Book Highlights - Phrontisterion

The computer : a history from the 17th century to today / Jens Muller ; editor, Julius Wiedemann 26556 5 connected

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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

Edward Weston : the form of the nude 5597 5 connected

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100 ideas that changed architecture / Richard Weston 5543

Frank Lloyd Wright on the West Coast / Mark Anthony Wilson, photography by Joel Puliatti 10064

Harold Edgerton : seeing the unseen / edited by Ron Kurtz, Deborah G. Douglas, Gus Kayafas ; essays by Deborah G. Douglas [and 3 others] 21769

Civilization : the way we live now / William A. Ewing, Holly Roussell 25449

Architecture without architects : a short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture / Bernard Rudofsky 11514

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

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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

Life stories / David Attenborough 10747

Seven life lessons of chaos : timeless wisdom from the science of change / John Briggs and F. David Peat 30432

The improbability principle : why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day 8180

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

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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

Life stories / David Attenborough 10747

Seven life lessons of chaos : timeless wisdom from the science of change / John Briggs and F. David Peat 30432

The improbability principle : why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day 8180

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

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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 luminous interval : the D. Daskalopoulos collection / Guggenheim Bilbao ; curated by Nancy Spector and Katherine Brinson 15672

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

Small-great objects : Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas / Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye ; with an essay by Michael D. Coe 13791

The mummy : unwrap the ancient secrets of the mummies' tombs 47 5 connected

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Gilded metals : history, technology and conservation 2057

The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick 8658

Architecture now! Museums / Philip Jodidio 7858

Athenian black figure vases : a handbook 1006

Making strange : the modernist photobook in France / Kim Sichel 27604

Edward Weston : the form of the nude 5597 5 connected

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100 ideas that changed architecture / Richard Weston 5543

Frank Lloyd Wright on the West Coast / Mark Anthony Wilson, photography by Joel Puliatti 10064

Harold Edgerton : seeing the unseen / edited by Ron Kurtz, Deborah G. Douglas, Gus Kayafas ; essays by Deborah G. Douglas [and 3 others] 21769

Civilization : the way we live now / William A. Ewing, Holly Roussell 25449

Architecture without architects : a short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture / Bernard Rudofsky 11514

Edward Weston : the form of the nude 5597 5 connected

Amy Conger, Edward Weston

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100 ideas that changed architecture / Richard Weston 5543

Frank Lloyd Wright on the West Coast / Mark Anthony Wilson, photography by Joel Puliatti 10064

Harold Edgerton : seeing the unseen / edited by Ron Kurtz, Deborah G. Douglas, Gus Kayafas ; essays by Deborah G. Douglas [and 3 others] 21769

Civilization : the way we live now / William A. Ewing, Holly Roussell 25449

Architecture without architects : a short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture / Bernard Rudofsky 11514

Edward Weston : the form of the nude 5597 5 connected

Amy Conger, Edward Weston

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100 ideas that changed architecture / Richard Weston 5543

Frank Lloyd Wright on the West Coast / Mark Anthony Wilson, photography by Joel Puliatti 10064

Harold Edgerton : seeing the unseen / edited by Ron Kurtz, Deborah G. Douglas, Gus Kayafas ; essays by Deborah G. Douglas [and 3 others] 21769

Civilization : the way we live now / William A. Ewing, Holly Roussell 25449

Architecture without architects : a short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture / Bernard Rudofsky 11514

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)

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Monanisms / Museum of Old and New Art 4357

Monanisms / David Walsh, Elizabeth Mead and Museum of Old and New Art 8133

Namedropping 28076

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

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

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

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Here's looking at Euclid : a surprising excursion through the astonishing world of math / Alex Bellos 10746

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

Fearful symmetry : is god a geometer? / Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky 16576

Mathematical mountaintops : the five most famous problems of all time / John L. Casti 30292

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

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Here's looking at Euclid : a surprising excursion through the astonishing world of math / Alex Bellos 10746

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

Fearful symmetry : is god a geometer? / Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky 16576

Mathematical mountaintops : the five most famous problems of all time / John L. Casti 30292

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

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Here's looking at Euclid : a surprising excursion through the astonishing world of math / Alex Bellos 10746

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

Fearful symmetry : is god a geometer? / Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky 16576

Mathematical mountaintops : the five most famous problems of all time / John L. Casti 30292

The night life of trees / Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai, Ram Singh Urveti 28456 5 connected

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The book of life / general editor, Stephen Jay Gould ; contributing scientists and illustrators, Peter Andrews [and 10 others] 13657

Tree of origin : what primate behavior can tell us about human social evolution / Frans B. M. de Waal, editor 9569

What a mushroom lives for : matsutake and the worlds they make / Michael J. Hathaway ; foreword by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 21993

Shadows of forgotten ancestors : a search for who we are / Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan 5727

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

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

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Here's looking at Euclid : a surprising excursion through the astonishing world of math / Alex Bellos 10746

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

Fearful symmetry : is god a geometer? / Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky 16576

Mathematical mountaintops : the five most famous problems of all time / John L. Casti 30292

Keeping culture : Aboriginal Tasmania / edited by Amanda Jane Reynolds ; photography by Dean McNicoll 19215 5 connected

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My people's songs : how an indigenous family survived colonial Tasmania / Joel Stephen Birnie 21700

A history of Tasmania / Henry Reynolds 26043

Sea country / Aunty Patsy Cameron and Lisa Kennedy 20279

Van Diemen's Land : an Aboriginal history / Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane 11899

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

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

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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

Life stories / David Attenborough 10747

Seven life lessons of chaos : timeless wisdom from the science of change / John Briggs and F. David Peat 30432

The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty / Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber 12003

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

Eli Maor, Eugen Jost

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Here's looking at Euclid : a surprising excursion through the astonishing world of math / Alex Bellos 10746

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

Fearful symmetry : is god a geometer? / Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky 16576

Mathematical mountaintops : the five most famous problems of all time / John L. Casti 30292

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

Gordon Bennett

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

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Julian Schnabel / text by Gert Schiff 20659

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

The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology / Ignacio Bernal, Román Pińa-Chán, Fernando Cámara-Barbachano ; photographed by Irmgard Groth 1111

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

Small-great objects : Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas / Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye ; with an essay by Michael D. Coe 13791