BUCKMINSTER FULLER BIBLIOGRAPHY

4D time lock [by] Buckminster Fuller. Albuquerque, N.M., Lama Foundation [c1972] x, 148 p. illus. 27 cm. Published in 1930 under title: 4D.

And It Came to Pass, Not to Stay -- New York : Macmillan, c1976. 157 p. ; 22 cm.

Approaching the Benign Environment [by] R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric A. Walker [and] James R. Killian, Jr. Pref. by Taylor Littleton. [New York], Collier Books, [1970]. 160 p. 20 cm. Contents: Education for comprehensivity, by R. B. Fuller.--Engineers and the nation's future, by E. A. Walker.-- Toward a working partnership of the sciences and humanities, by J. R. Killian, Jr. (The Franklin lectures in the sciences and humanities, 1st ser.

The artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller : a comprehensive collection of his designs and drawings, edited with descriptions by James Ward. -- New York: Garland, 1984. 4 v. : ill. ; 31 cm. Includes bibliographies. Contents: 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. [This is a huge collection of Fuller's technical papers, blueprints, etc. Its a tremendous resource. --- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue Scenario (St. Martin's Press, c1981.) Must reading for any Fuller student. Contains numerous stills from movies of Fuller.

The Buckminster Fuller reader, edited and introduced by James Meller. London, Cape, 1970. 383 p., 16 plates. illus., facsim., map. 23 cm. Bibliography: p. 371-373.

Critical Path, adjuvant Kiyoshi Kuromiya. -- New York : St. Martin's Press, c1981. xxxviii, 471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. A complete scientific and sociological examination of human history, solutions to current problems of humanity and future trends for "cosmic evolution.''

Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity, adjuvant: Kiyoshi Kuromiya. Macmillan Publishing Company, c1992. viii, 271 p. Includes index. (ISBN 0-02-541850-5).

Design for the real world; human ecology and social change [by] Victor Papanek. With an introd. by R. Buckminster Fuller. [1st American ed.] New York, Pantheon Books [1972, c1971] xxviii, 339 p. illus. 21 cm. Bibliography: p. [311]-339.

The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller [by] Robert Marks and R. Buckminster Fuller. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1973 [c1960] 246 p. illus. 26 cm. "Slightly revised Anchor Press edition.'' A pictorial and written retrospective of Fuller's work and thought.

Earth, Inc.  [by] R. Buckminster Fuller. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1973. 180 p. illus. 21 cm.

Education Automation : Freeing the Scholar to return to his Studies, a discourse before the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Campus Planning Committee, April 22, 1961 / Foreword by Charles D. Tenney. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, [c1962]. 88 p. 22 cm. (Southern Illinois University occasional publication.) Fuller's diagnosis of and solution to the education crisis.

Energy, Earth, and everyone : a global energy strategy for spaceship Earth, by Medard Gabel, with the World Game Workshop ; with a foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller, and an afterword by Stewart Brand. -- San Francisco : Straight Arrow Books ; [New York] : distributed by Simon and Schuster, c1975. 160 p. : ill. ; 20 x 29 cm. Cover title. Bibliography: p. 153.

Expanded cinema. Youngblood, Gene / Introd. by R. Buckminster Fuller. [1st ed.]. New York, Dutton, 1970. 432 p. illus. (part col.), ports. 21 cm. (Dutton paperback original, D263.) Bibliography: p. 421-425.

Generation of Narcissus. With an introd. by R. Buckminster Fuller. [1st ed.] Boston, Little, Brown [1971] xii, 266 p. 22 cm.

Grunch of Giants. -- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983. xxviii, 98 p. Includes index. Fuller's analysis of the international banking system where he advises the world that the current economic systems have been robbed by multinational corporate giants. GRUNCH = Gross Universal Cash Heist. Fascinating reading.

Humans in Universe. Buckminster Fuller, Anwar Dil. -- 1st American ed. -- New York : Moutin, c1983. 235 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Conversations between Fuller and Indian Philosopher Anwar Dil.

Ideas and Integrities : a spontaneous autobiographical disclosure, edited by Robert W. Marks. --1st Collier Books ed. -- New York :Collier Books, a division of Macmillan Pub. Co., 1969. 318 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., charts, ports. ; 20 cm. Includes index.

Intuition. Foreword by Norman Cousins. -- 2nd ed. -- San Luis Obispo, Calif. : Impact Publishers, 1983. 223 p. ; 21 cm. Blank verse describing humanity, mind, Universe and Synergy.

Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller. -- 1st ed. -- New York : St. Martin's Press, c1983. xxxii, 316 p. : ill., plans, ports. ; 32 cm.

Actual copies of Fuller's collected patents with historical and instructive notes by Fuller. Also contains Fuller's apologia mia vita in which Fuller describes his life strategy and discoveries.

Inventory of World Resources: Human Trends and Needs. [1963-1965] Document 1: By R. Buckminster Fuller and John McHale [1963] Document 2: The Design Initiative by R. Buckminster Fuller [1964] Document 3: Comprehensive Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller
[1965] Document 4: The Ten Year Program by John McHale [1965]

I Seem To Be A Verb, by Buckminster Fuller and Quentin Fiore.

Mindstyles, lifestyles : a comprehensive overview of today's life-changing philosophies, by Nathaniel Lande ; introd., Hans Selye ; conclusion, R. Buckminster Fuller ; col. ill., Corita Kent. -- Los Angeles : Price/Stern/Sloan, c1976. 495 p. : ill.; 28 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 492-494.

Naga: cultural origins in Siam and the West Pacific, by Sumet Jumsai ; with contributions by R. Buckminster Fuller. -- Singapore ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. xvi, 183 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 179-181.

Nine Chains to the Moon Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company [c1938] xvi, 405 p. illus., 2 fold. diagr. 24 cm. Maps on lining-papers. Reissued Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinois University Press, [1963]. 375 p. illus. 22 cm

No more secondhand God; and other writings. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, [1963]. 163 p. illus. 22 cm. (Southern Illinois University occasional publication.)

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. [New York] Simon and Schuster [1970, c1969] 143 p. 21 cm. (A Touchstone/Clarion book 20783) First paperback printing, 1970. Includes index.  Fuller's seminal work regarding the relationship of humanity to the environment and planetary planning. World history takes on a new meaning and significance. A primer on Synergetics.

A Question of Priorities, New Strategies for Our Urbanized World, [by] Edward Higbee. With an introd. by R. Buckminster Fuller. New York, Morrow, 1970. xxxiv, 214 p. 22 cm. Bibliography: p. [199]-203.

R. Buckminster Fuller on Education. edited by Peter H. Wagschal and Robert D. Kahn. -- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. 192 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. [See Education Automation]

A sculptor's world. [Noguchi, Isamu] / Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. [1st U.S. ed.]. New York, Harper and Row, [1968]. 259 p. 268 illus. (part col.). 27 cm

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. [by] R. Buckminster Fuller in collaboration with E. J. Applewhite. Pref. and contribution by Arthur L. Loeb. New York, Macmillan [1975]
xxxii, 876 p. illus. 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 875-876.

Synergetics II: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. These two books comprise the collected geometric modeling system developed and used by Fuller in the development of his explanation of the "coordinate system of nature.'' Fuller claimed that Synergetics could be understood by a 5 year old.

Synergetics Dictionary : the Mind of Buckminster Fuller : with an introduction and appendices / compiled and edited by E.J. Applewhite. -- New York : Garland, 1986. 4 v. ; 32 cm. Includes bibliographies.

Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining. Philadelphia, Buckminster Fuller Institute, 1982. 118 p. Includes index.

Tetrascroll: A Cosmic Fairy Tale: Goldilocks and the Three Bears. New York, St. Martin's Press [1975,1982] xxvii, 129 p. illus. Introduction by Amei Wallach. Wonderful tale of Goldilocks and the three bears in which Goldi learns General Systems Theory and Synergetic geometry through real world examples.

This or else ... : a master plan for India's survival, by Dinshaw J. Dastur. -- Bombay : Jaico Pub. House, 1974. x [i.e. xvi], 184 p. ; 22 cm. Includes a foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller.

Uncommon sense : the life and thought of Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972), father of general systems theory, [by] Mark Davidson ; foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller ; introduction by Kenneth E. Boulding. -- 1st ed. -- Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher ; Boston : Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co., c1983. 247 p. ; 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 229-236. Includes index.

Untitled epic poem on the history of industrialization. Highlands [N.C], J. Williams, 1962. 227 p. 20 cm. (Jargon, 44.)

Utopia or Oblivion: the Prospects for Humanity. With an introduction by Stephen Mullin. [London] Allen Lane The Penguin Press [c1970] 416 p. illus. 23 cm. Includes bibliography.

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