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A Little History of Dragons: The Essential Guide to Fire-Breathing Winged Serpents by Joyce Hargreaves
$17.99 AUD
Category: Small Pleasures | 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
Sciencia: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Astronomy for All by Burkard Polster, Gerard Cheshire, Matt Tweed, Matthew Watkins & Moff Betts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wooden Books
From basic mathematical and physical formulas that govern much of our world to the components of matter; from the structure of the cosmos to that of the human body-the discoveries of scientists over the last millennium have been remarkable. Sciencia gathers together "Useful Mathematical and Physical For ...Show more
Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes by Jonathan Horning
$17.99 AUD
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
$17.95 AUD
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 Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray
$17.95 AUD
Category: No Category | 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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