July 18-22 "Getting Out of The Matrix?" :

Niel Postman: "Amusing Ourselves to Death"

Here is information for the free download of the very helpful and highly recommended suggested reading, from Niel Postman's audio book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" that also has an excellent reference to other authors in the field of media ecology in chapter 1. The process involves using BitTorrent and and the large file sizes will require a fast download speed, but the results will be well worth your efforts:

How to get Niel Postmans book?

A free BitTorrent audio book download is available from from:

http://www.greylodge.org/tracker/gettorrent.php?info_hash=647da8f64a04b102341a64cc385c21bfe82afc9f

What is BitTorrent?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

Download BitTorrent: http://www.bittorrent.com/download

About Neil Postman: http://www.bigbrother.net/~mugwump/Postman/

For hand held machines:

Now that you have BitTorrent you can download also The Plucker Viewer for E-books for your hand held device:

http://www.plkr.org/dl

or you can download the Plucker Viewer directly from:

http://www.download.com/Plucker/3000-2362_4-10291414.html

Other:

The Science of Mind (A Complete Course of Lessons) by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (261 kB) [source]:

http://www.websyte.com/unity/title.htm

Available in Plucker format on:

http://plucker.madphilosopher.ca/

Audio Books:

Gutenberg Galaxy : http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project

G.K. Chesterton ...these and others by G.K.C. are well worth the read, or the listen :

The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare - comic treatment of Anarchist Terrorism: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1695

Heretics: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/470

Jaques Ellul : http://world.std.com/~jchat/ellul/web.htm

"The Technological Society": http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jsa3/hum355/readings/ellul.htm

"Anarchy and Christianity": http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/ellul/aac.html

and the highly recomended work entitled "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes".Trans. Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner. New York: Knopf, 1965. New York: Random House/ Vintage 1973 ...there must be an e-book or PDF version available somewhere ...if anyone knows pls.email:

Here however is a recent work by Mark Wollaeger from Princeton Univ. Press in PDF format that makes reference to Ellul's thesis on "Propaganda" :

MODERNISM AND THE INFORMATION-PROPAGANDA MATRIX :

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8295.pdf

Download PDF reader hare: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

and another from InformaWorld.com by Author: Karim H. Karim

CYBER-UTOPIA AND THE MYTH OF PARADISE: USING JACQUES ELLUL'S WORK ON PROPAGANDA TO ANALYSE INFORMATION SOCIETY RHETORIC :

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713768508~db=all

Other PDF must read files:

Dope Inc.

http://www.wlym.com/pdf/iclc/dopeinc1978.pdf

DESCHOOLING SOCIETY

by Ivan Illich

The Internet Sacred Text Archive:

Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

...other resources for rare manuscripts:

The Internet Archive*

http://www.archive.org

*Special Thanks To U.of T. Librarian Lachlan M. McNair for this wonderful link.

...g.k. once passed on to L.M.M. the concept he introduced in '74, for publishers to send their electronic galleys to the Canadian National Archives Library legal deposit, as they would be more accessible than hard copies. Well the "internet archive" is a wonderful example of what can be accomplished in this direction. i.e.:

http://www.archive.org/details/apocryphalgospel00unknuoft

...see also our VFU Book Cellar Library page for further links:

http://web.295.ca/gk/MFTv32n1/book_cellar.htm