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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, 17:20:11 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

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, 17:20:10 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

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

Robbins Burling

May 21, 17:20:06 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

The library book / photographs and afterword by Thomas R. Schiff ; introduction by Alberto Manguel 27489 5 connected

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 21, 17:19:47 inactive

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

No caption needed : iconic photographs, public culture and liberal democracy 4633

On the origin of species : the illustrated edition / Charles Darwin ; edited by David Quammen 5947

Evolution : a visual record / photographs by Robert Clark ; foreword by David Quammen ; text by Joseph Wallace 11729

Library of dreams : treasures from the National Library of Australia / [compiled by Jennifer Gall and past and present members of the National Library of Australia] 28110

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 21, 17:19:41 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

The library book / photographs and afterword by Thomas R. Schiff ; introduction by Alberto Manguel 27489 5 connected

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 21, 17:19:41 inactive

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

No caption needed : iconic photographs, public culture and liberal democracy 4633

On the origin of species : the illustrated edition / Charles Darwin ; edited by David Quammen 5947

Evolution : a visual record / photographs by Robert Clark ; foreword by David Quammen ; text by Joseph Wallace 11729

Library of dreams : treasures from the National Library of Australia / [compiled by Jennifer Gall and past and present members of the National Library of Australia] 28110

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

Lynn Gamwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson

May 21, 17:19:28 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

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, 17:18:49 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

Liquid spaces : scenography, installations and spatial experiences / edited by Sven Ehmann … [and three others] 13920 5 connected

Sven Ehmann

May 21, 17:18:49 inactive

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Artempo : where time becomes art / edited by Axel Vervoordt & Mattijs Visser 34668

Joseph Beuys / Heiner Stachelhaus ; translated by David Britt 23794

The state of things / Luc Tuymans, Ai Weiwei, Fan Di'an 14395

Walking and mapping : artists as cartographers / Karen O'Rourke 18489

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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 21, 17:18:37 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

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

Lynn Gamwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson

May 21, 17:18:35 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

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

Robbins Burling

May 21, 17:18:30 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

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

Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly

May 21, 17:18:29 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, 17:18:29 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

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

Robbins Burling

May 21, 17:18:25 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

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

John Baines

May 21, 17:18:12 inactive

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Sex and death : a reappraisal of human mortality / Beverley Clack 1542

Evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people / Joan Roughgarden 7558

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

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

Robbins Burling

May 21, 17:18:04 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

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

Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea

May 21, 17:18:04 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

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

Robbins Burling

May 21, 17:17:38 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

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

Robbins Burling

May 21, 17:17:26 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