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2 reviews
R. Buckminster Fuller

St Martins Pr, 1984

Still timely, twenty plus years later
People got impatient with Fuller because he kept throwing out a timeline which went something like this: if we work like crazy for the next 10 years, we might solve some of the major problems we've always put up with, e.g. death by starvation to take a big one. Then another decade goes by, and a lot more people starve, and people shake their heads thinking "Bucky, Bucky... he just didn't ...

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

5 reviews
R. Buckminster Fuller

Lars Müller Publishers, 2008

Control, Operate and Plan Your Spaceship
R. Buckminster Fuller's (Bucky hereout), designer of the geodesic dome (one can see at EPCOT), lays down the thought patterns of a successful world in this short and concise book based on his discoveries (probably more appropriate than inventions, as he said "I am not tryingto imitate nature, I'm trying to find the principles she uses"). It is in this book that Bucky gives the reader insight ...

And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay

1 review
R. Buckminster Fuller

Lars Müller Publishers, 2008

Ethereal Knowledge
This is a book written nearly at the end of Mr. Fuller's life. "It Came to Pass Not to Stay" is an amazing piece of work; the word that comes to my mind when reading (besides brilliant, genius, etc) is efficiency. There is not one superfluous word in this book. Buckminster's style here is an unprecedented minimalistic-poetic sort of prose. He is getting across the largest amount of knowledge in ...

Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
R. Buckminster Fuller

Lars Müller Publishers, 2008

Buckminster Fuller (1895?1983) 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 world?s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this renaissance man. These texts remain surprisingly topical ...

Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century

17 reviews
David Blume

International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, 2007

OPEN Your minds PEOPLE
This a awesome book. If your not open to sources of enegry that our farmers can make so we can keep our money at home, then just write the check and send all you money over sea's. I have read the book. I also make some of my own fuel now. People the country is being strangled by high enegry prices. Who care if you agree with the authors politic's or view or history . You missing the whole point. ...

Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment

1 review
R. Buckminster Fuller

Critical Path Publishing, 2004

Absolutely timeless, wonderful!!
This book is the one to read if you seriously need an information-overload on positivity, and doing what needs to be done on this Spaceship Earth. Everyone is crew, no-one is passenger. The information contained within this _very_ short book, bears reading every year, every month. Buckminster Fuller should be so much more appreciated than what he was while he lived, but more so, what is the ...

Critical Path

23 reviews
R. Buckminster Fuller

St. Martin's Griffin, 1982

Omni-important
This is a tremendous book. Frankly, I am only writing this review to criticize those who didn't like it. (didn't get it more likely) First, one must understand that Bucky was a very unique thinker. As far "slapping on" a word like "omni" in order to sound more intelligent... well that just shows how ignorant the reviewer is. First off, Bucky used his own vocabulary ( that is explained in the ...

Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, A Cosmic Fairy Tale

1 review
R. Buckminster Fuller

St Martins Pr, 1982

A Preschooler's Guide to Cosmology and Quantum Physics
Ok, unless the preschooler happens to be Buckminster Fuller's daughter, that might be pushing the envelope a bit, but I do confess, I used to read this to my kids before they got to kindergarten, and while it wasn't nearly the favourite that Jelly Belly was, it made them giggle. Nonetheless, if you dare think your average Grade One-er is somehow incapable of comprehending the cosmos, then the ...

Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

1 review
R. Buckminster Fuller

St Martins Pr, 1983

Odd and enlightening
And entertaining! Fuller, self-described as, "The Planet's Friendly Genius," wrote this book as a hand-held version of a single, large scroll, covering nearly a city block,that is the original version of this work. The book uses the fairy tale character Goldilocks ("Goldy") to explain Fuller's observations on the universe. Starting with insights into the nature of experience, such as ...

Only Integrity Is Going to Count

4 reviews
R. Buckminster Fuller

Critical Path Publishing, 2004

Good introduction to Fuller's ideas
This audio collection is really a live taped conference called an "integrity day". These were lectures in which Bucky explained his logical perspective on Universe, and man's role in it. Its approx. 5 hours long, and contained on 5 discs. I feel its a decent summarization of all that Bucky had learned up to that point. This collection was taped just months before Bucky passed away and ...

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