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And It Came to Pass--Not to Stayby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0025418106 (0-02-541810-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay'Book summary:Buckminster Fuller (18951983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the worlds problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this renaissance man. These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication.
While Fuller wrote the works in the 1960s and 1970s, they could not be more timely: like desperately needed time-capsules of wisdom for the critical moment he foresaw, and in which we find ourselves. Long out of print, they are now being published again, together with commentary by Jaime Snyder, the grandson of Buckminster Fuller. Designed for a new generation of readers, Snyder prepared these editions with supplementary material providing background on the texts, factual updates, and interpretation of his visionary ideas.
Initially published in 1969, and one of Fullers most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and exercising our option to make it . How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide spaceship earth toward a sustainable future.
And it Came to Pass Not to Stay brings together Buckminster Fullers lyrical and philosophical best, including seven essays in a form he called his ventilated prose , and as always addressing the current global crisis and his predictions for the future. These essays, including How Little I Know, What I am Trying to Do , Soft Revolution , and Ethics , put the task of ushering in a new era of humanity in the context of always starting with the universe. In rare form, Fuller elegantly weaves the personal, the playful, the simple, and the profound.
Utopia or Oblivion is a provocative blueprint for the future. This comprehensive volume is composed of essays derived from the lectures he gave all over the world during the 1960s. Fullers thesis is that humanity for the first time in its history has the opportunity to create a world where the needs of 100% of humanity are met. This is Fuller in his prime, relaying his urgent message for earthians critical moment and presenting pioneering solutions which reflect his commitment to the potential of innovative design to create technology that does more with less and thereby improves human lives . . . This is what man tends to call utopia. It's a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new relationship to universe - the alternative of which is oblivion . Buckminster Fuller.
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Approaching the Benign Environmentby R.Buckminster Fuller , Eric A. Walker, James R. KillianISBN 0020732104 (0-02-073210-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Buckminster Fullerby R.Buckminster Fuller , PawleyISBN 080081116X (0-8008-1116-X)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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Buckminster Fuller Readerby R.Buckminster Fuller , James MellerISBN 0140214348 (0-14-021434-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earthby R.Buckminster Fuller , Cam SmithISBN 0385029799 (0-385-02979-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanityby R.Buckminster Fuller , Kiyoshi KuromiyaISBN 0025418505 (0-02-541850-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Critical Pathby R.Buckminster Fuller , Kiyoshi KuromiyaISBN 0312174918 (0-312-17491-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Path'Book summary:R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought.
Critical Path is Fuller's master work--the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern--as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication in 1981. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation--at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises.
The crowning achievement of an extraordinary career, Critical Path offers the reader the excitement of understanding the essential dilemmas of our time and how responsible citizens can rise to meet this ultimate challenge to our future.
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The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fullerby R.Buckminster Fuller , Robert W. MarksISBN 0385018045 (0-385-01804-5)
Hardcover, Anchor Books
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Earth, Inc.by R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0385018258 (0-385-01825-8)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth, Inc.'Book summary:This book collects some of R. Buckminster Fuller's most important recent writings on the subject of spaceship Earth: the big, interconnected, total system that is "the only one we've got." These articles stress the need for considering our planet as a whole, rather than breaking it into its parts-as most of us continue to do. This theme is crucial to the thinking of Bucky Fuller, who, in addition to his many other appellations, has been called the "godfather" of the Whole Earth Catalog. [via]
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Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studiesby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0224008161 (0-224-00816-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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Fuller's Earth: A Day With Bucky and the Kidsby R.Buckminster Fuller , Richard BrennemanISBN 0312309813 (0-312-30981-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Grunch of Giantsby R.Buckminster Fuller , Richard BrennemanISBN 0312351941 (0-312-35194-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grunch of Giants'Book summary:This five-hour long recording is a passionate summary of Bucky's ideas. He reviews his assesment of humanity's most pressing problems, global strategies for solving these problems, and the conclusions from his "56-year experiment." [via]
Ideas and Integritiesby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0020926308 (0-02-092630-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Inventionsby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0312434790 (0-312-43479-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Naga: Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacificby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0195888804 (0-19-588880-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Nine Chains to the Moonby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0224008005 (0-224-00800-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earthby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0140194517 (0-14-019451-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'Book summary:[via]In this essay on man Mr. Fuller expresses what may well be his penultimate view of the human condition. Here, in a mood at once philosophical and involved, Mr. Fuller traces mans intellectual evolution and weighs his capability for survival on this magnificent craft, this Spaceship Earth, this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
Mr. Fuller is optimistic that man will survive and, through research and development and increased industrialization, generate wealth so rapidly that he can do very great things. But, he notes, there must be an enormous educational task successfully accomplished right now to convert mans tendency toward oblivion into a realization of his potential, to a universe-exploring advantage from this Spaceship Earth.
It has been noted that Mr. Fuller spins ideas in clusters, and clusters of his ideas generate still other clusters. The concept “spaceship earth is Mr. Fullers, and though used by Barbara Ward as the title of a work of her own the idea was acknowledged by her there as deriving from Mr. Fuller. The brilliant syntheses of some fundamental Fuller principles given here makes of this book a microcosm of the Fuller system.
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Synergeticsby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0020653204 (0-02-065320-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Synergetics 2: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinkingby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0020926405 (0-02-092640-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Synergetics; Explorations in the Geometry of Thinkingby R.Buckminster Fuller , E. J. ApplewhiteISBN 002541870X (0-02-541870-X)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Tetrascrollby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0312793642 (0-312-79364-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanityby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0140215670 (0-14-021567-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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