Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Center for Environmental Structure
Keywords: nature, order, building, universe, flexible, art, book, creating, life, process, essay
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0972652922
ISBN-13: 9780972652926
The processes of 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 in the last 50 years have very often been deadly. What is the reason for the difference?In Book 2, Alexander explains in detail the kinds of process that are capable of generating living structure. The unfolding of living structure in natural systems is compared to the unfolding of buildings and to
Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: CES Publishing
Keywords: nature, order, building, art, universe, book, life, phenomenon, essay
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0972652914
ISBN-13: 9780972652919
What is happening when a place in the world has life? And what is happening when it does not? In Book 1 of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and sets this understanding of living structure as an intellectual basis for a new architecture.He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature, and in cities and streets of the past, but have all but disappeared
Author: Klaus Mainzer
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Keywords: nature, science, philosophy, handbook, symmetries
Number of Pages: 681
Published: 1996-06
List price: $262.00
ISBN-10: 3110129906
ISBN-13: 9783110129908
Author: Mark Allister
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: nature, explorations, ecocriticism, masculinity, perspectives, man, new, eco
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-08-04
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0813923050
ISBN-13: 9780813923055
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male’s reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works-think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner-look to the wild as the site for establishing a man’s selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery. This tension lies at the heart of Eco-Man, which brings together two rapidly growing fields: men’s studies and ecocriticism. The two disciplines have rarely if ever touched on
Author: Viktor Schauberger
Publisher: Gateway
Keywords: nature, eco, technology, series, working, principles, teacher, discovered, new
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1858600561
ISBN-13: 9781858600567
"Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore that an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother Nature." - Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) Viktor Schauberger was one of the first genuine environmentalists. In the 1930s he was predicting ecological catastrophe when no one else could see it coming. Schauberger is now being proved right. He foresaw: - Global warming and its devastating consequenc
Authors:Lynn Margulis, Dorion Saga,
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Keywords: nature, sciencewriters, reflections, gradually, dazzle
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 2007-08-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1933392312
ISBN-13: 9781933392318
At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essaysmany never before anthologized. Learn how technology may be a sort of second nature, how the systemic human fungus Candida albicans can lead to cravings for carrot cake and beer, how the presence of life may be why there’s water on Earth, and many other fascinating facts.The essay "Metametazoa" presents perspectives on biology in a philosophical context, demonstrating how the intellectual librarian, pornographer, and political agitator Georges Bataill
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pre
Keywords: nature, library, theological, ethics, human, interpretation, destiny, man, christian
Number of Pages: 684
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0664257097
ISBN-13: 9780664257095
These two volumes of Neibuhr’s wartime theology illuminate the horrific depths of the twentieth century by faith. Grounded in an unshakable biblical confidence in God, Human Nature and Human Destiny supply the appropriate human confidence for the tumultuous days fo the 1940’s which shaped the rest of the century.
