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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

    $38.99 CAD

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unravelling the Silk Road

    Travels and Textiles in Central Asia

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    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

    $34.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Awful German Language (Unabridged)

    by Mark Twain ...
    Narrated by Christopher Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the German language. His examples of precisely how the German language is awful include the famed “separable verb” – which allows one to put the first part of a given verb at the beginning – ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • 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

    $37.99 CAD

  • Long Way Back

    Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    Christopher Alexander was sent to Afghanistan in 2003,charged with supporting the NATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force, part of the global response to 9/11. Primarily covering the years 2001 to 2011, The Long Way Back tells the story of the historic achievements and bitter disappointments encountered on the road to political stability in Afghanistan.But this is much more than a first ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus