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A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System by John Martineau
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
A most unusual guide to the solar system, "A Little Book of Coincidence" suggests that there may be fundamental relationships between space, time, and life that have not yet been fully understood. From the observations of Ptolemy and Kepler to the Harmony of the Spheres and the hidden structure of the s ...Show more
A Little History of Dragons: The Essential Guide to Fire-Breathing Winged Serpents by Joyce Hargreaves
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Wooden Books
A short exploration of the wonderful world of dragons, both malevolent and benign. Why are dragons recognized in almost all cultures on Earth? What is the mysterious geomantic gold they secretly guard? Could dragons be a folk memory of something that once hunted us? In this beautiful little book Joyce ...Show more
Evolution : A Little History of a Great Idea (Wooden Books) by Gerard Cheshire
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
With more than half the population of the US not believing that humans are descended from apes, and to prepare the way for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species throughout 2009, Wooden Books proudly presents the smallest, most up to date little book on ev ...Show more
Islamic Design by Daud Sutton
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
An exploration of the construction and meaning of Islamic geometric patterns. Throughout their long history the craft traditions of the Islamic world evolved a multitude of styles applied to a great variety of media but always with unifying factors that make them instantly recognizable. Harmony is centr ...Show more
Perspective and Other Optical Illusions by Phoebe McNaughton
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
A thinking person's guide to reality. "" The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its gradual perfection during the Renaissance was as important an event as any of the other mathematical and scientific developments of the time. Beginning ...Show more
Ruler & Compass: Practical Geometric Constructions by Andrew Sutton
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Wooden Books
An introduction to geometry without measurements. Since the earliest times, mankind has employed the simple geometric forms of straight line and circle, in art, architecture, and mathematics. Originally marked out by eye and later using a stretched cord, in time these came to be made with the simple too ...Show more
Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes by Jonathan Horning
$22.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: Wooden Books
A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. "Simple Shelters "introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining ...Show more
Symmetry: The Ordering Principle by David Wade
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
Symmetry underlies almost every aspect of nature and our experience of the world, from the subatomic realms of quantum mechanics to the equations of physics, in art, architecture and our concepts of morality and justice. In this little book Welsh writer and artist David Wade paints a picture of one of t ...Show more
The Alchemist's Kitchen: Extraordinary Potions & Curious Notions by Guy Ogilvy
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
Packed with everything from ancient recipes for glues, varnishes, and paints to spiritual preparations of herbal tinctures and oils, including magical formulae and practices of alchemy, "The Alchemist's Kitchen "will appeal to anyone fascinated by the past and by the occult world. Guy Ogilvy takes you i ...Show more
The Golden Section : Nature's Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
The Golden Section - otherwise known as phi, the golden mean, or golden ratio - is one of the most elegant and beautiful ratios in the universe. Defined as a line segment divided into two unequal parts, such that the ratio of the shorter portion to the longer portion is the same as the longer portion to ...Show more
The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Wooden Books
The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars. The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars tha ...Show more
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