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  • A Carpet Ride to Khiva

    Seven Years on the Silk Road

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life

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

    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 ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Pattern Language

    Towns, Buildings, Construction

    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 ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • A City is Not a Tree

    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, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Nature of Order, Book Four: The Luminous Ground

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • 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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Notes on the Synthesis of Form

    “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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Nature of Order, Book Two: The Process of Creating Life

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Unravelling the Silk Road

    Travels and Textiles in Central Asia

    Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was the Cotton Road, marked by greed, colonialism and environmental disaster.At this intersection of human history, fortunes were ... Leer más

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  • The Intuitive in You

    How to Control Your Energy Field, Heal with Energy, Work with Angels, and More

    Christopher Burford may be the most gifted intuitive, psychic, medium, and viewer on the planet today. He has been a beautiful guiding light in my life and my students lives. And now I am excited that he put his teaching and experiences into a book so people can open the doorway to their natural gifts and live in the presence of self-love and mastery. I believe that this book will truly help ... Leer más

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  • Play-boy

    "Le corps, ce corps que vous voyez n'est pas le mienOn me l'a donné"Un être se dépouille de ses a priori liés au genre, au sexe, au consentement, au regard, à la recherche d'une virilité plus douce, aimante et généreuse. Deux langues, le français et l'anglais, pour embrasser des existences et des modes d'existences qui jouent avec la binarité.Né dans un état proche de l'Ohio, Christopher Alexander ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Tunisia

    From stability to revolution in the Maghreb

    Series series The Contemporary Middle East
    The first edition of Tunisia was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated in Tunisia, a fact that confounded expectations about Tunisian politics. This new edition builds upon the first edition’s overview of Tunisia’s political and economic development to examine how one of ... Leer más

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