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hbk: University of Alabama Press, US, 1970
ISBN none listed (US pbk)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-97770 (US pbk)
pbk: Collier Books, (New York) US, 1970
Edited by Taylor Littleton. The Franklin Lectures in the Sciences and Humanities at Auburn University, First Series.
Preface by Taylor Littleton
"Education for Comprehensivity" by R.Buckminster Fuller
"Engineers and the Nation's Future" by Eric A.Walker
"Toward a Working Partnership of the Sciences and Humanities" by James R.Killian Jr
"In the recent floodtide of doomful prophecies about the imminent destruction of our environment, this book stands virtually alone.
"The three eminent scientists who wrote it offer hope -- and, more than that: positive, creative ideas that can enable man to improve life on this planet and build what Dr. James Killian, Jr., calls 'the benign environment'. They point the way to a revolution in approaching our problems -- and suggest a new kind of man, whom Dr. Fuller calls a 'comprehensivist' -- a broad-gauged creator who can truly harness all the fantastic tools of this new age on 'Spaceship Earth'.
"For, as Buckminster Fuller says in this book: 'Man is quite clearly like the hydrogen atom...designed to be a success. He is a fantastic piece of design'." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1970]
"" --.
Recommended.
Synergetics Home Page
(Kirby Urner's excellent Buckminster Fuller site on the net)
World Game Institute
(includes the world resources inventory)
"One of Fuller's brilliant ideas to make the world work better for everyone." --Henry W.Targowski.
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