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  • Leonardo Reviews Online

november 2018

In the Grand Tradition: The Enduring Art of Elbert Weinberg, edited by Nancy Finlay. Reviewed by Rob Harle.

Introduction to Graphic Design: A Guide to Thinking, Process, and Style by Aaris Sherin. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

What Is the Present? by Michael North. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

october 2018

Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World by Christine L. Marran. Reviewed by Edith Doove.

The Initiatory Path in Fairy Tales: The Alchemical Secrets of Mother Goose by Bernard Roger, translated by Jon Graham. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.

Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design by Henry Petroski. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

september 2018

Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film by Giuliana Bruno. Reviewed by Jussi Parikka.

The Book by Amaranth Borsuk. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray. Reviewed by Phil Ellis.

The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous by Erin E. Edwards; Life: A Modern Invention by David Tarizzo, translated by Mark William Epstein; Die and Become! Art and Science as the Conjectured Possible by Dmitry Bulatov. Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith.

Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by James Stevens Curl. Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini.

The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds by Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Bro Pold. Reviewed by Andrew Prior.

Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg by Eli Maor. Reviewed by Phil Dyke.

Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation by Jennifer Robertson. Reviewed by Ahyoung Yoo.

Totally Random by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub. Reviewed by John F. Barber. [End Page 210]

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