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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #50

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Life Locomotes – Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements, Matt Wilkinson (Icon 2016)

• Heart of the Mother – Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration into the Heart of Our Planet, David Whitehouse (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2015)

• Lepidopterobibliophilia – British Butterflies: A History in Books, David Dunbar (The British Library 2012)

• Minimal Manual – Georgisch Wörterbuch, Michael Jelden (Buske 2016)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #49

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Clarke’s Sparks – The Collected Stories, Arthur C. Clarke (Victor Gollancz 2000)

• Deeper and Down – Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth, James M. Tabor (Random House 2010)

• Manchester’s Mozzerabilist Messiah – Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart, Gavin Hopps (Continuum Books 2012)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #48

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Vois la Reine – Philip’s Moon Observer’s Guide, Peter Grego (Philip’s 2015)

• Gods of Fire – Volcano Discoveries: A Photographic Journey around the World, Tom Pfeiffer and Ingrid Smet (New Holland 2015)

• Chemical Tales – Rocks and Minerals, Ronald Louis Bonewitz (Dorling Kindersley 2012)

• Knyghtes of the Royalme – Malory: Works, ed. Eugène Vinaver (Oxford University Press 1977)

• Alfredo to Zinedine – Football’s Great Heroes and Entertainers, Jimmy Greaves with Norman Giller (Hodder & Stoughton 2007)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #47

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• The Sting’s the Thing – A Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2013)

• Two Heads, Two Tongues – Excuse my French! Fluent Français without the Faux Pas, Rachel Best and Jean-Christophe Van Waes (Kyle Books 2013)

• Marred Moon – Void Moon, Michael Connelly (2000)

• ’Vile Vibes – In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, Dan Davies (Quercus 2014)

• One-Stop Chop-Shop – Toxic Trannies from Kastration Kamp 23: A Sinister Symposium of Academic Assholes Shamelessly Shmoog the Filthiest Films in Cess-Cinema, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Samuel P. Salatta, et al (TransToxic Texts 2016)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #46

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Machina Mundi – The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton (Allen Lane 2015)

• Wandering Wonders – Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet (The University of Chicago Press 2015)

• Love Buzz – A Buzz in the Meadow, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2014)

• Quake’s Progress – The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth’s Deadliest Natural Disaster, Roger Musson (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

• Sin after Cin – Gargoyle Girls from Beelzebub’s Ballsack: The Sickest, Sleaziest, Splanchnophagousest Slimefests in Scum Cinema, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts 2016)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #45

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Plants on Paper – Drawing and Painting Plants, Christina Brodie (A & C Black 2006)

• Lewminiferous – Guide to Garden Wildlife, Richard Lewington (British Wildlife Publishing 2008)

• Old Gold – Puskás: Madrid, the Magyars and the Amazing Adventures of the World’s Greatest Goalscorer, György Szöllős (Freight Books 2015)

• Rosetta Rok – Rok 1984, George Orwell (MUZA SA, Warszawa 2001)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #44

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Lesser Letters – You’ve Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess (Heinemann 1990)

• The Light of Day – SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day (Castalia House 2015)

• Sextual Keeling – Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans, David Barrie (William Collins 2014)

• Twy Defy the Eye – The World of Visual Illusions: Optical Tricks That Defy Belief!, Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber (Arcturus 2012)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #43

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Avens Above – Harrap’s Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland, Simon Harrap (Bloomsbury 2013)

• Place of Glades – A Dictionary of British Place-Names, A.D. Mills (Oxford University Press 1991)

• De Minimis Curat Rex? – Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, Amir Alexander (Oneworld 2014)

• Seen and Not Heard – The Greatest Albums You’ll Never Hear, ed. Bruno MacDonald (Aurum Press 2014)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #42

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Feats for the Eyes – Drawn from Paradise: The discovery, art and natural history of the birds of paradise, David Attenborough and Errol Fuller (Collins 2012)

• Heart of the Mather – Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: the maths that governs our world, Richard Elwes (Quercus 2013)

• Bergblumen – Enchanting Alpine Flowers, Alfred Pohler, trans. Jacqueline Schweighofer

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #41

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Touring the Tower – Physics in Minutes: 200 key concepts explained in an instant, Giles Sparrow (Quercus 2014)

• Living with Rainbows – Miller’s Field Guide: Glass, Judith Miller (Octopus 2015)

• Men on the Margins – Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts (Chivers 2011)

• Sward and Sorcery – Watership Down, Richard Adams (1972) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)

• Obscene Screen – Necro-Sluts from Satan’s Anus: Fifty Filthy Fester-Films to F*** You Up, Freak You Out and Feralize Your Fetidest Fantasies, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts* 2015)

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(*TransToxic Texts is an infra-imprint of TransVisceral Books.)