An exhilarating journey into the mind and spirit of a remarkable man, a legendary teacher, and masterful storyteller Joseph Campbell, conducted by TV journalist Bill Moyers in the acclaimed PBS series.

Quem herdará esta nova Terra?

Os últimos sobreviventes da raça humana abandonaram uma Terra em ruínas, desesperados para encontrar um novo lar entre as estrelas. Seguindo os passos de seus antepassados, eles descobrem o maior tesouro da era passada: um planeta terraformado e preparado para a vida humana. Entretanto, nem tudo é perfeito no novo Éden.

Há muito tempo inexplorado, o planeta seguiu um curso inesperado e não mais aguarda pelos humanos em paz silenciosa. Novos habitantes o dominaram, estruturando uma nova sociedade e transformando o último refúgio da humanidade em seu próprio lar.

Agora, duas civilizações estão em rota de colisão, ambas testando os limites do que farão para sobreviver, e um conflito parece iminente e inevitável. Com os seus destinos interligados pendendo por um fio, resta a derradeira pergunta: Quem são os reais herdeiros dessa nova Terra?

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate.

This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate.

There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan's work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as WiRed, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT's Media Lab. In effect, media now begs to be redefined. In a new introduction to this edition of Understanding Media , Harper's editor Lewis Lapham reevaluates McLuhan's work in the light of the technological as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in the last part of this century.