Anticipation-The End Is Where We Start From (Hardcover)

~ Mihai Nadin (Author), Uwe Loesch (Designer)

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In tennis, the return of a serve is successful only through anticipatory mechanisms on the part of the defensive player. When playing the stock market, anticipation of supply and demand, price variations, and other factors is crucial, the very driving engine of most exchanges. Anticipation: it occurs in all spheres of life. Not least of all is the realm of creativity, the fields of art and design. (Buckminster Fuller even taught a class in anticipatory design in 1956 at MIT.) As you might have expected, this volume casts light on design problems relating to anticipatory processes. Essay by Mihai Nadin.~Foreword by Lofti A. Zadeh. Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.75 in./128 pgs / 30 color 30 BW0 duotone 0 DVD~ Item D20086

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers; 1 edition (February 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 303778007X
• ISBN-13: 978-3037780077
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,345,209 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intrigued and convinced, October 24, 2003

By	garth heany (san francisco) - See all my reviews

As a scientist, I am intrigued by Nadin's precise and convincing arguments in favor of "anticipation" as a characteristic of living being. Each idea is carefully phrased. Solid scientific foundation along with extraordinary images make this a book to be read and discussed for a long time. This is also a book that my friends will enjoy receiving.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ideas, images, thinking, February 5, 2006

By	Juan Mendoza author and reader "Juan" (Columbia, visiting the USA) - See all my reviews

When a book makes you to think about what you do without thinking it is a great book. Images are powerful...I was able to understand difficult concepts. The design is one of the best I ever saw. Great artist...And the text is clear. I was lucky, 3 languages available It helps someone who is not an English speaking person...

3.0 out of 5 stars odd, October 22, 2009

By	Lowdly DoBad "Lowd" (Warren, OH United States) - See all my reviews

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If you want to read the oddest book you've ever seen, this one's for you. I would buy it just to see how it was written. I've shown it to other people as a talking piece and we have trouble figuring out which pages are upside down or which way to hold the book? One of the most difficult books to understand you will ever see, but his friends obviously loved it from the other reviews. It was in different languages on the same page, it had columns that reversed themselves on the same page. One column you read with the book turned one way, then you have to turn the book and read it another way, and the columns switched font colors. This book would have been a dream for the Haight-Ashbury crowd of the 1960s. This book is more of an artistic piece than informative narrative. I do believe in the concept of the title though.