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September 2011

Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians, edited by Brandon Ballengée, Nicola Triscott and Miranda Pope. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.
The Milemete Treatise and Companion Secretum Secretorum: Iconography, Audience, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England by Libby Karlinger Escobedo. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. Berry. Reviewed by Jussi Parikka.
Situated Aesthetics: Art beyond the Skin by Riccardo Manzotti. Reviewed by Amy Ione.
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicolas de Monchaux. Reviewed by Valérie Lamontagne.

August 2011

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive, curated by Massimiliano Gioni with Gary Carrion-Murayari. Reviewed by Aparna Sharma.
Bauhaus Dream-house—Modernity and Globalization by Katerina Rüedi Ray. Reviewed by Florence Martellini.
Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History, edited by Julie Hubbert. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology by Susan Broadhurst. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark Changizi. Reviewed by Richard Kade.
The History of Jungle Gardens, edited by Lisa B. Osborn, Shane K. Bernard and Scott Carroll. Reviewed by Allan Graubard. [End Page 75]
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, edited by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, Jr. Reviewed by Edith Doove.
Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention by Paul Scheerbart; Andrew Joron, translator. Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica.

July 2011

Arnheim for Film and Media Studies, edited by Scott Higgins. Reviewed by Ian Verstegen.
ArtScience: A Journey through Creativity—permanent exhibition, and Travelling the Silk Road, exhibition. Reviewed by Stella Veciana.
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work by Nigel Cross. Reviewed by Dene Grigar.
East Bay Open Studios Preview Exhibition and East Bay Open Studios 2011. Reviewed by Amy Ione.
Fastwürms Donky@Ninja@Witch: A Living Retrospective by Philip Monk. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing by Didier Maleuvre. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
The Secret War between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine by Peter Lunenfeld. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
Think Art—Act Science (Pensar art—Actuar ciència): Swiss artists-in-labs, curated by Irène Hediger; and Visceral: The Living Art Experiment, curated by Orton Catts and Ionat Zurr. Reviewed by Harriet Hawkins, Deborah Dixon and Elizabeth Straughan.

June 2011

Affect and Artificial Intelligence by Elizabeth A. Wilson. Reviewed by Jussi Parikka.
Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe, edited by Nikos Kotsopoulos. Reviewed by Florence Martellini.
Grafik Dynamo by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett, with essay by Joseph Tabbi. Reviewed by Dene Grigar.
Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema by David A. Kirby; and From IBM to MGM: Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age by Andrew Utterson. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.
Le Sel de la Semaine: Henry Miller by Fernand Seguin; Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture by Christine L. Marran; and The Rule of Mars: Readings on the Origins, History and Impact of Patriarchy, edited by Cristina Biaggi. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.
Making Art History: A Changing Discipline and Its Institutions, edited by Elizabeth C. Mansfield. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.
Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel W. Drezner. Reviewed by Anna B. Creagh.
Water, Place, and Equity, edited by John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram and Richard Warren Perry. Reviewed by Zainub Verjee.
A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City by Despina Stratigakos. Reviewed by Zainub Verjee.
Zones of Re-membering: Time, Memory, and (un)Consciousness by Don Gifford, edited by D.E. Morse. Reviewed by Rob Harle. [End Page 76]
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