Brilliant

<p>In <em>Brilliant</em> award-winning author Jane Brox offers a sweeping history of our transformative relationship with light--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future--and reveals that the surprising complex story of our illumination is also the story of our modern selves.</p><p>Just five hundred years ago almost everyone lived at the mercy of the dark yet today so much of life as we know it--our long evening hours our flexible working days our feelings of safety at night--depends upon cheap abundant light. Brox not only examines the social and environmental implications of this remarkable transformation she tells a compelling story imbued with human voices startling insights and timely questions about how the light of the future will shape our lives.</p>