Book Highlights - Phrontisterion

Manipulation / Balint Zsako ; [introduction by David Walsh] 17243 5 connected

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 22, 11:42:45 inactive

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Handmade : a scientist's search for meaning through making / Anna Ploszajski 27784

The naked ape : a zoologist's study of the human animal / Desmond Morris 27675

Human nature explored / George Mandler 19842

Think tank : forty neuroscientists explore the biological roots of human experience / David J. Linden 13607

The human advantage : a new understanding of how our brain became remarkable / Susan Herculano-Houzel 11677

Bio design : nature, science, creativity / William Myers, Paola Antonelli 11858 5 connected

William Myers, Paola Antonelli

May 22, 11:42:44 inactive

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Bio art : altered realities / William Myers 11853

Insect architecture : how insects build, engineer, and shape their world / Tom Jackson 29511

I contain multitudes : the microbes within us and a grander view of life / Ed Yong 27614

Leaning out of windows : an art and physics collaboration / editors, Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig 27598

Patternity : a new way of seeing : the inspirational power of pattern / Anne Murray ; Grace Winteringham ; contributing editor Dal Chodha 10466

Kurt Vonnegut : drawings / introduction by Nanette Vonnegut, essay by Peter Reed 9722 5 connected

Kurt Vonnegut, Nanette Vonnegut, Peter Reed

May 22, 11:42:44 inactive

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Hocus pocus / Kurt Vonnegut 10221

Galapagos / a novel by Kurt Vonnegut 10259

Newton, the man / by Richard de Villamil ; foreword by Albert Einstein ; new introduction by I. Bernard Cohen 27747

Kant and the platypus : essays on language and cognition / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen 11354

Hubert Duprat / essays by David Walsh, Natacha Pugnet, Adam Thorpe, Jane Clark 7591

Architecture without architects : a short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture / Bernard Rudofsky 11514 5 connected

Bernard Rudofsky

May 22, 11:36:38 inactive

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An organic architecture : the architecture of democracy / Frank Lloyd Wright 12158

The look of architecture / Witold Rybczynski 23486

100 ideas that changed architecture / Richard Weston 5543

Architecture now! Museums / Philip Jodidio 7858

Drama / David Rockwell with Bruce Mau ; edited by Sam Lubell 27007

Wicked but virtuous : my life / Mirka Mora 23553 5 connected

Mirka Mora

May 22, 11:36:27 inactive

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Stravinsky : in pictures and documents / by Vera Stravinsky and Robert Craft 21920

I'm your man : the life of Leonard Cohen / Sylvie Simmons 25428

Tony Woods : an archive / editor, Andrew Gaynor ; introduction, Tony Woods ; essays, Lesley Chow [and 5 others] 21867

A writer of our time : the life and work of John Berger / Joshua Sperling 24648

A year with Wendy Whiteley / Ashleigh Wilson 22437

Wicked but virtuous : my life / Mirka Mora 23553 5 connected

Mirka Mora

May 22, 11:36:24 inactive

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Stravinsky : in pictures and documents / by Vera Stravinsky and Robert Craft 21920

I'm your man : the life of Leonard Cohen / Sylvie Simmons 25428

Tony Woods : an archive / editor, Andrew Gaynor ; introduction, Tony Woods ; essays, Lesley Chow [and 5 others] 21867

A writer of our time : the life and work of John Berger / Joshua Sperling 24648

A year with Wendy Whiteley / Ashleigh Wilson 22437

Monanisms / David Walsh, Elizabeth Mead and Museum of Old and New Art 8133 5 connected

David Walsh, Elizabeth Mead, Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)

May 22, 11:35:55 inactive

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The making of MONA / Adrian Franklin 8584

Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science, and the visual arts /​ edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro 13052

Big art, small art / Tristan Manco 10572

On scandal : moral disturbances in society, politics and art 5236

The first artists : in search of the world's oldest art / Michel Lorblanchet and Paul Bahn ; foreword by Pierre Soulages 25020

Shakespeare : the man who pays the rent / Judi Dench, with Brendan O'Hea 27669 5 connected

Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea

May 22, 11:35:54 inactive

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Shakespeare's First Folio : four centuries of an iconic book / Emma Smith 27713

Everyday Shakespeare : lines for life / Ben Crystal & David Crystal 27579

Shakespeare's bawdy / Eric Partridge ; foreword by Stanley Wells 35192

The making of Oliver Cromwell / Ronald Hutton 25143

A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens ; introduction by John Shuckburgh ; illustrations by Phiz 20029

Anrealage A & Z / texts, Kunihiko Morinaga, Yuko Hasegawa and Alexandre Samson 25769 5 connected

Anrealage (Firm), Kunihiko Morinaga, Yuko Hasegawa, Alexandre Samson

May 22, 11:35:52 inactive

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Patternity : a new way of seeing : the inspirational power of pattern / Anne Murray ; Grace Winteringham ; contributing editor Dal Chodha 10466

V&A pattern : digital pioneers / [Honor Beddard and Douglas Dodds] 25077

Making strange : the modernist photobook in France / Kim Sichel 27604

Invisible colors : the arts of the atomic age / Gabrielle Decamous 14492

What painting is : how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy / James Elkins 25096

The talking ape : how language evolved / Robbins Burling 2426 5 connected

Robbins Burling

May 22, 11:35:41 inactive

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The ape that spoke : language and the evolution of the human mind / John McCrone 34956

Eve spoke : human language and human evolution / Philip Lieberman 19037

Lingua ex machina : reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain 9474

The voices of nature : how and why animals communicate / Nicolas Mathevon ; foreword by Bernie Krause ; illustrations by Bernard Mathevon 27560

The language puzzle : how we talked our way out of the Stone Age / Steven Mithen 28791

Anrealage A & Z / texts, Kunihiko Morinaga, Yuko Hasegawa and Alexandre Samson 25769 5 connected

Anrealage (Firm), Kunihiko Morinaga, Yuko Hasegawa, Alexandre Samson

May 22, 11:35:39 inactive

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Patternity : a new way of seeing : the inspirational power of pattern / Anne Murray ; Grace Winteringham ; contributing editor Dal Chodha 10466

V&A pattern : digital pioneers / [Honor Beddard and Douglas Dodds] 25077

Making strange : the modernist photobook in France / Kim Sichel 27604

Invisible colors : the arts of the atomic age / Gabrielle Decamous 14492

What painting is : how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy / James Elkins 25096

Anrealage A & Z / texts, Kunihiko Morinaga, Yuko Hasegawa and Alexandre Samson 25769 5 connected

Anrealage (Firm), Kunihiko Morinaga, Yuko Hasegawa, Alexandre Samson

May 22, 11:35:25 inactive

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Patternity : a new way of seeing : the inspirational power of pattern / Anne Murray ; Grace Winteringham ; contributing editor Dal Chodha 10466

V&A pattern : digital pioneers / [Honor Beddard and Douglas Dodds] 25077

Making strange : the modernist photobook in France / Kim Sichel 27604

Invisible colors : the arts of the atomic age / Gabrielle Decamous 14492

What painting is : how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy / James Elkins 25096

A practical guide to costume mounting / Lara Flecker ; published in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum 1666 5 connected

Lara Flecker, Victoria and Albert Museum

May 22, 11:35:16 inactive

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The National Gallery of Victoria 1861 to 1968 : a search for a collection / by Leonard B. Cox 24339

Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance /​ Beverly Gordon 5948

V&A pattern : digital pioneers / [Honor Beddard and Douglas Dodds] 25077

Drama / David Rockwell with Bruce Mau ; edited by Sam Lubell 27007

The Australian scapegoat : towards an Antipodean aesthetic / by Peter Fuller 25151

A practical guide to costume mounting / Lara Flecker ; published in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum 1666 5 connected

Lara Flecker, Victoria and Albert Museum

May 22, 11:35:11 inactive

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The National Gallery of Victoria 1861 to 1968 : a search for a collection / by Leonard B. Cox 24339

Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance /​ Beverly Gordon 5948

V&A pattern : digital pioneers / [Honor Beddard and Douglas Dodds] 25077

Drama / David Rockwell with Bruce Mau ; edited by Sam Lubell 27007

The Australian scapegoat : towards an Antipodean aesthetic / by Peter Fuller 25151

A practical guide to costume mounting / Lara Flecker ; published in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum 1666 5 connected

Lara Flecker, Victoria and Albert Museum

May 22, 11:35:08 inactive

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The National Gallery of Victoria 1861 to 1968 : a search for a collection / by Leonard B. Cox 24339

Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance /​ Beverly Gordon 5948

V&A pattern : digital pioneers / [Honor Beddard and Douglas Dodds] 25077

Drama / David Rockwell with Bruce Mau ; edited by Sam Lubell 27007

The Australian scapegoat : towards an Antipodean aesthetic / by Peter Fuller 25151

The computer : a history from the 17th century to today / Jens Muller ; editor, Julius Wiedemann 26556 5 connected

Jens Müller, Julius Wiedemann Ground, W1 bay 4, shelf 3

May 21, 18:04:19 inactive

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Turing's vision : the birth of computer science / Chris Bernhardt 11697

Ada Lovelace : the making of a computer scientist / Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice 18380

The power of the machine : the impact of technology from 1700 to the present / R.A. Buchanan 30156

Sapiens : a brief history of humankind /​ Yuval Noah Harari 8016

The mathematicians' library : the books that unlocked the power of numbers / Thomas K. Briggs 28995

Fecundity figures : Egyptian personification and the iconology of a genre 3839 5 connected

John Baines

May 21, 18:04:13 inactive

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Animal beauty : on the evolution of biological aesthetics / Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ; illustrated by Suse Grutzmacher ; translated by Jonathan Howard 14963

Origins of sex : three billion years of genetic recombination / Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan 10081

Darwin, sex, and status : biological approaches to mind and culture / Jerome H. Barkow 27656

Evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people / Joan Roughgarden 18167

Trees of Paradise and pillars of the world : the serial stela cycle of 18-Rabbit-God K, King of Copan 1190

Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson 11278 5 connected

Lynn Gamwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson

May 21, 18:03:45 inactive

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The art of more : how mathematics created civilisation / Michael Brooks 18102

Here's looking at Euclid : a surprising excursion through the astonishing world of math / Alex Bellos 10746

Seen/Unseen : art, science and intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope 2202

Leaning out of windows : an art and physics collaboration / editors, Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig 27598

The seduction of curves : the lines of beauty that connect mathematics, art, and the nude / Allan McRobie ; photographs by Helena Weightman 12681

Songlines : the power and promise / Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly 22440 5 connected

Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly

May 21, 18:03:32 inactive

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The memory code : unlocking the secrets of the lives of the ancients and the power of the human mind / Lynne Kelly 12004

Blacklines : contemporary critical writing by indigenous Australians / Michele Grossman, coordinating editor ; introduced by Ian Anderson, Michele Grossman, Marcia Langton and Aileen Moreton-Robinson 13947

The singing Neanderthals : the origins of music, language, mind, and body / Steven Mithen 27657

Memory lane : the perfectly imperfect ways we remember / Ciara Greene & Gillian Murphy 28522

Why birds sing : a journey through the mystery of bird song / David Rothenberg 9073

The Red Queen / Museum of Old and New Art 20464 5 connected

David Walsh, Elizabeth Pearce, Jane Clark, Linda Michael, Nicole Durling, Olivier Varenne, Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)

May 21, 18:03:31 inactive

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Monanisms / Museum of Old and New Art 4357

Stories of O / David Walsh, Elizabeth Pearce, Jane Clark 9135

The making of MONA / Adrian Franklin 8584

The red queen : sex and the evolution of human nature / Matt Ridley 5320

Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids 895