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If it is scarcely possible to write another book about the world's famous Domes and produce something fresh or illuminating, then this 100-page compendium has made it. Inviting the reader to a voyage with adventurous jaguar and his cub, it goes beyond the description of the renown domes, their architectural significance and global influence. From synagogues, mausoleums, public baths, to enfilades, cathedrals or mosques, it explains the dowser phenomenon of domes, that emits the effects of detrimental Negative green energy (-G), providing a sense of peace and comfort to visitors or residents. Celebrating the tranquil bravado of domes to resist and survive natural disasters (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes), it estimates their held for centuries, or even millenniums. It defines them as acoustic and magnetic laboratories. This tour-book stratifies 84 famous domes for their structures (stone, salt, brick, concrete, reinforced concrete, clay holloware, wooden, masonry, steel, cast iron, copper, glass, gold), forms (corbel, hemispherical, saucer, sail, parabolic, polyhedral, onion, oval, umbrella), and style (Ancient monolith, Baroque hemisphere, Gothic cupola, Byzantine martyrium, Buddhist pagoda, Russian onions, Muslim saucers, and futurist polyhedrons). It also presents some must-see domes of Nature. Further, it explains both the intention and process of producing the listed domes that are life-affirming. Finally, replete with 110 composite pictures of two intelligent tourists (the great-dad jaguar and supersmart, funny, cute cub) 'taken' on panoramas of domes, it moves the concept closer to the junior reader. Today, as a new generation of architects meets the greater challenge of designing domes (public, domestic) that are sustainable or 'green,' we see another age of expanding the vernacular experiments that influence and shape the mainstream of the modern lifestyle. Going green is divinate and smart; remaining loyal to the vision of great Vitruvius (1st century BC) who espoused three goals of a good architecture (commodity, firmness, and delight), is much better.