Book Highlights - Phrontisterion

Collapse : philosophical research and development : volume VIII / edited by Robin Mackay 9185 5 connected

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Antifragile : how to live in a world we don't understand / Nassim Nicholas Taleb 18201

The gambling animal : humanity's evolutionary winning streak - and how we risk it all / Glenn Harrison, Don Ross 28374

Skin in the game : hidden asymmetries in daily life / Nassim Nicholas Taleb 15277

Ten great ideas about chance / Persi Diaconis, Brian Skyrms 13064

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

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

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Monanisms / Museum of Old and New Art 4357

The Museum of Everything : everything #2 5020

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

Balint Zsako : drawings from the Bernardi Collection : with additional work from the collection of the artist / Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art 3792

Unveiled : new art from the Middle East 6458

Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil Degrasse Tyson 11797 5 connected

Lynn Gamwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

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

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

The perfect bet : how science and math are taking the luck out of gambling / Adam Kucharski 13324

A gift of dragons / Anne McCaffrey 33654 5 connected

Anne McCaffrey

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Dragon's kin / Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey 32348

Dragonquest / Anne McCaffrey 32351

Red star rising / Anne McCaffrey 32322

Passages : all-new tales of Valdemar / edited by Mercedes Lackey 34851

The book of swords / edited by Gardner Dozois 34651

Collapse : philosophical research and development : volume VIII / edited by Robin Mackay 9185 5 connected

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Antifragile : how to live in a world we don't understand / Nassim Nicholas Taleb 18201

The gambling animal : humanity's evolutionary winning streak - and how we risk it all / Glenn Harrison, Don Ross 28374

Skin in the game : hidden asymmetries in daily life / Nassim Nicholas Taleb 15277

Ten great ideas about chance / Persi Diaconis, Brian Skyrms 13064

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

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

Mirka Mora

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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

Wack! : art and the feminist revolution 2179

A writer of our time : the life and work of John Berger / Joshua Sperling 24648

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

Sven Ehmann

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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

V&A pattern : digital pioneers / [Honor Beddard and Douglas Dodds] 25077

Zhang Peili : certain pleasures 21988

Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement : 2014 / by Andrea Bellini in collaboration with Yann Chateigné and Hans Ulrich Obrist 13135 5 connected

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

In fusion : new European art / Ben Bella [and 10 others] 20164

Balint Zsako : drawings from the Bernardi Collection : with additional work from the collection of the artist / Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art 3792

Joseph Beuys / Heiner Stachelhaus ; translated by David Britt 23794

Leaning out of windows : an art and physics collaboration / editors, Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig 27598

Rite of passage : the early years of Vienna Actionism 1960-1966 : Gunter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, Rudolph Schwarzkogler 8269 5 connected

Hubert Klocker, Gloria Sutton

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Ritual : how seemingly senseless acts make life worth living / Dimitris Xygalatas 21998

Art versus nonart : art out of mind 3210

The music of painting : music, modernism and the visual arts from the Romantics to John Cage 4868

Martina Schumacher: Arbeiten / Works 2001-2006 1683

Leaning out of windows : an art and physics collaboration / editors, Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig 27598

Drawn from paradise : the natural history, art and discovery of the birds of paradise / David Attenborough and Errol Fuller 10784 5 connected

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

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

Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science, and the visual arts /​ edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro 13052

The life of mammals / David Attenborough 10787

Animal beauty : on the evolution of biological aesthetics / Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ; illustrated by Suse Grutzmacher ; translated by Jonathan Howard 14963

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

Gordon Bennett

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In fusion : new European art / Ben Bella [and 10 others] 20164

Balint Zsako : drawings from the Bernardi Collection : with additional work from the collection of the artist / Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art 3792

Leaning out of windows : an art and physics collaboration / editors, Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig 27598

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

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

Beam in thine own eye / [organised and produced by the Museum of Old and New Art ; texts by David Walsh, Olivier Varenne ; curators, Nicole Durling and Olivier Varenne] 6770 5 connected

Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), David Walsh, Olivier Varenne, Nicole Durling

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

Monanisms / Museum of Old and New Art 4357

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

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In fusion : new European art / Ben Bella [and 10 others] 20164

The Museum of Broken Relationships : a diary / Olinka Vistica, Drazen Grubisic 25116 5 connected

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Recovering art : a history of the Cunningham Dax collection / by Belinda Robson ; foreword by Mirka Mora 20603

States of decay / by Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix 11782

The house of fragile things : Jewish art collectors and the fall of France / James McAuley 21715

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The Museum of Everything : everything #2 5020

Jeffrey Smart / Deborah Hart and Rebecca Edwards 25739 5 connected

Jeffrey Smart, Deborah Hart, Rebecca Edwards

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Fred Williams : infinite horizons / Deborah Hart 21878

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

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

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Handmade : a scientist's search for meaning through making / Anna Ploszajski 27784

The wisdom of the bones : in search of human origins / Alan Walker and Pat Shipman 21365

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

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

Extended realism / photographs by Tom Beck, M. Richard Kristel, Herman Emmet [and four others] 31022

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

The Erotic Museum in Berlin / [text by Hans-Jurgen Dopp] 1763

The monster book of monsters / edited and introduced by Michael O'Shaughnessy 35911

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

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

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

Extended realism / photographs by Tom Beck, M. Richard Kristel, Herman Emmet [and four others] 31022

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

The Erotic Museum in Berlin / [text by Hans-Jurgen Dopp] 1763

The monster book of monsters / edited and introduced by Michael O'Shaughnessy 35911

Snakes, sunrises, and Shakespeare : how evolution shapes our loves and fears 7583 5 connected

Gordon H. Orians

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The vision revolution : how the latest research overturns everything we thought we knew about human vision 7523

The fruit, the tree, and the serpent : why we see so well / Lynne A. Isbell 27654

This is your brain on music : understanding a human obsession / Daniel Levitin 7562

How pleasure works : the new science of why we like what we like / Paul Bloom 11747

Primates and philosophers : how morality evolved 7590

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

Thomas R. Schiff, Alberto Manguel

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

Extended realism / photographs by Tom Beck, M. Richard Kristel, Herman Emmet [and four others] 31022

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

The Erotic Museum in Berlin / [text by Hans-Jurgen Dopp] 1763

The monster book of monsters / edited and introduced by Michael O'Shaughnessy 35911

Snakes, sunrises, and Shakespeare : how evolution shapes our loves and fears 7583 5 connected

Gordon H. Orians

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The vision revolution : how the latest research overturns everything we thought we knew about human vision 7523

The fruit, the tree, and the serpent : why we see so well / Lynne A. Isbell 27654

This is your brain on music : understanding a human obsession / Daniel Levitin 7562

How pleasure works : the new science of why we like what we like / Paul Bloom 11747

Primates and philosophers : how morality evolved 7590