Get Back to Basics with the core information every woodworker needs. This book will give you a clear roadmap of wood knowledge, from assessing the lumber you find to discovering the elegant tradition of green woodworking. Every woodworker should own at least one book about wood and this would be a good one to have in your shop. Woodworker's Guide to Wood: Straight Talk for Today's Woodworker (Back To Basics) provides basic information about the properties of wood and how to identify them and includes a good looking wood directory complete with photos. There are also sections about veneer, selecting and storing lumber, and even a chapter about working with green lumber. For such a little book there is a good amount of information about a favorite topic of all woodworkers: wood.