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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Summary: There was a time when darkness was a shield for wrongdoing.When the sulfur plant's gates opened under the cover of darkness, when the alarms were silenced while the world slept, when the fog rolled down the hills and coated Pine Hollow in poison.It was in that darkness that they thought no one would notice, that no one would fight back.They were wrong. Now, Pine Hollow lives under the cover of light.The kind that came from porch lights illuminating air monitors blinking green through the night.The kind that came from streetlamps powered by solar panels, humming softly in the evening breeze.The kind that came from data points on screens, showing the invisible air, making it visible to anyone who cared to look. The darkness could not hide the truth anymore.Sensors in kitchens and classrooms recorded every spike, every leak, every threat.Parents no longer stayed silent, and workers no longer ignored the sting in their throats.Youth clubs tested soil and water, reporting results publicly.No manager could quietly flip a switch to profit under cover of darkness without the world knowing. Eli, now in his dorm room miles away, often glanced at the small sensor on his desk, connected to Pine Hollow's network, still blinking green.He checked the town's air data daily, sharing spikes with the youth club back home, analyzing trends for his engineering research.When his roommate asked why he cared so much about a small town's air, Eli smiled quietly."Because it matters," he said. "Everywhere." Maria spent her mornings tending to a small community garden near the old sulfur plant site, now a public park.Children played nearby, and parents sipped coffee, breathing deeply, unafraid.Sometimes, she would run her hand through the dark and rich soil, the plants growing strong where once the ground was dead and sour with acid rain.She would look up at the sky, watching the sunrise.She would remember the darkness.And she would smile, knowing they had chosen to stand in the light. 6Liam drove from town to town, giving workshops in union halls, schools, and community centers.He spoke of Pine Hollow, not as a tragedy but as a lesson.A lesson that workers could stop unsafe operations.A lesson that communities could protect themselves.A lesson is that silence was the true danger, not the chemicals.When workers thanked him after meetings, he would shake his head."Thank yourselves," he would say. "You're the light now." 7Reynard continued to guide workers and communities across the region, helping them build their own monitoring networks.He never took credit, never sought the spotlight, but he kept a small printout in his wallet photo of the sulfur fog from that first night in Pine Hollow.A reminder of why silence could never be an option again. 8The monitors kept blinking.The alarms stayed on.The people stayed vigilant.Under the cover of light, there was nowhere left to hide. 9One evening, Maria and Eli, home for the summer, stood on the hill above the golf course, watching the sun set behind the turbines turning slowly in the warm wind."Do you think it's really over?" Eli asked softly.Maria shook her head."It's never over," she replied, her eyes reflecting the orange glow of the sky. "But it's better. Because now, we're watching."Eli took a deep breath, the air clean, clear, alive."Under the cover of light," he whispered.Maria smiled, placing her hand on his shoulder."Yes," she said. "Under the cover of light." 10The wind moved through the grass, whispering across the park where sulfur once choked Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 36 pages. H W Richards "Sir Stanley Marchant, 1883-1949" / Alexander Brent-Smith "The Passing of the Dominant" / A E F Dickinson "The Neglected Hubert Parry" / Herbert Antcliffe "Did Handel Become English?" / W S Drew "On Song-Editing" / The New Era Concert Society / Frank Netherwood "The Status Of The Organist" / Hartley Kemball Cook "A Forgotten National Theatre" (M13). …

Soft cover. Etat : Fair. 1st Edition. November 1939 issue in Fair condition only - both covers taped fully around edges and loose, held to binding with tape; otherwise, relatively tight and complete. Besides the Lensman story, contains "Misfit" by Heinlein. Tough shape but an iconic old SF pulp. Hubert Rogers (cover) ; Schneeman, Wesso (interior illustrations) (illustrateur). …

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Summary: There was a time when darkness was a shield for wrongdoing.When the sulfur plant's gates opened under the cover of darkness, when the alarms were silenced while the world slept, when the fog rolled down the hills and coated Pine Hollow in poison.It was in that darkness that they thought no one would notice, that no one would fight back.They were wrong. Now, Pine Hollow lives under the cover of light.The kind that came from porch lights illuminating air monitors blinking green through the night.The kind that came from streetlamps powered by solar panels, humming softly in the evening breeze.The kind that came from data points on screens, showing the invisible air, making it visible to anyone who cared to look. The darkness could not hide the truth anymore.Sensors in kitchens and classrooms recorded every spike, every leak, every threat.Parents no longer stayed silent, and workers no longer ignored the sting in their throats.Youth clubs tested soil and water, reporting results publicly.No manager could quietly flip a switch to profit under cover of darkness without the world knowing. Eli, now in his dorm room miles away, often glanced at the small sensor on his desk, connected to Pine Hollow's network, still blinking green.He checked the town's air data daily, sharing spikes with the youth club back home, analyzing trends for his engineering research.When his roommate asked why he cared so much about a small town's air, Eli smiled quietly."Because it matters," he said. "Everywhere." Maria spent her mornings tending to a small community garden near the old sulfur plant site, now a public park.Children played nearby, and parents sipped coffee, breathing deeply, unafraid.Sometimes, she would run her hand through the dark and rich soil, the plants growing strong where once the ground was dead and sour with acid rain.She would look up at the sky, watching the sunrise.She would remember the darkness.And she would smile, knowing they had chosen to stand in the light. 6Liam drove from town to town, giving workshops in union halls, schools, and community centers.He spoke of Pine Hollow, not as a tragedy but as a lesson.A lesson that workers could stop unsafe operations.A lesson that communities could protect themselves.A lesson is that silence was the true danger, not the chemicals.When workers thanked him after meetings, he would shake his head."Thank yourselves," he would say. "You're the light now." 7Reynard continued to guide workers and communities across the region, helping them build their own monitoring networks.He never took credit, never sought the spotlight, but he kept a small printout in his wallet photo of the sulfur fog from that first night in Pine Hollow.A reminder of why silence could never be an option again. 8The monitors kept blinking.The alarms stayed on.The people stayed vigilant.Under the cover of light, there was nowhere left to hide. 9One evening, Maria and Eli, home for the summer, stood on the hill above the golf course, watching the sun set behind the turbines turning slowly in the warm wind."Do you think it's really over?" Eli asked softly.Maria shook her head."It's never over," she replied, her eyes reflecting the orange glow of the sky. "But it's better. Because now, we're watching."Eli took a deep breath, the air clean, clear, alive."Under the cover of light," he whispered.Maria smiled, placing her hand on his shoulder."Yes," she said. "Under the cover of light." 10The wind moved through the grass, whispering across the park where sulfu Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2008 Yale University Press large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Preface by Elizabeth Cropper; Introduction by Therese O'Malley and Amy R. W. Meyers; Artisanal Knowledge and the Representation of Nature in Sixteenth-Century Germany by Pamela H. Smith; Botany and Humanism in the Renaissance: Background, Interaction, Contradictions by Alain Touwaide; The Uses of Botanical Treatises in the Netherlands, c. 1600 by Claudia Swan; Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia by Janice Neri; The Eyes of the New Pliny: The Use of Images in Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias by Jesus Carrillo Castillo; Mexican Nature in Diego Valades' Rhetorica christiana (1579) by Lina Bolzoni; From Florence to Philadelphia: Naturalistic Illustration in Tuscany, c. 1760-c. 1840 by Alessandro Tosi; "La femminil pazienza": Women Painters and Natural History in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi; A Garden Book Made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1593: Hans Puechfeldner's Nutzliches Khunstbuech der Gartnereij by Erik A. de Jong; "Cosmic Delight": Bartolomeo Bimbi and the Representation of Nature at the Court of Cosimo III de' Medici by Hans W. Hubert; The Congenial Climate of Coffeehouse Horticulture: The Historia plantarum rariorum and the Catalogus plantarum by Mark Laird; and Appendix: The Club at the Temple Coffee House by Margaret Riley.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Growing importance of study of use of leisure . Changes in past forty or fifty years in margin of leisure and of available income among London workers. 8vo . Pp, xiv 445 , [1] Original navy blue cloth covered boards, fold out map as frontis. label in gold on front , some shelf wear spine is slightly faded , front free has previous owners signature with date 1935. This is volume 1X of the London life vols. LIFE AND LEISURE (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in black cloth, gilt, slight wear at periphery; complete with the folding maps, one with small repair with archival tape o/w fine internally, no inscriptions. B/w frontispiece. xv,438pp.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Retribution - how a worthless son was punished on a ship circa 1902; My Experiences in Uganda - Mrs. Hubert G. Knight describes housekeeping in the heart of Africa where she also accompanied her husband on hunting trips to wild parts of Uganda; The Lost "Luck" - an important family talisman is lost and finally recovered in White Russia; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth - Part III - J. Campbell Besley continue their dangerous journey, with interesting photos; Pat Ryan's Eldorado - L.W.A. MacArthur, F.G.S., recounts how a gang of rogues imposed upon a credulous Irish farmer; The Wonder-Lake of Trinidad - Pitch Lake - a seemingly bottomless lake of asphalt - article with photos; A Tough Ten Minutes - un uncommonly nasty predicament in River Falls, Wisconsin in 1902 involving Harry Owen; A Pressed Man - an amusing story of the early days of the Australian Light Horse; In Search of Adventure - Part V - the story of a chequered cruise, including photo of ocean graveyard Middleton Reef and 2,000 tons of coal burned by the French to prevent their capture by the Germans; The Fishermen's Republic - a photo-illustrated visit to the tiny Republic of Noli, founded before Rome; "Ways That Are Dark" - Former Straits Settlements public official J.R. Innes describes the cunning and audacity of the Chinese criminal; Photo of a large "Kelek", a raft of inflated goatskins, on the Euphrates; Photo of members of the I.W.W. being water-cannoned in San Diego; and more. pp. 8 [ads], 99-190, 10-32 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Wigfull, W.E.; Reynolds, Warwick; Evison, G. Henry; Somerfield, Thomas; Rountree, Harry; Jackson, A.E. (illustrateur).…

7 vol. : [4] pp. (each); 7 vol. : 35.5 x 27.8 cm. (no. 1) ; 30.5 x 22.8 cm. (no. 2) ; 30.5 x 22.8 cm. (no. 3) ; 30.3 x 22.8 cm. (no. 4) ; 30.3 x 22.8 cm. (no. 5) ; 30.3 x 22.8 cm. (no. 6) ; 30.6 x 22.8 cm. (no. 7); black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issues 1 - 7 of Scrap from total of 8, published in New York City and edited by Anita Ventura and Sidney Geist between 1960 - 1962. Issue One, contents include : "A Review of Sculpture this Season," by Sidney Geist ; "Report from the Club" featuring Gabriel Laderman, Neil Mallow, Wolf Kahn, Lester Johnson, Harold Cohen, Louis Finklestein, Paul Georges, Sidney Geist, Landes Lewitin, and E.A. Navaretta ; an overheard conversation betweeen Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet, and Philip Pearlstein ; "I Confess," by Milton Resnick ; "Pollock by Robertson," by Barbara Butler ; an excerpt from "The Metamorphosis of the Gods" by André Malroux. Issue Two, contents include : a dance review of "Peripateia and Tableaux," by Landes Lewitin and Sidney Geist ; Letters to the editor from Irving Sandler and Sonia Gechtoff ; "Dear Scrap" with comments by Sally Hazelet, Mark di Suvero, Thomas B. Hess, Thomas A. Hess, Milton Resnick, James Terry, Stephen Radich, Hilton Kramer, Ad Reinhardt, R. Gordon, David Smith, and Yvonne Thomas ; "Beating the Beat" by Margaret Randall ; "Rauschenberg," by Paul Brach ; "Kanemitsu" by William McLean ; "Duchamp," by Jasper Johns ; and "Letter from India," by Milton Resnick. Issue Three, contents include : an excerpt from a panel conversation with Ad Reinhardt and Milton Resnick ; Letters to the editor from Richard Maxfield, Stanley Fisher ; "Change : Eight Lectures on the I Ching," book review by Adam Margoshes ; "The Totem," by May Swenson ; "Letter on the Maximus Poems," by James Mellow ; and "Sculpture and Other Trouble," by Sidney Geist. Issue Four, contents include : the reproduction of Peter Selz's essay on Mark Rothko published in MoMA's brochure for Rothko's 1961 exhibition along with an annotated critical response to the text by Sidney Geist. Issue Five, contents include : "Cajori," by Louis Finkelstein ; "A View of Rothko's Images," by Sidney Geist ; "Hard Put," by Margaret Randall ; "Brecht Berlin / New York," by Josephine Herbst ; "Manifestoes on the Music and Dance of 8 Clear Places," by Lucia Dlugoszewski; and letters to the editor by Katharine Kuh and David Sylvestor. Issue Six, contents include : "Yellow can be Black," by John Grillo ; "The Source (Desire)," by Mary Frank ; "Why Am I So?," by Philip Pearlstein ; "No Front-Side-Back-Side," by Tom Doyle ; "Taste of Potatoes," by Milton Resnick ; ".A Bad Habit," by Wolf Kahn ; "The Image Central," by Sonia Gechtoff ; "Catalyst for My Art," by Perle Fine ; "Like a Spider I Go," by Pat Passlof ; "I Had an Indian Nurse," by Alfred Jensen ; "m-m-m-m-MM," by Adam Margoshes ; "Brand-New & Terrific," by Alex Katz ; Includes letters to the editor and a report from the Arts Club. Issue Seven, contents include : "A Number of Things : Editorial Observations," by Sidney Geist ; "The Envious Male," by Adam Margoshes ; "A Wide-Open Image," by George Sugarman ; "Report from the Club," and letters to the editor. Very Good. Near complete set, missing Issue 8. Moderate yellowing from age to all issues. Folded in half as issued with some additional folds and occasional small tears to page edges. 2.5 cm. dog-ear to issue 4. Clean and unmarked. All issues from first printing on newsprint. …