Book Highlights - Phrontisterion

Jeffrey Smart / Deborah Hart and Rebecca Edwards 25739 5 connected

Jeffrey Smart, Deborah Hart, Rebecca Edwards Ground, W1 bay 14, shelf 3

May 21, 16:10:08 inactive

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Kader Attia / edited by Rachel Kent 21950

Emily Kam Kngwarray / editors, Kelli Cole, Jennifer Green, Hetti Perkins 28480

Nothing if not critical : selected essays on art and artists / Robert Hughes 25835

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

The bird of self-knowledge : folk art and current artists' positions / edited by Peter Weiermair ; with essays by Wolfgang Brückner, Jean-Hubert Martin, Saul Ostrow, Marie-Louise von Plesson, Peter Weiermair, Beat Wyss 12268

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

William Myers, Paola Antonelli

May 21, 16:09:55 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

Collapse : philosophical research and development : volume VIII / edited by Robin Mackay 9836 5 connected

Robin Mackay Ground, W1 bay 12, shelf 4

May 21, 16:09:40 inactive

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The extended mind : the emergence of language, the human mind and culture 6296

Music, science, philosophy : models in the universe of thought / Jamie C. Kassler 4697

Evolving the mind : on the nature of matter and the origin of consciousness / A. G. Cairns-Smith 30259

Louder than words : the new science of how the mind makes meaning 5437

The once and future Turing : computing the world / [edited by] S. Barry Cooper, Andrew Hodges 20746

MoCA Envisage II : Butterfly dream / Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art 13248 5 connected

Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Ground, W1 bay 12, shelf 3

May 21, 16:09:37 inactive

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Monanisms / Museum of Old and New Art 4357

The Museum of Everything : everything #2 5020

Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids 895

Unveiled : new art from the Middle East 6458

The revolution continues : new art from China 6457

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

William Myers, Paola Antonelli

May 21, 16:09:22 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 Ground, W1 bay 10, shelf 4

May 21, 16:09:21 inactive

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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

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

The art of Dorrit Black / Ian North 24987

Dr. Seuss : the cat behind the hat / written by Caroline M. Smith ; images compiled and edited by William W. Dreyer, Michael Reagan, Robert Chase, Jr. 22037

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

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel Ground, W1 bay 9, shelf 4

May 21, 16:09:19 inactive

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The most beautiful libraries in the world /​ photographs by Guillaume de Laubier ; text by Jacques Bosser ; foreword by James H. Billington ; translated from the French by Laurel Hirsch 4424

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

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

Folkert de Jong : les saltimbanques 21956

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh Ground, W1 bay 9, shelf 3

May 21, 16:09:19 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

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

Sven Ehmann Ground, W1 bay 11, shelf 4

May 21, 16:09:11 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

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

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel Ground, W1 bay 9, shelf 4

May 21, 16:09:07 inactive

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The most beautiful libraries in the world /​ photographs by Guillaume de Laubier ; text by Jacques Bosser ; foreword by James H. Billington ; translated from the French by Laurel Hirsch 4424

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

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

Folkert de Jong : les saltimbanques 21956

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh Ground, W1 bay 9, shelf 3

May 21, 16:09:06 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 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) Ground, W1 bay 7, shelf 4

May 21, 16:09:00 inactive

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Monanisms / Museum of Old and New Art 4357

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

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

Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids 895

The temple of Venus : The Sex Museum, Amsterdam / Hans-Jurgen Dopp 1762

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

John Baines Ground, W1 bay 6, shelf 3

May 21, 16:08:58 inactive

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The prehistory of sex : four million years of human sexual culture / Timothy Taylor 1656

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

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 21, 16:08:57 inactive

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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

Conrad Martens : the man and his art / by Lionel Lindsay 19571

Van Diemen's Land / James Boyce 14080 5 connected

James Boyce, Richard Flanagan

May 21, 16:08:55 inactive

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Terra Australis cognita : the Robert Clancy Collection, part I / Daniel Crouch Rare Books 27260

Picturing the Pacific : Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders / James Taylor 27372

Radical by nature : the revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace / James T. Costa 26910

Life in the undergrowth / David Attenborough 10792

The sex revolution / James Holledge 27051

Gordon Bennett : be polite / [curated by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh] 11965 5 connected

Gordon Bennett Ground, W1 bay 7, shelf 3

May 21, 16:07:56 inactive

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

Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement : 2014 / by Andrea Bellini in collaboration with Yann Chateigné and Hans Ulrich Obrist 13135

Marco Fusinato : let's destroy work / texts by, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Byron Coley, Branden W. Joseph 22019

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

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) Ground, W1 bay 7, shelf 4

May 21, 16:07:56 inactive

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Monanisms / Museum of Old and New Art 4357

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

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

Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids 895

The temple of Venus : The Sex Museum, Amsterdam / Hans-Jurgen Dopp 1762

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, 16:07:49 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

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

The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos / Leonard Mlodinow 9493

Sapiens : a graphic history : volume one : the birth of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari ; David Vandermeulen ; Daniel Casanave 25448

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

Eli Maor, Eugen Jost

May 21, 16:07:42 inactive

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

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

Beyond infinity : an expedition to the outer limits of mathematics / Eugenia Cheng 29848

Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter 9837

Perfect symmetry : the search for the beginning of time / Heinz R. Pagels 30145

Van Diemen's Land / James Boyce 14080 5 connected

James Boyce, Richard Flanagan

May 21, 16:07:38 inactive

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Terra Australis cognita : the Robert Clancy Collection, part I / Daniel Crouch Rare Books 27260

Picturing the Pacific : Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders / James Taylor 27372

Radical by nature : the revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace / James T. Costa 26910

Life in the undergrowth / David Attenborough 10792

The sex revolution / James Holledge 27051