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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I've just found this delightful little publication beautifully extolling the possible advertising advantages of the Interborough Subway and Elevated Lines of New York City, Artemas Ward's New York's Rapid Transit Traffic in the Graphic,... Read more

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2895 I've written many times on the technical and political end of the creation and deployment of the atomic bomb, along with some posts on the use and manipulation of language in controlling the sense... Read more

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This is a short Sherlockian episode found in the pages of the 1877 volume of Scientific American. It seems that people were becoming ill for unknown reasons (and not further specified in the short... Read more

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2894 "The Fate of the Last Man”is an interesting and unsigned romp into the deep future of the ending of the human species from the 31 May 1877 issue of Scientific American. It is very... Read more

You voted, they counted, and the winners have finally been announced! This month, we are thrilled to share that we have FOUR titles selected for the October LibraryReads List: Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy, Leave the World Behind by Rumaan... Read more

There she is, the woman who once inhabited these rooms, drank tea from this cup, her shape in the cushion, isn’t that hers? Those shelves filled with books from the bookshops of her youth—Rilke, Plath Akhmatova, Stevens, Strand, afternoons spent... Read more

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I've made a number of posts here about the Found-poetry in indexes, title pages, instruction booklets, maps, and some other places. The moment may escape the poetry, but the poetry doesn't escape the moment.... Read more

Once again, Home Depot brings out the BIG Halloween novelties; the ones meant for your lawn but, damn, you wouldn't mind putting them up all year round in your home (if you had the room and a like-minded significant other,... Read more

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2892 This Ken-Burns-Moment is brought to you by an interesting and unusual photo of Big City drug addicts. "60 addicts picked up in 60 minutes" bloats the caption in Elmer James Rolling screechy pamphlet called... Read more

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I just couldn't resist sharing the cover design for this 1937 pamphlet, as Dick and Jane walk into the purifying light of an atomic sunset. Well, not quite that, as they were walking the... Read more