The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools (Paperback)

by Stewart Brand (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Random House Inc (P); 2 Rev Upd edition (November 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394707761
• ISBN-13: 978-0394707761
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,073,251 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Seminal in crystallizing a way of conceiving of alternative tools, July 23, 2006

By	Scott MacLeod (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

"The Next Whole Earth Catalog" was seminal in crystallizing a way of conceiving of alternative tools, and providing access to them when it was published in the early 1980s. It's also significant in emblematizing a way of thinking that emerged perhaps with Earth Day in 1968, and which has been an interesting cultural current underlying green architecture. In this book, Brand identified Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" (Oxford University Press, 1977) as the most significant work in the catalog. Both of these beautiful and conceptually far-reaching books can be delightful reads on a Sunday morning, and so much more. One of the things that Stewart Brand, who put "The Next Whole Earth Catalog" together, has gotten involved with recently is "The All Species Foundation," which attempts to identify and catalog how many species there are - an interesting project.