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Animal: Exploring the Zoological World

Artist/Author: James Hanken | Reference: P3713 | ISBN: 978-0714876818 | Type: Publication

A broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind’s ongoing fascination with animals. This carefully curated selection of images, chosen by an international panel of experts, delves into our shared past to tell the story of animal life.

The Future

Artist/Author: Marc Augé | Reference: P3727 | ISBN: 9781781685662 | Type: Publication

It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.

The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us

Artist/Author: Adam Rutherford | Reference: P3657 | ISBN: 978-0297609407 | Type: Publication

This original and entertaining tour of life on Earth explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: we are not the only species that communicates, makes tools, utilises fire, or has sex for reasons other than to make new versions of ourselves. Evolution has, however, allowed us to develop our culture to a level of complexity that outstrips any other observed in nature.

When Species Meet

Artist/Author: Donna J. Haraway | Reference: P3658 | ISBN: 978-0816650460 | Type: Publication

Contemplates the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic.

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

Artist/Author: Sunaura Taylor | Reference: P3661 | ISBN: 978-1620971284 | Type: Publication

How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of “human” depends on its difference from “animal”?

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art and Science

Editor: Chiara Beccalossi | Reference: P3554 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. Locations and dates: Project Space Plus, Lincoln, UK (1 – 27 February 2018), Peltz Gallery, London, UK (10 May – 11 June 2018), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Spain
(4 – 28 October 2018), LABS Gallery Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy (22 November – 15 December 2018)

Blood: Life Uncut

Artist/Author: Sabrina Mahfouz | Reference: P3416 | Type: Publication

Poetic responses to artworks in the eponymous exhibition at King's College London and Copeland Gallery.