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Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle)

List Price: $27.99Not so very long ago, Eragon?Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider?was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.... (read more)

Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)

List Price: $27.99Price: $17.23You Save: $10.76 (38%)88 used & new from $13.69Not so very long ago, Eragon?Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider?was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.... (read more)

The Litigators

List Price: $28.95The partners at Finley & Figg?all two of them?often refer to themselves as ?a boutique law firm.? Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who?ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces... (read more)

Steve Jobs

List Price: $35.00Price: $16.85You Save: $18.15 (52%)161 used & new from $13.00Amazon Best Books of the?Month, November 2011: It is difficult to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson?s Steve Jobs without feeling melancholic. Jobs retired at the end of August and died about six weeks later. Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed. But the initial sadness in starting the book is soon replaced by something else, which is the intensity of (read more)

Steve Jobs

List Price: $30.00Amazon Best Books of the?Month, November 2011: It is difficult to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson?s Steve Jobs without feeling melancholic. Jobs retired at the end of August and died about six weeks later. Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed. But the initial sadness in starting the book is soon replaced by something else, which is the intensity of (read more)

Make a Buckminster Fuller Blanket Fort

In 1975 Buckminster Fuller first defined the term tensegrity, a portmanteau of “tensional integrity.” It refers to structural systems that derive their stability from various elements acting against each other with equal force, like the surface tension of a bubble. Tensegrity lies at the heart of giant projects like the Georgia Dome. But you can [...]

A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky

Ever since R. Buckminster Fuller popularized the design in the mid-20th century, there's been something captivating about the geodesic dome . While the structure typically makes architecture lovers salivate, now it's conquering the heart of another type of urbanist: the city farmer. A new dome-based prototype promises an affordable method of rooftop aquaculture for apartment and commercial ...

A hundred visions and revisions

SFIFF R. Buckminster Fuller was born before the turn of the last century, and died before the start of this one. But place his philosophical and practical output next to any contemporary thinker, and something seems a bit off.

Why Live Performance Could Save the Experimental Documentary

With the world premiere of “The Love Song of Buckminster Fuller” at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Sam Green is reviving the legacy of the prophetic engineer and architect who promoted independent design and sustainability when America was clear-cutting forests, paving wetlands and driving the wasteful cars that almost put General Motors out of business. This twist on the bio-doc ...

The true legacy of an utopian inventor

A new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art looks for the legacy of Buckminster Fuller in all the wrong places

RT @StephenZeiner: Earth is a spaceship flying through space that has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. -Buckminster Fuller #cdnpoli #C-38

RT @StephenZeiner: Earth is a spaceship flying through space that has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. -Buckminster Fuller #cdnpoli #C-38

Earth is a spaceship flying through space that has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. -Buckminster Fuller #cdnpoli #C-38

Earth is a spaceship flying through space that has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. -Buckminster Fuller #cdnpoli #C-38

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller #Quote

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller #Quote

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (Paperback): Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geo... http://t.co/o24D2TNU

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (Paperback): Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geo... http://t.co/o24D2TNU

Dare to be naive. - Buckminster Fuller (It takes courage to be willing to try something and be willing to fail and try again.)

Dare to be naive. - Buckminster Fuller (It takes courage to be willing to try something and be willing to fail and try again.)