A collaborative work by David Hawkes, LG Williams, and Alan Rubin.

The Estate of LG Williams is proud to present this publication for LG Williams's recent body of work -- the SoCal Mid-Rise Multi-Story series. In these pictures, Williams merges Thiebaud's now canonical compositions of Sacramento Valley landscapes, San Francisco cityscapes, and assorted pastries. But this is where familiarity and transparency ends. As the viewer looks into the illuminated windows, the mysteries compound and multiply-forms transform into reflections, reflections into abstract thought. They are...

This book explains that diffusion, osmosis, dissolution, evaporation, and heat loss all preferentially affect small bodies due to their high surface/volume ratios. Because surface area increases as the square of length, but volume (and mass) increase as the cube, large objects have low surface/volume ratios and small objects have high surface/volume ratios. This simple physical constraint governs much of the physical world. It accounts for why the Earth has active volcanoes, but the Moon does not, why the human brain has numerous folds, why deciduous trees lose their leaves every Fall, and...