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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 22, 17:14:43 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

Historical consciousness : or the remembered past / John Lukacs 16856

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

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 22, 17:14:40 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

Historical consciousness : or the remembered past / John Lukacs 16856

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

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

Robbins Burling

May 22, 17:14:40 inactive

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The ape that spoke / John McCrone 6601

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 22, 17:14:35 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

The craftsman / Richard Sennett 4122

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

Lynn Gamwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson

May 22, 17:14:35 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 22, 17:14:34 inactive

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The ape that spoke / John McCrone 6601

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

Heavenly vaults : from Romanesque to Gothic in European architecture 6742 5 connected

David Stephenson

May 22, 17:14:33 inactive

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How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times 5254

The great pyramid : ancient Egypt revisited 4176

The secret life of the modern house : the evolution of the way we live now / Dominic Bradbury 35194

Animal architecture 7639

The archaeology of the afterlife : deciphering the past from tombs, graves and mummies / Tony Allan 1635

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

Robbins Burling

May 22, 17:14:31 inactive

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The ape that spoke / John McCrone 6601

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 22, 17:14:31 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

Master minds of modern science / by T. C. Bridges and H. Hessell Tiltman ; with thirty-one illustrations in half tone ; new edition revised 34053

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

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 22, 17:14:30 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

Historical consciousness : or the remembered past / John Lukacs 16856

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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 22, 17:14:29 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

Queen of angels / Greg Bear 32893 5 connected

Greg Bear

May 22, 17:14:28 inactive

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Jack the Ripper : one hundred years of mystery / Peter Underwood 6544

Psych : the story of the human mind / Paul Bloom 27799

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated with an introduction by Brian Stone 16717

The shepherd moon / by H. M. Hoover 32754

Underland : a deep time journey /​ Robert Macfarlane 15234

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 22, 17:14:27 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

Historical consciousness : or the remembered past / John Lukacs 16856

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

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

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 22, 17:14:27 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

Master minds of modern science / by T. C. Bridges and H. Hessell Tiltman ; with thirty-one illustrations in half tone ; new edition revised 34053

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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 22, 17:14:26 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

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

Mirka Mora

May 22, 17:14:25 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

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

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 22, 17:14:24 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

Master minds of modern science / by T. C. Bridges and H. Hessell Tiltman ; with thirty-one illustrations in half tone ; new edition revised 34053

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

Queen of angels / Greg Bear 32893 5 connected

Greg Bear

May 22, 17:14:23 inactive

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Jack the Ripper : one hundred years of mystery / Peter Underwood 6544

Psych : the story of the human mind / Paul Bloom 27799

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated with an introduction by Brian Stone 16717

The shepherd moon / by H. M. Hoover 32754

Underland : a deep time journey /​ Robert Macfarlane 15234

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

Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly

May 22, 17:14:23 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

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

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

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

Robin Mackay

May 22, 17:14:23 inactive

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Philosophy of science : the Delaware seminar : volume 1 : 1961–1962 / edited by Bernard Baumrin 30459

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

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

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

Making noise : from Babel to the Big Bang and beyond 7664