{"product_id":"transforming-night-sara-b-pritchard-9780295755205","title":"Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution","description":"\u003cp\u003eDarkness has become legible--and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-the-ground ethnography, Sara B. Pritchard traces how four fields--astronomy, remote sensing, conservation science, and ecology--have investigated artificial light at night, turning a ubiquitous convenience into a category of harm. From observatories chasing ever-receding darkness to the satellite images that first rendered a nocturnal planet from space and recent \"Black Marble\" maps, Pritchard shows how methods, instruments, and field sites shape what scientists can know about night and light--and what remains unseen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross these encounters, night emerges not as a backdrop but as an environment in its own right--one transformed by rapidly expanding, brightening illumination in the Anthropocene. The book chronicles the ascent of \"light pollution,\" as well as the new challenge of space-based brightness from satellite constellations, even as dark-sky advocates fight to preserve the starry firmament. Attentive to politics as much as photons, Pritchard brings environmental justice to the fore--highlighting tensions among light poverty, forced illumination, and surveillance and calls for \"beneficial darkness.\" She takes seriously Indigenous astronomers' critiques of dispossession and \"astro-colonialism,\" asking what it means to site world-class telescopes on sacred land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSweeping from local parks to planetary vistas, \u003ci\u003eTransforming Night\u003c\/i\u003e reframes a familiar story of modern light as a history of changing nights--past, present, and possible. It will engage readers in environmental history and humanities, science and technology studies, and the sciences themselves, along with dark-sky activists and anyone drawn to the beauty and politics of the world after nightfall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara B. Pritchard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295755202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295755205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sara B. Pritchard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637481783551,"sku":"9780295755205","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7120f998-70a0-4474-a5af-1dddf35c1196.jpg?v=1765116470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transforming-night-sara-b-pritchard-9780295755205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}