Grunch of Giants

Grunch of Giants

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5Grunch of Giants

6R. Buckminster Fuller

7 Design Science Press — Santa Barbara, California

8 ISBN: 978-1607027591

9 ISBN-10: 1607027593

10 Updated: 2026-07-03 23:34

11Books by R. Buckminster Fuller

124-D Timelock, 1928

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

19Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969

20Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity, 1969

21Buckminster Fuller to the Children of the Earth, 1972

22Intuition, 1972

23Earth, Inc., 1973

24Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking,2 1975

25Tetrascroll, 1975

26And It Came to Pass—Not to Stay, 1976

27On Education,3 1979

28Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking2 1979

29Critical Path4 1981

30Grunch of Giants, 1983

31Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983

32Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity,4 1992

33 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]

34 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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36 GRUNCH OF GIANTS.

37Copyright © 1983 by Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.

38All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.

39Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

40Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895--1983

41Grunch of Giants

42Includes index.

431. Technology - Social Aspects 2. Civilization, Modern - 1950-- I. Title.

44T14.5F93 1983 303.4’83 82-19121

45ISBN 978-1-60702-759-1

46Originally published by St. Martin’s Press, 1983

47New edition 2008

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49Design Science Press/

50The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

51PO Box 3248

52Santa Barbara, CA 93130

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55Design by Dennis J. Grastorf

56ENCODED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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