Wooden Books
Small Books, Big Ideas
Historically, in all known cultures on Earth, wise men and women
studied the four great unchanging liberal arts —numbers,
music, geometry and cosmology—and used them to inform the
practical and decorative arts like medicine, pottery,
agriculture and building. At one time, the metaphysical fields
of the liberal arts were considered utterly universal, even
placed above physics and religion. Today no one knows them.
Walker & Company is proud to launch Wooden Books, a
collectable series of concise books offering simple
introductions to timeless sciences and vanishing arts.
Attractively simple in their appearance yet extremely
informative in content, these unusual books are the perfect gift
solution for all ages and occasions. The expanding title range
is highly collectable and ensures continuing interest. In
addition, the books are non-gloss and non-color, appealing to a
greener book-buying public. Wooden Books are ideally suited to
non-book outlets.
Wooden Books are designed as timeless. Much of the information
contained in them will be as true in five hundred years time as
it was five hundred years ago. These books are designed as
gifts, lovely to own. They are beautifully made, case-bound,
printed using ultra-fine plates on the highest quality recycled
laid paper, finished with thick recycled endpapers and sewn in
sections. There are fine, hand drawn illustrations on every
page.
The fast-moving world of Wooden Books brings you a selection of
fascinating titles. All hardcover, 64 pages, 100% recycled
paper at $10.00 each.
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A Journey Beyond Our Five Senses by Hamish Miller
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Beauty in Mathematical Proof by Burkard Polster
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by Andrew Sutton
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The Secret Qualities of Quantities by Miranda Lundy
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Bamboos, Benders, Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes, and Other Ancient Homes by Jonathan Horning
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The Ordering Principle by David Wade
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Extraordinary Potions & Curious Notions by Guy Ogilvy
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A Journey Through Space and Time by Matt Tweed
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Nature's Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen, Ph.D.
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A Basic Guide to the Way You Fit Together by Moff Betts, M.D.
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Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric by Jane Smith
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Methods, Patterns, and Traditions of the Oldest Art by Christina Martin
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by John Martineau
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 solar system, John Martineau reveals the exquisite orbital patterns of the planets and the mathematical relationships that govern them. A table shows the relative measurements of each planet in eighteen categories, and three pages show the beautiful dance patterns of thirty six pairs of planets and moons.
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Atoms, Quarks, and the Periodic Table by Matt Tweed
For anyone interested in the tiny building blocks of our universe, Matt Tweed—the illustrator of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae—offers a fascinating introduction to the complex and beautiful world of the elements. Tweed reveals the principal properties and interactions of substances familiar (carbon, oxygen, water) and unfamiliar (rare earth elements and subatomic particles). He explains atomic bonding, radioactivity, and DNA, and presents alternative ways of visualizing the periodic table, as well as a succinct synthesis of the Big Bang. Scientists and laymen alike will be entranced.
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A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music by Anthony Ashton
During the nineteenth century, a remarkable scientific instrument known as a harmonograph revealed the beautiful patterns found in music. Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Beautiful drawings show the octave as triangle, the fifth as pentagram; diagrams show the principles of harmonics, overtones, and the monochord. Anthony Ashton examines the phenomenon of resonance in Chladni patterns, describes how to build a harmonograph of your own, and provides tables of world tuning systems. This inspiring book will appeal to musicians, mathematicians, designers, and artists alike.
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Dynamic Form in Nature by David Wade
David Wade has spent a lifetime gathering and organizing the extraordinary families of surface patterns that nature throws up at every scale. The study of these shapes—a subject virtually unknown in the West—was known in ancient China as Li and is the sister science to Feng Shui. In this unique and insightful book are sand and wave patterns, big-cat markings, bark and leaf designs, soap and marbling swirls, crystalline and rock forms, tree branching types, and many more of nature’s dynamic, sometimes enigmatic designs. Li will appeal to scientists and artists, and has far-reaching applications in graphic design, architecture, and other visual forms and sciences.
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by Daud Sutton
Whereas Sacred Geometry introduced readers to two-dimensional forms, Platonic & Archimedean Solids presents the world of three dimensions, which was understood as early as neolithic time. Daud Sutton elegantly explores the eighteen forms—from the cube to the octahedron and icosidodecahedron—that are the universal building blocks of three-dimensional space, and shows the fascinating relationships between them. For anyone interested in design, architecture, and mathematics, this will be a delight.
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by Miranda Lundy
Geometry, Number, Music, and Cosmology are the four great Liberal Arts. They are the foundations of basic universal languages and are found in nearly every known culture. From tiles and church windows to the Great Pyramid, Sacred Geometry brings together many of the essential building blocks on which design is based. This engaging book will have you seeing the elegant simplicity of triangles, arches, hexagons, and spirals as anything but ordinary.
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by Robin Heath
Once part of a large culture of stone circles, Stonehenge—built around 3000 B.C. and developed over the next 1,500 years—is the most famous. The remains of a once-wealthy and evidently learned tribal community, it reflects the apparently disparate subjects of archaeology, astronomy, metrology, sacred geometry, and even shamanism. How were eclipses predicted at Stonehenge? Why were some stones brought all the way from Wales? What is the secret geometry of seven eights? These and many other questions are answered—and Stonehenge's secrets revealed—in this fascinating small book.
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by Robin Heath
Ancient astronomers and mathematicians understood, merely with the naked eye, the subtle connections that govern the motions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth: The calendar, legends, and much more reflect the way the primary bodies move in space and time. Robin Heath describes and illustrates solstices and equinoxes, the relation of the moon and the tides, the difference between lunar and solar years, the Earth's wobble (precession), and how to remember them. The universe has rarely seemed more accessible or less conventional.
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by Matthew Watkins
Did you ever wonder what laws govern sound waves? Perhaps you wanted to know more about the formulas for gears and pulleys, or even needed a reminder of that geometry you learned in school. Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae is a densely packed, uniquely illustrated reference that will delight and inform.
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