Isbn: 9780972652919 - the phenomenon of life: the nature of order, book 1: an essay of the art of building and the nature of the universe: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe (nature of order, 1) (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 7-3/4" x 11-1/8", xiii + 476pp. Printed alkaline paper and bound in sewn signatures in blue cloth boards with title block and design stamped in gilt foil onto front panel and spine. Minor edge wear, shelf wear to cover. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Appears to be an unread copy.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. LIKE NEW CONDITION! Book One: THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE. 476 pages Cloth covered stiff card covers with dust jacket. This is volume 1 of the four-volume work, THE NATURE OF NATURE, which is Christopher Alexander's magnum opus of architectural philosophy, and a project on which he has been working for over twenty years. Like Steven Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" -- to which it has been compared by a number of authors -- it is long (almost 2,000 pages), richly illustrated, and suggestive of nothing less than a new scientific world view. The essence of that view is this: the universe is not made of "things," but of patterns, of complex, interactive geometries. Furthermore, this way of understanding the world can unlock marvelous secrets of nature, and perhaps even make possible a renaissance of human-scale design and technology. ALL FOUR VOLUMES ARE AVAILABLE.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Volume 1, Book One in the series. Stiff Wraps with dust jacket, 476 pages. Book & DJ have light shelf wear. A touch of sunning to edges of DJ. Interior clean.