McMaster University Faculty - Harold Innis, Stephen Lewis, Peter Maitlis, Dafydd Williams, Alan Walker, John Cornwell, Henry Giroux, William H. Brac (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Harold Innis, Stephen Lewis, Peter Maitlis, Dafydd Williams, Alan Walker, John Cornwell, Henry Giroux, William H. Brackney, Ruth Landes, M. Jamal Deen, Nick Bontis, David Parnas, Paul Rapoport, Charles Gordon Roland, Donald Acheson, David Sackett, Daniel Woolf, Greg Marshall, James Fraser Mustard, Stuart Lyon Smith, Peter George, Bertram Brockhouse, John Basmajian, Heather Munroe-Blum, Roy Adams, John L. Wallace, Harry Thode, Adele Reinhartz, Evelyn Nelson, Howard P. Whidden, Kim Richard Nossal, Henry Duckworth, Gordon Guyatt, Alexander Gordon McKay, Pengfei Guan, John E. Thomas, Ronald Gillespie, James Stewart, John Burke, Clark Ross, Donald Hillman, Douglas Barber, Leslie Shemilt, Clifford Ford, John F. MacGregor, Alvin A. Lee, Ethan Vishniac, Janet Ajzenstat, Bob Bearpark, Moran Campbell, Michael Ames, Richard Bader, Arthur Bourns, Jack Hirsh, Edward Togo Salmon, Charles Jago, Edward Jones-Imhotep, Roger G. Walker, Ralph Pudritz, George Gilmour, Abraham Lincoln McCrimmon, A. C. Heidebrecht. Excerpt: Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 - November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. The affiliated Innis College at the University of Toronto is named for him. Despite his dense and difficult prose, many scholars consider Innis one of Canada's most original thinkers. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels. Innis's writings on communication explore the role of media in shaping the culture and development of civilizations. He argued, for example, that a balance between...