Author: Louise Morley Cochrane
Publisher: The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Sense of Significance chronicles the close friendship of Christopher Morley, a well-known writer, journalist and broadcaster, with the scientist and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky), now world famous for designs such as the geodesic dome. From their first meeting in 1934 to Morley’s death in 1957 they kept in close contact through meetings, shared travels and correspondence. This book records the progress of that friendship with quotations from letters, diaries and interviews with Bucky himself. It was written with Bucky’s active participation between 1975 and 1982, and is now published for the first time.
The Sense of Significance: The Friendship Between Christopher Morley And Buckminster Fuller
Author: Louise Morley Cochrane
Publisher: The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Sense of Significance chronicles the close friendship of Christopher Morley, a well-known writer, journalist and broadcaster, with the scientist and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky), now world famous for designs such as the geodesic dome. From their first meeting in 1934 to Morley’s death in 1957 they kept in close contact through meetings, shared travels and correspondence. This book records the progress of that friendship with quotations from letters, diaries and interviews with Bucky himself. It was written with Bucky’s active participation between 1975 and 1982, and is now published for the first time.
Publisher: The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Sense of Significance chronicles the close friendship of Christopher Morley, a well-known writer, journalist and broadcaster, with the scientist and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky), now world famous for designs such as the geodesic dome. From their first meeting in 1934 to Morley’s death in 1957 they kept in close contact through meetings, shared travels and correspondence. This book records the progress of that friendship with quotations from letters, diaries and interviews with Bucky himself. It was written with Bucky’s active participation between 1975 and 1982, and is now published for the first time.
The Sense of Significance
Author: Louise Cochrane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993193200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993193200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Your Private Sky
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783907044940
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This title, which complements the volume Your Private Sky: The Art of Design Science (see page 44), gives an authentic insight into the development of Fuller's architectonic, technical, & anthropological concepts. Fuller was the epitome of the poet as engineer, the thinker as designer, the artist as researcher. He left behind a voluminous quantity of writing, including texts of visionary importance & penetrating linguistic force, as well as of urgent topicality. The book documents various aspects of Fuller's widely respected texts. These testaments were intended to be shared with the whole world, or, as Fuller coined it in 1950, with "Spaceship Earth."###3-7643-6072-0
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783907044940
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This title, which complements the volume Your Private Sky: The Art of Design Science (see page 44), gives an authentic insight into the development of Fuller's architectonic, technical, & anthropological concepts. Fuller was the epitome of the poet as engineer, the thinker as designer, the artist as researcher. He left behind a voluminous quantity of writing, including texts of visionary importance & penetrating linguistic force, as well as of urgent topicality. The book documents various aspects of Fuller's widely respected texts. These testaments were intended to be shared with the whole world, or, as Fuller coined it in 1950, with "Spaceship Earth."###3-7643-6072-0
Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alden Hatch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A biography of Buckminster Fuller (Bucky) written by a close friend and "illuminates the very human being that he is."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A biography of Buckminster Fuller (Bucky) written by a close friend and "illuminates the very human being that he is."
Metaphysics of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Phillip M. Pierson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781496079848
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
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.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781496079848
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
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.
Critical Path
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN: 0996827803
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The masterwork of a brilliant career, and an important document of the crisis now facing mankind. Today we find ourselves in the midst of the greatest crisis in the history of the human race. Technology has placed in our hands almost unlimited power at the very moment when we have run up against the limits of our resources aboard Spaceship Earth, as the crises of the late twentieth century—political, economic, environmental, and ethical—determine whether or not humanity survives. In this masterful summing up of an entire lifetime’s thought and concern, R. Buckminster Fuller addresses these crucial issues in his most significant, accessible, and urgent work. Critical Path traces the origins and evolution of humanity’s social, political, and economic systems from the obscure mists of prehistory, through the development of the great political empires, to the vast international corporate and political systems that control our destiny today to show how we got to our present situation and what options are available to man. With his customary brilliance, extraordinary energy, and unlimited devotion, Bucky Fuller shows how mankind can survive, and how each individual can respond to the unprecedented threat we face today. 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.
Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN: 0996827803
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The masterwork of a brilliant career, and an important document of the crisis now facing mankind. Today we find ourselves in the midst of the greatest crisis in the history of the human race. Technology has placed in our hands almost unlimited power at the very moment when we have run up against the limits of our resources aboard Spaceship Earth, as the crises of the late twentieth century—political, economic, environmental, and ethical—determine whether or not humanity survives. In this masterful summing up of an entire lifetime’s thought and concern, R. Buckminster Fuller addresses these crucial issues in his most significant, accessible, and urgent work. Critical Path traces the origins and evolution of humanity’s social, political, and economic systems from the obscure mists of prehistory, through the development of the great political empires, to the vast international corporate and political systems that control our destiny today to show how we got to our present situation and what options are available to man. With his customary brilliance, extraordinary energy, and unlimited devotion, Bucky Fuller shows how mankind can survive, and how each individual can respond to the unprecedented threat we face today. 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.
American Prose and Criticism, 1900-1950
Author: Peter A. Brier
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Life-stowing from a Digital Media Perspective: Past, Present and Future
Author:
Publisher: Alberto Frigo
ISBN: 9188663000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
While both public opinion and scholars around the world are currently pointing out the danger of increasingly popular life-logging devices, this book articulates this debate by distinguishing between automatic and manual life-logging approaches. Since new definitions of life-logging have excluded the latter approach and have been mainly focused on effortless life-logging technologies such as Google Glass and Quantified Self applications in general, this book theoretically frames life-stowing. Through extensive etymological research, this book defines life-stowing as a manual and effortful practice conducted by life-stowers, individuals who devote their life to sampling reality in predefined frameworks. Also as part of this book, an historical overview introduces life-stowers and distinguishes between Apollonian and Dionysian varieties of these practitioners. Lastly, in order to understand the future reception of lifestowing, particularly in relation to digital media, this book discloses the author’s ongoing life-stowing project to a small audience.
Publisher: Alberto Frigo
ISBN: 9188663000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
While both public opinion and scholars around the world are currently pointing out the danger of increasingly popular life-logging devices, this book articulates this debate by distinguishing between automatic and manual life-logging approaches. Since new definitions of life-logging have excluded the latter approach and have been mainly focused on effortless life-logging technologies such as Google Glass and Quantified Self applications in general, this book theoretically frames life-stowing. Through extensive etymological research, this book defines life-stowing as a manual and effortful practice conducted by life-stowers, individuals who devote their life to sampling reality in predefined frameworks. Also as part of this book, an historical overview introduces life-stowers and distinguishes between Apollonian and Dionysian varieties of these practitioners. Lastly, in order to understand the future reception of lifestowing, particularly in relation to digital media, this book discloses the author’s ongoing life-stowing project to a small audience.
Adelard of Bath
Author: Louise Cochrane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Way of the Explorer (Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976136
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442976136
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description