Product Description: Emergency Sandbag Shelter is a must-have manual for every home, as an emergency guide. Now for the first time this book is made available to people around the world by its inventor, award-winning architect Nader Khalili (1932-2008), whose specialty was skyscrapers and who dedicated his life to teaching others how to build shelter for humanity...read more

Product Description: 75 poems translated from the original Persian texts by architect and author Nader Khalili. Rumi's poetry is the inspiration behind the author's architectural work and the Rumi domes of light (book cover photo). Come let's fall in love again; let's turn all the dirt in this world to shiny gold...read more

Product Description: POETRY: At last, after six years, another inspirational book of translations of Rumi's poems by Nader Khalili. 300 short poems (Rubaiyat) translated from the original Persian and illustrated with Persian calligraphy created for this book, and photographs of the Rumi Dome of lights designed by the author and built in Hesperia, California...read more

Product Description: Racing Alone by Nader Khalili "Is it really sane to follow one's ideals and dreams and race alone in today's world? Is it really reasonable to insist on holding to one's visions against all odds, and after many trying years?" The newly published year 2,000 edition of this acclaimed classic chronicles how to sustain a quarter century of quest and inspiration through the arts, architecture, and personal transformation...read more

Product Description: Khalili's classic, authoritative manual describes how to build arches, domes, and vaults with earth, as well as techniques to fire and glaze earth buildings to transform them into ceramic houses. This newly revised edition also provides insight into the latest response by building officials to Superadobe or earthbag technology (structures of sandbags and barbed wire), a patented system that is free for the owner-builder and licensed for commercial use...read more

Shows examples of adobe and rammed earth buildings, explains how to fire earth structures and their glazes, and discusses block making, foundations, walls, domes, and interior designs