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A Little History of Dragons: The Essential Guide to Fire-Breathing Winged Serpents by Joyce Hargreaves
22.00 NZD
23.00 (4% off)
Category: No Category | 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
Islamic Design by Daud Sutton
21.99 NZD
Category: Interior Design | 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
21.99 NZD
Category: Science | 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
21.99 NZD
23.00 (4% off)
Category: Science | 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
22.99 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
21.90 NZD
Category: Science | 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
21.99 NZD
Category: Science | 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
21.99 NZD
25.00 (12% off)
Category: Science | 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
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