2. WHOLE EARTH CATALOG 1968
Understanding Whole Systems
Buckminster Fuller General Systems Yearbook
Cosmic View Synthesis of Form
Full Earth On Growth and Form
Earth Photographs Tantra Art
The World From Above Psychological Reflections
Surface Anatomy The Human Use of Human Beings
Geology Illustrated The Ghost in the Machine
Sensitive Chaos The Year 2000
A Year From Monday The Futurist
Shelter and Land Use
The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller Village Technology
Space Structures The Indian Tipi
Tensile Structures, Volume One Tipis
Dome Cookbook Aladdin Kerosene Lamps
Good News Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
Architectural Design Two Mushroom Books
The Japanese House Organic Gardening
Audel Guides ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture
Alaskan Mill Universal Mill
Industry and Craft
The Way Things Work Science and Civilization in China, Volume IV,
Introduction to Engineering Design Part 2 Van Waters & Rogers
The Measure of Man Silvo Catalog Bookmaking
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Brookstone Tools Zone System Manual
New Scientist Jensen Tools A Sculptor's Manual
Scientific American Miners Catalog Creative Glass Blowing
Industrial Design Blasters' Handbook Buckskin
Product Engineering Direct Use of the Sun's Energy Cut Beads
Clearinghouse Structure, Form and Movement Melrose Yarns
Communications
Human Biocomputer Education Automation American Cinematographer Manual
The Mind of the Dolphin Intelligent Life in the Universe The Technique of Documentary Film Production
Information The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Space The Technique of Television of Production
91OOA Computer Lafayette and Allied Catalogs Auto Repair Manual
Cybernetics Heathkit Books
Eye and Brain Modern Business Forms Subject Guide to Books in Print
Design for a Brain American Cinematographer Art Prints
Community
The Modern Utopian The Merck Manual
The Realist Land for Sale
Green Revolution Consumer Reports
Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia Government Publications
Dune The Armchair Shopper's Guide
Groups Under Stress How to Get 20% to 90% off on Everything You Buy
Nomadics
Innovator Recreational Equipment
The Retreater's Bibliography Gerry Outdoor Equipment
The Book of Survival Kaibab Boots
The Survival Book Hot Springs
Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes The Explorers Trademark Log
Camping and Woodcraft National Geographic
Light Weight Camping Equipment and How to Make It Sierra Club
Backpacking The Narrow Road to the Deep North
L.L. Bean Trout Fishing In American
Learning
Toward a Theory of Instruction Edmund Scientific Meditation Cushions and Mats
The Black Box WFF 'N PROOF Self Hypnotism
THIS Magazine is about Schools Dr. Nim Psycho-Cybernetics
Cuisenaire Rods We Built Our Own Computers A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
ITA American Boys Handy Book Fundamentals of Yoga
LIFE Science Library Pioneer Posters The Act of Creation
Kaiser Aluminum News Sense Relaxation The I Ching
700 Science Experiments for Everybody Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

3. WHOLE EARTH CATALOG 1968
PURPOSE
l/l/e are as gods and might as well get used to it. So far, remotely done
power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education,
church—has succeeded to the point where gross obscure actual gains.
In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate,
personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his
own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment,
and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this
process are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG.
FUNCTION
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device. With it, the user should know better what is worth
getting and where and how to do the getting.
An item is listed in the CATALOG if it is deemed:
1) Useful as a tool,
2) Relevant to independent education,
3) High quality or low cost,
4) Not already common knowledge,
5) Easily available by mail.
This information is continually revised according to the experience
and suggestions of CATALOG users and staff.
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book or tool, or its worthy replace- tool or book is essentially not
ment, lives on. Not surprisingly, available. Maybe an antiquarian
access has changed over thirty bookstore or gizmo collector has
years. See new access on page it. Check a library. As far as we can
62. If the 1968 item is no longer tell, nothing of equal excellence
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4. Buckminster Fuller
The insights of Buckminster Fuller are what initiated this '
catalog. I > I ' IJ '
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Of the four books reviewed here, Nine Chains to the Moon
is his earliest and most openly metaphysical, Ideas and
Integrities his most personal, No More Secondhand God
the most recent, World Design Science Decade the most
programmatic.
People who beef about Fuller mainly complain about his
repetition - the same ideas again and again, it's embar-
rassing. It is embarrassing, also illuminating, because the
same notions take on different uses when re-approached
from different angles or with different contexts. Fuller's
lectures have a raga quality of rich nonlinear endless
improvisation full of convergent surprises.
Some are put off by his language, which makes demands
on your head like suddenly discovering an extra engine in
your car - if you don't let it drive you faster, it'll drag you.
I.
Fuller won't wait. He spent two years silent after illusory No More Secondhand God
language got him in trouble, and he returned to human Nine Chains to the Moon
Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller
communication with a redesigned instrument. 1938, 1963; 375 pp. 1963; 163 pp.
With that, empirical curiosity, and New England persever- $2.45 $2.25 postpaid
ance Fuller has forged one of the most original personalities and both frr n:
functional intellects of the age. Sou"' ' '' ! nois Univesity Press
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I see God in
the instruments and the mechanisms that [Ideas and Integrities]
work Ideas and Integrities from: Thinking is a putting-aside, rather than a putting-in discipline, e.g.,
reliably, Buckminster Fuller Pre-* -Mall Inc. putting aside the tall grasses in order to isolate the trail into infor-
more reliably than the limited sensory departments of 1963; 318 pp. 1 Cliffs mative viewability. Thinking is FM - frequency modulation-for it
the human mechanism. Ne '07631 results in tuning-out of irrelevancies as a result of definitive
And God says or resolution of the exclusivity turned-in or accepted feed-back
observe the paradox
$10.00 postpaid ARTH CATALOG messages' pattern differentiatability.
of man's creative potentials ["Omnidirectional Halo" No More Secondhand God]
and his destructive tactics.
He could have his new world Common to all such "human" mechanisms - and without which
through sufficient love Standing by the lake on a jump-or-think basis, the very first sponta- they are imbecile contraptions - is their guidance by a phantom
for "all's fair" neous question coming to mind was, "If you put aside everything captain.
in love as well as in war you've ever been asked to believe and have recourse only to your own
which means you can experiences do you have any conviction arising from those experiences This phantom captain has neither weight nor sensorial tangibility,
junk as much rubbish, which either discards or must assume an a priori greater intellect than as has often been scientifically proven by careful weighing opera-
skip as many stupid agreements the intellect of man?" The answer was swift and positive. Experience tions at the moment of abandonment of the ship by the phantom
by love, had clearly demonstrated an a priori anticipatory and only intellectual- captain, i.e., at the instant of "death." He may be likened to the
spontaneous unselfishness radiant. ly apprehendable orderliness of interactive principles operating in the variant of polarity dominance in our bipolar electric world which,
universe into which we are born. These principles are discovered but when balanced and unit, vanishes as abstract unity I or O. With the
are never invented by man. I said to myself, "I have faith in the phantom captain's departure, the mechanism becomes inoperative
The revolution has come-
integrity of the anticipatory intellectual wisdom which we may call and very quickly disintegrates into basic chemical elements.
set on fire from the top.
'God.'" My next question was, "Do I know best or does God know
Let it burn swiftly.
best whether I may be of any value to the integrity of universe?" This captain has not only an infinite self-identity characteristic but,
Neither the branches, trunk, nor roots will be endangered. The answer was, "You don't know and no man knows, but the also, an infinite understanding. He has furthermore, infinite sympa-
Only last year's leaves and faith you have just established out of experience imposes recognition thy with all captains of mechanisms similar to his . . . .
the parasite-bearded moss and orchids of the a priori wisdom of the fact of your being." Apparently addres-
will not be there sing myself, I said, "You do not have the right to eliminate yourself, An illuminating rationalization indicated that captains - being
when the next spring brings fresh growth you do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The signifi phantom, abstract, infinite, and bound to other captains by a bond
and free standing flowers. cance of you will forever remain obscure to you, but you may assume of understanding as proven by their recognition of each other's sig-
that you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to convert- nals and the meaning thereof by reference to a common direction
Here is God's purpose- ing all your experience to highest advantage of others. You and all (toward "perfect") - are not only all related, but are one and the
for God, to me, it seems, men are here for the sake of other men." same captain. Mathematically, since characteristics of unity exist,
is a verb
they cannot be non-identical.
not a noun,
proper or improper;
is the articulation
not the art, objective or subjective;
is loving,
not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated;
is knowledge dynamic,
not legislative code,
not proclamation law.
not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon.
Yes, God is a verb,
the most active,
connoting the vast harmonic
reordering of the universe
from unleashed chaos of energy.
And there is born unheralded
a great natural peace,
not out of exclusive
pseudo-static security
but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing.
Naught is lost.
Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled.
And I've thought through to tomorrow
which is also today.
The telephone rings
and you say to me
Hello Buckling this is Christopher; or
Daddy it's Allegra; or
Mr. Fuller this is the Telephone Company Business Office;
and I say you are inaccurate.
Because I knew you were going to call
and furthermore I recognize
that it is God who is "speaking." WDSD Document 1
And you say Our Air Force Redomes were installed in the arctic mostly by eskimos
aren't you being fantastic? World society has throughout its millions of years on earth made its and others who had never seen them before. The mass production
And knowing you I say no. judgements upon visible, tangible, sensorially demonstrable criteria. technology made assembly possible at an average rate of 14 hours
We may safely say that the world is keeping its eye on the unimportant
each. One of these radomes was loaned by the U.S. Air Force to the
visible 1 percent of the historical transformation while missing the
All organized religions of the past Museum of Modern Art in New York City for an exhibition of my work
significance of the 99 percent of overall, unseen changes. Forms are
were inherently developed inherently visible and forms no longer can "follow functions" because in 1959-1960. It took regular building trades skilled labor one month
as beliefs and credits the significant functions are invisible . . . . to assemble the dome in New York City.
in "second hand" information. WDSD Document 2
There are very few men today who are disciplined to comprehend the I define 'synergy' as follows: Synergy is the unique behavior of
Therefore it will be an entirely new era totally integrating significance of the 99 percent invisible activity which
when man finds himself confronted whole systems, unpredicted by behavior of their respective subsys-
is coalescing to reshape our future. There are approximately no
with direct experience tems' events.
warnings being given to society regarding the great changes ahead.
with an obviously a priori There is only the ominous general apprehension that man may be [Ideas and Integrities]
intellectually anticipatory competency about to annihilate himself. To the few who are disciplined to deal
that has interordered with the invisibly integrating trends it is increasingly readable in the selfishness (self-preoccupation pursued until self loses its way and self
all that he is discovering. trends that man is about to become almost 100 percent successful generates fear and spontaneous random surging, i.e., panic, the plural
[No More Secondhand God] as an occupant of universe. of which is mob outburst in unpremeditated wave synchronization of
the individually random components).
[No More Secondhand God]

5. To start off with it is d e m o n s t r a t e d in the array of events w h i c h w e
have t o u c h e d on that w e d o n ' t have t o "earn a living" anymore .
The " l i v i n g " has all been earned for us forever. Industrialization's
wealth is cumulativ e in contradistinction to the inherently terminal,
d i s c o n t i n u o u s , t e m p o r a r y wealth of t h e craft eras of civilization s u c h
as t h e Bronze A g e or Stone A g e . If w e only u n d e r s t o o d h o w that
cumulativ e industrial wealth has c o m e about, w e c o u l d s t o p playing
o b s o l e t e g a m e s , but that is a task that cannot be a c c o m p l i s h e d by
political and social reforms. Man is so deeply c o n d i t i o n e d in his
reflexes by his millenniums of slave function that he has t o o many
inferiority c o m p l e x e s to yield to political reformation. The obsolete
g a m e s will b e a b a n d o n e d only w h e n realistic, happier a n d more
WSn
interesting g a m e s c o m e along to displace the obsolete g a m e s .
[WDSD D o c u m e n t 3]
Tension and C o m p r e s s i o n are c o m p l e m e n t a r y f u n c t i o n s of structure.
Therefore as f u n c t i o n s they only co-exist. W h e n pulling a tensional
rope its girth c o n t r a c t s in c o m p r e s s i o n . W h e n w e load a c o l u m n in
c o m p r e s s i o n its girth t e n d s t o e x p a n d in t e n s i o n . W h e n w e investi-
gate tension an d c o m p r e s s i o n , w e find that c o m p r e s s i o n m e m b e r s ,
as you all k n o w as architects, have very limited lengths in relation to
their cross sections. They get t o o long an d t o o slender and will
readily break. Tension m e m b e r s , w h e n you pull t h e m t e n d to pull,
approximately, (almost but never entirely), straight instead of trying
t o curve more an d more as d o t o o thin compressionally loaded
c o l u m n s . T h e c o n t r a c t i o n of t h e tension m e m b e r s in their girth,
w h e n tensionally l o a d e d , brings its a t o m s closer togethe r w h i c h
makes it even stronger. There is no limit ratio of cross section t o
length in tensional m e m b e r s of structural systems. There is a
fundamental limit ratio in c o m p r e s s i o n . Therefore w h e n nature has The Honeywell edition of Fuller's w o r l d m a p (more brightly
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b o t h m a c r o an d micro, of mutually remote, c o m p r e s s i o n a l , and oft BtMIER However,
n o n - s i m u l t a n e o u s , islands by comprehensive tension ; - c o m p r e s s i o n man u n c o n c e r n e d ly sorting mail on an express train
islands in a non-simultaneous universe of tension . T h e Universe is with unuttered faith that
a tensegrity. t h e engineer is c o m p e t e n t ,
Clean Cabin air
[WDSD D o c u m e n t 2] that t h e s w i t c h m e n are not asleep,
I w a s born c r o s s - e y e d . Not until I w a s four years old w a s it
discovered that this w a s c a u s e d by my being abnormally farsighted.
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CARBON DIOXIDE
that t h e t r a c k walkers are d o i n g their j o b ,
that t h e t e c h n o l o g i s ts
w h o d e s i g n e d t h e train and the rails
CONCENTRATOR
M y vision w a s thereafter fully c o r r e c t e d with lenses. Until four I
I
k n e w their stuff,
c o u l d see only large patterns, houses, trees, outlines of people with that the t h o u s a n d s of others
blurred c o l o r i n g . While I saw t w o dark areas on h u m a n faces, I d i d w h o m he may never k n o w by face or name
not see a h u m a n eye or a teardrop or a huma n hair until I w a s four. Carbon Dioxide are collecting tariffs,
Despite my new ability t o a p p r e h e n d details, m y c h i l d h o o d ' s s p o n - paying for repairs,
taneous d e p e n d e n c e only u p on big pattern clues has persisted . . . . an d so handling assets
CARBON DIOXIDE that he will be paid a w e e k f r o m t o d a y
I a m c o n v i n c e d that neither I nor any other h u m a n , past or present, REDUCTION (WIT a n d again t h e w e e k after that,
w a s or is a genius. I a m convinced that what I have every physically Urine an d that all the t i m e
normal child also has at birth. We c o u l d , of c o u r s e , hypothesize his family is safe an d in well being
Hydroften Carbon
that all babies are b o r n geniuses an d get swiftly d e - g e n i u s e d . w i t h o u t his personal protection
Unfavorable c i r c u m s t a n c e s , shortsightedness, frayed nervous constitutes a w h o l e new era of evolution-
s y s t e m s , an d ignorantly articulated love and fear of elders t e n d to t h e first really ' n e w "
shut off many of t h e child's brain capability valves. I as lucky in since t h e beginning of the s p o k e n w o r d .
avoiding t o many d i s c o n n e c t s . In fact, out of the understanding
METABOLIC REQUIREMENTS & RESULTANT WASTES IN POUNDS
innate in the s p o k e n w o r d
FOR A 160 lb. MAN
There is luck in everything. My luck is that I w a s born c r o s s - e y e d , w a s Industrialization w r o u g h t
TOTAL INPUT . TOTAL OUTPUT .
w a s ejected so frequently f r o m the establishment that I w a s finally after millenniums
f o r c ed either t o perish or to e m p l o y s o m e of t h o s e faculties with Oxygen for incin- of seemingly whitherless s p a d e w o r k .
w h i c h w e are all e n d o w e d - t h e use of w h i c h c i r c u m s t a n c e s had Oxygen eration * 0.75 lbs. Total C 0 2 [The Unfinished Epic of Industrialization]
previously so frustrated as t o have t o put t h e m in t h e d e e p freezer, « 4.2 lbs.
w h e n c e only to hellishly hot situations c o u l d provide e n o u g h heat t o Tt
v Unfinished Epic of Industrialization
melt t h e m b a c k into usability. gmaamni F T i s t e r Fuller 1963; 227 pp
[WDSD D o c u m e n t 5] Breathing jIIMI Exhaled C02
2.1 lbs. ||nH= 2.4 lbs -f .,[, Tom World Resources Inventory
In t h e 1920's with but little o p e n c o u n t ry highway mileage in o p e r a - N 2 & NaCl L ^ r i, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
etc. -
t i o n , a u t o m o b i l e a c c i d e n t s were c o n c e n t r a t e d an d frequently
> 0 lbs.
o c c u r r e d within our urban an d s u b u r b a n presence. Witnessing a C o n c e p t Twelve - SELF DISCIPLINES
number of a c c i d e n t s, I observe d that w a r n i n g signs later grew up Food - 1 . 3 lbs. Working a s s u m p t i o n s , cautions , e n c o u r a ge
along the roads leading to danger points and that more traffic and (Dehydrated) ments, an d restrains of intuitive formulations
m o t o r c y c l e police were put on duty. The authorities tried t o cure an d s p o n t a n e o u s actions . My o w n rule: " D o
t h e malady by reforming the motorists. A relatively f e w special not m i n d if I a m not u n d e r s t o o d as long as I am
individual drivers with m u c h experience, steady t e m p e r a m e n t , g o o d not m i s u n d e r s t o o d . "
coordination an d natural t e n d e n c y t o anticipate and understand the
p s y c h o l o g y of other s emerge d as " g o o d " an d a p p r o x i m a t e ly Personal Self Disciplining. In 1927 I gave u p forever t h e
accident-fre e drivers. Many others were accident prone. general e c o n o m i c d i c t u m of society, i.e. that every individ-
ual w h o w a n t s to survive must earn a living. I s u b s t i t u t e d ,
In lieu of the after-the-fact curative reform, trending to highly s p e -
cialized individual offender case histories, my philosophy urged t h e
JllllIIJiliJkiiiiJiiLiiiiijj, therefore, the finding m a d e in c o n c e p t one, i.e., an
individual's antientropic responsibility in universe. I sought
anticipatory avoidance of the acciden t potentials t h r o u gh invention for t h e tasks that n e e d e d to be d o n e that no one else w a s
of generalized highway dividers, grade separaters, clover leafing Water • 7.0 lbs. d o i n g or a t t e m p t i n g t o d o , w h i c h if d o n e w o u l d physically
a n d adequately b a n k e d curves a n d a u t o m a t i c traffic c o n t r o l a n d e c o n o m i c a l l y a d v a n t a g e society a n d eliminate pain.
stop-lightin g s y s t e m s . I saw no reason w h y the proble m shouldn' t
be solved by preventative design rather than a t t e m p t e d reforms.
Sources: (1) E. S. Kills, R. L. Butterton, Douglas Missile & space Systems
Development Interplanetary Mission Life Support System, 1965. As a c o n s e q u e n c e , it w a s necessary for m e to discipline
My resolve: Reshape environment; d o n ' t try to reshape m a n . my faculties to d e v e l o p technical and scientific capabilities
(2) NASA; ASO Report TR 61-363.
to invent t h e physical innovations an d their service industry
[WDSD D o c u m e n t 1] WDSD Document 6 logistics.
Mv R e c o m m e n d a t i o n s for a Curriculum of Design Science
HUMAN DAILY M E T A B O L I C T U R N O V E R 1. Synergetics
Carbon 2. General S y s t e ms Theory
; v, a, >
Grams
WW. Dioxide (CO,) 3. Theory of Games (Von Neuman)
27,4% 982 gms.
OMAM Proteins • 80 MAN -•-Solids 5
4. Chemistry an d Physics
«MMMf§ mm-WH NMitn Carbohydrates » 270 in closed 5. Topology, ProjectiveGeometry
urea &
Fats « 150 environment minerals
Water 6. Cybernetics
Other solids system 1.7%
& minerals = 23 (H 2 0) 7. Communications
with 61 gms.
70.9 %
n
**~**J|E a s p i r a t i o n 8. Meteorology
2542 gms.
j—v<j q u o t i e n t 9. Geology
of II 10. Biology
0.82 Metabolic 9.5%
HI [till I 1 1 . Sciences of Energy
•* T'..~"
INPUT - 100% 2830 OUtPOT - 100? 12. Political Geography
3585 gms. Calories 3585 gms. 13. Ergonomics
Source: Apogee, Dou<jlas Missile & Space 14. Production Engineering
<MMt nation No. 4, 1961. p. 8.
fUMMt wmmm [WDSD D o c u m e n t 5]
fCNMKS sennet
HWMM Order frv..n
mmm The World Design Science Decade d o c u m e n t s contain
wm~wm WMMfW s o m e that is in t h e other b o o k s and m u c h that isn't. W c r ' d F « c o i Y c e s Inventory Office
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This is a very g o o d d e a l .
• :• . • . •
Size: 35 x 20 inches.
We find that original question asking is a c o n s e q u e n c e The will of history reads "for everybody or for nobody,"
of interferences, whethte r in t h e c o m p u t e r or t h e an d since w e balk at "for n o b o d y " it has to be "for every-
huma n brain. We find then that original q u e s t i o ns are b o d y " . A n d that's the w a y it is g o i n g , lickety-split an d t h e
s e c o n d derivative events in the c o m p u t e r lif.e w o r l d around .
[WDSD D o c u m e n t 2] [WDSD D o c u m e n t 3]

6. Cosmic View
"The Universe in 40 Jumps" is the subtitle of
the book. It delivers.
The man who conceived and rendered it, a
Dutch schoolmaster named Kees Boeke, gave
years of work to perfecting the information in
his pictures. The result is one of the simplest,
most thorough, inescapable mind blows ever
printed. Your mind and you advance in and out
through the universe, changing scale by a fac-
tor of ten. It very quickly becomes hard to
breathe, and you realize how magnitude-
bound we've been.
I'm amazed this book isn't more commonly
available. It's the best seller of The Whole
Earth Truck Store. People get it for their
friends.
Cosmic View from
1
T • Day C o m p a n y
Kees Boeke
6 45th Street
1957; 48 p p .
r< , N.Y.
c
3.75 postpaid EARTH CATALOG
Full Earth
were lap dissolved together to make the movie. You see
In November 1967 an ATS satellite whose funds phenome-
darkness, then a crescent of dawn, than advancing daylight
nally had not been cut made a home movie. It was a time
and immense weather patterns whorling and creeping on the
lapse film of the Earth rotating, shot from 23,000 miles
spherical surface, then the full round mandala Earth of noon,
above South America. (This is synchronous distance. The
then gibbous afternoon, crescent twilight, and darkness
satellite orbits at the same speed the Earth turns, so it
again.
remains apparently stationary over one point of the equa-
tor.) Color photographs of the Earth were transmitted by TV
every 1/2 hour to make up a 24 hour sequence. The shots A 16mm 400-foot silent color print of the film includes several
forms of the 24-hour cycle and close-up cropping of specific
sectors as their weather develops through the day.
The film (NR 68-713) costs An 8x10 color print of t h e
earth (68-HC-74) costs
$48.94 plus shipping
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NASA SP. 129 is a hell of a book. Two hundred forty-three Earth Photographs from Gemini III, IV, and V.
full page color photographs of our planet from the Gemini
NASA
flights of 1965. if it were a Sierra Club book, and it could 1967; 266 p p .
be, it would cost $25. It costs $7.
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There are numerous discoveries in the book. One is that
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7. The World From Above
Close-up glamor shots of the Earth. Mystery shots (What is that?
What's our altitude above it, 10 feet or 10,000?) (Fold out captions tell
all.) Good traffic flow pattern shots: surface anatomy of civilization. Not
a bad compendium; it'll do until they reprint E.A. Gutkind's Our World
From the Air.
The World From Above
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Surface Anatomy
This books is included as a companion piece to the Earth
picture books. The whole lovely system of the human
creature, seen from without, surface by surface, is here.
One of its main revelations is how cliche ridden our usual
views of ourselves are - we are still not good with mirrors
(satellites were up 10 years before we got a full view of
the Earth). Posing friends and neighbors, with a simple
light set-up and a 35mm camera, Joseph Royce has shot
the most beautiful human album I know.
It also teaches anatomy.
Surface Anatomy
J o s e p h Royce
1965; 124 p h o t o g r a p h s
and s o m e diagrams
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8. Geology Illustrated
A artist of aerial photography, Shelton uses some 400 of his
finest photos to illuminate a discussion of the whole-earth
system. Not a traditional textbook, but a fascinating explo-
ration of the problems posed by asking "How did that come
about?" Worth buying for the photos and book design
alone, but you'll probably find yourself becoming interested
in geology regardless of your original intentions.
[Reviewed by Larry McCombs]
As a means of communicating geological concepts, the pictures are
fully as important as the words that accompany them. On most
pages the photographs represent the facts, the words supply the
interpretation. Many of the illustrations will, therefore, repay a little
of the kind of attention that would be accorded the real feature in
the field. In keeping with this, almost no identifying marks have Geology Illustrated
been placed on the photographs and very few on the drawings. John S. Shelton
The text (which almost invariably concerns an illustration on the 1966; 434 pp. from:
same or a facing page) serves as an expanded legend for the pic- .V H saman & Company
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Sensitive Chaos
Schwenk directs an institute in the
Black Forest devoted to the study of the
movements of water and air. Within the
last few centuries, he says we have
"lost touch with the spiritual nature of
water." As a result, we have attempted
to control the fluids in ways contrary to
their nature, and the results are evident
in the problems of pollution, damage to
the ecosystem, and even drying up of
natural water sources. Schwenk
attempts to penetrate beyond the mere
observable phenomena to an ability to
"read" the true spiritual nature of flow-
ing substances.
I found the book to be a peculiarly
fascinating mixture of overgeneraliza-
tion, simplification, undifferentiated fact
and theory, and shrewd observation
and insight. If you regard analogy as
the weakest form of argument, this
book is definitely not for you. On the
other hand, Schwenk's juxtaposition of
similar forms in different flowing media
may spark some exciting bisociations, if
you are open to them. The section of
88 pages of black and white photos at
the back of the book could stand alone
as a beautiful art collection.
[Reviewed by Larry McCombs]
Here too the form of the vortex
seems to hover invisibly over the
growth processes, even before the
horns are actually there, for they
proceed along this spiral path with
mathematical exactitude in their
annual growth. It is significant that
the axes of the two spiraling horns
meet either in the nose or the eyes
or in their immediate vicinity, a fact
which stresses the strong connection
of the horns with sense perception
and with the animal's sense of its
surroundings. Furthermore, in
structure, the horn, like the water
vortex, is finely laminated, layer
upon layer.
Sensitive Chaos
Theodor Schwenk
1965; 144 pp. 88 plates
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9. A Year from Monday c^piicicm»ws, **They think SnarkT..,
'• - he the mm ppwcrfyf mat
comtrucnve revolution in a!1 hv tor? ' |
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Technique far
The question is: Is m y t h o u g h t changing? It is and it isn't.
One evening after dinner, I w a s telling friends that I w a s not c o n c e r n e d changing iioefeiv s education followed h j
with improving t h e w o r l d . One of the m said: I t h o u g h t you always
were. I then explained that I believe - a n d a m acting upon - Marshall inftcaeplegriMal. Article by Avaar Havne m
McLuhan's statement that w e have through electronic technolog y
p r o d u c e d an extension of our brains t o t h e w o r l d formerly outside a«t##»at§«tt (tmpoct #f Sclattf an
of us. To m e that means that t h e disciplines, gradual a n d s u d d e n
(principally Oriental), formerly practiced by individuals t o pacify •ly I Sri, Unasca publication),
their minds, bringing t h e m into a c c o r d w i t h ultimate reality, must
now be practiced socially - that is, not just inside our heads, but out- Canflnylty valaat giving way fa naxihi-
side of t h e m , in t h e w o r l d , where our central nervous system n o w is.
This has brought it abou t that t h e w o r k and thought of Buckminster vwlaea, Aataawtiaa otters wttat*§ daaa and
Fuller is of prime importance t o m e . He more than any other t o m y
k n o w l e d ge sees t h e w o r l d situation-all of it-clearly a n d has fully what* we do ft. You cowJd always tell
reasoned projects for turning our attention away from "killingry"
t o w a r d "livingry." . . .
when l i e was about to go out of her
mind. She would begie to speak the
C o m i n g back t o t h e notion that m y t h o u g h t is c h a n g i n g . Say it isn't. truth. April '<A •
One thing, however, that keeps it m o v i n g is that I'm continually
finding new teachers with w h o m I study. I had studied with Richard
Buhlig, Henry C o w e l l, Arnold S c h o e n b e r g , Daisetz Suzuki, Guy
Nearing. N o w I'm studying with N.O. B r o w n , Marshall M c L u h a n ,
Buckminster Fuller, Marcel D u c h a m p . In connectio n with m y current
""^v^r*-
studies w i t h D u c h a m p , it turns o u t that I'm a poor chessplayer. My m i n d
seems in s o m e respect lacking, s o that I make obviously stupid moves . A Year From Monday
I d o not for a m o m e n t d o u b t that this lack of intelligence affects m y from:
music and thinking generally. However, I have a redeeming quality: J o h n Cage Wt Universtiy Press
I w a s gifted with a sunny disposition . 1967; 167pp. M vn, C o n n . 06457
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much of business, technology, education, etc.). The General On t h e Origin of Order in Behavior
S o m e Considerations o n t h e Notion of Invariant Field in Linguistics
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By definition General Systems is a mixed bag. Kinds of Aspiration Levels and Utility Theory A C o n d e n s a t i on of Warpeace Spac e
systems covered in the Yearbook include Biological, Social, C o n c e s s i o n - M a k i n g in Experimental Condition s On S o m e General Categories of Linguistics
Psychological, Games, Linguistic, Political, Cybernetic and Wheat on Kilimanjaro: T h e Perception of Choice Within G a m e a n d The Theory of M e t a - G a m e s
Meteorological. Throughout is the search for common dy- Learning Model Frameworks The M a t h e m a t i c s of M e t a - G a m e s
namics that transcend them all. It's technical, mathematical Models of Southern Kwakiutl Social Organization Benevolence in G a m e Theory
business, heavy reading, and maybe trivial, maybe wishful; A Field Theory of Social A c t i o n with Application t o Conflict A Taxonomy of 2 x 2 Games
but ever here and there is a gleam of something that might An Analysis of Duopoly Bargaining
be a window in to broad mindscapes. V O L U M E XI (1966)
Two Motivations f o r Defection in Prisoner's Dilemma Games
Empirical A p p r o a c h e s t o G a m e Theory and Bargaining: a Bibliography
The current volume of the Yearbook (1967) is Volume XII.
Titles of articles, working back as far as we have space are:
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$7.50 for earlier ones. Research
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Mass. 01730 Between Neural Structure a n d t h e Evolution of C o m p l e x Behavior
V O L U M E IX (1964) Organismic Sets; Outline of a General Theory of Biological a n d Social
Organisms
The Orderliness of Biological Systems
Sociometry a n d t h e Physical Sciences
Colony Development of a Polymorphic Hydroid as a Problem in Pattern
Prediction in Physics a n d t h e Social Sciences
Formation
The C o n c e p t of Entropy in L a n d s c a p e Evolution A Geometric Model with S o m e Properties of Biological Systems
G e o m o r p h o l o g y and General Systems Theory The Regulation of Political Systems
An A p p r o a c h t o t h e Conceptual Analysis of Scientific Crises Types of A s y m m e t r y in Social a n d Political Systems
A Survey of General Systems Theory A Quantitative A p p r o a c h t o t h e Dynamics of Perception
The Set Theory of M e c h a n i s m a n d Homeostasis S o m e Psychological A s p e c t s of Psychometry
Constraint Analysis of Many-Dimensional Relations A Further Extension of General S y s t e m s Theory for Psychiatry
The Domain of Adaptiv e Systems: A Rudimentary Taxonomy A Dynamic Model of t h e Conflict Between Criminals and Society
Language Description of C o n c e p t s S o m e C o m p a r i s o n s Betwee n Traffic Deaths a n d Suicide
S o m e Simple Models of Arm s Races Crime Rate vs. Population Density in United States Cities: A M o d e l
The Problem of Systemic Organizations in Theoretical Biology Simulation of S o c i o - E c o n o m i c Systems
The Conceptua l Formulation a n d Mathematical Solution of Practical An Empirical Test of Five A s s u m p t i o n s in an Inter-National Simulation
Problems in Population Input-Output Dynamics A b o u t National Political Systems
The Use of M a t h e m a t i c s a n d C o m p u t e r s t o Determine Optimal Strategies
for a Given Insect Pest Control Problem
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