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A Pattern Language

Towns, Buildings, Construction

by Christopher Alexander ...

Series series Center for Environmental Structure Series
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental ... Read more

$43.99 USD

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental
... Read more
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Lessons From Literature - Stories That Deal with Class & Status

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by J M Barrie, O Henry, Nikolai Gogol, Voltaire, Jack London, Nikolai Schedrin, Katherine Mansfield, Alexander Pushkin ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Christopher Ragland, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

4 hours 39 min

In this volume the perennial themes of Class and Status push themselves to the fore in the more than capable hands of our classic authors. If you have them life is somewhat easier but if you don’t you can feel judged and progress up the ladder will be rather more difficult.01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories that Deal with Class and Status - An Introduction02 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M ... Read more

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In this volume the perennial themes of Class and Status push themselves to the fore in the more than capable hands of our classic authors. If you have them life is somewhat easier but if you don’t you can feel judged and progress up the ladder will be rather more difficult.01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories that Deal with Class and Status - An Introduction02 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M
... Read more
The Nature of Order, Book Three: A Vision of A Living World

An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe

by Christopher Alexander ...

Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, Alexander explores the properties of life itself, highlighting a set of well-defined structures present in ... Read more

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Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, Alexander explores the properties of life itself, highlighting a set of well-defined structures present in
... Read more
The Nature of Order, Book Four: The Luminous Ground

An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe

by Christopher Alexander ...

Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, Alexander explores the properties of life itself, highlighting a set of well-defined structures present in ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, Alexander explores the properties of life itself, highlighting a set of well-defined structures present in
... Read more
The Nature of Order, Book Two: The Process of Creating Life

An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe

by Christopher Alexander ...

Scientifically, this is perhaps the most exciting of the four books. How do beautiful creations come into being? Nature can make an infinite number of human faces, each one unique, each one beautiful. The same is true for daffodils, streams, and stars. But man-made creations - especially the towns and buildings of the 20th century - have only occasionally been really good, more often mediocre, and ... Read more

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Scientifically, this is perhaps the most exciting of the four books. How do beautiful creations come into being? Nature can make an infinite number of human faces, each one unique, each one beautiful. The same is true for daffodils, streams, and stars. But man-made creations - especially the towns and buildings of the 20th century - have only occasionally been really good, more often mediocre, and
... Read more
A Carpet Ride to Khiva

Seven Years on the Silk Road

by Chris Aslan, Christopher Alexander ...

The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed.Immersing himself in the language and rich ... Read more

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The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed.Immersing himself in the language and rich
... Read more
The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life

An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe

by Christopher Alexander ...

Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, Alexander explores the properties of life itself, highlighting a set of well-defined structures present in ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature of Order, Alexander explores the properties of life itself, highlighting a set of well-defined structures present in
... Read more
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Prehistoric Animals

by Dr. Manfred Baur, Tagirijus, Adam Records, Ellie, John Starcluster, Thomas Nolte, Magnus Moone, Chillheimer, Günther Illi, Nils Bergholz, Doug Collins, Kristiane Semar ...

Narrated by Debby Van Dooren, Christopher Karatsonyi ...

Series series HOW AND WHY
Abridged

45 min

Since Life has existed on Earth, new species have emerged whilst others have become extinct. What kind of place was it where life first appeared? How does evolution affect the development of species? What is a living fossil? And why are so many animal species of our time threatened by extinction? ... Read more

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Since Life has existed on Earth, new species have emerged whilst others have become extinct. What kind of place was it where life first appeared? How does evolution affect the development of species? What is a living fossil? And why are so many animal species of our time threatened by extinction?
... Read more
A City is Not a Tree

by Christopher Alexander ...

In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

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In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here,
... Read more
Notes on the Synthesis of Form

by Christopher Alexander ...

“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design.In the first part of the book, Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that ... Read more

$27.99 USD

“These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function.” This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design.In the first part of the book, Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that
... Read more
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The Timeless Way of Building

by Christopher Alexander ...

Narrated by Mike Fraser ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.Now, at ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.Now, at
... Read more
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The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas ...

Narrated by Christopher Cazenove ...

Abridged

6 hours 7 min

Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan— the four musketeers— find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties. Deep inside the Bastille, a young prisoner called merely "Philippe" has languished for eight long years, completely unaware of his real name or the nature of his crime. But Aramis knows his secret— a secret so dangerous that it could change the face of the French monarchy and topple ... Read more

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Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan— the four musketeers— find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties. Deep inside the Bastille, a young prisoner called merely "Philippe" has languished for eight long years, completely unaware of his real name or the nature of his crime. But Aramis knows his secret— a secret so dangerous that it could change the face of the French monarchy and topple
... Read more

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