Wood
Subtitle: Craft, Culture, History
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Penguin Books
Published: November 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780143112693
Subjects: Arts And Crafts; History; History - General History; History: World; Woodwork - General; Woodworking; World - General; History / General; General; Methods & Materials
First sentence: Just about everyone in the world over the age of six or seven years old probably knows that wood comes from trees, although they might not be certain how the tree becomes the board and the house or the piece of furniture, or why the various species look and feel different.
Table of contents: title: Into and Out of the Wood(s); title: Shelter; title: The Rush of the Grain; title: The Empire of Wood; title: Artifice: Furniture, Faith, and Music; title: Thinking Inside the Box; title: Little Things with a Point; title: Bat and Battle; title: Fire, Smoke, and the Costs of Comfort