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

Kurt Vonnegut, Nanette Vonnegut, Peter Reed

May 21, 15:51:08 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

Van Diemen's Land / James Boyce 14080 5 connected

James Boyce, Richard Flanagan

May 21, 15:50:45 inactive

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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

Captain Cook and the South Pacific / British Museum ; edited by T. C. Mitchell 28207

Van Diemen's Land / James Boyce 14080 5 connected

James Boyce, Richard Flanagan

May 21, 15:50:27 inactive

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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

Captain Cook and the South Pacific / British Museum ; edited by T. C. Mitchell 28207

Van Diemen's Land / James Boyce 14080 5 connected

James Boyce, Richard Flanagan

May 21, 15:49:55 inactive

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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

Captain Cook and the South Pacific / British Museum ; edited by T. C. Mitchell 28207

Van Diemen's Land / James Boyce 14080 5 connected

James Boyce, Richard Flanagan

May 21, 15:49:31 inactive

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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

Captain Cook and the South Pacific / British Museum ; edited by T. C. Mitchell 28207

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

David Stephenson

May 21, 15:45:58 inactive

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

Animal architecture 7639

Light : a radiant history from creation to the quantum age / Bruce Watson 11503

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

Logic and the art of memory : the quest for a universal language 4860

Van Diemen's Land / James Boyce 14080 5 connected

James Boyce, Richard Flanagan

May 21, 15:45:33 inactive

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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

Captain Cook and the South Pacific / British Museum ; edited by T. C. Mitchell 28207

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

Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea

May 21, 15:45:29 inactive

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Shakespeare : the theatre of our world / Peter Conrad 23422

Larpers and shroomers : the language report / Susie Dent 21109

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

The craftsman / Richard Sennett 4122

I am Ashurbanipal : king of the world, king of Assyria / edited by Gareth Brereton 14509

Everyday Shakespeare : lines for life / Ben Crystal & David Crystal 27579 5 connected

Ben Crystal, David Crystal Ground, W1 bay 3, shelf 2

May 21, 15:41:02 inactive

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

Shakespeare : the theatre of our world / Peter Conrad 23422

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

Life stories / David Attenborough 10747

Crows : encounters with the wise guys of the avian world / Candace Savage 5062

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

Robin Mackay

May 21, 15:36:29 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

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

Mirka Mora

May 21, 15:36:19 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 21, 15:25:31 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

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

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

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, 15:25:24 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

Voyaging out : British women artists from suffrage to the sixties / Carolyn Trant 22567

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, 15:25:18 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

The mind in the cave : consciousness and the origins of art / David Lewis-Williams 27660

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

John Baines

May 21, 15:25:18 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

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

Eli Maor, Eugen Jost

May 21, 15:25:05 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

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

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

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 21, 15:17:09 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

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

Sven Ehmann

May 21, 15:08:40 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

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Nanette Vonnegut, Peter Reed

May 21, 15:08:28 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

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Nanette Vonnegut, Peter Reed

May 21, 15:08:10 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