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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

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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
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
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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
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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
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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

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“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
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While Angels Dance [Dramatized Adaptation]

Jeston Nash 1

by Ralph Cotton ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Dylan Lynch, Michael John Casey, Tim Carlin, Tracey Lynn Olivera, Eric Messner, David Coyne, Patrick Bussink, Richard Rohan, Danny Gavigan, Terence Aselford, David Jourdan, Yasmin Tuazon, Scott McCormick, Ken Jackson, Nick DePinto, Christopher Graybill, Alexander Strain, Mark Halpern, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Steven Carpenter, Tim Getman, Joe Brack, Jeff Allin, James Konicek, Matthew McGee, Michael Glenn, Evan Casey, Casie Platt, Richard Cutting, Nanette Savard, Mort Shelby, Tim Andrés Pabon ...

Series series Jeston Nash
Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

Jeston Nash bears a striking resemblance to his cousin Jesse Woodson James of Clay County Missouri. After killing a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston meets his cousins, Jesse and Frank, and joins them to fight in Quantrill's guerilla forces.Later, after the war, he rides with the James-Younger gang as they invent their special brand of bank and train robbery. All the while, Jeston seeks ... Read more

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Jeston Nash bears a striking resemblance to his cousin Jesse Woodson James of Clay County Missouri. After killing a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston meets his cousins, Jesse and Frank, and joins them to fight in Quantrill's guerilla forces.Later, after the war, he rides with the James-Younger gang as they invent their special brand of bank and train robbery. All the while, Jeston seeks
... 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

$20.19 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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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
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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

$20.19 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
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
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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas ...

Narrated by Christopher Saylor ...

Unabridged

43 hours 6 min

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on ... Read more

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The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on
... Read more

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Arizona Ambush [Dramatized Adaptation]

Blood Bond 15

by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, James Lewis, Dylan Lynch, Karen Novack, Christopher Graybill, Bradley Smith, James Keegan, Alexander Strain, Larissa Gallagher, Daniel Sonntag, Gregory Gorton, Danny Gavigan, Steven Carpenter, Scott McCormick, Joseph Thornhill, M.B. Van Dorn, Patrick Bussink, Joe Brack, Michael John Casey, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard ...

Series series Blood Bond
Unabridged

5 hours 12 min

Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the half breed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the half breed and the white man who rode together—and when the situation demands, kill together.In Arizona Territory, you can't keep trouble from coming, but when it does, you don't have to offer it a chair. ... Read more

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Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the half breed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the half breed and the white man who rode together—and when the situation demands, kill together.In Arizona Territory, you can't keep trouble from coming, but when it does, you don't have to offer it a chair.
... Read more

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