The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: Complete early version manuscript, organized in six parts with Preface and Epilogue

1006-page complete working-manuscript, with layout of text and photos on a double column, double-side printed page, with notes and comments by Christopher Alexander and with Oxford University Press noted as publisher. The Table of Contents includes:
Preface – The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Part One – The Nature of Order
Part Two – Statics: Wholeness as a Structure: 1 Common Sense: The Elements of Which the World is Made; 2. The Wholeness which Exists in Things; 3. How Life in Building Comes About; 4. Examples of Life in Buildings and in Artifacts; 5. Scientific Method and Experiment; 6. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 7. The Appearance of these Properties in Nature; 8. What we Call ‘Function’ in a Building; 9. The Awakening of Space
Part Three – The Personal Ground: 10. The Mirror of the Self; 11. Unity: A Thousand Mirrors of the Self; 12. The Personal Nature of Order
Part Four – Dynamics: The Process of Making Wholeness: 13. The Necessity of Process; 14. Elementary Example of a Building Process; 15. The General Process of Creating Centers; 16. Always Making Larger Wholes; 17. Structure-Preserving Transformations; 18. Finding the Right Centers; 19. Actual Making; 20. The Sequence of Unfolding; 21. Simplicity and Symmetry
Part Five – Reaching Deep Feeling: 22. The Search for Unity; 23. The Feeling which Must Guide the Process; 24. Color and Inner Light; 25. Emergence of a Being; 26. The Face of God; 27. The ‘I’
Part Six – Cosmology: The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue – The Art of Building.