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With eight authors, and packed with detailed information and exquisite rare illustrations, Megalith is a timeless and valuable sourcebook for anyone interested in prehistory.

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 evolution ever assembled. Covering the story of Darwin's great idea, science writer Gerard Cheshire explores the evolutionary path of neo-Darwinism itself and shows how Lamarckian ideas still have a role to play in evolutionary theory. With a rich array of rarely published period prints from the Jennings Collection in Bath, and examples of the the latest genetic research this book asks some huge questions about life in the universe and includes the following - The causes of genetic from Mendel to mitosis. - Sexual selection - how the peaock got its tail. - Mimicry and camouflage, miracles made easy over time. - Simple biotics, prions, viruses and bacteria - examples of adaptive DNA. - Unlike outcomes - the success of altruistic strategies. - Convergent evolution. Why sharks are the same shape in different seas. - Natural selection, the reason for death, and modern systems designs. - The cosmological anthropic principle, and how the entire universe could be an evolved system.

Sciencia gathers together six individual volumes spanning the realms of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, evolution, and astronomy. Lavishly illustrated with engravings, woodcuts, and original drawings and diagrams, it inspires readers of all ages to take an interest in the interconnected knowledge of the modern sciences.

Mathematician Matthew Watkins and illustrator Matt Tweed have compressed almost every familiar equation from mathematics and physics into one tiny book. A quick, fun, stylish reference book with appeal to anyone interested in the sciences. schovat popis

Why on earth do cars have the same symmetry as dragonflies? Is there really a beautiful swirling pattern lurking in every dripping tap? What do insect eggs have in common with planets, and why? This book introduces the main principles of symmetry, and shows how symmetry can be found in almost every corner of science, nature and human culture.

Packed with information on everything from Supernovae to Galaxy Clusters and Black Holes, as well as all the latest theories about how it might have come into being, this is probably the densest, and certainly the greenest book ever written on the Universe in the Universe. It is printed in sepia inks on recycled papers.

Following on from the success of the bestselling Sacred Geometry, this book describes the secret qualities of quantities. It deals with the questions: why is five associated with life? And what has eleven got to do with the mile? Containing single pages on the numbers 1 to 12, it is intended for people of different professions and ages.

How do you tell what's right from what's wrong? Can you always? What's the difference between deduction, induction and abduction? What are the best techniques for making an argument logically sound?

What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? Here, Finnish tree expert Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on a journey deep into the secrets of these hugely important and most majestic of Earth's life forms.

Sacred geometry is one of the oldest subjects on Earth, from the great Pyramid to Gothic Architecture to modern design, certain timeless and universal principles have been studied, contemplated and put to use. This book covers the golden section, two-dimensional grids and more.

Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, and Designa, Trivium combines six small books on the classical subjects of a liberal education.The trivium refers to the three liberal arts considered in classical Greece to be the pillars of critical thought: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Following on the success of Quadrivium and Sciencia, Trivium gathers six Wooden Books titles together into a beautiful six-color package that presents ancient wisdom in an accessible way. Trivium includes the books Euphonics, Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric,, Poetic Meter and Form, and Ethics.

Every organism on Earth responds to four major cycles: the solar and lunar day, the synodic month and the year. We all dance to these primary rhythms. This book reveals the poetic cosmology that lies within the cycles of the Sun and Moon as seen from the Earth.

Following the success of Quadrivium and Sciencia, a compendium of six titles on art and design in the acclaimed Wooden Books series appears here in one volume. From the geometric patterns of Islamic art and design to the swirling floral motifs of Celtic art, Designa brings together six elegant and insightful short volumes from the Wooden Books series on art and design including Islamic Design, Celtic Pattern, Curves, The Golden Section, Symmetry, and Perspective. Lavishly illustrated with engravings, woodcuts, and original drawings and diagrams, Designa will inspire readers of all ages to take an interest in the interconnected knowledge of art and design from different cultures throughout the world. Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the classical philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books are designed not to date. Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000 Wooden Books now in print worldwide and growing.

Komplex Stonehenge, který je katedrálou doby kamenné, se začal budovat před rokem 3000 př. n. l. a dalších 1 500 let se dostavoval. Je památkou na kdysi bohaté a evidentně vzdělané kmenové společenství a ústředním bodem velmi rozsáhlé kultury kamenných kruhů. Záhady a tajemství tohoto místa jsme začali odhalovat až v nedávné době. Stonehenge je mnohem víc než jen působivý soubor obřích kamenných kvádrů: je symbolem prastaré moudrosti a odlišných kulturních hodnot dávno zašlých časů. Tento elegantní svazek, doprovázený ilustracemi, které autor převzal ze starých knih nebo vypracoval sám, odpovídá na otázky, kdo Stonehenge budoval a za jakým účelem. Dozvíme se také, jak se zde předpovídala zatmění Slunce a Měsíce, proč sem některé z kvádrů byly přepraveny až z Walesu a řadu dalších zajímavých podrobností.

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 that could be cross referenced. In doing so, the Maya discovered many strange numerical harmonics. Their lunar calendar was extremely accurate--far more so than the Greek Metonic cycle; they tracked Venus to an accuracy of less than a day in five hundred years and their tables could have been used to predict eclipses seven hundred years in the future. This book will provide a much needed compact guide to the Mayan calendar systems as well as covering the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.

Avebury is the largest stone circle on Earth! Silbury Hill is as old as the Great Pyramid! Packed with rare old engravings and great new research this timeless pocket guide to Europe's most extensive neolithic complex will leave you informed, intrigued and inspired!

The quadrivium consists of the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. They synthesize number, space, and time. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and comology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths, good and beautiful everywhere at all times. Life across the universe investigates them. They foreshadow the physical sciences. This is the first volume to bring together the quadrivium in many hundreds of years.--Publisher description

In this delightful and informative little book Phoebe McNaughton takes us on a classical journey through the history of artistic perspective, showing how the eye can be tricked and confused, the brain befuddled, and the philosopher inside all of us awakened by the nature of illusion.

Víte, který slavný důkaz byl vytesán na Archimedův náhrobek? Proč tvoří uzly dokonalé pětiúhelníky? Zdál se vám už někdy nějaký důkaz zcela zřejmý? Burkhard Polster vytáhl ze zaprášených análů dějin matematiky na světlo světa několik nesmírně názorných matematických důkazů a nabízí Vám je v této nádherné knížce, která obsahuje asi 40 ilustrací. Vyzkoušejte svoji schopnost sledovat logickou strukturu matematického důkazu a nenechte si ujít prožitek jedné Heuréky za druhou.

Proč se setkáváme s draky takřka ve všech lidských kulturách? Jaké geomantické poklady draci střeží? Ve skvostně vypravené knížce vypráví Joyce Hargreavesová příběhy těchto pozoruhodných živočichů ze všech koutů světa.

Venus draws a beautiful pentagram around Earth every eight years. Jupiter's two largest moons draw a perfect four-fold flower. The Planets grandly play out the slow Music of the Spheres. Is there a secret structure hidden in the Solar System? Packed with great illustrations and serious research from many sources, this internationally bestselling pocket book by cosmologist John Martineau will instantly retune your cosmological circuits to the extraordinary and primary patterns behind Life, the Universe and Everything. WOODEN BOOKS US EDITIONS. Small books, BIG ideas. Tiny but packed with information. “Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST.

Výpravná a graficky působivá kniha nás seznamuje s vývojem porozumění anatomii lidského těla. Výklad se pohybuje v prostoru od indických čaker a čínských akupunkturních drah až po poslední objevy medicíny, od jednobuněčného embrya po dospělého jednice a seznamuje nás s hlavními orgánovými systémy a jejich kooperací, rolí mikroorganismů i cholesterolu při látkové výměně, důvody zrcadlového vztahu mezi ledvinami a plicemi i fungováním dědičnosti. Velké množství půvabných starých rytin i novodobých ilustrací přispěje k tomu, že se k poučení přidá i estetický prožitek.

Wie sagt man Sonnenfinsternisse am Stonehenge voraus? Warum folgen die Ausrichtungen von Carnac geologischen Verwerfungen? Wurde Avebury absichtlich genau ein Siebtel eines Kreises vom geografischen Nordpol entfernt platziert? Warum sind so viele Steinkreise eiförmig oder abgeflacht? Was bedeuten die Designs in der prähistorischen Felskunst? Muss man wirklich neunzehn Jahre warten, um die abgelegene Stätte von Callanish zu besuchen? Was trieben die Alten? Dies sind unsere ältesten Gebäude, unsere ersten Botschaften, unsere früheste visuelle Kunst. Megalith ist eine zeitlose und wertvolle Quelle für alle, die sich für die Vorgeschichte interessieren.

Is there a geometrical energy system that surrounds our planet? - a super grid involving polyhedral forms, ley lines, earth energy currents and archaeoastronomical alignments? From ET flight-paths to anti-gravity, the grid has many claims attached to it. This book unravels the many theories to give an overview of this incredible subject.

Do particular sounds have particular magical effects? Discussing this question, this book talks about the deadly daggers of D, the trivialising teasing taunts of T and the nagging nasal negatives associated with N. It is useful for orators, poets and sorcerers, and is humorously illustrated by Guardian cartoonist, Merrily Harpur.

In this exquisite pocket book, author and artist Adam Tetlow shows us the practical tricks of the trade and the hidden principles behind the ancient magical science of Celtic artwork. With examples from both early and later periods, illustrations by the author and rare engravings.

How does mankind deal with miracles? This question has assumed a more-than-theoretical importance in the life of Michael Glickman, who has been witnessing the miraculous on a regular basis since he investigated his first crop circle in 1990. In the years since then, an intensive study of the crop-circle phenomenon in the region of its most important appearances—the English countryside—has given Glickman extraordinary personal insight into a subject usually known only through secondhand reports and speculation.More than eight years in the writing, Crop The Bones of God is unique among books on this modern enigma in that it combines the author’s firsthand field encounters with some of the most famous crop-circle formations (such as Alton Barnes 1990 and Silbury Hill 1997, as well as more recent circles) with intricate and dazzling analyses of the structure and content of those formations. This beautifully illustrated mix of personal narrative with detailed study informs a larger discussion of the role of crop circles in the modern world and their unprecedented promise of new chapters in the history of consciousness.

This title presents the elements of music in a way that is pedagogically clear and comprehensible by building upon simple principles of proportion and relationship.

Jedinečné lektvary a zvláštní představy Alchymistický přístup k odhalování podstaty a složení hmotného světa odpradávna přitahoval zkoumavé mysli a během středověku se pátráním po "kameni mudrců" zabývali nejslavnější badatelé. Knížka Alchymistova kuchyně uvádí čtenáře do tajuplného světa tohoto oboru a do jeho těžko proniknutelného jazyka, klíčových pojmů a metod. Obsahuje i četné alchymistické recepty na lepidla, laky a barvy včetně návodů na přípravu bylinných tinktur a extraktů, ale neopomíjí ani nezbytnou duchovní složku v podobě magických formulí.

The six bestselling Wooden Books dealing with the numerical Liberal Arts are here bound in one volume

'Essential Elements', written by Matt Tweed, introduces the reader to the complex and beautiful world of the particles everything around is us are made from.

The remains of a once-wealthy and learned tribal community, this book discusses Stonehenge and it's many uses in archaeology, astronomy, geometry and even shamanism. Illustrations.

Across the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. In this excellent little book, geometer Daud Sutton unravels the mystery of Islamic patterns, explaining where they come from, how to draw them, and hinting at the Divine messages they encode.

This tiny book is a beautiful and thought-provoking guide to the mazes and labyrinths of Great Britain.

Sutton guides the reader through the once treasured principles of ruler and compass constructions, used for centuries by architects, carpenters, stonemasons and master craftsmen. Instruction is given on how to draw heptograms, heptakaidecagons, circles inside triangles and many more artistic geometric shapes.

Kniha o mnoha ilustracích pojednává o jednom z největších fenoménů nejen dnešní doby. Ukazuje, že onen tajemný poměr délek je téměř všude a odkrývá to, jak nás v našem podvědomí ovládá. Fí nalezneme v umění, přírodě i spotřebních věcech vyrobených lidmi.