George Prochnik - In Pursuit of Silence- Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise (retail)
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Added: Sep 22, 2021 (4.6 Yrs Ago)
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An excellent, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the developing battle between them. Between iPods, audio-raging restaurants, ear-splitting sports arenas, and limitless atmosphere and road-traffic, the area for peaceful within our lives grows smaller by the day. In Search Of Silence provides situation to the increasingly eager feeling that noise pollution is, in an exceedingly real way, an ecological disaster. Touring in the united states and conference and hearing a number of amazing figures, including physicians, neuroscientists, acoustical technicians, monks, activists, educators, entrepreneurs, and aggrieved people, George Prochnik investigates why we started initially to be so noisy as a culture, and what it's that gets dropped when we can't discover quiet.
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