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  • Verse
    Adelaide Crapsey / Claude Fayette Bragdon / Jean Webster
    Discover the evocative power of 'Verse,' a captivating collection of American poetry by Adelaide Crapsey. A significant voice in 20th-century literature, Crapsey’s work explores themes of nature and love through the lens of a woman poet. This volume showcases her mastery of free verse, offering a unique perspective on the world.As a classic example of American poetry, 'Verse' i...
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    21,13 €

  • Architecture And Democracy
    Claude Bragdon
    'Architecture and Democracy' is a thought-provoking book written by Claude Bragdon, exploring the relationship between architecture and the principles of democracy. With a keen understanding of both architectural theory and democratic ideals, Bragdon delves into the ways in which architecture can reflect and shape the social fabric of a democratic society. Bragdon explores vari...
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    16,20 €

  • The Beautiful Necessity; Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Discover the profound intersection of spirituality and design in ''The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture'' by Fayette Bragdon. This captivating collection, long out of print and now lovingly republished by Alpha Editions, invites readers to explore the metaphysical dimensions of architecture through the lens of Theosophy. Bragdon’s essays delve int...
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    16,27 €

  • Architecture And Democracy
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Architecture And DemocracyThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting...
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    11,12 €

  • Four Dimensional Vistas
    Claude Bragdon
    There are two notable emancipations of the mind from the tyranny of mere appearances that have received scant attention save from mathematicians and theoretical physicists. In 1823 Bolyai declared with regard to Euclid’s so-called axiom of parallels, “I will draw two lines through a given point, both of which will be parallel to a given line.” The drawing of these lines led to ...
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    15,23 €

  • The Beautiful Necessity - Seven Essays On Theosophy And Architecture
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    30,71 €

  • The Message Of Buddha (1914)
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    The Message of Buddha is a book written by Claude Fayette Bragdon in 1914. It is a comprehensive study of the teachings of Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and provides an in-depth analysis of his philosophy, ethics, and spiritual practices. The book explores the fundamental principles of Buddhism, such as the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the concept of Nirvana. I...
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    22,12 €

  • More Lives Than One
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Few Americans have had as many creative lives as Claude Bragdon who designed theatrical sets and churches, who dabbled in theosophy and the occult, who wrote about it all with spirit, passion, and penetrating insight. Here, in delightfully effervescent prose, Bragdon tells the story of his life-or lives. From his Personal Life ('Born under the constellation Leo, the heart sign,...
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    26,98 €

  • The Eternal Poles
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    There is no discipline more austere than that imposed by the worship of Eros, for it involves not only the ordeal of pain, but the more perilous ordeal of pleasure.-from 'Androgyne'One of the most extraordinary figures of the popular intellectualism of the early 20th century, Claude Bragdon was an architect and designer who turned his mathematically fueled artistic bent toward ...
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    36,12 €

  • Projective Ornament
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    'Modern architecture, except on its engineering side, has not yet found itself.' So stated Claude Bragdon in this 1915 book. An architect himself-and one of the most fascinating thinkers of the early 20th century-Bragdon here blames the urban disconnect from the natural world for the dearth of ornamentation to rival ancient civilizations, which drew inspiration from nature.As a...
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    13,14 €

  • Yoga for You
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Silence and stillness have the effect of conserving all the bodily forces usually wasted in unnecessary speech and action. You become for the first time conscious of the rhythmic flow of life’s forces, and are able to hear the faint music they make on the harp of the body.-from 'Silence'One of the most extraordinary figures of the popular intellectualism of the early 20th centu...
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    30,58 €

  • Delphic Woman
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Escaped from bondage, questing every sort of knowledge and experience, [woman] has for the moment ethically and culturally outstripped her companion, man... -from 'The New Image' Though known primarily as an architect and, later, as a stage designer, Claude Bragdon dabbled in mysticism and the philosophical discipline of theosophy, and here, in this 1925 volume, he turns his c...
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    19,66 €

  • Oracle
    Claude Fayette Bragdon / Eugenie Bragdon
    January 16, 1916: Destiny is determined at the birth of the soul, and the will enters only to fulfill destiny.January 18, 1920: Rice is excellent: it contains the least disturbing quality in its nature of food for the body not meant for physical stress.-from OracleOne of the most extraordinary figures of the popular intellectualism of the early 20th century, Claude Bragdon was ...
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    13,01 €

  • Merely Players
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    And now comes a modern sculptor who takes this Medusa mask and makes it the vehicle of expression of ideas and emotions to which antiquity was a stranger, for they are the bitter fruitage of that sky-hiding tree we name 'modern civilization.'-on artist Oskar J. W. HansenClaude Bragdon was an architect and stage designer who dabbled in theosophy and the occult... and wrote about...
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    21,24 €

  • The Secret Springs
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Just as the mediaeval abbey, a gathering-place of the devout for the worship of God, was also a hostel, a school, a court, a workshop, a farm, and many other things besides, so the theatre, become a gathering-place of the devoted for the understanding of man, might assume a dominant position in the life of a community.-from 'My Theatrical Life'Few Americans have had as many cre...
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    24,53 €

  • Architecture and Democracy
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Ornament in its primitive manifestations is geometrical rather than naturalistic. This is in a manner strange, that the abstract and metaphysical thing should precede the concrete and sensuous.-from 'The World Order'One of the most respected philosophers of architecture in the early 20th century, Bragdon here makes a plea to his fellow architects and the public at large to choo...
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    21,29 €

  • The Beautiful Necessity, Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex... both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype... -from 'Changeless Change' First published in 1910 and updated in 1922-this is a reproduction of that second edition-this is architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon's exploration of art as an 'expression of the cos...
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    7,21 €

  • Episodes of an Unwritten History
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    'Suddenly the thought came into my mind: ’What if this be but hallucination...’-from 'The Arabian Nights in New York'The philosophical discipline of theosophy enjoyed a flowering in the late 19th century, a spiritual reaction to the materialism aggressive scientific exploration and the newly ascendant corporate culture seemed to be promoting. In 1910, Claude Bragdon published t...
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    23,09 €

  • A Primer of Higher Space (the Fourth Dimension)
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Think of the fourth dimension, not as a new region in space... but as a principle of growth, of change...-from 'The Fourth Dimension as Time'This 1913 treatise on the intersection of the mystical and the mathematical implied by Einstein’s 1905 special theory of relativity is now considered a classic of philosophical physics. Claude Bragdon here first proposed the now mathematic...
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    25,42 €

  • Tertium Organum (1922)
    P D Ouspensky / Claude Bragdon / Nicholas Bessaraboff
    A truly mind expanding writing that combines science with mysticism with unprecedented elegance. He presents the world we live in as a multi dimensional world and time as a motion through this world. But this isn’t a cold and purely analytical explanation but a masterful presentation filled with similes and analogies. The physics and mathematics are tightly integrated with m...
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    39,72 €

  • Six Lectures on Architecture
    Claude Bragdon / Thomas et al Hastings
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,36 €

  • Secret Springs
    Claude Bragdon
    ''Secret Springs: An Autobiography'' is a memoir written by Claude Bragdon, an American architect, writer, and philosopher who lived from 1866 to 1946. In this book, Bragdon shares his life story, starting from his childhood in rural New York to his successful career as an architect in New York City. Bragdon discusses his early interests in art and architecture, his education a...
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    42,23 €

  • Merely Players
    Claude Bragdon
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,34 €

  • Projective Ornament
    Claude Bragdon
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    22,82 €

  • Episodes From an Unwritten History
    Claude Bragdon
    Episodes From an Unwritten History is a book written by Claude Bragdon that explores the concept of history and its relation to human experience. The book is divided into a series of essays that examine different aspects of history, ranging from the ancient civilizations to the modern era. Bragdon argues that history is not a linear progression of events, but rather a collectio...
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    25,12 €

  • Four Dimensional Vistas
    Claude Fayette Bragdon
    Four Dimensional Vistas is a book written by Claude Bragdon that explores the concept of the fourth dimension and its potential applications in art, architecture, and spirituality. Bragdon uses his background as an architect and artist to delve into the theoretical and practical aspects of this concept, discussing topics such as perspective, symmetry, and the nature of reality....
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    27,54 €