ABOUT THIS BOOK: Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life. Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with padding. Click on Photo to see actual item. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, crease down intro pages. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, edges - heavy bumping and crease and small tears to top edges, bumping to other edges, crease down spine edge.