Cold Light
Creatures, Discoveries, and Inventions That Glow

Not a bad, quick summation of the history of our discovery of cold light in insects & fish through where it is going in the future. Definitely for kids, but there was a lot I found interesting. I was a little incredulous of the coverage of OLEDs at the end & then realized the book must be old. It wa......more

Decent comprehensive science book on cold light from rocks and insects, jellyfish and bacteria. Feels like a pretty detailed book while not being too complicated. I paraphrased the book to my 6 year old as it was a topic she was interested in but she didn't have the attention span to sit through the......more

This was an interesting read. It reminded me of The Electric Fairy, the story of Loïe Fuller. I couldn’t help but wonder what she and Marie Curie would have thought about all of it, and how excited they’d become for the chance to study and dance with it.......more

Good for research on Bioluminescence......more

Interesting juvenile non-fiction about various forms of "cold light." Great photographs.......more