Buckminster fuller as captain of spaceship earth

Minerva

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 417-434

  Anker, Peder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 36749017589     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11024-007-9066-7     Document Type: Article

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7. Quoted in Athena Lord, Pilot for Spaceship Earth (New York: Macmillan, 1978), 33.
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