In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise

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George Prochnik \| € 18.99
subject: Psychology, Mental Health
ISBN: 9780767931212 \| ISBN-10: 0767931211
Anchor Books \| publication date: 05/04/2011
US Edition \| Trade Paperback \| 352 pages\| \| \|
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description A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day.' In Pursuit of Silence' gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
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