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Alexander, Cristopher:
The Nature of Order. Book One: The Phenomenon of Life
Berkeley, CA : The Center for Environmental Structure, 2002. x, 476 p., ill.
ISBN 0-9726529-1-4




CONTENTS


Prologue to Books 1-4

The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe 1

Preface 5

Part One

1. the Phenomenon of Life 27
2. Degrees of Life 63
3. Wholeness and the theory of Centers 79
4. How Life Comes from Wholeness 109
5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties 143
6. Tiie Fifteen Properties in Nature 243

Part Two

7. The Personal Nature of Order 299
8. The Mirror of the Self 313
9. Beyond Descartes: A New Form of Scientific Observation 351
10. The Impact of Living Structure on Human Life 371
11. The Awakening of Space 403

Conclusion 441

Appendices:
Mathematical Aspects of Wholeness and Living Structure 445


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