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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Amstel River was once one hundred fifty metres wide.Now it is twenty. Someone narrowed it. The water obeyedbecause it had no choice.That observation becomes a principle: form requires constraint.Without banks, no river. Without constraint, no form.Without form, no meaning.But the question that follows will not close: who decideswhere the banks go ZT Tosha walks the banks of the Amstel on an April morningand does not come back the same. He climbs the windingstaircase of the Westertoren - eighty steps of narrowingstone - and discovers that the constraint produces the view,not despite itself but because of it. He sits on a boat movingthrough the Amsterdam Light Festival in the darkest week ofthe year and understands, all at once, that he is inside asystem. He returns every June to the same fishmonger at theAlbert Cuyp for the new herring - the same address, adifferent floor, a different man - and finds the spiral wherehe expected a circle. He visits the cherry blossom park inDe Pijp after curfew, alone in the dark, and receives somethingthe government decree did not plan for him to receive. He walkshome through streets whose names carry the memory of waterthat has not been there for seven hundred years.The places in this book are real. You can walk them.The philosophy grows from the ground up.Drawing on Aristotle, Camus, Euripides, and the Hermetictradition, The Amstel Principle builds a philosophical systemfrom the clay beneath Dam Square and the ghost river beneaththe Rokin. It asks what happens when constraint becomesinvisible - when the banks are so old we mistake them fornature. When the structure we built to hold the water becomesthe only water we remember.This is not an abstract argument. It is a record of sustainedlooking. The book is built from short sections and white space,because the silence is part of the thinking. Each chapter is aplace. Each place is a question. The questions do not resolve.They accumulate.Aristotle could not give you the fragrance of cherry blossomat twenty-one hundred hours in an empty park under a curfew.That you have to live. This book lives it.Once you see the banks, you cannot unsee them.That is the cost. That is also the point.ZT Tosha is the pseudonym of Zoran Tosic, born 1961 inMostar, former Yugoslavia. He lives and works in Amsterdam.His practice moves across painting, installation, and writing,all asking how perception constructs reality rather thanreceives it. His paintings use deliberate blur as the removalof hierarchy. His installations give physical form to whatconstraint produces. His writing uses the sentence the waypainting uses the blur. He is the author of five books:A Garden for Orpheus (2024), The Invention of Andreas (2024),The Assembler, Disassembled (2025), The Inherited Throne(2026), and this one.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A question arrives on a plane. A ten-year-old boy asks a simple question: Are you old? An adult tries to answer-and discovers that the answer depends on knowing who is speaking. When he looks for the one behind the words, he finds only thoughts, memories, and sensations. The speaker remains hidden.The question does not arrive as philosophy. It arrives in the ordinary world: on a flight from Belgrade to Amsterdam, in a kitchen with an egg on the table, beside a river that never stops moving, in the face of a boy who draws a smiling sun on the back of his boarding pass.The Egg Principle follows that question through the structures that construct the separate self: boundary, becoming, repetition, and the possibility of living without a center. Four recurring figures guide the inquiry. The egg, with its closed shell and hidden interior, becomes a meditation on boundary and containment. The embryo, taking form without a witness, questions when a person begins. The walnut, with its brain-like folds, raises the question of where the self resides. The labyrinth reveals the search itself as part of the construction.What if the center was never there? What if the one looking for the self is already part of the illusion? What if the question does not need an answer-only the courage to let it remain open?This is not a book about finding yourself. It is not a system of belief or a guide to enlightenment. It offers no techniques, no practices, no path to follow. It invites the reader into a space where the self can be examined without being destroyed, and where the search itself becomes visible. Drawing on philosophy, phenomenology, neuroscience, and non-dual traditions, The Egg Principle moves between disciplines without belonging to any. It is for anyone who has paused before a mirror and wondered who is looking back.ZT Tosha is the pseudonym of Zoran Tosic, born in 1961 in Mostar, former Yugoslavia. He first came to Amsterdam in 1987 and moved permanently in 1989. He lives and works in Amsterdam. His practice moves across painting, installation, and writing. The same question runs through all of it: how perception constructs reality rather than simply receives it. His paintings use deliberate blur not as obscurity but as the removal of hierarchy. His installations use gravity, tension, and industrial materials. His writing uses the sentence the way the painting uses the blur.He is the author of six books: A Garden for Orpheus (2024), The Invention of Andreas (2024), The Assembler, Disassembled (2025), The Inherited Throne (2026), The Amstel Principle (2026), and The Egg Principle (2027). His books explore the structures that shape perception, identity, and the construction of reality. He is currently at work on his next book. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Amstel River was once one hundred fifty metres wide.Now it is twenty. Someone narrowed it. The water obeyedbecause it had no choice.That observation becomes a principle: form requires constraint.Without banks, no river. Without constraint, no form.Without form, no meaning.But the question that follows will not close: who decideswhere the banks go?ZT Tosha walks the banks of the Amstel on an April morningand does not come back the same. He climbs the windingstaircase of the Westertoren - eighty steps of narrowingstone - and discovers that the constraint produces the view, not despite itself but because of it. He sits on a boat movingthrough the Amsterdam Light Festival in the darkest week ofthe year and understands, all at once, that he is inside asystem. He returns every June to the same fishmonger at theAlbert Cuyp for the new herring - the same address, adifferent floor, a different man - and finds the spiral wherehe expected a circle. He visits the cherry blossom park inDe Pijp after curfew, alone in the dark, and receives somethingthe government decree did not plan for him to receive. He walkshome through streets whose names carry the memory of waterthat has not been there for seven hundred years.The places in this book are real. You can walk them.The philosophy grows from the ground up.Drawing on Aristotle, Camus, Euripides, and the Hermetictradition, The Amstel Principle builds a philosophical systemfrom the clay beneath Dam Square and the ghost river beneaththe Rokin. It asks what happens when constraint becomesinvisible - when the banks are so old we mistake them fornature. When the structure we built to hold the water becomesthe only water we remember.This is not an abstract argument. It is a record of sustainedlooking. The book is built from short sections and white space, because the silence is part of the thinking. Each chapter is aplace. Each place is a question. The questions do not resolve.They accumulate.Aristotle could not give you the fragrance of cherry blossomat twenty-one hundred hours in an empty park under a curfew.That you have to live. This book lives it.Once you see the banks, you cannot unsee them.That is the cost. That is also the point.ZT Tosha is the pseudonym of Zoran Tosic, born 1961 inMostar, former Yugoslavia. He lives and works in Amsterdam.His practice moves across painting, installation, and writing, all asking how perception constructs reality rather thanreceives it. His paintings use deliberate blur as the removalof hierarchy. His installations give physical form to whatconstraint produces. His writing uses the sentence the waypainting uses the blur. He is the author of five books: A Garden for Orpheus (2024), The Invention of Andreas (2024), The Assembler, Disassembled (2025), The Inherited Throne(2026), and this one. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Amstel River was once one hundred fifty metres wide.Now it is twenty. Someone narrowed it. The water obeyedbecause it had no choice.That observation becomes a principle: form requires constraint.Without banks, no river. Without constraint, no form.Without form, no meaning.But the question that follows will not close: who decideswhere the banks go?ZT Tosha walks the banks of the Amstel on an April morningand does not come back the same. He climbs the windingstaircase of the Westertoren - eighty steps of narrowingstone - and discovers that the constraint produces the view, not despite itself but because of it. He sits on a boat movingthrough the Amsterdam Light Festival in the darkest week ofthe year and understands, all at once, that he is inside asystem. He returns every June to the same fishmonger at theAlbert Cuyp for the new herring - the same address, adifferent floor, a different man - and finds the spiral wherehe expected a circle. He visits the cherry blossom park inDe Pijp after curfew, alone in the dark, and receives somethingthe government decree did not plan for him to receive. He walkshome through streets whose names carry the memory of waterthat has not been there for seven hundred years.The places in this book are real. You can walk them.The philosophy grows from the ground up.Drawing on Aristotle, Camus, Euripides, and the Hermetictradition, The Amstel Principle builds a philosophical systemfrom the clay beneath Dam Square and the ghost river beneaththe Rokin. It asks what happens when constraint becomesinvisible - when the banks are so old we mistake them fornature. When the structure we built to hold the water becomesthe only water we remember.This is not an abstract argument. It is a record of sustainedlooking. The book is built from short sections and white space, because the silence is part of the thinking. Each chapter is aplace. Each place is a question. The questions do not resolve.They accumulate.Aristotle could not give you the fragrance of cherry blossomat twenty-one hundred hours in an empty park under a curfew.That you have to live. This book lives it.Once you see the banks, you cannot unsee them.That is the cost. That is also the point.ZT Tosha is the pseudonym of Zoran Tosic, born 1961 inMostar, former Yugoslavia. He lives and works in Amsterdam.His practice moves across painting, installation, and writing, all asking how perception constructs reality rather thanreceives it. His paintings use deliberate blur as the removalof hierarchy. His installations give physical form to whatconstraint produces. His writing uses the sentence the waypainting uses the blur. He is the author of five books: A Garden for Orpheus (2024), The Invention of Andreas (2024), The Assembler, Disassembled (2025), The Inherited Throne(2026), and this one. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume is the raw, unedited companion to the novel The Invention of Andreas, published as an Elektronisches Buch on December 12, 2025. Where that work presents a finished narrative, this is the archival source material-the case file from which the novel was constructed.The Assembler, Disassembled reads like evidence: therapy transcripts, diary fragments, clinical observations, schematic diagrams, and archivist annotations arranged not as story but as documentation of a controlled disassembly. This is not a book about healing. It is a record of what happens when a self is treated as a system under audit-when consciousness becomes something to measure, manage, and eventually exhaust.Andreas, the voice at the center of this archive, does not narrate his life. He logs it. Speech becomes data. Repetition becomes diagnostic. Silence is recorded as system noise. Early therapy sessions mirror statistical pattern-gathering, testing consistency under stress rather than searching for insight. As the clinical observer notes: 'If the inside and outside are the same, then the chaos you defend against isn't out there. It's the substrate of the model itself.'The book's archivist-a detached, watchful presence-frames the entire text as record rather than confession: 'The fragments, the gaps, the repetitions, the contradictions: these are not flaws in the record. They are the record.' The reader is not invited into intimacy. You are positioned as observer, kept at the same clinical distance that Andreas maintains from himself.The Assembler, Disassembled is conceptually continuous with author ZT Tosha's visual art practice. Tosha is a conceptual artist whose work examines belief, identity, and endurance as material systems rather than emotional states. His sculpture Christ-exhibited at the XV Florence Biennale-subjects the idea of faith to literal pressure: a 25-meter rope compressed and sealed in a glass vitrine, faith rendered as load-bearing weight, sacrifice as sustained tension. The vitrine does not display a relic. It presents evidence.This book applies the same operation to language. Where Samuel Beckett reduced language toward silence, The Assembler, Disassembled records silence as readable data: 'Silence is not control. It is the white noise of a system auditing its own decay.' The self is not a speaking subject but a regulatory mechanism sustained by protocol, fear, and inertia.Interior life is externalized into logs and transcripts. Consciousness becomes observable, measurable, and eventually depleted. This logic culminates in schematic passages where identity reduces to pure function: 'Initialize with Void. Fear ¿ Strain ¿ Inertia ¿ War.' The book does not use machinery as metaphor. It mechanizes the metaphor itself.The arc is not toward redemption but systematic breakdown. When failure finally arrives, it does not climax-it deregisters: 'The machine has stopped. I can hear the weather.' What remains is not revelation but the quiet aftermath of a system that can no longer sustain itself.This is austere, uncompromising work. The Assembler, Disassembled refuses psychological comfort or narrative resolution. It documents not a journey but an administrative process: the management of existence once meaning has been reduced to procedure. For readers drawn to Beckett, Bernhard, or Sebald-for those interested in what happens when the self is interrogated as infrastructure rather than embraced as identity-this book offers no consolation. Only observation.ZT Tosha works across painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and writing to expose how systems of belief persist after transcendence has collapsed. The Assembler, Disassembled and Christ form parts of a single conceptual practice: the observation of load-bearing systems held under pressure until they can no longer hold.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A question arrives on a plane. A ten-year-old boy asks a simple question: Are you old? An adult tries to answer-and discovers that the answer depends on knowing who is speaking. When he looks for the one behind the words, he finds only thoughts, memories, and sensations. The speaker remains hidden.The question does not arrive as philosophy. It arrives in the ordinary world: on a flight from Belgrade to Amsterdam, in a kitchen with an egg on the table, beside a river that never stops moving, in the face of a boy who draws a smiling sun on the back of his boarding pass.The Egg Principle follows that question through the structures that construct the separate self: boundary, becoming, repetition, and the possibility of living without a center. Four recurring figures guide the inquiry. The egg, with its closed shell and hidden interior, becomes a meditation on boundary and containment. The embryo, taking form without a witness, questions when a person begins. The walnut, with its brain-like folds, raises the question of where the self resides. The labyrinth reveals the search itself as part of the construction.What if the center was never there? What if the one looking for the self is already part of the illusion? What if the question does not need an answer-only the courage to let it remain open?This is not a book about finding yourself. It is not a system of belief or a guide to enlightenment. It offers no techniques, no practices, no path to follow. It invites the reader into a space where the self can be examined without being destroyed, and where the search itself becomes visible. Drawing on philosophy, phenomenology, neuroscience, and non-dual traditions, The Egg Principle moves between disciplines without belonging to any. It is for anyone who has paused before a mirror and wondered who is looking back.ZT Tosha is the pseudonym of Zoran Tosic, born in 1961 in Mostar, former Yugoslavia. He first came to Amsterdam in 1987 and moved permanently in 1989. He lives and works in Amsterdam. His practice moves across painting, installation, and writing. The same question runs through all of it: how perception constructs reality rather than simply receives it. His paintings use deliberate blur not as obscurity but as the removal of hierarchy. His installations use gravity, tension, and industrial materials. His writing uses the sentence the way the painting uses the blur.He is the author of six books: A Garden for Orpheus (2024), The Invention of Andreas (2024), The Assembler, Disassembled (2025), The Inherited Throne (2026), The Amstel Principle (2026), and The Egg Principle (2027). His books explore the structures that shape perception, identity, and the construction of reality. He is currently at work on his next book. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Amstel River was once one hundred fifty metres wide.Now it is twenty. Someone narrowed it. The water obeyedbecause it had no choice.That observation becomes a principle: form requires constraint.Without banks, no river. Without constraint, no form.Without form, no meaning.But the question that follows will not close: who decideswhere the banks go?ZT Tosha walks the banks of the Amstel on an April morningand does not come back the same. He climbs the windingstaircase of the Westertoren - eighty steps of narrowingstone - and discovers that the constraint produces the view, not despite itself but because of it. He sits on a boat movingthrough the Amsterdam Light Festival in the darkest week ofthe year and understands, all at once, that he is inside asystem. He returns every June to the same fishmonger at theAlbert Cuyp for the new herring - the same address, adifferent floor, a different man - and finds the spiral wherehe expected a circle. He visits the cherry blossom park inDe Pijp after curfew, alone in the dark, and receives somethingthe government decree did not plan for him to receive. He walkshome through streets whose names carry the memory of waterthat has not been there for seven hundred years.The places in this book are real. You can walk them.The philosophy grows from the ground up.Drawing on Aristotle, Camus, Euripides, and the Hermetictradition, The Amstel Principle builds a philosophical systemfrom the clay beneath Dam Square and the ghost river beneaththe Rokin. It asks what happens when constraint becomesinvisible - when the banks are so old we mistake them fornature. When the structure we built to hold the water becomesthe only water we remember.This is not an abstract argument. It is a record of sustainedlooking. The book is built from short sections and white space, because the silence is part of the thinking. Each chapter is aplace. Each place is a question. The questions do not resolve.They accumulate.Aristotle could not give you the fragrance of cherry blossomat twenty-one hundred hours in an empty park under a curfew.That you have to live. This book lives it.Once you see the banks, you cannot unsee them.That is the cost. That is also the point.ZT Tosha is the pseudonym of Zoran Tosic, born 1961 inMostar, former Yugoslavia. He lives and works in Amsterdam.His practice moves across painting, installation, and writing, all asking how perception constructs reality rather thanreceives it. His paintings use deliberate blur as the removalof hierarchy. His installations give physical form to whatconstraint produces. His writing uses the sentence the waypainting uses the blur. He is the author of five books: A Garden for Orpheus (2024), The Invention of Andreas (2024), The Assembler, Disassembled (2025), The Inherited Throne(2026), and this one. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Let me write this to use the full 4000 bytes effectively.3,504 bytes - 496 under the limit. Here it is, ready to copy and paste: The Great Pyramid is not merely large. It is precise.The base is level to fifteen millimetres across two hundred and thirty metres - ten times more accurate than modern construction standards. The dimensions encode pi and phi. The tool marks on the granite show feed rates no copper implement can produce. No ramp has been found. No Egyptian text describes the construction. The knowledge appears at the Fourth Dynasty - fully formed, without precedent - and then, with each successive pyramid, it declines. Whatever was known at Giza was not discovered there. It arrived there.The Inherited Throne follows the evidence without preconception. Beginning with the anomalies of the Great Pyramid, it traces a thread through the Sumerian King List, the water erosion on the Sphinx, and the megalithic complex at Goebekli Tepe - a site so ancient it predates pottery, agriculture, and everything we call civilization. These are not isolated mysteries. They are data points. Together they form a cumulative case for a civilization that preceded Egypt and Sumer: one destroyed by the catastrophic sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age, its survivors carrying fragments of inherited knowledge to the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia. The evidence is geological, archaeological, and astronomical. It does not require belief. It requires attention.What appears in the pyramids is not the origin. It is the inheritance.The second half of the book follows that inheritance forward - through Pythagoras and Plato, through the Hermetic tradition and the Pillars of Hermes, and deep into the Western esoteric lineage where something quietly went wrong. Solomon entered: a wise king, a builder, a figure of genuine historical power. And he was placed in the seat that belongs to the origin. The Hierophant was displaced by the king. The transmission became a throne. The custodians of a pre-catastrophe knowledge system were replaced by the administrators of a political one. What had been passed across millennia was reframed, redistributed, and - in key respects - lost.The restoration of what was displaced is the subject of this book's final movement.The Inherited Throne is both investigation and act of recovery. It asks what the stones reveal when examined without agenda - and what the pillars have been waiting to say.About the AuthorZT Tosha (pseudonym of Zoran Tosic Tosha) is a Dutch-Yugoslavian multidisciplinary artist and author. Born in Mostar, former Yugoslavia, in 1961, he relocated to the Netherlands in 1989. His work spans painting, sculpture, installation, digital media, and writing - investigating perception, identity, consciousness, and the construction of reality. Central to his practice is the conviction that art exists at the junction of being and perception, seeking the invisible currents that shape understanding and identity.Tosha studied at the Fine Art Academy of the University of Sarajevo (1982-1987), where his sound-integrated sculptures were selected for Yugoslavian Documents '89, an international exhibition of contemporary art. His work has since been sold at auction through Artprice, MutualArt, and Invaluable.He is the author of A Garden for Orpheus (2024), The Invention of Andreas (2025), The Assembler, Disassembled: The Unedited Sessions of Andreas (2026), and The Inherited Throne: A Restoration of the Hierophant (2026)."To behold reality is to meet absence; presence is always folded within disappearance." - ZT Tosha This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Assembler, Disassembled | The Unedited Sessions of Andreas | Zt Tosha | Taschenbuch | A companion to The Invention of Androf Andreas | Englisch | 2026 | Pencilbrains, LLC. | EAN 9798218889876 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Inherited Throne | A Restoration of the Hierophant | Zt Tosha | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Pencilbrains, LLC | EAN 9798996325306 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…