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Understanding the workings of the brain

Two flowers and a heart representing love and life with the words "Liebes Leben"; advertising an exhibition about AIDS in Leipzig. Colour lithograph by Studio Andreas Heller for the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung, 1995.

Two flowers and a heart representing love and life with the words "Liebes Leben"; advertising a touring exhibition about AIDS. Colour lithograph by Studio Andreas Heller for the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung, 1995.

A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.

Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.

Ada Twist, scientist / by Andrea Beaty ; illustrated by David Roberts.

Restless mind : curiositas & the scope of inquiry in St. Augustine's psychology / by Joseph Torchia, O.P.

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Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.

Understanding the workings of the brain

Ada Twist, scientist / by Andrea Beaty ; illustrated by David Roberts.

A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.

Restless mind : curiositas & the scope of inquiry in St. Augustine's psychology / by Joseph Torchia, O.P.