Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

by Jane Brox

Book Overview

Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future.

Brox plumbs the class implications of light--who had it, who didn't--through the many centuries when crude lamps...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547520344
• ISBN13: 9780547520346
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher