Main entry:

Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.). Selections.

Title & Author:

Whole Earth field guide / edited by Caroline Maniaque-Benton with Meredith Gaglio.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

vii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Anthology of 80 texts selected from the Last whole Earth catalog (1971).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Understanding whole systems 1. Utopia or oblivion, 1969 / Richard Buckminster Fuller ; 2. Environment, power, and society, 1971 / Howard T. Odum ; 3. The world from above, 1966 / Hanns Reich ; 4. Tao Teh King, 1958 / Lao-Tzu and Archie Bahm ; 5. Sand County almanac and sketches here and there, 1949 / Aldo Leopold ; 6. On growth and form, 1917 / D'Arcy W.Thompson ; 7. The sciences of the artificial, 1969 / Herbert Simon ; 8. "Think little," 1970 / Wendell Berry ; 9. The Pentagon of power, 1970 / Lewis Mumford ; 10. Science and survival, 1966 / Barry Commoner ; 11. The population bomb, 1968 / Paul Ehrlich ; 12. The environmental handbook, 1970 / Garrett De Bell -- II. Land use. 13. Living the good life, 1954 / Helen and Scott Hearing ; Walden, 1854 / Henry David Thoreau ; 15. The Oxford book of food plants, 1969 ; 16. Grow your own, 1970 / Jeanie Darlington ; 17. New sources of energy, 1962 / United Nations ; 18. Design with nature, 1969 / Ian McHarg -- III. Shelter. 19. Evolution and design in the plant kingdom, 1969 / C. L. Duddington ; 20. "Shelter" ; 21. Shelter and society, 1969 / Paul Oliver ; 22 "Libre," Architectural Design ; 23. Dome cookbook, 1968 / Steve Baer ; 24. Zome primer, 1970 / Steve Baer ; 25. Order in space, 1969 / Keith Critchlow ; 26. Domebook 2, 1971 / Lloyd Kahn ; 27. The owner-built home, 1961 / Ken Kern ; 28. The Indian Tipi, 1957 / Reginald and Gladys Laubin ; 29. Tensile structures, 1967 / Frei Otto ; 30. Inflatocookbook, 1971 / Ant Farm -- IV. Industry. 31. "A report from Alloy," 1969 / Stewart Brand ; 32. What is design?, 1960 / Paul Jacques Grillo ; 33. Design for the real world, 1971 / Victor Papanek ; 34. Technology and change : the new Heraclitus, 1967 / Donald A. Schön ; 35. Direct use of the sun's energy, 1964 / Farrington Daniels ; 36 "Snap-On Tools" -- V. Craft. 37. How to build your own furniture, 1965 / J. De Cristoforo ; 38. "Making a hamper of white oak splits," 1970 / Mary Garth ; 39. The book of tea, 1906 / Kakuzo Okakura ; 40. "Buddhist economics," 1968 / E. F. Schumacher ; 41. Your handspinning, 1964 / Elsie G. Davenport ; 42. The illustrated hassle-free make your own clothes book, 1971 / Sharon Rosenberg and Joan Wiener -- VI. Community. 43. Communitas, 1947 / Percival and Paul Goodman ; 44. Drop city, 1971 / Peter Rabbit ; 45. Livingon the Earth, 1970 / Alicia Bay Laurel ; 46. "A modest proposal," 1970 / John Todd ; 47. The hidden dimension, 1966 / Edward T. Hall ; 48. Earth house hold, 1969 / Gary Snyder ; 49. The grubbag, 1971 / Ita Jones ; 50. Zen macrobiotic cooking, 1968 / Michel Abehsera ; 51. Women and their bodies, 1970 / Boston Women's Health Collective ; 52. Rules for radicals, 1971 / Saul D. Alinsky ; 53. The organizer's manual, 1971 / The OM Collective ; 54. A rap on race, 1971 / Margaret Mead and James Baldwin -- VII. Nomadics. 55. "The great bus race" / Stewart Brand ; 56. "Airstream travel trailer" / Stewart Brand ; 57. How to keep your Volkswagen alive, 1969 / John Muir ; 58. Anybody's bike book, 1971 / Tom Cuthbertson ; 59. The golden book of camping, 1971 / William Hillcourt ; 60. The book of survival, 1967 / Anthony Greenbank -- VIII. Communications. 61. Diagrams, 1969 / Arthur Lockwood ; 62. Mapping, 1964 / David Greenhood ; 63. Cybernetics, 1961 / Norbert Wiener ; 64. Culture is our business, 1970 / Marshall McLuhan ; 65. The architecture machine, 1970 / Nicholas Negroponte ; 66. Cybernetic serendipity, 1968 ; 67. An alternative future for America II, 1970 / Robert Theobald ; 68. "How to become a non-profit tax-exempt corporation, and why, and why not" / Law Commune ; 69. The RSVP cycles, 1970 / Lawrence Halprin ; 70. "Editorial," Radical Software, 1971 / Beryl Korot and Phyllis Gershuny ; 71. 57 how-to-do-it charts, 1959 / Harry L Hiett -- IX. Learning. 72. "Toys" ; 73. Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1972 / Samuel Yanes and Cia Holdorf, eds. ; 74. The web of life, 1953 / John H. Storer ; 75. The eagle, the jaguar, and the serpent, 1954 / Miguel Covarrubias ; 76. Architecture : a book of projects for young adults, 1968 / Forrest Wilson ; 77. "Farewell address," 1970-71 / Timothy Leary ; 78. Be here now, 1971 / Baba Ram Dass ; 79. "Keep on truckin'" / Robert Crumb ; 80. Farallones scrapbook, 1971 / Sim Van der Ryn et al. -- Appendix: Books cited in The last whole Earth catalog.

Summary:

The Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural touchstone of the 1960s and 1970s. The iconic cover image of the Earth viewed from space made it one of the most recognizable books on bookstore shelves. Between 1968 and 1971, almost two million copies of its various editions were sold, and not just to commune-dwellers and hippies. Millions of mainstream readers turned to the Whole Earth Catalog for practical advice and intellectual stimulation, finding everything from a review of Buckminster Fuller to recommendations for juicers. This book offers selections from eighty texts from the nearly 1,000 items of "suggested reading" in the Last Whole Earth Catalog. After an introduction that provides background information on the catalog and its founder, Stewart Brand (interesting fact: Brand got his organizational skills from a stint in the Army), the book presents the texts arranged in nine sections that echo the sections of the Whole Earth Catalog itself. Enlightening juxtapositions abound. For example, "Understanding Whole Systems" maps the holistic terrain with writings by authors from Aldo Leopold to Herbert Simon; "Land Use" features selections from Thoreau's Walden and a report from the United Nations on new energy sources; "Craft" offers excerpts from The Book of Tea and The Illustrated Hassle-Free Make Your Own Clothes Book; "Community" includes Margaret Mead and James Baldwin's odd-couple collaboration, A Rap on Race. Together, these texts offer a sourcebook for the Whole Earth culture of the 1960s and 1970s in all its infinite variety.

ISBN:

9780262529280 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262529289 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Green technology Catalogs.
Manufactures Catalogs.
Handicraft Equipment and supplies Catalogs.
Appropriate technology Catalogs.
Technologie de protection de l'environnement Catalogues.
Produits manufacturés Catalogues.
Artisanat Appareils et matériel Catalogues.
Technologie appropriée Catalogues.
Appropriate technology.
Green technology.
Handicraft Equipment and supplies.
Manufactures.

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Maniaque Benton, Caroline, editor.
Gaglio, Meredith, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315700
Call No.: 315700
Copy: 2
Status: Available