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The end of night : searching for natural darkness in an age of artificial light

Call Number

  • 551.566 B6742 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Physical Description

ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.

Contents

  • From a starry night to a streetlight
  • Tales from two cities
  • Light that blinds, fear that enlightens
  • Body, sleep, and dreams
  • The ecology of darkness
  • Know darkness
  • Come together
  • The maps of possibility
  • The darkest places.

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