Grunch of Giants

Fuller, R. Buckminster

ISBN 10: 0312351933 / ISBN 13: 9780312351939

Published by New York: St. Martin’s, [1983]., 1983

About this Item

REVIEW COPY, with worn review slip laid-in. Octavo, 98pp, publisher s half-gray cloth and blue papered boards (hint of wear and fading to edges of boards, very good). Pictorial dust jacket (minor soiling to rear panel, minor wear to corners, very good).

Seller Inventory # 08918

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grunch of Giants
• Publisher: New York: St. Martin s, [1983].
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312351933
• ISBN 13: 9780312351939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture and Design

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Synopsis

This five-hour long recording is a passionate summary of Bucky's ideas. He reviews his assesment of humanity's most pressing problems, global strategies for solving these problems, and the conclusions from his "56-year experiment."

About the Author

Buckminster Fuller has had a profound influence on our modern society as the godfather of environmental and ecological awareness and practice. A philosopher, inventor, and one of the boldest innovators of the 20th century, he is known as the designer of the Dymaxion House, Car, and Map, the Geodesic Dome, and the World Game. As a mathematician he is recognized as the discoverer of Synergetics, and it was he who coined the term Spaceship Earth. He is the author of over two dozen books.