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Intuition Buckminster Fuller 9781644231869
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644231869Author Buckminster FullerFormat PaperbackImprint -
Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture by Douglas Murphy 9781781689820
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.96In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new... -
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala-Lee 9780062947239
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine... -
Critical Path by R.Buckminster Fuller 9780312174910
Booksplease Price: $24.12Critical Path is R. Buckminster Fuller's masterwork - the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern - as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication over 20 years ago. Critical Path... -
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R.Buckminster Fuller 9783037781265
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $16.83Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time... -
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence by Christopher Turner 9781838510558
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.61Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leading proponents, British architects Jane Drew and... -
Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia by Natalie Koch
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10**Longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize**The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from the Middle East. For... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.24Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the... -
Geodesic Math and How to Use It by Hugh Kenner 9780520239319
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.78It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now,... -
Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Gene Youngblood
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $29.47Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood's influential Expanded Cinema was the... -
Expendable Reader - Articles on Art, Architecture, Design, and Media (1951-79) by John McHale 9781883584702
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26From the Bauhaus to Buckminster Fuller, from Elvis to ecology, the writings of John McHale (1922-1978) engage a diverse set of concerns. The Expendable Reader highlights McHale's theorization of... -
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community by Martin Duberman 9780810125940
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.36With faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul Goodman, and Robert Rauschenberg, Black Mountain... -
A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa by Andrea D'Aquino
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.01Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was an influential and award-winning sculptor, a beloved figure in the Bay Area art world, and a devoted activist who advocated tirelessly for arts education. This lushly... -
Isamu Noguchi by Fabienne Eggelhoefer
RRP: $53.59Booksplease Price: $41.11Now available in paperback, this definitive book explores the multidisciplinary career of one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th century. Encompassing the entirety of... -
Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle by Bruno Munari
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.17Circle: "God is a circle whose center is everywhere but whose circumference is nowhere." Circle means perfection, cyclicity, superiority of the divinity, but also instability and movement. In nature... -
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled... -
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects Marshall McLuhan 9780141035826
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore's bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan's unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique... -
In Praise of Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture Beatriz Colomina 9783037787830
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $18.57The sequel to the authors' Are We Human?, this provocative book is an urgent manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers,... -
Flow: in Pursuit of a Living Building by Bob Berkebile 9780981985749
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $9.55Flow chronicles the Omega Center for Sustainable Living at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York. Designed by BNIM Architects, the OCSL embraces the concept of sustainable... -
The Last Great Event: with Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison by Ray Foulk 9781916866201
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $22.28Expanded edition, featuring a new chapter and photographs on the Festival's modern revival under John Giddings. The Isle of Wight Festival in 1969 famously stole Bob Dylan from Woodstock' and set the... -
Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration by Dana Cohen
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.76You can blame gluten, lack of exercise, or hormones for a number of our most common maladies, but the truth is, there's often one big, overlooked culprit: dehydration. Humans are 65% water. So when... -
Superhumanity: Design of the Self by Nick Axel 9781517905217
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.50A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material... -
Awakening the Spine: Stress Free Yoga for Health, Vitality and Energy by Vanda Scaravelli 9781905177264
Booksplease Price: $20.09For more than twenty-five years, until her death at the age of 91, Vanda Scaravelli was transforming bodies and lives with her innovative approach to yoga through the proper alignment of the spine... -
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher 9781786891693
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $22.39FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERINCLUDING LETTERS FROM:Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John... -
The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world David Bramwell 9781473640313
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47'I LOVE THE BOOK... A BRILLIANT READ' Chris Evans, Radio 2 Breakfast ShowALSO OUT NOW: THE MYSTERIUM, the must-have follow-up to The Odditorium'This book, that I approached with caution, turns out to... -
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The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world by David Bramwell 9781473640313 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.23'I LOVE THE BOOK... A BRILLIANT READ' Chris Evans, Radio 2 Breakfast ShowALSO OUT NOW: THE MYSTERIUM, the must-have follow-up to The Odditorium'This book, that I approached with caution, turns out to... -
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience Shaun Usher 9781782114543
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.09More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.These letters deliver the same mix of the... -
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by Reinier de Graaf 9780674241466
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $24.60A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year"Sharp, revealing, funny."-The Guardian"An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and... -
The Abundance Annie Dillard 9781782117735
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed... -
Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis by Albert Bates
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.43An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how... -
Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure by Maria Golia
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.61Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African American composer and... -
William S. Burroughs: A Life Barry Miles 9781780221205
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs (1914-1997).It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American...