R. Buckminster Fuller

Quentin Fiore

Jerome Agel

Buckminster Fullers explorations as an architect, engineer, philosopher and futurist are extended into experimental book form through his collaboration with producer Jerome Agel and designer Quentin Fiore. I Seem to Be A Verbs utopian plans, clever insights and light-hearted musings rub elbows with revelatory and often jolting reminders that we are in motion, full of impulsive nerves, flowing blood and constant thought. This fun and challenging book is packed with images, dense layouts and narratives reading both front to back and in reverse. All this to remind us that we are verbs, not nouns! Buckminster Fuller was awarded 25 patents, invented the geodesic dome, the dymaxion car and was expelled from Harvard twice. I Seem to Be a Verb was originally published in 1970. I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. R. Buckminster Fuller.

I Seem to Be a Verb

Clarke's short story upon which the movie was based is presented together with stills from the film, critical reviews, and notes on its production

The Making of Kubrick's 2001

Marshall McLuhan

A collage of photographs and commentary reveals the role of electronic technology in restructuring our lives

An Inventory of Effects

The Medium is the Massage

War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest." Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or "self-amputations of our own being," because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world in which we live. War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations leading to identity loss and war.

War and Peace in the Global Village

"Men take more pains to mask than to mend."--Benjamin Franklin. These and other sage words in a collection of the wisest sayings and most profound insights of our history.

A Harvest of Quotations from All Ages

Pearls of Wisdom

Walter D. Glanze

Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense & 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance

Humphry Osmond

John A. Osmundsen

The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide, and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially devastating attacks with them. While in the twentieth century most of our arms-control effort focused, rightly, on nuclear arsenals, in the twenty-first century CBW will almost certainly require just as much attention. This book defines the basics of CBW for the concerned citizen, including non-alarmist scientific descriptions of the weapons and their antidotes, methods of deployment and defensive response, and the likelihood in the current global political climate of additional proliferation.

Understanding Understanding

Eugene Boe

A collection of vocabulary quizzes and games is accompanied by information on word roots and derivations and essays on words by Isaac Asimov, R. Buckminster Fuller, Walter D. Glanze, and others

Test Your Word Power

A Synergistic Collage of Alternative Futures

Is Today Tomorrow?

Denise Austin

A fitness expert shows how anyone can make effective personalized workouts a part of daily life, using one-minute exercises that stretch, strengthen, tone, and tighten the body from head to toe

Jerome Agel

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