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Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death / by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr ; introduction by John Sutherland ; illustrations by John Holder 35032 5 connected

Kurt Vonnegut, John Sutherland, John Holder

May 21, 15:07:59 inactive

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Galapagos / a novel by Kurt Vonnegut 10259

The razor's edge : a novel / by W. Somerset Maugham 11124

Guns, germs and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond 16629

Your place in the universe : understanding our big, messy existence / Paul M. Sutter 26920

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

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

William Myers, Paola Antonelli Ground, W1 bay 10, shelf 3

May 21, 15:07:52 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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 21, 15:07:42 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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 21, 15:07:26 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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 21, 15:07:17 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, 15:06:55 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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 21, 15:06:54 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, 15:06:50 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 library book / photographs and afterword by Thomas R. Schiff ; introduction by Alberto Manguel 27489 5 connected

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 21, 15:06:41 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 library book / photographs and afterword by Thomas R. Schiff ; introduction by Alberto Manguel 27489 5 connected

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 21, 15:06:22 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 library book / photographs and afterword by Thomas R. Schiff ; introduction by Alberto Manguel 27489 5 connected

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 21, 15:06:02 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 library book / photographs and afterword by Thomas R. Schiff ; introduction by Alberto Manguel 27489 5 connected

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

May 21, 15:05:58 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

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

Balint Zsako, David Walsh

May 21, 15:05:57 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

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

Gordon Bennett

May 21, 15:00:14 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

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

Body of art / [edited by Diane Fortenberry and Rebecca Morrill] 10549

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, 15:00:11 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, 15:00:08 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

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, 15:00:04 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

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

Eli Maor, Eugen Jost

May 21, 14:59:47 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

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, 14:59:41 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

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, 14:55:05 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