ISBN 0671780468. Mass market Paperback. First Pocket Books printing from November 1970 as stated on the copyright page. Very small previous owners name and address in ink on the top area of the front inside cover and small price tag, otherwise book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition.

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Title

Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth

Publisher

Pocket Books; 1st edition (November 1, 1970)

Publication Date

1970

ISBN 10

0671780468

ISBN 13

9780671780463

Binding

Paperback

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Dustjacket

Signed

No Signature

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Philosophy

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Synopsis

In this essay on man Mr. Fuller expresses what may well be his penultimate view of the human condition. Here, in a mood at once philosophical and involved, Mr. Fuller traces man� s intellectual evolution and weighs his capability for survival on this magnificent craft, this Spaceship Earth, this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

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Mr. Fuller is optimistic that man will survive and, through research and development and increased industrialization, generate wealth so rapidly that he can do very great things. But, he notes, there must be an enormous educational task successfully accomplished right now to convert man� s tendency toward oblivion into a realization of his potential, to a universe-exploring advantage from this Spaceship Earth.

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It has been noted that Mr. Fuller spins ideas in clusters, and clusters of his ideas generate still other clusters. The concept “spaceship earth� is Mr. Fuller� s, and though used by Barbara Ward as the title of a work of her own the idea was acknowledged by her there as deriving from Mr. Fuller. The brilliant syntheses of some fundamental Fuller principles given here makes of this book a microcosm of the Fuller system.

About the Author

R. Buckminster Fuller has been a Research Professor at Southern Illinois University since 1959. In 1968 the Board of Trustees appointed him University Professor, the second faculty member so honored in the University’s history.

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