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title	creators	first_name	last_name	ean_isbn13	upc_isbn10	description	publisher	publish_date	length	ddc	lcc	lccn	oclc	added	copies
Geodesic Math and How to Use It	Hugh Kenner	Hugh	Kenner	9.78052e+12	0520239318	It was 1976—twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, Geodesic Math and How to Use It again presents a systematic method of design and provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical specifications for orthodox geodesic domes, as well as for a variety of elliptical, super-elliptical, and other nonspherical contours.Out of print since 1990, Geodesic Math and How To Use It is California's most requested backlist title. This edition is fully illustrated with complete original appendices.	University of California Press	2003-10-20	183	516.23	TA660.D6	7.40273e+07	6.97905e+07	2019-10-06	1
Shapes, Space, and Symmetry (Dover Books on Mathematics)	Alan Holden	Alan	Holden	9.78049e+12	0486268519	This book explains the structure of the nine regular solids, including the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, plus many semiregular solids. It demonstrates how they can be used to explain mathematics visually rather than by symbol systems, and includes instructions for constructing cardboard models. Over 300 illustrations. 1971 edition.	Dover Publications	2012-03-14	208	516.23	QA491	9.10205e+07	2.38682e+07	2019-10-06	1
And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay	R. Buckminster Fuller, Jaime Snyder (Editor)	R.	Fuller	9.78304e+12	3037786213	Lyrical meditations on life, work and hopes for the future from the beloved architect and polymath Buckminster FullerFirst published in 1976, issued in a new edition in 2008, and now back in print, And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay brings together a selection of Buckminster Fuller's (1895-1983) lyrical and philosophical best, including seven "essays" that address global crises and his predictions for the future--"to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offence or the disadvantage of anyone." These essays, comprising "How Little I Know," "Complexion 1976," "What I Am Trying to Do," "A Definition of Evolution," "'And It Came to Pass' (Not to Stay)," "Soft Revolution" and "Ethics," pursue the task of ushering in a new era for humanity by "always starting with the universe." Each of the texts is written in Fuller's "ventilated prose," an essayistic poem form that breaks up his thinking into lines and stanzas.Though best known as a designer and design theorist, Fuller investigated and challenged assumptions about structure, function, materials, technology, aesthetics, services, distribution, mobility, communication, collaboration, information, recycling, politics, property and social norms. These essays present the great range and depth of Fuller's thought while elegantly weaving the personal, the playful, the simple and the profound.	Lars Muller Publishers	2019-08-20	192	811.54	PS3511.U6617	nan	1.10264e+09	2021-08-15	1
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78304e+12	3037781262	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 even today, decades after their initial publication. While Fuller wrote the works in the 1960’s and 1970’s, 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 Fuller’s 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 Fuller’s 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 1960’s. Fuller’s 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.	Lars Müller Publishers	2008-07-15	152	601	T14	6.90153e+07	7.85823e+08	2021-08-15	2
Grunch of Giants	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78161e+12	1607027593	Here Buckminster Fuller takes on the gigantic corporate megaliths that exert increasing control over every aspect of daily life. In the form of a modern allegory, he traces the evolution of these multinational giants from the post-World War II military-industrial complex to the current army of abstract legal entities known as the corporate world. GRUNCH stands for Gross Universal Cash Heist.	Design Science	2008-01-01	99	303.483	T14.5	nan	6.5616e+08	2021-08-15	1
Nine Chains to the Moon	Buckminster Fuller	Buckminster	Fuller	9.78049e+12	0486843335	Hailed by Newsweek as "a guide book and a dream book of the future," this volume offers innovative solutions for improving the quality of life through progressive design.	Courier Dover Publications	2020-01-01	352	909	CB151.F8	2.01905e+09	1.12291e+09	2021-08-15	1
R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking	R. Buckminster Fuller, Daniel López-Pérez	R.	Fuller	9.78304e+12	3037786094	For Fuller, nature is the most exquisite technology we know; and what underlies all of his work is the quest to uncover nature's fundamental principles--in order to foster their manifestation as a pattern integrity 'for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship.'" -Jaime Lawrence Snyder, Lars M ller Fuller Series EditorThe work of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) is among the most extraordinary and inventive in 20th-century design and architecture, not least for its incorporation of a range of intellectual and technical disciplines. Fuller described himself as an "engineer, inventor, mathematician, architect, cartographer, philosopher, poet, cosmogonist, comprehensive designer and choreographer.'' R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking is a major reassessment of Fuller's legacy in the context of design, examining his singular vision of new conceptual models for design and architecture, alongside his ideas on their potentially world-altering consequences. Drawing extensively on his archive and with over 300 images, the book follows Fuller's explorations of geometry, language and intellectual property in their relation to design principles and pedagogy, organizing its survey of Fuller's work through parallel conceptual threads rather than in a linear chronology of his career. Daniel L pez-P rez is an associate professor and a founding faculty member of the Architecture Program at the University of San Diego. By way of several publications and curatorial projects, L pez-P rez has emerged as an authority on Fuller, having edited Fuller in Mexico (2015) and R. Buckminster Fuller: World Man (2013), the latter of which was picked as Design Book of the Year by Architect magazine. He was also the curator of a week of lectures and exhibitions on Fuller at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014.	Lars Muller Publishers	2019-12-10	400	nan	nan	nan	1.09969e+09	2021-08-15	2
Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science	nan	nan	nan	9.78304e+12	3037785241	Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur, and poet, he was a quintessentially American self-made man. But he was also an outsider: a technologist with a poet’s imagination who already developed theories of environmental control in the thirties (“more with less”) and who anticipated the globalization of our planet (“think global―act local”). In light of the reawakening interest in his works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a re-edition of this comprehensive and legendary publication from 1999. The visual reader Your Private Sky examines and documents Fuller’s theories, ideas, and projects, and critically deals with his ideology of “rescue through technology.”	Lars Müller	2017-05-22	528	720	TA140.F9	nan	9.62873e+08	2021-08-15	1
Utopia or Oblivion	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78304e+12	3037786221	A classic of utopian literature, more urgent than ever: Buckminster Fuller's provocative blueprint for the futureComposed of lectures given by Buckminster Fuller throughout the world in the 1960s, Utopia or Oblivion presents the thesis 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. Fuller's grandson, in the introduction, refers to this selection as "hardcore Bucky," as these essays display Fuller's investigations into mathematics, geometry and how they intersect with the arts, music and world peace. In Fuller's words, "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.First published in 1969 and then reprinted by Lars M ller in 2008, Utopia or Oblivion also includes one of the earliest published discussions of Fuller's World Game, a revolutionary "game" that set as the goal for players, that the world "works" for 100% of humanity to nobody's disadvantage. It challenged players to overlook traditional world units such as nations, states and other political and economic divisions.	Lars Muller Publishers	2019-08-20	448	901.94	CB427	nan	1.11166e+09	2021-08-15	1
Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity	R. Buckminster Fuller, Kiyoshi Kuromiya	R.	Fuller	9.78003e+12	0025418505	Explains the concept of synergetics and its relationship with politics and history to illustrate the crucial link between humanity and nature	Macmillan Pub Co	1992-02-01	277	113	GA9.F85	9.10335e+07	7.15954e+08	2021-08-15	1
Space Structures	Arthur L. Loeb	Arthur	Loeb	9.78376e+12	3764335882	nan	Birkhauser Verlag	1991-01-01	nan	nan	nan	nan	6.17039e+07	2021-08-15	1
Color and Symmetry	Arthur L. Loeb	Arthur	Loeb	9.78088e+12	0882757458	nan	Krieger Publishing Company	1979-01-01	196	548.7	QD911	7.80131e+07	4.19432e+06	2021-08-15	1
Concepts & Images	Arthur L. Loeb	Arthur	Loeb	9.78146e+12	1461203430	1. Introduction . 1 2. Areas and Angles . . 6 3. Tessellations and Symmetry 14 4. The Postulate of Closest Approach 28 5. The Coexistence of Rotocenters 36 6. A Diophantine Equation and its Solutions 46 7. Enantiomorphy. . . . . . . . 57 8. Symmetry Elements in the Plane 77 9. Pentagonal Tessellations . 89 10. Hexagonal Tessellations 101 11. Dirichlet Domain 106 12. Points and Regions 116 13. A Look at Infinity . 122 14. An Irrational Number 128 15. The Notation of Calculus 137 16. Integrals and Logarithms 142 17. Growth Functions . . . 149 18. Sigmoids and the Seventh-year Trifurcation, a Metaphor 159 19. Dynamic Symmetry and Fibonacci Numbers 167 20. The Golden Triangle 179 21. Quasi Symmetry 193 Appendix I: Exercise in Glide Symmetry . 205 Appendix II: Construction of Logarithmic Spiral . 207 Bibliography . 210 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Concepts and Images is the result of twenty years of teaching at Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, a department devoted to turning out students articulate in images much as a language department teaches reading and expressing one self in words. It is a response to our students' requests for a "handout" and to l our colleagues' inquiries about the courses : Visual and Environmental Studies 175 (Introduction to Design Science), YES 176 (Synergetics, the Structure of Ordered Space), Studio Arts 125a (Design Science Workshop, Two-Dimension al), Studio Arts 125b (Design Science Workshop, Three-Dimensional),2 as well as my freshman seminars on Structure in Science and Art.	Springer Science & Business Media	2012-12-06	228	nan	nan	nan	9.58524e+08	2021-08-15	1
The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller	R. Buckminster Fuller, Robert W. Marks	R.	Fuller	9.78039e+12	0385018045	If R. Buckminster Fuller had been pulling the strings of corporate America, it's possible we would be living in a world of three-wheel cars, aluminum houses, and domed cities.Fuller never enjoyed that kind of power or authority. In fact, a good deal of his 24 patents and many other improbable schemes came to nothing. But Bucky-as he was universally known-was destined to be ahead of his time.	Doubleday Anchor Books	nan	256	624.17	TA140.F9	7.01733e+07	1.00036e+06	2021-08-15	1
Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics With Buckminster Fuller	E. J. Applewhite	E.	Applewhite	9.78003e+12	0025027107	Personal account by Fuller's friend & admirer of 40 years of their collaboration on one of Fuller's most famous titles.	Macmillan Company	1977-01-01	157	191	Q295	7.60572e+07	6.36451e+08	2021-08-15	1
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking	R. Buckminster Fuller, E.J. Applewhite	R.	Fuller	9.78003e+12	002541870X	Gilt facsimile signature of R. Buckminster Fuller on the front cover. 876 pages, illustrated	Macmillan	1975-01-01	876	191	Q295	7.40073e+07	6.43814e+08	2021-08-19	1
Critical Path	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78031e+12	0312174918	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.	St. Martin's Griffin	1982-02-15	512	909.82	CB428	8.10215e+07	8.05171e+06	2021-08-19	1
Signs Of Life How Complexity Pervades Biology	Ricard Sole, Brian Goodwin	Ricard	Sole	9.78047e+12	0465019285	Signs of Life applies the mathematics of order and disorder, of entropy, chance, and randomness, of chaos and nonlinear dynamics to the various mysteries of the living world at all levels. This book is an entirely new approach to understanding living systems and will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century.	Basic Books	2002-01-04	336	570	QH501	49825	4.51229e+07	2021-08-19	1
Exploring The Way Life Works: The Science Of Biology	Mahlon Hoagland, Bert Dodson, Judy Hauck	Mahlon	Hoagland	9.78076e+12	076371688X	The Way Life Works is the perfect answer for any instructor seeking a more concise, meaningful, and flexible alternative to the standard introductory biology text. Organized around one central idea – the amazing unity that underlies biological diversity – this book presents biology's basic concepts and applications through a brilliant interweaving of incisive explanations, imaginative analogies, and stunning visual graphics. The process of science is strongly emphasized, and specific historical and current research is presented to elucidate the achievements of scientific exploration and the roles of curiosity and observation in initiating the scientific process. Easily adaptable to multiple teaching styles, this irresistably readable, innovative, and engaging new textbook is guaranteed to inspire both teachers and students alike.	Jones & Bartlett Learning	2001-02-15	384	570	QH501	67790	2.2309e+08	2021-08-19	1
iSites	Erin Rovalo	Erin	Rovalo	9.7818e+12	1795052112	Many designers and creative problem solvers are interested in bringing their fascination with nature into their work styles, but aren’t sure how to get started. iSites: Nature Journaling for Biomimicry is a hands-on journal with prompts for observing the natural world, asking the right questions, and building your own collection of inspiring biological forms, processes, and systems. In this book, you will use six “biomimicry lenses” to tap into design lessons, inspirations, and ideas waiting to be discovered in your own backyard and beyond, including the naturalist lens, function lens, operating conditions lens, Life’s Principles lens, ecology lens, and pattern lens. Working through the nature journaling activities in this book, you will prepare and incubate new ideas for solving a wide variety of creative challenges using a biomimicry approach where sustainable innovation is inspired by nature. Start building your own collection of biological inspirations—let’s go outside!	nan	2019-01-01	nan	nan	nan	nan	1.08634e+09	2021-08-19	1
Innovation Methods Mapping	G. K. VanPatter, Elizabeth Pastor	G.	VanPatter	9.78154e+12	1540788849	Making sense of innovation process design is the subject of this new Humantific book. With an avalanche of innovation methods now in circulation within the marketplace, sorting out and making sense of the mess can be a daunting task. Spanning an 80+ year time period and numerous communities of practice this book offers a new and reusable analysis framework to do just that. The Methods Mapping framework focuses on 10 lenses or views that have been determined to be important in understanding innovation process today across multiple knowledge arenas. Key to the analysis is that the framework unpacks each process from its original graphic depiction in order to better understand the activities within. The framework introduces advanced considerations such as Starting Points, Think Balance, Behaviors, Method Mode, Roles, and Values. These considerations are designed to significantly enhance the way innovation processes are considered today and tomorrow. This 212 page volume with its Forward written by Richard Saul Wurman is intended for advanced practitioner leaders, organizational leaders and social change leaders. UPDATE PLEASE NOTE: This book is for advanced practitioners. It is not an introduction to the subject of innovation methods. It is ideally suited to readers who have active interest in process design, process history and process analysis. For sample reviews from industry experts see Advance Praise in the preview.See preview here:https://issuu.com/humantific/docs/innovation_methods_mapping_book_pre	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	2016-12-20	230	nan	BF408	nan	9.7316e+08	2021-08-19	1
Design Science Primer	Medard Gabel, David Heeney	Medard	Gabel	9.78151e+12	1514365111	This book is the manual for learning and applying design science to any problem as taught to the authors by R. Buckminster Fuller.	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	2015-06-16	98	658.575	nan	nan	1.19101e+09	2021-08-19	1
R. Buckminster Fuller: World Man (The Kassler Lectures)	Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press	Princeton	Architecture	9.78162e+12	1616890940	Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, Fuller sought out long-term, technology-led solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. His prodigious creative output-from visionary architectural works and experimental structures to expressive drawings and poetic musings-foreshadowed today's green design and prefab housing movements. R.Buckminster Fuller: World Man documents his never-before-published 1966 Kassler lecture at Princeton University School of Architecture. Delivered at the height of his career (Fuller had appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1964), he used the lecture to reflect on and synthesize his most significant concepts. In addition to a faithful facsimile of the lecture's typewritten transcript, the book includes an introductory essay on Fuller's work, a glossary of key terms and phrases, and an interview with Robert Geddes, the dean responsible for bringing Fuller to teach and lecture at the school.	Princeton Architectural Press	2013-12-03	144	720.1	NA2543.G46 R2	2.01302e+09	8.06201e+08	2021-08-20	1
Ideas and Integrities: A spontaneous autobiographical disclosure	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78002e+12	0020926308	nan	Prentice-Hall, (1967).	nan	nan	926	T40.F86	6.30116e+07	3.11636e+07	2021-08-20	1
Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium	Thomas T. K. Zung	Thomas	Zung	9.78031e+12	0312288905	Buckminster Fuller, inventor, thinker and architect, was one of the best known Americans of the twentieth century. Often compared to Leonardo da Vinci and called "the planet's friendly genius," he was the inventor of the geodesic dome, the man who coined the term "spaceship earth," and an educator without parallel. Yet, most of his books are out of print today.To remedy this situation, his longtime friend and architectural partner, Thomas Zung, has compiled a Bucky Fuller reader. This anthology consists of chapters selected from twenty of Bucky's many books, each with a new Introduction by such notables as Arthur C. Clarke, Steve Forbes, Calvin Tomkins, Dr. Martin Meyerson, Sir Harold W. Kroto, Arthur L. Loeb, E. J. Applewhite, and others.Altogether, this book provides an overview of a remarkable intellectual career and the best possible introduction to the man and his thought. Bucky Fuller was one of the most original thinkers and builders that America has ever produced, and this book makes his work available to a new generation at the beginning of a new millennium.	St. Martin's Griffin	2002-03-20	416	620.009	TA140.F9	nan	8.70891e+08	2021-08-23	1
A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All	L. Steven Sieden	L.	Sieden	9.78161e+12	1611250099	"How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?" - Buckminster FullerKnown as a "Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century," futurist, poet, philosopher, engineer, designer, inventor, and architect Dr. R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller had a keen awareness that we're all in this together. Understanding that we humans don't have a clue about how to operate our fragile Spaceship Earth, Bucky provided insightful solutions both personal and global to our most challenging issues, including war, overpopulation, housing, increasing inflation, health care, the energy crisis, and much more. For all its genius, Bucky's legacy has yet to be fully uncovered until the publication of "A Fuller View." The world needs to hear Bucky's voice as it calls upon each of us to shift our focus and resources from weaponry to livingry."If there's anything as rewarding as reading Bucky Fuller, it is opening pages of dialogue with him by some of the heartiest minds of our time. The ongoing dialogue brings ongoing life. Praise to Steve Sieden for making this happen."- Joanna Macy, Eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar and author of: World As Lover, World As Self; Widening Circles"Buckminster Fuller was a key guiding light for most of us still engaged around the world and striving to bring forth his vision of a just , peaceful, ecologically sustainable world. This book is one of the great literary treasures of the 21th Century ."- Hazel Henderson, Author: Building a Win -Win World and Ethical Markets:Growing The Green Economy"Steven Sieden has captured the many facets of Buckminster Fuller in a way that is both understandable and inspiring. The inclusion of wide array of Guest Commentators allows A Fuller View to provide a unique vision of Bucky's comprehensive strategy and reminds us that we're all in this together on the planet Bucky named Spaceship Earth."- John Robbins Author: No Happy Cows; The Food Revolution; Diet for a New America; A New Good Life"A Fuller View let me see the remarkable man from many new facets of the unique polyvertexion that is Bucky. As powerful as Fuller's insights will always be, reading the impact his presence had on so many lives helped humanize one of the great minds of my lifetime."- Foster Gamble, Creator and Host of the THRIVE movie"Bucky Fuller challenged the system and offered positive solutions to all our challenges - both global and personal. "A Fuller View" reminds us that each of us can make a difference, and using Bucky's solutions will benefit us all. He's one of my heroes and I'm so very proud to be included as a contributor."- Robert White, Executive Coach and author, Living an Extraordinary Life"A Fuller View offers inspiration for how to respond creatively, compassionately and wisely to the myriad of opportunities and challenges of these times. A brilliant collection of insights from people who have taken Bucky's wisdom to heart!"	Divine Arts	2012-04-01	276	620.009	TA140.F9	2.01104e+09	7.56587e+08	2021-08-23	1
Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, A Cosmic Fairy Tale	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78031e+12	0312793626	Buckminster_Fuller,Mathematica,Parables,Theories_of_the_Universe	ULAE /St. Martin's Press	1982-06-01	129	769.92	NE2312.F85 A4	8.20008e+07	8.69161e+08	2021-08-23	1
Buckminster Fuller's Universe	Lloyd Steven Seiden	Lloyd	Seiden	9.78031e+12	0306431785	Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology in the twentieth century. Incomparable designer, engineer, and architect, he proved that a lone genius, through sheer initiative, can have an astounding impact on the world. In this inspiring account of Fuller's life and legacy, Lloyd Steven Sieden brings new light to Fuller's belief system and recognizes his many contributions to humanity.	Plenum	1989-04-21	534	620	T49.5.S575	8.80325e+07	9.74123e+08	2021-08-23	1
Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller	Hugh Kenner	Hugh	Kenner	9.78069e+12	0688051413	Biography	William Morrow	1973-01-01	338	620	TA140.F9	7.9183e+07	417988	2021-08-23	1
Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking	Richard Buckminster Fuller, E.J. Applewhite	Richard	Fuller	9.78003e+12	0025418807	"It is the essence of synergy to produce unpredicted - indeed, unpredictable - results like the surprise geometrical discoveries of this second volume."	MacMillan Publishing Company	nan	592	191	Q295	7.40073e+07	1.45893e+08	2021-08-23	1
Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78097e+12	097406050X	Published in 1983, this slim volume contains some of Bucky's most shining observations on his 87 years of living on Spaceship Earth. The foreward by Bucky's daughter, Allegra Fuller Snyder, gives us some personal glimpses of this intellectual giant, who applied his mind to developing theories and principles to help guide humans through the naturally occurring evolutionary process of the planet. Contains a full listing of Bucky's patents, honorary doctorates, and published works.	Critical Pathpub	2004-03-01	43	620.009	TA140.F9	nan	5.60893e+07	2021-08-24	1
Your Private Sky: R Buckminster Fuller: Discourse	Claude Lichtenstein	Claude	Lichtenstein	9.78391e+12	3907044940	This book complements the volume R. Buckminster Fuller, Your Private Sky: Design Art Science and gives an authentic insight into the development of Fuller's architectonic, technical and anthropological concepts. This poet of technology was a poet as engineer, a thinker as designer, an artist as researcher who left an immense testament of writings - including texts of visionary importance, great consistency, penetrating linguistic force and not least of urgent topicality. The book documents various aspects of his widely ramified publications. Fuller spoke to the whole world, indeed to Spaceship Earth, the metaphor that he coined in 1950. He did this as one of the greatest and incomparably original individuals of our time in a genuinely American sense. Some of the texts are published here for the first time, such as his first programmatic manuscript Lightful Houses (1928), an informative lecture text on Dymaxion House (1929), his Letter to Einstein (1944) and the convolute Noah's ArkII (1951) as a commented facsimile. Photographs from Fuller's estate complement the texts.	Lars Müller Publishers	2001-04-01	240	620	TA140.F9	309355	4.70533e+07	2021-08-26	1
Divided Spheres	Edward Popko, Chrisopher J. Kitrick	Edward	Popko	9.78037e+12	0367680033	"This first edition of this well-illustrated book presented a thorough introduction to the mathematics of Buckminster Fuller's invention of the geodesic dome, which paved the way for a flood of practical applications as diverse as weather forecasting and fish farms. The author explained the principles of spherical design and the three classic methods of subdivision based on geometric solids (polyhedra). This thoroughly edited new edition does all that, while also introducing new techniques that extend the class concept by relaxing the triangulation constraint to develop two new forms of optimized hexagonal tessellations. The objective is to generate spherical grids where all edge (or arc) lengths or overlap ratios are equal. New to the Second Edition New Foreword by Joseph Clinton, life-long Buckminster Fuller collaborator A new chapter by Chris Kitrick on the mathematical techniques for developing optimal single-edge hexagonal tessellations, of varying density, with the smallest edge possible for a particular topology, suggesting ways of comparing their levels of optimization An expanded history of the evolution of spherical subdivision New applications of spherical design in science, product design, architecture and entertainment New geodesic algorithms for grid optimization New full-color spherical illustrations created using DisplaySphere to aid readers in visualizing and comparing the various tessellations presented in the book. Updated Bibliography with references to the most recent advancements in spherical subdivision methods"--	Unknown Publisher	2021-07-01	454	516.156	TA660.P73	nan	1.23587e+09	2021-08-30	1
New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller	Hsiao-Yun Chu & Roberto G. Trujillo	Hsiao-Yun	Trujillo	9.7808e+12	0804762791	A serious scholarly look at the work of R. Buckminster Fuller is long overdue. While Fuller himself wrote and published many volumes, and several biographies were written about him, there is little research that contributes to a critical understanding of his work and its historical significance. The 1,300-plus linear feet of material contained in the Fuller Archive at Stanford, including papers, photographs, audio and video recordings, and models, has been recently organized and described by the Department of Special Collections, and is ready to be explored by a new generation of scholars. Fuller's work has often suffered from lopsided treatment. Some laud him as a planetary prophet whose design science work foretold sustainable architecture and nanotechnology; others dismiss him as a "delirious technician" with a talent for linguistic obfuscation. Between adulation and disdain must lie a balanced picture of Fuller's life and his work. This volume paints that picture by taking a broader historical view, discussing Fuller and his work in the context of larger social and cultural patterns. Fuller is a common thread in a critical cultural history that will show him to be both a participant in and a product of his times. By placing Fuller and his work in a historical framework, we will arrive at a much richer understanding of both this self-made polymath and his times. This fresh, contextual look at Fuller's work from leading scholars in different fields is an important step toward filling the void of serious scholarship on Fuller.	Stanford University Press	2009-05-08	248	620.009	TA140.F9	2.00901e+09	2.94936e+08	2021-09-23	1
Fuller's Earth	Buckminster Fuller, Richard J. Brenneman (Editor), Norman Cousins (Afterword by)	Buckminster	Fuller	9.78031e+12	0312309813	nan	St. Martin's Press	1984-03-01	208	620	T14.5	8.30192e+07	9.97152e+06	2021-09-27	1
Buckyworks	James T. Baldwin	James	Baldwin	9.78047e+12	0471129534	"A pleasure to read." -Architectural Review "A wonderful, nontechnical introduction to one of this century's most fascinating minds." -Whole Earth Review "Original . . . [and] valuable, because it describes . . . Fuller's original techniques." -Architectural Record. Architect, mathematician, engineer, inventor, visionary humanist, educator, inspirational orator, and bestselling author, R. Buckminster Fuller has been rightly called "the 20th-century Leonardo da Vinci." Written by a fellow inventor who worked with Fuller for more than three decades, BuckyWorks is an inspiring celebration of the man, his ideas, his inventions -and his legacy for our future. Featuring over 200 photographs and drawings, plus dozens of fascinating excerpts from Fuller's lectures and conversations with the author, this book offers a breathtaking inside look at one of the truly great minds of our time. J. BALDWIN is an inventor and teacher who worked under, with, and for R. Buckminster Fuller for more than three decades. He served as an editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and the Whole Earth Review for 25 years.	John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated	1996-04-02	256	620	TA140.F9 B35	9.5026e+07	3.34041e+07	2021-10-09	1
Fuller's Earth	Richard J. Brenneman, Herbert Kohl (Foreword by, Contribution by)	Richard	Brenneman	9.7816e+12	1595584056	The visionary American philosopher, inventor, architect, mathematician and poet, Buckminster Fuller, was asked to explain his vision of how the universe works to a group of children. The book that resulted provides the most straightforward exposition of his radical world view and a loveable personal portrait. Step by step explanations on the mysteries of the universe, with interruptions by the children who could not follow him, provide insight into his dynamic teachings.	New Press, The	2009-07-07	160	620	T14.5	nan	2.27016e+08	2021-10-12	1
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World	Harold G. Nelson, Erik Stolterman	Harold	Nelson	9.78026e+12	0262526700	Humans did not discover fire--they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things--technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of thinking--we engage in design. With this expansive view of design as their premise, in The Design Way Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman make the case for design as its own culture of inquiry and action. They offer not a recipe for design practice or theorizing but a formulation of design culture's fundamental core of ideas. These ideas--which form "the design way"--are applicable to an infinite variety of design domains, from such traditional fields as architecture and graphic design to such nontraditional design areas as organizational, educational, interaction, and healthcare design.The text of this second edition is accompanied by new detailed images, "schemas" that visualize, conceptualize, and structure the authors' understanding of design inquiry. The text itself has been revised and expanded throughout, in part in response to reader feedback.	The MIT Press	2014-08-29	296	745.401	NK1505	2.00219e+09	8.78502e+08	2021-10-12	1
Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio	Mark Wigley	Mark	Wigley	9.78304e+12	3037784288	Bucky Inc. offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architecture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnetic spectrum. His buildings were delicate mobile instruments for accessing the invisible universe of overlapping signals. Every detail was understood as a way of tuning into hidden waves. Architecture was built in, with, for and as radio. Bucky Inc. rethinks the legacy of one of the key protagonists of the twentieth-century. It draws extensively on Fuller's archive to follow his radical thinking from toilets to telepathy, plastic to prosthetics, and data to deep-space. It shows how the critical arguments and material techniques of arguably the single most exposed designer of the last century were overlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today.	Lars Muller	2015-12-15	320	720.92	NA737.F8 W54	2.01637e+09	9.3026e+08	2021-10-12	1
Poker Without Cards: A Consciousness Thriller	Ben Mack	Ben	Mack	9.78141e+12	1411627679	As a result of this book, Ben will never work in advertising again. If you read it, neither will you. May this clever virus infect the mediaspace before it's too late. -Douglas Rushkoff Author of Coercion; Cyberia; Media Virus	Lulu.com	2005-04-23	360	nan	PS3613.A272545	nan	1.91872e+08	2021-10-14	1
The Girl from Spaceship Earth: A True Story	Patricia Ravasio	Patricia	Ravasio	9.781e+12	0999046306	A real-life thriller about big ideas that can still save humanity.In this remarkable debut memoir, The Girl from Spaceship Earth gets the reboot of her life when she snags an interview with iconic genius R. Buckminster Fuller in 1982. The twenty-something fledgling journalist pledges to share his urgent messages with the world, in time to save humanity from possible extinction. She means well, but real life intervenes. Fuller dies. She marries and starts a family, and only when the famous Bucky's dire predictions begin to come true on 9/11 does she realize her promise has come due. But her notes are lost, and so is she. Determined to make good on her pledge, she digs into Fuller's archives at Stanford and makes jaw dropping discoveries about fossil fuels and climate change which fuel her already outsized passions. In a gripping and charming narrative, the touch and go future of humanity is laid bare through the eyes of the genius Steve Jobs called The Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century. It's not just a true story. It's real hope for the world we are living in.	Chapman Park	2017-09-11	318	nan	nan	nan	1.00208e+09	2021-10-20	1
The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College	Eva Díaz	Eva	Díaz	9.78023e+12	022606798X	In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there: Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twomblythe list goes on and on. Yet scholars have tended to view these artists’ time at the College as little more than prologue, a step on their way to greatness. With The Experimenters, Eva Díaz reveals the importance of Black Mountain Collegeand especially of three key teachers, Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fullerto be much greater than that. Díaz’s focus is on experimentation. Albers, Cage, and Fuller, she shows, taught new models of art making that favored testing procedures rather than personal expression. These methodologies represented incipient directions for postwar art practice, elements of which would be sampled, and often wholly adopted, by Black Mountain students and subsequent practitioners. The resulting works, which interrelate art and life in a way that imbues these projects with crucial relevance, not only reconfigured the relationships among chance, order, and designthey helped redefine what artistic practice was, and could be, for future generations. Offering a bold, compelling new angle on some of the most widely studied creative figures of modern times, The Experimenters does nothing less than rewrite the story of art in the mid-twentieth century.	University Of Chicago Press	2014-12-25	256	707.118	NX405.B55	2.01304e+09	8.631e+08	2021-10-20	1
King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry	Siobhan Roberts	Siobhan	Roberts	9.7808e+12	0802714994	"There is perhaps no better way to prepare for the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow than to learn the language of geometry." --Brian Greene, author of The Elegant UniverseThe word "geometry" brings to mind an array of mathematical images: circles, triangles, the Pythagorean Theorem. Yet geometry is so much more than shapes and numbers; indeed, it governs much of our lives--from architecture and microchips to car design, animated movies, the molecules of food, even our own body chemistry. And as Siobhan Roberts elegantly conveys in The King of Infinite Space, there can be no better guide to the majesty of geometry than Donald Coxeter, perhaps the greatest geometer of the twentieth century.Many of the greatest names in intellectual history--Pythagoras, Plato, Archimedes, Euclid-- were geometers, and their creativity and achievements illuminate those of Coxeter, revealing geometry to be a living, ever-evolving endeavor, an intellectual adventure that has always been a building block of civilization. Coxeter's special contributions--his famed Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagrams--have been called by other mathematicians "tools as essential as numbers themselves," but his greatest achievement was to almost single-handedly preserve the tradition of classical geometry when it was under attack in a mathematical era that valued all things austere and rational.Coxeter also inspired many outside the field of mathematics. Artist M. C. Escher credited Coxeter with triggering his legendary Circle Limit patterns, while futurist/inventor Buckminster Fuller acknowledged that his famed geodesic dome owed much to Coxeter's vision. The King of Infinite Space is an elegant portal into the fascinating, arcane world of geometry.	Walker & Company	2006-09-05	320	510.92	QA29.C685	2.0065e+09	7.14369e+07	2021-10-21	1
Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends	Shoji Sadao	Shoji	Sadao	9.78887e+12	8874395434	This intriguing book is an informal, close-up biography of the friendship between Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) and Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Author Shoji Sadao, who was friend and business partner to both, chronicles the respect, affection, and support they had for one another. Fuller's development of his Dymaxion Map and Car, and Geodesic geometry, are discussed in detail as is Noguchi's multifaceted career as sculptor, landscape architect, industrial designer, dance-set designer, and artist without borders who challenged the artificial opposition between the fine and applied arts. Sadao's role as partner to both gives him privileged access to details unavailable to others, resulting in a warm and intimate—and fully illustrated—narrative that documents an exceptional relationship.	5Continents	2011-03-01	256	620.009	NB237.N6	nan	5.0542e+08	2021-10-21	1
Fuller Speak	Rebecca Dalvesco	Rebecca	Dalvesco	9.78189e+12	1894508262	During the 1930s the American designer Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) created three prototypes of a streamline vehicle design known as the Dymaxion. These vehicle designs function as readable texts comprised of signs that can be interpreted. In order to gain an understanding of how these vehicle designs act as cultural signs that convey meaning, we must also examine Fuller's writings from the same period. His writings have always seemed idiosyncratic, somewhat hermetic, and unnecessarily complex. The semiotic theory created by the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce holds the potential of arriving at a new understanding ol this "Fuller-speak." She teaches at Arizona State University.	LEGAS	2002-12-01	1	745.201	TS140.F86	2.00438e+09	9.55113e+08	2021-10-22	1
Charas	Syeus Mottel (Text by), R. Buckminster Fuller (Introduction by), Ben Estes	Syeus	Mottel	9.78195e+12	1945711051	When R. Buckminster Fuller, the celebrated and revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, met with six ex-gang members, who called themselves ¿CHARAS,¿ a dome-building experiment began in an empty lot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through stories, profiles, interviews, and images, this book charts their process¿from the intensive study of advanced mathematics and principles of dome building, to the obstacles of physically constructing domes. Now back-in-print, this intimate and important book tells a story that touches upon topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs. private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.	Pioneer Works	2018-02-27	240	361.8	HN45.N4	nan	1.02007e+09	2021-10-22	1
On What Is	James Nystrom	James	Nystrom	9.78156e+12	1561845426	Join herb and his cast of interlocutors (which includes (the goddess) Sophia) as they investigate the way of the physical realm, the way of Mind, and in general, What is. Many timely issues confronting humans (and you k-now who you are) are teased about, including the underlying nature of that mysterious fluid type magical substance called electricity, the shaman Bostrom's simulation argument, and that most Dangerous of all undertakings whereupon the conspiracy of who Do you believe, issues associated with Being born into this world, ancient ideas associated with the Immortality of the soul, and the flexibility of time and the need for the divine are investigated ontologically. This Gnostic tour de force challenges today s trendy materialism by accepting the ontological necessity of other realm(s) besides the physical (implications in agreement with the quantum vacuum mechanisms of the modern physics). As an ontology of on What is is developed in detail, the machinations (and Hidden religion) of the cabal of maniac magicians (whom herb calls the sons of Beliel those sOb's) occasionally need take center stage, whereupon the sOb's dark magick of statecraft, usury, propaganda, and their Brain builders dream is criticized, and, most importantly, maybe, the difference between sorcery and theurgy is elucidated. Necessarily a book about the Computer, a book on Physics, a book on Mind, butt most aptly described as a freedom enchantment for those whom would be interested in light And life. (Sea, four example, the book dedication and oVerture, and then please begin your investigation, for indeed, every wo/man is a star).	New Falcon Publications	2018-03-15	308	nan	nan	nan	nan	2021-10-29	1
American Dreamer: Bucky Fuller and the Sacred Geometry of Nature	Scott Eastham	Scott	Eastham	9.78072e+12	0718830318	Synergetics can be defined as the exploratory strategy of starting with the whole. It was in the 1940s that Buckminster Fuller developed a series of spherical models which embodied the synergetic theory within geometry. This study of Fuller's sacred geometry describes with vigour and in detail how his spherical figures relate both to Nature and to the tenets of synergetics. The author assesses the legacy of Fuller, a scientist-artist-engineer extraordinaire whose visions were inspired by the American Dream, and portrays with enthusiasm and sympathy the creative and individual science of a man whose character was as multifaceted as the domes he created. Discover the theory behind the idea that the straight lines and boxes of science and maths are inadequate for representing Nature's spherical and cyclical patterns of growth. The ways in which Fuller's synergetics can be seen in the ancient iconographies of the past are also revealed with fresh insight. In addition, Eastham looks to the future artistic applications of Fuller's 'wholes', with the aim of inspiring the reader to think outside of the box themselves. "We sought for years to bring out a brief alternative geometry textbook. [...] It's not easy to produce a round thing in a square world... " Extract from the Introduction	Lutterworth Press	2007-07-26	200	516	Q295	nan	1.64493e+08	2021-11-03	1
Regular Polytopes	H. S. M. Coxeter	H.	Coxeter	9.78049e+12	0486614808	Polytopes are geometrical figures bounded by portions of lines, planes, or hyperplanes. In plane (two dimensional) geometry, they are known as polygons and comprise such figures as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc. In solid (three dimensional) geometry they are known as polyhedra and include such figures as tetrahedra (a type of pyramid), cubes, icosahedra, and many more; the possibilities, in fact, are infinite! H. S. M. Coxeter's book is the foremost book available on regular polyhedra, incorporating not only the ancient Greek work on the subject, but also the vast amount of information that has been accumulated on them since, especially in the last hundred years. The author, professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto, has contributed much valuable work himself on polytopes and is a well-known authority on them. Professor Coxeter begins with the fundamental concepts of plane and solid geometry and then moves on to multi-dimensionality. Among the many subjects covered are Euler's formula, rotation groups, star-polyhedra, truncation, forms, vectors, coordinates, kaleidoscopes, Petrie polygons, sections and projections, and star-polytopes. Each chapter ends with a historical summary showing when and how the information contained therein was discovered. Numerous figures and examples and the author's lucid explanations also help to make the text readily comprehensible. Although the study of polytopes does have some practical applications to mineralogy, architecture, linear programming, and other areas, most people enjoy contemplating these figures simply because their symmetrical shapes have an aesthetic appeal. But whatever the reasons, anyone with an elementary knowledge of geometry and trigonometry will find this one of the best source books available on this fascinating study.	Dover Publications	1973-06-01	368	513.8	QA691	7.30844e+07	798003	2021-11-05	1
Buckminster Fuller: Poet of Geometry	Cole Gerst	Cole	Gerst	9.78062e+12	0615873448	Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th Century inventor and visionary who dedicated his life to making the world work for all of humanity. His most known artifact, the geodesic dome, has been produced over 300,000 times worldwide. However, Fuller’s true impact on the world today can be found in his continued influence upon generations of designers architects, scientists, and artists working to create a more sustainable planet. Illustrator and author Cole Gerst brings Fuller’s work into vivid full-color view. Poet of Geometry includes hundreds of detailed illustrations spanning Fuller’s entire life. This book not only shows how important Fuller was during his lifetime, but how his ideas are even more relevant today than ever.	Overcup Press	2013-11-02	144	620.009	TA140.F9 G47	2.01842e+09	8.69897e+08	2021-11-05	1
Order in Space	Keith Critchlow	Keith	Critchlow	nan	nan	nan	Thames and Hudson	1969-01-01	120	nan	nan	nan	nan	2021-11-08	1
The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure: A Source Book of Design	Robert Williams	Robert	Williams	9.78049e+12	048623729X	nan	Dover Publications	1979-05-01	265	516	QA447	7.80741e+07	5.93965e+06	2021-11-11	1
Inventions	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78031e+12	0312434774	Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 316 pages; Description: xxxii, 316 p. : ill., plans, ports. ; 32 cm. Subjects: Fuller, Richard Buckminster (1895-1983) --Patents--Catalogs.	St. Martin's Press	1983-01-01	316	nan	nan	nan	9.55636e+06	2021-12-02	1
Pilot for Spaceship Earth	Athena V. Lord	Athena	Lord	9.78003e+12	0027614204	nan	Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated	1985-05-01	nan	620	T40.F86 L67	7.70126e+07	3.27548e+06	2021-12-02	1
The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller: A comprehensive collection of his designs and drawings in four volumes	R. Buckminster Fuller, James Ward	R.	Fuller	9.78082e+12	0824050827	v. 1. The Dymaxion experiment, 1926-1943 -- v. 2. Dymaxion deployment, 1927-1946 -- v. 3. The geodesic revolution, part 1, 1947-1959 -- v. 4. The geodesic revolution, part 2, 1960-1983.	nan	1985-01-01	nan	620	TA174.F86	8.4021e+07	9.71144e+08	2021-12-24	1
Humans in Universe	Buckminster Fuller, Anwar Dil	Buckminster	Fuller	9.7809e+12	0899250017	nan	Walter de Gruyter GmbH	1983-01-01	235	620	TA140.F9 A36	8.30175e+07	9.8955e+06	2021-12-24	1
Bucky for Beginners	Mary Laycock	Mary	Laycock	9.78092e+12	0918932823	Designed for Grades 4-12	Activity Resources Company	1984-06-01	63	516.15	QA491	nan	1.01615e+09	2022-01-30	1
From the Library of R. Buckminster Fuller: A Catalogue Published by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller	Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (firm)	Glenn	Bookseller	nan	nan	Includes 219 books inscribed by friends or colleagues, or retained by Fuller for reference and signed by him, with his typed labels organizing the library into categories such as architecture, city planning, literature, philosophy, and others.	Glenn Horowitz Bookseller	2004-01-01	93	nan	nan	nan	nan	2022-02-01	1

						93pp., 7 x 10 in., three black and white photographs. Paperback
Zome Geometry: Hands-on Learning with Zome Models	George W. Hart, Henri Picciotto	George	Hart	9.78156e+12	1559533854	More than 60 easy-to-follow activities and over 150 explorations into the geometry of nature inherent in the Zome System. Designed to be used with the Zome Advanced Math Kit. 264 pages of exploration and education. Requires separate purchase of Zome Advanced Math Creator 4 kit.	Key Curriculum Press	2000-12-15	265	516.15	QA461	nan	4.84636e+07	2022-02-08	1
Beyond the Cube: The Architecture of Space Frames and Polyhedra	Jean-François Gabriel	Jean-François	Gabriel	9.78047e+12	0471122610	This book offers an in-depth look at space frame architecture, including space frame projects completed by such notable architects as I. M. Pei, Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. Both theory and practice are included to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, current use, and future outlook for creating space frame structures. The 15 distinguised contributors to this book have extensive background in the architecture of space frames and offer an international perspective on the subject. The text is illustrated with hundreds of line drawings, black-and-white photos, and an eight-page color insert.	Wiley	1997-07-29	528	721.042	NA2765	9.70035e+07	3.62842e+07	2022-04-08	1
Sunspots: An Exploration of Solar Energy Through Fact and Fiction	Steve Baer	Steve	Baer	9.78089e+12	0889300613	nan	Rodale Pr	1979-04-01	127	nan	nan	nan	nan	2022-04-23	1
Solar 2: Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on New Sources of Energy : Solar Energy, Wind Power and Geothermal Energy, Rome, 21-31 August 1961	Steve Baer	Steve	Baer	9.78089e+12	nan	nan	Cloudburst Press	1978-04-01	315	nan	nan	nan	nan	2022-04-23	1
Sunspots: Collected facts and solar fiction	Steve Baer	Steve	Baer	nan	nan	nan	Zomeworks Corporation	1977-01-01	115	nan	nan	nan	nan	2022-04-25	1
Maps of the Mind: Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths	Charles Hampden-Turner	Charles	Hampden-Turner	9.78002e+12	0020768702	The author presents the first comprehensive attempt to collect, describe, and draw in map form the most important concepts of the human mind.	Collier / Macmillan	1982-03-01	224	128.2	BF431	8.00219e+07	7.94804e+06	2022-04-26	1
A Synergetics Dictionary	Buckminster Fuller, Edgar J. Applewhite	Buckminster	Fuller	9.78082e+12	0824087291	nan	Garland Publishing, Incorporated	1986-05-01	2800	3	Q295	8.50274e+07	1.28101e+07	2022-06-17	1
The Sense of Significance	Louise Morley Cochrane	Louise	Cochrane	9.79883e+11	nan	nan	nan	2022-07-08	176	nan	nan	nan	nan	2022-07-20	1
The Barefoot Architect	Johan van Lengen	Johan	Lengen	9.78094e+12	0936070420	A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and all information is applied to three distinct tropical regions: humid areas, temporate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow even novice builders to get started.	Shelter Publications, Inc.	2007-10-28	720	720.47	TH4860	2.00704e+09	1.70058e+08	2022-07-25	1
Buckminster Fuller (Design Heroes Series)	Martin Pawley	Martin	Pawley	9.7808e+12	080081116X	That many of Buckminster Fuller's schemes remained dreams overlooks his importance as a teacher and thinker about architecture and urbanism, and his concern with the environment and the role of technology in improving the quality of life, mark him out as a man before his time.	Taplinger Publishing	1999-01-01	192	609.2	TA140.F9	9.21869e+07	4.79032e+08	2022-07-31	1
Impossible Heights	Adnan Morshed	Adnan	Morshed	9.78082e+12	0816673195	The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss's Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into "master builders," these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular "superman" discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America's propulsion into a new cultural consciousness.	University of Minnesota Press	2015-01-15	296	720.108	NA2543.S6	2.01402e+09	8.99265e+08	2022-09-21	1
Buckminster Fuller: An Auto-Biographical Monologue/Scenario	Robert Snyder	Robert	Snyder	9.78031e+12	0312106785	nan	St Martins Pr	nan	nan	620.009	TA140.F9	7.90163e+07	7.85658e+08	2022-11-02	1
Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility	Michael John Gorman	Michael	Gorman	9.78888e+12	8876242651	Hailed as one of the greatest minds of our times, Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) is known as an American visionary. Designer, architect, engineer, inventor, and philosopher, he was undeniably one of the key innovators of the 20th century.This volume provides a visually rich and complete overview of Fuller's design and architectural production, situating Fuller's projects in their historical context. The book features never-before-published material from the Fuller archives that were recently donated to Stanford University.Michael John Gorman's essay offers an in-depth analysis of Fuller's work-focusing more attention on his innovative architectural projects than to other aspects of Fuller's "design science"-as well as an interesting perspective on post-war American society and architectural culture. Chapters include concepts of Fuller's philosophy, his manifesto for mass-produced housing, the role of mobile shelter in transforming behavior, geodesic domes, and Fuller's early experiments. Fuller's achievements, astonishing design, and production are fully documented using original and often unknown archival materials.	Skira	2005-09-13	208	620.009	TA140.F9	nan	6.08385e+07	2023-01-14	1
Buckminster Fuller	Robert R. Potter, Richard Gallin (Editor)	Robert	Potter	9.78038e+12	0382099672	A biography of an outstanding creative thinker and designer whose inventive technological expressions were attempts to make life easier and more comfortable for people while still maintaining a close relationship with nature.	Silver Burdett Press	1990-10-01	144	620.009	TA140.F9	9.00342e+07	2.15622e+07	2023-01-17	2
Intuition	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.7812e+12	1199341592	In 1970 and 1971, Fuller was concurrently composing a poem suggested by his new Morgan sloop “Intuition” and rewriting, with my collaboration, the projected first chapter of Synergetics called “Brain and Mind.” Fuller agreed with my suggestion that this first chapter had an integrity of its own separate from the rest of the Synergetics manuscript, and he felt that both of these works had an urgency that argued for their publication at the earliest possible date. WIth the help of Bill Whitehead, our editor at Doubleday, they were combined in Intuition, the first of his two books of blank verse. Description by Ed Applewhite, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller	Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller	1972-01-01	223	nan	nan	7.21828e+07	nan	2023-01-17	1
The Pound Era	Hugh Kenner	Hugh	Kenner	9.78052e+12	0520024273	"Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book by him is certainly an event....A demanding, enticing book that glitters at the same time it antagonizes...."The Pound Era presents us with an idiosyncratic but sharply etched skeletal view of our immediate literary heritage."--The New York Times "It is notoriously difficult to recognize degrees of pre-eminence among one's near-contemporaries. We talk now of the age of Donne, a label that would have seemed bizarre to Ben Johnson. Will The Pound Era seem an appropriate designation, 50 or 100 years hence, for the epoch we think of as 'modern'? Mr. Kenner's brilliantly written book establishes an excellent case for supposing the answer to be 'Yes.'"--The Economist "Mr. Kenner's study...is not so much a book as a library, or better, a new kind of book in which biography, history, and the analysis of literature are so harmoniously articulated that every page has a narrative sense....The Pound Era is a book to be read and reread and studied. For the student of modern letters it is a treasure, for the general reader it is one of the most interesting books he will ever pick up in a lifetime of reading."--National Review	Univ of California Press	1973-01-01	606	811.52	PS3531.O82	7.21383e+07	279753	2023-01-17	1
The Mind's Eye of Buckminster Fuller	Donald W. Robertson	Donald	Robertson	9.78031e+12	0312533462	Explains how Fuller's discoveries and inventions reveal the true dimensions of his abstract philosophy.	St Martins Pr	1983-10-01	109	620.009	TA140.F9	7.41904e+07	9.57544e+06	2023-01-17	1
Untitled Epic Poem On the History of Industrialization	R Buckminster Fuller	R	Fuller	9.78067e+12	0671204785	Jonathan Williams and Fuller became friends at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1930s. Williams was delighted when in 1962 Fuller offered him a grant to help bring out this long poem in the Jargon Press series. Williams knew nothing about the concurrent Simon and Schuster edition until some years later when he came across a copy in a bookstore. Given Fuller’s casual approach to the publishing process this kind of funny coincidence was not unusual. Russell Davenport was an editor at Fortune magazine during the period from 1938 to 1940 when Fuller was a consultant. (Davenport was later national campaign manager for Wendell Willkie in the Republican campaign of 1940.) Almost buried on the back of the folded inside flap copy of the Jargon edition is Fuller’s statement that he and Davenport closely collaborated on the Industrialization piece: “About 10 percent of the wording was Davenport’s” and “... neither of us ever hoped it would find a publisher.” In the introduction Davenport describes Fuller as “not a poet in words” but “a poet in science,” and he had once described Fuller in Fortune as “the first poet of industrialization.” Hugh Kenner has characterized this anthem to American industry as “our only readable didactic poem.” Description by Ed Applewhite, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller	Touchstone	1970-03-15	227	338.009	PS3511.U6617	6.20168e+07	222558	2023-01-17	1
Wholeness : On Education, Buckminster Fuller, and Tao	Alex Gerber Jr.	Alex	Jr.	9.78096e+12	0963536710	Much has already been said about wholeness, holistic education, and their need for humans to accord with the rest of nature, but many people are still unfamiliar with these vital concepts and how they relate to our present and future options. Still others value the idea of wholeness but don't' apply its wisdom in their daily lives. awakening to wholeness implies an ongoing process. One might ask, if someone can conceptualize wholeness, isn't the consciousness already present? The apparent contradiction of endeavoring to become whole, which the sages say we already are, is a familiar theme on the path of personal discovery. Even though wholeness is inherent, this doesn't mean we are aware of it, or rather, that we have remembered it.... Although omnipresent, the whole can seem elusive, vanishing like a bubble when dissected. This book presents one attempt to trace the untraceable. --- excepts from book's Introduction	Gerber Educational Resources	nan	166	370.1	LB885.G39	nan	4.79549e+07	2023-01-20	1
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (Whitney Museum of American Art Book)	K. Michael Hays, Dana A. Miller	K.	Hays	9.7803e+12	0300126204	From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms spaceship earth” and synergetics,” the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (18951983) was to create living environments that minimized consumption of the earth’s resources while maximizing interconnections with global systems of information and transportation. This book explores Fuller's extraordinary body of work focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought. The book chronicles Fuller’s profound, often prophetic contributions, including his environmentally sensitive building designs. The essays illuminate the underappreciated thematic interactions of many sculptors, painters, musicians, and architects with this self-described comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,” including contemporary artists wrestling with Fuller’s legacy today. Reproductions of original drawings and modelsincluding those for Fuller’s 4D house, Wichita House, the Montreal Expo dome, and the sole extant Dymaxion carplus a reprinted 1966 New Yorker profile on Fuller by Calvin Tomkins, complete the fascinating tribute.	Yale University Press	2008-07-01	272	720.92	NA737.F8	2.00705e+09	1.81731e+08	2023-01-20	1
No More Secondhand God: And Other Writings	R Buckminster Fuller	R	Fuller	9.78081e+12	0809302470	Book by R Buckminster Fuller	Southern Illinois University Press	1967-04-01	176	811.54	PS3511.U6617	nan	3.17412e+08	2023-01-26	1
Buckminster Fuller Reader	Buckminster Fuller, James Meller (Editor)	Buckminster	Fuller	9.78014e+12	0140214348	nan	Penguin Books, Limited	1972-11-01	400	81	TA140.F9	nan	4.70792e+08	2023-01-31	1
Ho-Ping Food for Everyone	Medard Gabel	Medard	Gabel	9.78039e+12	0385140827	nan	Doubleday	1979-12-01	272	338.19	HD9000.6	7.70922e+07	4.9335e+06	2023-01-31	1
Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell (A Studio book)	Dorothy Eber	Dorothy	Eber	9.78067e+12	0670273899	In 1885, nine years after his invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell and his wife built a house and laboratory in Nova Scotia, where they summered for the next thirty-seven years. In Genius at Work, Eber weaves together the reminiscences of neighbours with excerpts from family journals, diaries, and letters, and creates an engaging account of this energetic, exuberant, and occasionally eccentric man. Equally fascinating are the photographs that document his work and family. Together with the text, they shed new light on the career and character of this great inventor.	Avery	1982-03-03	192	621.385	TK6143.B4 E23	8.10117e+07	7.59644e+06	2023-02-07	1
I Seem to Be a Verb	R. Buckminster Fuller, Jerome Agel, Quentin Fiore	R.	Fuller	9.78158e+12	1584235950	Buckminster Fullers explorations as an architect, engineer, philosopher and futurist are extended into experimental book form through his collaboration with producer Jerome Agel and designer Quentin Fiore. I Seem to Be A Verbs utopian plans, clever insights and light-hearted musings rub elbows with revelatory and often jolting reminders that we are in motion, full of impulsive nerves, flowing blood and constant thought. This fun and challenging book is packed with images, dense layouts and narratives reading both front to back and in reverse. All this to remind us that we are verbs, not nouns! Buckminster Fuller was awarded 25 patents, invented the geodesic dome, the dymaxion car and was expelled from Harvard twice. I Seem to Be a Verb was originally published in 1970. I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. R. Buckminster Fuller.	Gingko Press	2015-07-01	192	917.304	PS3511.U6617	nan	9.00448e+08	2023-03-09	1
Est: the Steersman Handbook	L. Clark Stevens	L.	Stevens	9.78091e+12	0912264128	nan	nan	1970-01-01	144	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-04-09	1
Decentralizing Electricity Production	Howard J. Brown (Editor), Tom R. Strumolo (Editor)	Howard	Brown	9.7803e+12	0300025696	nan	Yale University Press	1983-10-01	288	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-05-18	1
Living Systems	James G. Miller	James	Miller	9.78007e+12	0070420157	nan	McGrawHill Professional Publishing	1978-12-01	nan	574	Q295.M54	7.70234e+07	8.56602e+08	2023-05-18	1
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life	Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan	Eric	Schneider	9.78023e+12	0226739368	Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan look for answers in a surprising place: the second law of thermodynamics. This second law refers to energy's inevitable tendency to change from being concentrated in one place to becoming spread out over time. In this scientific tour de force, Schneider and Sagan show how the second law is behind evolution, ecology,economics, and even life's origin.Working from the precept that "nature abhors a gradient," Into the Cool details how complex systems emerge, enlarge, and reproduce in a world tending toward disorder. From hurricanes here to life on other worlds, from human evolution to the systems humans have created, this pervasive pull toward equilibrium governs life at its molecular base and at its peak in the elaborate structures of living complex systems. Schneider and Sagan organize their argument in a highly accessible manner, moving from descriptions of the basic physics behind energy flow to the organization of complex systems to the role of energy in life to the final section, which applies their concept of energy flow to politics, economics, and even human health.A book that needs to be grappled with by all those who wonder at the organizing principles of existence, Into the Cool will appeal to both humanists and scientists. If Charles Darwin shook the world by showing the common ancestry of all life, so Into the Cool has a similar power to disturb—and delight—by showing the common roots in energy flow of all complex, organized, and naturally functioning systems.“Whether one is considering the difference between heat and cold or between inflated prices and market values, Schneider and Sagan argue, we can apply insights from thermodynamics and entropy to understand how systems tend toward equilibrium. The result is an impressive work that ranges across disciplinary boundaries and draws from disparate literatures without blinking.”—Publishers Weekly	University Of Chicago Press	2005-06-01	378	552.3	QE462.G7	2.00402e+09	8.03723e+08	2023-08-13	1
Designs for a World That Works for All Volume 1	Medard Gabel	Medard	Gabel	9.79863e+12	nan	Updated for 2021 Lab. Hundreds of young people from five continents and 35 countries have gathered each summer from 2005 to 2019 and worked extraordinarily hard to understand, and even harder to design solutions for, the most pressing problems facing the world. This book presents their solutions and strategies for eliminating the basic human need and environmental problems--the same solutions they presented at the United Nations at the conclusion of each Global Solutions Lab. Volume I covers food and water for all and clean energy for all.	Independently Published	2020-04-22	260	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-08-28	2
Designs for a World That Works for All Volume 2	Medard Gabel	Medard	Gabel	9.79863e+12	nan	Hundreds of young people from five continents and 35 countries have gathered each summer from 2005 to 2019 and worked extraordinarily hard to understand, and even harder to design solutions for, the most pressing problems facing the world. This book presents their solutions and strategies for eliminating the basic human need and environmental problems--the same solutions they presented at the United Nations at the conclusion of each Global Solutions Lab. Volume II contains solutions for education, global health, and fair economic systems/participatory governance/sustainable life for all.	Independently Published	2020-04-22	324	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-08-28	1
The Home Is a Dome	Cary O'Dell, Thad Heckman	Cary	O'Dell	9.78163e+12	1634992105	Recognized as one of the great design and architectural thinkers of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller's name is synonymous with the geodesic dome. But throughout his long life and career, Fuller would only ever call one geodesic dome "home," and that was the house he built in 1960 on a corner lot in the small Midwestern town of Carbondale, Illinois. Erected in just one day, Carbondale's famous "Bucky Dome" was an architectural innovation that is now recognized as a local, state and national historic site. The Dome was the residence of Fuller and his wife, Anne, for over a decade and it endures until this day. This book recounts the building of the Fuller's remarkable home, the Midwestern lives of its two famous owners, and the home's history of subsequent owners and renters. And it covers the nearly twenty-year process involving architects, carpenters, preservationists and volunteers in their efforts to restore the Dome to its original individualistic and revolutionary state.	Fonthill Media LLc	2020-03-30	208	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-08-28	1
Earth, Inc.	R.Buckminster Fuller	R.Buckminster	Fuller	9.78039e+12	0385018258	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.	Doubleday	1973-12-01	180	901.94	TA140.F845	7.30756e+07	632556	2023-08-28	1
Transforming Matter	Trevor H. Levere	Trevor	Levere	9.7808e+12	0801866103	Chemistry explores the way atoms interact, the constitution of the stars, and the human genome. Knowledge of chemistry makes it possible for us to manufacture dyes and antibiotics, metallic alloys, and other materials that contribute to the necessities and luxuries of human life. In Transforming Matter, noted historian Trevor H. Levere emphasizes that understanding the history of these developments helps us to appreciate the achievements of generations of chemists. Levere examines the dynamic rise of chemistry from the study of alchemy in the seventeenth century to the development of organic and inorganic chemistry in the age of government-funded research and corporate giants. In the past two centuries, he points out, the number of known elements has quadrupled. And because of synthesis, chemistry has increasingly become a science that creates much of what it studies. Throughout the book, Levere follows a number of recurring themes: theories about the elements, the need for classification, the status of chemical science, and the relationship between practice and theory. He illustrates these themes by concentrating on some of chemistry's most influential and innovative practitioners. Transforming Matter provides an accessible and clearly written introduction to the history of chemistry, telling the story of how the discipline has developed over the years.	Johns Hopkins University Press	2001-07-11	232	540	QD11.L45	11487	7.04477e+08	2023-08-30	1
Energy, Earth, and Everyone	Medard Gabel	Medard	Gabel	9.78088e+12	0879320958	nan	Straight Arrow Books, Incorporated	1975-01-01	160	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-08-30	1
Approaching the Benign Environment	R. Buckminster Fuller & Eric A. Walker & James R. Killian, Jr.University of Alabama Press	R.	Killian	nan	817366415	nan	University of Alabama Press	1970-01-01	121	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-01	1
Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work	L. Steven Sieden	L.	Sieden	9.78074e+12	0738203793	Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology in the twentieth century. Incomparable designer, engineer, and architect, he proved that a lone genius, through sheer initiative, can have an astounding impact on the world. In this inspiring account of Fuller's life and legacy, Lloyd Steven Sieden brings new light to Fuller's belief system and recognizes his many contributions to humanity.	Basic Books	2000-08-11	511	620	T49.5	105205	4.50886e+07	2023-09-02	1
Becoming Bucky Fuller	Loretta Lorance, Buckminster Fuller	Loretta	Lorance	9.78026e+12	0262123029	Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic personality provided the media with a good story--that of a genius who could play the role of artist, scientist, and entrepreneur all at once. In Becoming Bucky Fuller, Loretta Lorance shows that Fuller's career did not begin with the lofty goals hailed by his admirers, and that, in fact, Fuller's image as guru and prophet was as carefully constructed as a geodesic dome. Fuller (1895-1983) determined early on how the story of his life in the 1920s and 1930s should be portrayed. But, drawing on a close reading of Fuller's personal papers (in particular, the multivolume scrapbook, Chronofile), Lorance looks at Fuller's first independent project, the Dymaxion House, and finds that what really happened differs from the authorized version. According to Fuller himself and most secondary sources, after a series of personal crises in the 1920s--including the death of his young daughter, thoughts of suicide, and a "year of silence" during which he pondered his purpose in life--Fuller resolved to devote himself to the betterment of society by offering the public economical, efficient, modern manufactured housing. But the private papers tell a different story; one of his initial motivations for designing the Dymaxion House was simply to make money from its manufacture. When that didn't work, Fuller began to emphasize its possibilities rather than its practicalities. By the mid-1930s, Lorance shows, Fuller the public figure had gone from being an entrepreneur with a product to being a visionary with an idea. He had become Bucky Fuller.	MIT Press	2009-03-06	304	620.009	TA140.F9	2.00803e+09	9.83929e+08	2023-09-02	1
The Most Beautiful Molecule	Hugh Aldersey-Williams	Hugh	Aldersey-Williams	9.78047e+12	047110938X	The Most Beautiful Molecule "The molecule, buckminsterfullerene, is beautiful physically and intellectually. Its qualities, and even some of its properties, can be appreciated instantly and intuitively by nonscientists. Its uniqueness is bound to lead to novel applications-superconductivity is the leading contender at the moment." "The commercial potential of buckminsterfullerene has heightened the excitement and controversy in recent years, while the exact nature of the discovery process in 1985 has been the subject of a heated feud between the British and American scientists involved."-Hugh Aldersey-Williams Ten years ago, the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a previously unknown form of carbon, stunned the scientific community, as much for the discovery itself as for the manner in which it came about. In the words of author Hugh Aldersey-Williams, it was an example of "classic bootleg science". The work was done on the back of other, funded projects, and when time would allow. Yet its commercial implications are probably immense. Now, with objectivity and insight, The Most Beautiful Molecule recounts the events leading up to this momentous discovery and chronicles the ongoing, often frenzied aftermath. Hugh Aldersey-Williams leads us on a thrilling expedition to the very forefront of modern chemistry research. Houston, Texas, 1985. Two industrious chemists discover a previously unknown form of carbon and christen it buckminsterfullerene, for its striking resemblance to American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes. This unusual molecule-also known as the buckyball-is composed of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a hollow sphere, with hexagonal and pentagonal configurations similar to those found on a soccer ball. Its near-perfect symmetry is just one reason why scientists have since dubbed it "the most beautiful molecule." The discovery of buckminsterfullerene-by American physicist and chemist Richard Smalley and British physical chemist Harry Kroto-rocked the scientific community. After all, generations believed graphite and diamond to be the only pure forms of carbon. How had this third form gone undetected? In fact, the actual discovery was merely the beginning of an intense-and ongoing-quest to master this newest form of the most basic of elements. Confirmation would take five years and launch an unprecedented flood of investigation and investment. The unique physical structure of buckminsterfullerene-a "cage" into which atoms of other materials may be inserted-had huge commercial potential and inspired scientists, industrial laboratories, and corporations alike. Backed by such giants as AT&T, DuPont, Exxon, and IBM, a highly competitive search for practical applications began-and continues. Possibilities range from the creation of a revolutionary rocket fuel to nanotechnology-the construction of microscopic "molecular machines"-to developments in the fight against AIDS. Here, then, is a fascinating, multilayered look at one of the most important scientific findings of our time. The Most Beautiful Molecule is a brain-teasing detective story, a marvelously detailed, inside look at the workings of the scientific community, and an exciting contemplation of what lies ahead. From the forefront of research in modern chemistry, author Hugh Aldersey-Williams offers, in his own words, "a celebration of the intimate world of physical science and its practitioners."	John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated	1995-08-09	340	546	QD181.C1 A43	9.50124e+07	4.72908e+08	2023-09-02	1
Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78081e+12	0809301377	nan	Southern Illinois University Press	1964-10-01	96	378	LB885	nan	3.3002e+06	2023-09-02	1
Climate & Architecture	Jeffrey Ellis Aronin	Jeffrey	Aronin	nan	nan	nan	nan	1953-01-01	304	nan	nan	5.30092e+07	nan	2023-09-02	1
Structure in Art and in Science	Gyorgy Kepes (Editor)	Gyorgy	Kepes	9.78081e+12	0807602884	nan	George Braziller	nan	187	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-05	1
Dome Cookbook	Steve Baer	Steve	Baer	9.78097e+12	096553880X	nan	nan	1996-10-01	48	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-05	1
Domebook 2	Lloyd Kahn	Lloyd	Kahn	nan	nan	nan	Pacific Domes	1971-01-01	128	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-07-05	1
A Study of a Prototype Floating Community	Triton Foundation, R. Buckminster Fuller	Triton	Foundation	9.78141e+12	141021818X	Triton was a concept for an anchored floating city for 100,000 people that would be located just offshore and connected with bridges to the mainland. When President Johnson left office he took the model with him and installed it in his Presidential Library in Texas. This is the complete design report prepared by R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) and his Triton Foundation staff for the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.	University Press of the Pacific	2005-07-01	148	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-06	1
Design Emergency	Alice Rawsthorn, Paola Antonelli	Alice	Rawsthorn	9.78184e+12	1838664270	Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, two of the world's most influential design figures, meet the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reconstructing our lives, enabling us to thrive Design Emergency tells the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.	Phaidon Press, Incorporated	2022-05-25	320	nan	nan	nan	1.31233e+09	2023-09-11	1
Wizard of the dome: R. Buckminster Fuller	Sidney Rosen	Sidney	Rosen	nan	nan	nan	nan	1969-01-01	189	nan	nan	7.40775e+07	nan	2023-09-11	1
Only Integrity Is Going to Count	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78097e+12	0974060526	In the form of a modern allegory, Buckminster Fuller traces the evolution of the multinational giants from the post-World War II military-industrial complex to the current army of abstract legal entities known as the corporate world.	Critical Pathpub	2004-03-01	nan	nan	nan	nan	8.55967e+08	2023-09-11	1
R. Buckminster Fuller	John Mchale	John	Mchale	nan	nan	nan	G. Braziller	1962-01-01	127	nan	nan	6.20163e+07	nan	2023-09-11	1
More with Less	Nathan Aaseng	Nathan	Aaseng	9.78082e+12	0822504987	The famous architect and futurist comes alive in the pages of this biography about the man who originated the geodesic dome.	Lerner Publishing Group	1986-07-01	80	620.009	TA140.F9	8.60001e+07	1.30939e+07	2023-09-11	1
Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols	Henry Dreyfuss	Henry	Dreyfuss	9.78047e+12	0471288721	"A ready reference aid and an inspiration to designers . All in all the best book now available on symbols." --Library Journal This unparalleled reference represents a major achievement in the field of graphic design. Famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss recognized the importance of symbols in communicating more quickly and effectively; for many years he and his staff collected and codified graphic symbols as they are used in all walks of life throughout the world. The result is this "dictionary" of universally used graphic symbols. Henry Dreyfuss designed this sourcebook to be as practical and easy to use as possible by arranging the symbol information within ingeniously devised sections: Basic Symbols represents a concise and highly selective grouping of symbols common to all disciplines (on-off, up-down, etc.). Disciplines provides symbols used in accommodations and travel, agriculture, architecture, business, communications, engineering, photography, sports, safety, traffic controls, and many other areas. Color lists the meanings of each of the colors in various worldwide applications and cultures. Graphic Form displays symbols from all disciplines grouped according to form (squares, circles, arrows, human figures, etc.) creating a unique way to identify a symbol out of context, as well as giving designers a frame of reference for developing new symbols. To make the sourcebook truly universal, the Table of Contents contains translations of each of the section titles and discipline areas into 17 languages in addition to English.	Wiley	1984-05-01	288	1.56	AZ108	nan	4.06506e+07	2023-09-11	1
Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe	Alden Hatch	Alden	Hatch	9.78052e+12	0517514834	nan	Crown Publishers	1974-01-01	279	620.009	TA140.F9	nan	924156	2023-09-11	1
Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78039e+12	0385029799	nan	Doubleday	1972-01-01	nan	818.541	PS3511.U6617	7.20866e+07	524478	2023-09-11	1
Dreamrunner	James Ballard	James	Ballard	nan	nan	nan	nan	1982-01-01	nan	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-18	1
50 Years of the Design Science Revolution and the World Game	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	nan	nan	nan	World Resources Inventory	1977-01-01	nan	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-18	1
A View from The Bridge of Spaceship Earth:: Reflections on The Thoughts and Teachings of R. Buckminster Fuller (A Guidebook)	John F. Sase Ph.D.	John	Ph.D.	9.78155e+12	1546397191	In this volume, we will have the company of R. Buckminster Fuller through his classic book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Many of us may have read this work when it first appeared between the Summer of Love during the escalation of the Vietnam War in 1967 and the Kent State Shootings in Kent, Ohio, during a campus protest in 1970. The words of Fuller, meaningful for those times, are just as relevant today. --John F. Sase, Ph.D.	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	2017-05-04	92	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-20	1
Inventions: Twelve Around One	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	nan	nan	nan	Carl Solway Gallery	1981-01-01	nan	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-20	1
R. Buckminster Fuller on education	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	9.78087e+12	0870232762	Ten lectures and essays spanning the period from 1961 to 1978 contain explicit statements by Fuller on education and reflect his concern that education assist minds to function with a minimum of blockage and wasted motion	University of Massachusetts Press	1979-01-01	192	370.1	LB885.F84 R2	7.9004e+07	6.32768e+08	2023-09-23	1
Perfect Symmetry	Jim Baggott	Jim	Baggott	9.7802e+12	0198557906	This book tells the fascinating story of the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a perfectly symmetrical soccer-ball shaped molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms. This new molecule, one of a large family of carbon cage molecules called "fullerenes"--represents a new form of carbon, complementing such well-known materials as diamond and graphite. Its discovery has revolutionized our understanding of carbon, once the most familiar elements. It has heralded a new chemistry, a new range of high-temperature superconductors and some marvelous new concepts in the architecture of large carbon structures. In this account, prize-winning science writer Jim Baggott tells the compelling story of buckminsterfullerene, from its natural occurrence in the cold chemistry of interstellar clouds to its accidental, stunning creation in a modern chemistry laboratory, and the subsequent development of one of today's fastest-growing scientific fields. By combining a lucid and entertaining style with scientific accuracy, the author has written a book that will appeal to general readers and chemists alike.	Oxford University Press, Incorporated	1995-01-05	328	nan	nan	nan	nan	2023-09-25	1
The Dome Builder's Handbook	John Prenis (Editor)	John	Prenis	9.78091e+12	0914294032	nan	Running Press Book Publishers	1973-01-01	144	690	TH2170.D63	7.40195e+07	1.61157e+07	2023-12-18	1
Dome Builder's Handbook No. 2	William Yarnall	William	Yarnall	9.78089e+12	0894710435	nan	Running Press Book Publishers	1978-11-01	128	690	TH2170.Y37	7.80155e+07	nan	2023-12-26	1
The Seven Cultures of Capitalism: Value Systems for Creating Wealth in the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands	Charles H. Turner, Alfons Trompenaars	Charles	Turner	9.78039e+12	038542101X	Selects the best business approaches of each country.	Doubleday Business	1993-06-01	405	330.122	HB501	9.30258e+07	2.83763e+07	2024-01-29	1
The Idea of the Communiversity	Ronnie Lessem, Anselm Adodo, Tony Bradley	Ronnie	Lessem	9.78191e+12	1912356244	DESCRIPTION Across the world, we are facing a crisis in education at all levels: for some communities, schooling remains inaccessible, and for others, educational institutions have become elite qualification factories. What kind of knowledge do we need to survive in the present century and next? Do the current modes of knowledge creation and application address the challenges of the 21st century? How do we bridge the dichotomy between being and knowing, research and innovation, theory and practice? In The Idea of the Communiversity, the authors propose a new approach to the economic, social, technological, educational and moral transformation of society. This book takes an integral world's approach to societal transformation, by pointing to ways in which we can reform our modes of knowledge creation. Through the fourfold model of community, pilgrimium, academy and co-laboratory, Lessem, Adodo and Bradley--all intellectual and grassroots activists--have re-conceptualised a university for every people and culture, centred on the need to think local and act global. We have seen the eras of post-colonialism and decoloniality. This book ushers us into a new one--that of the Communiversity.	Beacon Books	2019-06-01	388	nan	nan	nan	nan	2024-02-26	1
Inventing Kindergarten	Norman Brosterman	Norman	Brosterman	9.78081e+12	0810935260	Invented in the 1830s by German educator Friedrich Froebel, kindergarten was designed to teach young children about art, design, mathematics, and natural history. Inventing Kindergarten uses extraordinary visual materials to reconstruct this successful system, which grew to become a familiar institution throughout the world by the end of the 19th century. 130 illustrations, 55 in color.	Harry N. Abrams	1997-02-01	144	372.218	LB1199	9.60272e+07	3.50336e+07	2024-03-01	1
The Future of the Future	John Mchale	John	Mchale	nan	nan	Wide-ranging survey of man's contemporary predicament, his possibilities and his limitations, in a time of vast technological change. What is the point at which the explosive growth of the species, and its enormously increased scale of activities, may overwhelm the natural checks and balances? How long can earth sustain such growth, absorb its by-products and still remain a viable habitat for human life?"	G. Braziller	1969-01-01	322	nan	nan	6.90158e+07	nan	2024-03-18	1
We Are All Astronauts: The Universe of Richard Buckminster Fuller as Reflected by Contemporary Art	Joachim Krausse, Dana Miller, Roland Nachtigäller	Joachim	Krausse	9.78387e+12	3866785763	As an exponent of holism and experiment, Buckminster Fuller was an exemplary figure to many artists in his lifetime, and his relevance has only gained. This volume looks at his influence upon such artists as José Dávila, Olafur Eliasson, Simon Dybbroe Møller, David Maljkovic, Hermann Maier Neustadt, N55, Pedro Reyes, Tomás Saraceno, Albrecht Schäfer, Ai Weiwei and Beat Zoderer.	Kerber	2012-04-30	248	709.2	TA140.F9	nan	7.43397e+08	2024-04-07	1
What I have learned	R. Buckminster Fuller	R.	Fuller	nan	nan	Paths to ecumenism, by A. Bea.--Tools for a new world, by D. Dolci.--Learning how to learn, by C. A. Doxiadis.--A last memoir, by I. Ehrenburg.--What I have learned, by D. D. Eisenhower.--How little I know, by R. B. Fuller.--Military power: the limits of persuasion, by J. M. Gavin.--How to live with a chair you hate, by H. Golden.--A strategy for the war with nature, by E. Hoffer.--First glimpses of a new world, by R. M. Hutchins.--How I bet my life, by H. M. Kallen.--The dangerous lure of parrotland, by S. de Madariaga.--Confessions of a reformed reformer, by R. Moses.--Some things I have learned, by R. Niebuhr.--The challenge of fear, by A. Paton.--What man cannot know, by C. Rajagopalachari.--What ever happened to the great simplicities? by Sir H. Read.--Can a scientist be an optimist? by J. H. Thirring.--Confessions of a scientist-humanist, by W. Weaver.--Does anyone know reality? By J. F. Wharton.	Simon and Schuster	1968-01-01	318	nan	nan	6.8023e+07	nan	2024-04-16	1
Geostories	Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy	Rania	Ghosn	9.78195e+12	1945150793	How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto for the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to the complexity of Earth systems in their vast scales of time and space. The series of architectural projects becomes a medium to synthesize different forms and scales of knowledge on technological externalities, such as oil extraction, deep-sea mining, ocean acidification, water shortage, air pollution, trash, space debris, and a host of other social-ecological issues. The book is organized into three sections-terrarium, aquarium, planetarium, each of which revisits such devices of wonder that assemble publics around representations of the Earth. Through design research, Geostories brings together spatial history, geographic representation, projective design, and material public assemblies to speculate on ways of living with such legacy technologies on the planet.	Actar D	2018-08-01	232	nan	nan	2.01796e+09	1.01788e+09	2024-09-14	1
Metaphysics of Buckminster Fuller: How to Let the Universe Work for You!	Phillip M Pierson	Phillip	Pierson	9.7815e+12	1496079841	Many books have been written about the life and work of Buckminster Fuller. He was unquestionably one of the most talented and brilliant people of modern times. However, no one until now has looked in depth at his metaphysical view of life. This book, Metaphysics of Buckminster Fuller, does that in a clear and interesting manner. Bucky, as he liked to be called, is known around the world for being responsible for over three hundred thousand geodesic domes that have been constructed. One of his inventions is an important part of the Space Laboratory. While he took great pride in this work and much more, he desired most of all to prove that the only realities in life are metaphysical and not physical. His metaphysical view of life allowed him to give all his energy to creating physical tools to make life easier without giving any thought to "making a living" or how to afford to do creative work. He believed that the metaphysical principles operating in Universe would provide anyone what was needed if they chose to give their talents totally to the welfare of humanity. He documented how well this worked for him, and those records are kept today in a special collection at Stanford University. He said repeatedly that the principles he used to succeed would work for anyone. The book tells the story of Bucky's early inability to be successful for himself and others. He was so filled with a sense of failure that he considered suicide at the age of 32. He had a special experience at that point that led him to commit "egocide" instead of suicide, and from that point on, his life took on a totally new energy and power. Because he knew that life is not a physical process, but rather a metaphysical one, he had much to share on such subjects as life and death, reality, evolution, what is life's purpose, and other basic life issues. He supports with hard-core physical evidence everything that he shares about these subjects. No one had a better intellectual grasp of our physical universe. No one has better translated that knowledge into metaphysical wisdom. Bucky spoke to over 400 Universities and Colleges around the world and received 47 honorary doctorate degrees. He had a great love for the young people he lectured to and felt that the hope for the future of humankind was in the hands of the young. He based this on their receptivity to the metaphysical insights he shared and their willingness to break free from measuring life by "what's in it for me." I think we are seeing this all over the world—young people are standing up to dictatorships and willing risking their lives for what they believe. The book deals with Bucky's strong conviction that power groups that measure life and goals with their brains and not their minds dominate the world. He makes it very clear that the brain and the mind are not the same. He spoke about this, with great authority, to a national convention of neurosurgeons and the book shares some of that talk. It was a talk, because this amazing man never prepared speeches. Bucky felt, as do many other thinkers of recent times, that the humanity is at a critical point. This book shares his clear insight about what makes our times so critical, and how can we turn it into a time of positive transformation. It is a book that is written in a manner that anyone can understand and profit. It is a book to be shared with as many people as possible for their individual understanding and to create a metaphysical energy wave to change the present direction of human evolution.	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	2014-03-03	214	nan	nan	nan	8.81505e+08	2024-09-27	1
Geodesic Domes	Borin Van Loon	Borin	Loon	9.78091e+12	0906212928	Each of the models in this book is both beautiful and interesting to make. Each also plays its part as a hands-on introduction to geodesic domes. With the aid of its models, this book explains the underlying theory for designing geodesic domes and shows how a sphere can be divided and subdivided symmetrically in order to create dramatic buildings which are light and strong and also have no need of internal support.	Tarquin Publications	1994-02-01	48	721.46	QA491	nan	3.04018e+07	2024-09-27	1
Three Mile Island: Turning Point	William Keisling	William	Keisling	9.78094e+12	0935804005	. 1980 clean bright copy	Veritas Books	1980-01-01	184	363.1	TK1345.H37 K44	8.00811e+07	6.70941e+06	2024-09-27	1
Introduction to Geometry	H. S. M. Coxeter	H.	Coxeter	nan	nan	nan	nan	1961-01-01	443	nan	nan	6.10112e+07	nan	2024-12-02	1
A Fuller Explanation	Amy C. Edmondson	Amy	Edmondson	9.78147e+12	1468474855	In a broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of images rather than of words. Modern communication techniques enable us to transmit and reconstitute images without the need of knowing a specific verbal sequential language such as the Morse code or Hungarian. International traffic signs use international image symbols which are not specific to any particular verbal language. An image language differs from a verbal one in that the latter uses a linear string of symbols, whereas the former is multidimensional. Architectural renderings commonly show projections onto three mutually perpendicular planes, or consist of cross sections at differ ent altitudes representing a stack of floor plans. Such renderings make it difficult to imagine buildings containing ramps and other features which disguise the separation between floors; consequently, they limit the creativity of the architect. Analogously, we tend to analyze natural structures as if nature had used similar stacked renderings, rather than, for instance, a system of packed spheres, with the result that we fail to perceive the system of organization determining the form of such structures.	Springer Science & Business Media	2012-12-06	302	3	Q295	8.60148e+07	1.08644e+09	2016-08-24	1