The author of the “dazzling epic” (Time) Brilliant delivers an indelible view of the ways silence affects those who seek it and those who have it imposed upon them. Th
A sweeping history of the human use and invention of artifical light, exploring how changes in the technology of light have affected perceptions of the world and altered the possibilities for life in
"A moving, graceful elegy for the American farm." --Larry Zuckerman, author of The Potato"Nonfiction literature of a high and lasting order . . . Clearing Land, [Brox's] third book, parlays the reson
