Title The end of night : searching for natural darkness in an age of artificial light / Paul Bogard.

Publication Info.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Public Note	Status
Winters Adult Nonfiction	551.566 BOG		CHECK SHELVES

Edition	First edition.
Description	ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type	text rdacontent
Format	volume rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-312) and index.
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.
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.
Subject	Light pollution.
	Night -- Psychological aspects.
	Lighting -- Physiological aspects.
	Lighting -- Social aspects.
ISBN	9780316182904
	0316182907