The advent of artificial illumination in the world not only radically altered the conduct of daily life in all societies upon acquisition of it, it also came with a tremendous cost to millions of people as well as to the environment; costs that are rarely accounted and the effects of which continue to our present day. Prof. Jeremy Zallen’s “American Lucifers” aspires to correct this oversight.
As an author of exceptional skill, with an education in mathematics and engineering attained in part during his time as a cadet at West Point, and possessing a particularly quick, inventive, and curious mind. Edgar Allan Poe was in many ways an ideal personage for the age.
In 2000, Indiana University Press published “Dinosaurs of Darkness,” the now award-winning book by Dr. Thomas H. Rich and Dr. Patricia Vickers-Rich in which they recounted their search for and discovery of a number of remarkable fossil remains left by the dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth’s southern polar region one-hundred-twenty-million to one-hundred-million years ago.