Book Highlights - Phrontisterion

The hidden life of trees / Peter Wohlleben ; translated by Jane Billinghurst 14079 5 connected

Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst

May 13, 16:02:18 inactive

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The atlas of the living world / David Attenborough, Philip Whitfield, Peter D. Moore, Barry Cox 17737

Old growth : Australia's remaining ancient forests / Peter McConchie 31557

When the Earth was green : plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance / Riley Black 29851

Call of nature : the secret life of dung / Richard Jones 11953

I contain multitudes : the microbes within us and a grander view of life / Ed Yong 27614

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] 15426 5 connected

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

May 12, 16:52:35 inactive

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The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks 8651

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

Survival of the prettiest : the science of beauty / Nancy Etcoff 10230

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

The cradle of humanity : prehistoric art and culture / Georges Bataille ; edited and introduced by Stuart Kendall ; translated by Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall 3220

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

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

May 12, 16:52:01 inactive

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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

The atlas of the living world / David Attenborough, Philip Whitfield, Peter D. Moore, Barry Cox 17737

Consider the platypus : evolution through biology's most baffling beasts / Maggie Ryan Sandford ; illustrations by Rodica Prato 31406

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

Man on the rim : the peopling of the Pacific / Alan Thorne & Robert Raymond 3984 5 connected

Alan Thorne, Robert Raymond

May 12, 16:51:27 inactive

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Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories / editors, Ingereth Macfarlane and Mark Hannah 15616

A history of Tasmania / Henry Reynolds 26043

A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes / Adam Rutherford ; foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjee 13174

Origins reconsidered : insearch of what makes us human / Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin 30117

First Australians / edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton ; with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe 12124

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 12, 16:50:24 inactive

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Confluences in art : from the old and new worlds (500 BC - present) / Paul Hughes Fine Arts 18186

Ocean art : from the shore to the deep / Helen Scales 30617

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

Objects and expressions of human creativity / Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia 18356

Women in the history of quantum physics : beyond Knabenphysik / edited by Patrick Charbonneau [and 3 others] 31746

The hidden life of trees / Peter Wohlleben ; translated by Jane Billinghurst 14079 5 connected

Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst

May 12, 16:49:10 inactive

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Darwin comes to town : how the urban jungle drives evolution / Menno Schilthuizen 13619

A new history of life : the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on Earth 9160

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

River out of Eden : a Darwinian view of life / Richard Dawkins ; illustrations by Lalla Ward 27493

Frozen planet : a world beyond imagination / Alastair Fothergill and Vanessa Berlowitz ; foreword by David Attenborough 10785

The sea and civilization : a maritime history of the world / Lincoln Paine 14158 5 connected

Lincoln P. Paine

May 12, 16:48:33 inactive

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History of mankind, cultural and scientific development : volume 2 28955

The paper trail : an unexpected history of the world's greatest invention / Alexander Monro 11553

What the wild sea can be : the future of the world's ocean / Helen Scales 28735

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

Genes, peoples and languages / Luigi Cavalli-Sforza ; translated by Mark Seielstad 5402

Beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost 11674 5 connected

Eli Maor, Eugen Jost

May 12, 12:54:01 inactive

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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

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

Are numbers real? : the uncanny relationship of mathematics and the physical world / Brian Clegg 14420

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

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 12, 12:53:56 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

A history of chemistry : volume I part I - the theoretical background / J. R. Partington 30144

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

The paper trail : an unexpected history of the world's greatest invention / Alexander Monro 11553

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

Amanda Jane Reynolds, Dean McNicoll

May 12, 12:53:35 inactive

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

Figuring it out : what are we? where do we come from? the parallel visions of artists and archaeologists / Colin Refrew 2756

Charles Darwin in Australia : with illustrations and additional commentary from other members of the Beagle's company including Conrad Martens, Augustus Earle, Captain FitzRoy, Philip Gidley King, and Syms Covington / by F. W. and J. M. Nicholas 12041

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

Innovation : the basis of cultural change / H. G. Barnett 32711

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

David Attenborough, Errol Fuller Ground, W1 bay 2, shelf 3

May 12, 12:53:04 inactive

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

Charles Darwin in Australia : with illustrations and additional commentary from other members of the Beagle's company including Conrad Martens, Augustus Earle, Captain FitzRoy, Philip Gidley King, and Syms Covington / by F. W. and J. M. Nicholas 12041

Life on air : memoirs of a broadcaster / David Attenborough 10748

Frozen planet : a world beyond imagination / Alastair Fothergill and Vanessa Berlowitz ; foreword by David Attenborough 10785

Fossils, finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's adventures and discoveries on the Beagle / Richard Keynes 13816

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

Amanda Jane Reynolds, Dean McNicoll

May 12, 10:55:57 inactive

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

David Attenborough, Errol Fuller Ground, W1 bay 2, shelf 3

May 12, 10:55:29 inactive

Life is simple : how Occam's razor set science free and unlocked the universe / Johnjoe McFadden 22446

Johnjoe McFadden

May 11, 14:38:18 inactive

The Red Queen / Museum of Old and New Art 20464

David Walsh, Elizabeth Pearce, Jane Clark, Linda Michael, Nicole Durling, Olivier Varenne, Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)

May 11, 14:37:46 inactive

Life is simple : how Occam's razor set science free and unlocked the universe / Johnjoe McFadden 22446

Johnjoe McFadden

May 11, 14:37:45 inactive

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

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

May 11, 14:33:28 inactive

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] 15426

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

May 11, 14:33:26 inactive

Man on the rim : the peopling of the Pacific / Alan Thorne & Robert Raymond 3984

Alan Thorne, Robert Raymond

May 11, 14:33:07 inactive

When the curtain never comes down : performance art and the alter ego / essay and entries by Valerie Rousseau ; foreword Anne-Imelda Radice ; with contributions by Mario del Curto [and 14 others) 12200

Valérie Rousseau, Anne-Imelda Radice, Mario del Curto

May 11, 14:32:29 inactive