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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Michael Meyer
Walker & Company, 2008
Learn about Beijing before it's forever changed
Michael Meyer has crafted an engaging, sometimes funny, sometimes sad account of his life in Beijing. The people, places and occurences draw you into everyday situations in Meyer's current life. The mix of historical references is just right for those without a ...
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage
Walker Publishing Company, 2006
A Drinker and Thinker's Delight
First I must acknowledge the manifest superiority of Wendy Smith's witty praise from the Los Angeles Times. It makes what follows only a tribute to her accuracy and wit. The book's wealth of details of the science of beverages, of historical facts and of appropriate ...
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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Michael Shurtleff
Walker & Company, 2003
AdaptedToKnowledge
It talks about many aspects of character that a student actor needs to know according the situations. Some of the examples are the key elements that compares to the realistic situation.
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An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century
James Orbinski
Walker & Company, 2008
From one of the world?s greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms. Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and dispassion and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski still believes in ?the ...
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale
Walker & Company, 2008
A Fabulous Read!
This book reads with the pace and thrill of a murder mystery, but every detail is real. A little boy, nearly four, had his throat slit and his body was tossed into the cistern of an outhouse on the grounds of his upscale family's home in 1860. There are 12 people in ...
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
Walker & Company, 2007
Longitude is terrific
This book is a well-written story about how scientists and engineers figured out how to navigate the globe. It is a story that was well known in its day and forgotten within 50 years.
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The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret (Wooden Books)
Scott Olson
Walker & Company, 2006
Thoughtful Numerology
One of the most famous and mysterious of numbers is pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. If you know some mathematics and work with logarithms, you know another important constant, e. Less well known is the number phi (the Greek symbol looks ...
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Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America
David Boyle
Walker & Company, 2008
Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America
Every American should read this book! David Boyle puts together an amazing story woven with facts and written with elegant style.There is so much to learn in this book from this time period. David has a unique way of plunking you right in the thick of things. Just ...
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A More Perfect Constitution: Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation
Larry J. Sabato
Walker & Company, 2008
More perfect Principles
Jefferson said this about the Constitution: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they ...
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Walker & Company, 2005
The perfect novel for a 3 day weekend
Recommended by a Washington Post article, this book does not disappoint. It starts off with action in Berlin then spins a web of deceit and lies that keep the reader engrossed. We follow our main character through twists and turns and in different countries. The ...
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Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry (Wooden Books)
Daud Sutton
Walker & Company, 2007
An interesting book
I haven't looked at it in too much detail but it has plenty of cool, trippy looking geometrical patterns. It actually shows you how to make all these patterns as well. Nice.
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Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin
Nicholas Ostler
Walker & Company, 2008
The Life and Times of a Great Language
I came to Ostler's Ad Infitum from a perspective of fond memory for my four years of high school Latin and an abiding interest in Roman history. I recommend this book unequivocally for fans of classical history, the Latin language, or linguistics generally.
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Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books)
Anthony Ashton
Walker & Company, 2003
Sound Made Visible
Humans have known or intuited that sound not only has form but it organizes matter.
Throughout history individuals have found ways to demonstrate (and make visible) this profound fact.
We know that music & sound is vibration. (within the audible range)
Scientists ...
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Sacred Geometry (Wooden Books)
Miranda Lundy
Walker & Company, 2001
I just loved this book
This book is a treasure. I was given it as a present and I find myself turning to it for all sorts of ideas and also give it as a present quite regularly. She has managed to pull together a huge amount of wonderful information into a relatively small space. This is ...
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Symmetry: The Ordering Principle (Wooden Books)
David Wade
Walker & Company, 2006
wooden Books
David Wade makes the difficult concepts appears easy. The beautiful illustrations enhance the graphic presentation. If you have not explored these Wooden books and you like art with conceept, I recommend this one as a start.
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