An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's main boulevards. Taha, the doorman's son, has aspirations beyond the slum in t...(展开全部)

The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its g...(展开全部)

One of the most powerful of the Seth Books, this essential guide to conscious living clearly and powerfully articulates the furthest reaches of human potential, and the concept that we all create our own reality according to our individual beliefs. Having withstood the test of time, it is still considered one of the most dynamic and brilliant maps of inner reality available tod...(展开全部)

Catalog of a centenary exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, Mar. 5-June 7, 1987

Review "A highly cohesive, well-illustrated, penetrating series of essays that deserves to be added to every collection of books on the profession of architecture."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "One of those infrequent books that satisfies very well the disparate needs of the general reader, the student, and the serious scholar...a significant contribution to our under...(展开全部)

Review "A highly cohesive, well-illustrated, penetrating series of essays that deserves to be added to every collection of books on the profession of architecture."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "One of those infrequent books that satisfies very well the disparate needs of the general reader, the student, and the serious scholar...a significant contribution to our under...(展开全部)

This text on German architectural theory, written in 1923, sought to clarify the ideals and complexities of German modernism - especially the distinction between functionalism, rationalism, and utilitarianism. It should be of value to those interested in this phase of the modern discourse.

Review "I find this book to be wonderful and refreshing. It describes, for the first time, a new point of view in which the overall system and process of construction of the buildings in the world--all of them together--is viewed as a single system: and that system is analyzed for its capacity to create a living world, or not, in different traditional and modern societies. The ...(展开全部)

This new edition of the essential best-practices toolkit shows how to transform an organization into one that continually learns from its experiences, and more importantly, translates that knowledge into improved performance. Rich in hands-on tools, this much-anticipated update of the award-winning classic features lessons from world-class leaders such as Nokia, Alcoa, and othe...(展开全部)

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 l...(展开全部)