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The painted faces of two men, one above the other, by Bruno; with the message that being HIV positive does not mean the end; an advertisement by Mann-O-Meter, the information and telephone service for gay men. Colour lithograph.

A woman divided into two, representing life and death. Oil painting.

Boer War: a British officer's pony looking at the bones of a Boer's pony killed by a shell. Halftone, c. 1900, after S. S. Lucas after a photograph by E. Blake Knox.

Protoplasm, or, Life, matter and mind / by Lionel S. Beale.

The statue of a lively, leaping pig. Engraving by I. Frezza after G.E. Morghen (?).

Two withered wretches trying to hold up a slab of stone. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

Der Ablauf des Lebens : Grundlegung zur exakten Biologie / von Wilhelm Fliess.

The circle of life : a search for an attitude to pain, disease, old age and death / by Kenneth Walker.

Vie et probabilité / Pierre Vendryès.

On the identity of the vital and cosmical principle / by Robert Lewins.

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The statue of a lively, leaping pig. Engraving by I. Frezza after G.E. Morghen (?).

Der Ablauf des Lebens : Grundlegung zur exakten Biologie / von Wilhelm Fliess.

The circle of life : a search for an attitude to pain, disease, old age and death / by Kenneth Walker.

Vie et probabilité / Pierre Vendryès.

On the identity of the vital and cosmical principle / by Robert Lewins.