 1st, First American Edition

Literature & Fiction

Elisabeth Sifton / Viking

Author: Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Jonathan Mill
Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
Keywords: acting, fringe
Published: 1964-08-31
Language: English
Category: Anthologies, Drama, Literature & Fiction,
ISBN-10: 0573640025     ISBN-13: 9780573640025
Binding: Paperback
List Price: Unknown

Beyond the Fringe (Acting Edition)

PETER COOK

Dudley Moore

Bennett, Alan.

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

For someone who made such a spectacular success of dramatizing his public work, Marshall McLuhan remains unexpectedly mysterious on the subject of his personal development as a writer and a theorist. With this look inside McLuhan's global village, Jonathan Miller provides a sensible and provocative assessment  of the religious, cultural, and intellectual values in McLuhan's life that have most influenced his celebrated attitudes. Mr. Miller is known to Americans through his work as  a performer, writer , and director for stage, film, and television.

Marshall McLuhan

Penguin??Books

This hardback book "The Human Body: WIth Three-Dimensional, Movable Illustrations Showing the Workings of the Human Body" is pre-owned and is in good condition. The cover has some wear mainly the edges. On the first page it has the name of the previous owner written in the bottom left corner. I do not see any other markings in the book.

The Human Body: With Three-Dimensional, Movable Illustrations Showing the Workings of the Human Body

VIKING

"Watch for Rattlesnakes" reads the sign at the first rest stop within new Mexico's "Fighting 14th" judicial discrict. Young attorney Dan Shepard has been fired by his mother's prestigious Washington, DC law firm, and now must make his home aming the rattlesnakes. A failed stand-up comic forced into the law to pay the bills, Dan finds nothing amusing about his first case. His client, Jesus Villalobos, faces a murder charge, but nothing is what is seems, and the State is a little too eager to pin the charge on Jesus. Along the way, it is hard to tell who is the lawyer and who is the client. Rattlesnake Lawyer is a darkly comic tale of a young lawyer's coming of age in a small town where everyone knows what's going on––except him.

Rattlesnake Lawyer

Contemporary

Cool Titles

Mix the genres of mystery, thriller, and suspense set in a modern-day New Mexico outback, and you have the essence of Crater County. Prosecutor Luna Cruz hates being a lawyer. She's stuck back home in the slightly supernatural realm of Crater County, where senior proms are held at the local truckstop and nothing is what it seems. She falls hard for the only eligible man in town, mysterious defense attorney Sam Marlow. Unfortunately, he's the opposing counsel in a triple murder case. As more people around her start dying, Luna fears that Marlow might be imitating his client and that she might become the final victim.

Crater County: A Legal Thriller of New Mexico

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