These are books, booklets, and posters by Guy, unless otherwise noted.
Astronomical Calendar 2025
Astronomical Calendar 2024
Map of the Starry Sky
Zodiac Wavy Charts
To Know the Stars
The Under-Standing of Eclipses 2016
Five Escapers
The Astronomical Companion
Venus - a longer view
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Klara Lingvo
Albedo to Zodiac
The Thousand-Yard Model or, The Earth as a Peppercorn
The Troy Town Tale
Berenice's Hair
Approval Voting
Language (poems)
Portrait of a Million
Think Like a Mother
Phonic Readers
A Bemerton Anthology
Ten-Minute History of the World and, Queen Guinevere's Rules
The Winged Velocipede
Turkey: a Very Short History
The Spiral Library
Plurry
Stripe Latin
Toward an Aesthetic Evaluation of the Furman Campus
American Indian Map, and Navajo Map
Star-Flake greeting card
Astronomical Calendar 2025
Copiously illustrated guide to sky events, with 141 letter-size pages. Now a printed book and also an electronic book.
Astronomical Calendar 2024
Copiously illustrated guide to sky events, with 141 letter-size pages. Now a printed book and also an electronic book.
Map of the Starry Sky
Poster, 3 by 2 feet' the entire sky, with 1,300 stars, all constellations.
Zodiac Wavy Charts
The Zodiac Wavy Chart is a 2-by-3 foot poster displaying the movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets throughout the year. To Know the Stars
Clear and simple introduction to astronomy, for children and other beginners.The Under-Standing of Eclipses 2016
This book, now in an enlarged 5th edition, methodically explains why eclipses of the Sun and Moon happen, their intricate patterns in time and space - and why they are so exciting. There are page-spreads, with dynamic globe diagrams, for examples of the main kinds of eclipse and several curious cases, such as a "broken-ring eclipse", a "geometrically tight eclipse", a "globe-skimming eclipse"; and the cross-USA total solar eclipse of August 2017. Rich illustrations, including the 12-page "bead curtain" chart of all eclipses from 1901 to 2116; "Eclipse stories" (with some cartoons); eclipses of the future; tables; index. 8½ x 11 in., 96 pages, many illustrations. 1991; 2nd edition 1991; 3rd edition 2004; 4th edition 2013; 5th edition 2016, with recent updates. ISBN 978-0-934546-74-4.
$25.95
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Five Escapers
Large poster showing in three-dimensional view the paths of the spacecraft that have been sent past the outer planets and on into intertellar space - Pioneers 10 and 11, Voyagers 1 and 2, New Horizons.
The Astronomical Companion
Guide to astronomy, rich in 3-D diagrams.
This is a NEW EDITION of the book first published in 1979 and reprinted 18 timesA general guide to astronomy; some say it should be called the "Astronomical Treasury." Same large page-size format as the Astronomical Calendar. 11 x 15 in., 73 pages, illustrations. 2010. ISBN 978-0-934546-60-7.
$29.95
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Venus - a longer view
The planet Venus: the pattern of its movements, its extraordinary physical nature, and how to see it in your skies over the years ahead.
And the goddess Venus, in mythology, literature, and art.138 pages; about 200 illustrations, including charts
$22.00
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Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
A longer view of their history and their movements in the years aheadThis “Longer View” book will provide information for at least a dozen years ahead.
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto begins with the long, colorful story of how the discovery of the first “new” planet led to the discovery of the next, and the next. And the story of how Earth sent out spacecraft to visit these three fringe members of the solar system and reveal their nature.
Besides the 73 short chapters and the charts, there are tables and a glossary of the astronomical terms used.
73 pages; 80 illustrations including charts.ISBN 978-0-934546-75-1.
$19.95
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Klara Lingvo
A short novel in Esperanto and English on facing pages, enjoyable way to learn the international language.
Albedo to Zodiac
Glossary of astronomical terms and pronunciations.
A glossary of astronomical terms and names, with their meanings, derivations, and pronunciations (which are given in phonetic letters). The 50 pages of glossary contain articles on 694 topics, with illustrations for 16 of them. 8.5 x 11 in., 64 pages, diagram, color cover. 1996. ISBN 978-0-934546-34-8.
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The Thousand-Yard Model or, The Earth as a Peppercorn
Walking the solar system. "Another 95 paces to Jupiter..."!
Instructions for using common objects such as nuts to make a solar-system model, over a distance of 1000 yards. It could be called a Model, Walk, or Happening. It is an ideal opener to any astronomy course. 8.5 x 9.5 in., 26 pages, color painting on cover, illustrations; cartoons by Ian Dicks. 1989; 5th printing with revisions 2004; 2nd edition 2012; reprinted 2014. ISBN 978-0-934546-21-8.
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The Troy Town Tale
The mass of legends about Troy, in the form of a novel.
Homer's Iliad (the fountainhead of European literature) recounts just a few days in the tenth year of the war of Troy. Later writers added other episodes - onward to the end of the siege and its aftermath, back many generations to its roots - until it became the collective dream of the Western world. This novel for the first time weaves the great story mass into a unified whole. The famous characters teem (Helen, Hector, Paris, Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax, Priam, Cassandra . . .) but the narrator is a surprising one, a female captive. Hardbound, 6 x 9 in., 410 pages; color painting on jacket, sketches, maps, genealogical tables, 39-page appendix on the Greek names . 1999. ISBN 978-0-934546-38-6.
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Berenice's Hair
Berenice, queen of Egypt, sacrificed her beautiful hair when her husband came safely home; it was hung up in a temple - but vanished, and became the constellation Coma Berenices. What really happened to her hair? 
Approval Voting
This is the system in which you can vote for more than one candidate. It is a surprisingly simple costless reform that solves the acute problems of the "split" vote, the "spoiler," the "voter's dilemma," which plague so many elections. And it makes clear the underlying wishes of the voting population.
First published in 1977, this was the original description of approval voting, though it did not then have that name. The latest edition is enlarged, with pages on examples of elections that cried out for the reform; examples of places and times at which approval voting has been used; campaigns for it; and exit polls that have shown what the results would be if people were allowed to vote in this way. 29 pages; illustrations.ISBN 978-0-934546-78-2.
$9.50
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Language (poems)
Poems and songs. 5½ x 8½ in., 97 pages, some music. 1987. ISBN 978-0-934546-17-1.
$9.00 
Portrait of a Million
Poster, with a sea of dots — the only way to see this absurdly large number..
Poster showing a million dots (they are just visible, and occupy an area 13 by 18 inches). This is about the only way you can see this crushingly large number. On the facing panel, a listing of facts in millions: bacteria, population, millionaires, military expenditure, astronomical distances . . . 1 sheet (rolled in a tube), 30 x 15 in. 1990; 3rd edition 2002. ISBN 978-0-934546-23-2.
$7.00 
Think Like a Mother
A human rights photo book..
Forty-four images, all but one of them sharply distressing - hanging in Egypt and the U.S.A., flogging in Pakistan, torture in Colombia, savage beating in Brazil, mass graves in Peru and Indonesia, killing of children in Guatemala and Iraq.. 10½ x 10½ in., 48 pages, photographs incl. cover. 1995. ISBN 978-0-934546-31-7.
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Phonic Readers
by Barbara Murray. Story books using the best method for helping children to read.
These four delightful little books, printed in large clear type and illustrated with drawings by Mary Ward Thompson, are written using simple words. The words are more than simple: they are phonic. That is, they are carefully chosen to be those whose spelling keeps to the rules that children have encountered at their stage of reading, The books, now in one volume, are color-coded for the first four Montessori reading stages. 6 x 9 in.; 66 pages. 2002 (as 4 separate booklets, published by Alpiine Press with assistance of Univeral Workshop); reprinted 2006; one-volume edition 2013.
$18.00 Questions? 
A Bemerton Anthology
Poems by George Herbert and Barbara Murray.
Eleven poems of George Herbert selected by Barbara Murray, and twenty-one poems by Barbara Murray. With drawings by Guy Ottewell of Bemerton near Salisbury in England, where George Herbert was parish priest from 1630 to 1633.“Most of [Barbara Murray's] poems are, as true poetry is, driven by real feeling and crafted out of surprisingly found words. The first few . . . seem the most necessitated, meant, in any language; beside them, many other poems seem to be acts of play that could have been left undone.”6 x 9 in., 43 pages, drawings, color cover. 2010. ISBN 978-0-934546-57-7.
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Ten-Minute History of the World and, Queen Guinevere's Rules
Two essays: Ten-Minute History of the World, and Queen Guinevere’s Rules.
These were originally talks given extemporaneously to human-rights groups. The Ten-Minute History is an attempt to answer the question as to whether things are really better or worse than in the past, whether they will ultimately get better, whether there is point in our struggle - what the curve of history is. Queen Guinevere's Rule is a fair way of conducting discussions.5½ x 8½ in., 24 pages. 1996; reprinted 1997, 2002, 2004; new edition 2013 with added section. ISBN 978-0-934546-65-2.
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The Winged Velocipede
How to fly overseas with your bicycle
The Winged Velocipede or, How To Fly Overseas With Your BicycleHandy pamphlet giving careful instructions for turning the handlebar, removing the pedals, finding a box, and other practical details of preparing your bicycle for transport in a plane (or train).5½ x 8½ in., 48 pages, sketches, color cover. 1995. ISBN 978-0-934546-32-4.
$5.00 
Turkey: a Very Short History
Outline of the geography, peoples, and languages of the region that is now Turkey, followed by very concise fact-filled history of the Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, and other ancient peoples, the Byzantine empire, the origin of the Turks, the Seljuk and Ottoman empires, the rise of modern Turkey, the Kurds, Armenians, and other minorities.8 1/2 x 11 in. 30 pages. 4th edition, 2021. ISBN 978-0-934546-84-3.
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The Spiral Library
A suggestion for storage of books
An amusingly miraculous solution for libraries running out of space for ever-proliferating books.$6.00
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Plurry
An invented musical instrument
Plurry: a scheme for a musical instrument. Description (with about 60 diagrams) of a suggested instrument, "the contemplation of which can reveal and clarify much about the mathematical basis of music."7 x 10 in., 36 pages; diagrams. 3rd edition, 2019. ISBN 978-0-934546-77-5.
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Stripe Latin
A grammar game
The little book consists of instructions for cutting and coloring the cards, with full-size pictures of each type. (Buy two copies and you could just cut them out of the pages!)8½ x 11 in., 29 pages, colored illustrations. 1994; 2md edition 2021. ISBN 978-0-934546-83-6.
$10.00 
Toward an Aesthetic Evaluation of the Furman Campus
Analysis and criticism of a South Carolina university campus with a reputation for beauty; of local interest — or perhaps wider because touching on issues of design and environment.6½ x 9½ in., 6 pages; map. 1986. ISBN 978-0-934546-44-7.
$1.00 This publication is out of stock. For a free copy, please write to guy@universalworkshop.com.
American Indian Map, and Navajo Map
Poster-size map and table of language families of North America; and map of the Navajo tribal area, with names in Navajo.
Now sold out. We are awaiting a way to reprint.
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