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7 Design Science Press — Santa Barbara, California

8 ISBN: 978-1607027591

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11Books by R. Buckminster Fuller

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13Nine Chains to the Moon, 1938

14Education Automation, 1962

15Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization, 1962

16Ideas and Integrities, 1963

17No More Secondhand God, 1963

18World Design Science Decade¹ 1963--1967

20Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969

21Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity, 1969

22Buckminster Fuller to the Children of the Earth, 1972

23Intuition, 1972

24Earth, Inc., 1973

25Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking,² 1975

27Tetrascroll, 1975

28And It Came to Pass—Not to Stay, 1976

29On Education,³ 1979

31Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking² 1979

32Critical Path⁴ 1981

34Grunch of Giants, 1983

35Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983

36Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity,⁴ 1992

37 I dedicate this book to three women: one of the nineteenth and two of the twentieth centuries. First, to my great aunt, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, who with Ralph Waldo Emerson co-edited the Transcendentalist magazine, the Dial, and was the first to publish Thoreau—and herself authored Woman in the Nineteenth Century.[Fuller:1874aa]

38 I am sure Margaret would and probably does join in my enthusiastic support and co-dedication of this book to Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy [Ferguson:1980aa], and to Barbara Marx Hubbard, founder of the Committee for the Future, for their effective inspiration to the young world to do its own thinking and to act in accordance therewith.

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