In Pursuit OF Silence : Listening For Meaning In A World Of Noise
| رقم التسجيلة | 4055 |
| نوع المادة | book |
| ردمك | 9780385528887 |
| رقم الطلب |
BF353.5.N65 |
| المؤلف | Prochnik, George |
| العنوان | In Pursuit OF Silence : Listening For Meaning In A World Of Noise |
| بيانات النشر | New York: Doubleday, 2010. |
| الوصف المادي | 342 P |
| المحتويات / النص |
- Chapter One: Listening For The Unknown - Chapter Two: Why we hear - Chapter Three: why we are noisy - Chapter Four : Retail : the soundtrack - Chapter Five: sounds like noise - Chapter Six : Silent Interlude - Chapter Seven: Soundkill - Chapter Eight: Freeway to noise - Chapter Nine: Home front - Chapter Ten: this is war - Chapter Eleven: The dragon Trap - Chapter Twelve: Silent Finale |
| المستخلص |
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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| 505 | |a - Chapter One: Listening For The Unknown - Chapter Two: Why we hear - Chapter Three: why we are noisy - Chapter Four : Retail : the soundtrack - Chapter Five: sounds like noise - Chapter Six : Silent Interlude - Chapter Seven: Soundkill - Chapter Eight: Freeway to noise - Chapter Nine: Home front - Chapter Ten: this is war - Chapter Eleven: The dragon Trap - Chapter Twelve: Silent Finale |
| 520 | |a 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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