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See the complete wooden books series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Pasadenas finest independent new and used bookstore since 1992. About the author robert lawlor is a mythographer, symbologist and new age author of several books. Drawing on art, architecture, philosophy, nature, mathematics, geometry, and musicand beautifully illustrated in the wooden books fashion with all manner of imagesthe golden section will tell the story of this remarkable construct and its wide ranging impact on civilization and the natural world. Sacred geometry by miranda lundy a little book of coincidence by john martineau.
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