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| Document Type: | Book |
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Garret Keizer |
| ISBN: | 9781586485528 1586485520 |
| OCLC Number: | 435418560 |
| Description: | viii, 385 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Noise is interested in you -- The unwanted sound of everything we want -- The noise of political animals -- What the Python said: prehistory to the eve of the industrial age -- What Laura heard: the industrial age to the present -- Their world too: noise today -- Loud America -- Sustainability and celebration -- The most beautiful sound in the world. |
| Responsibility: | Garret Keizer. |
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Bill McKibben<br> "Garret Keizer has, not for the first time, helped us look hard at something we thought we understood and see that instead it's rich, fascinating, full of political and moral and human implications. I'd say that his argument goes off like an intellectual explosion, but perhaps better in this context to summon the image of a bell, struck once in the silence. This is a book for our precise moment on earth." <br>Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine"<br> "Very few writers combine thoughtfulness and rage as satisfyingly as Garret Keizer. As promised, this is not just a book about noise; it is a profound meditation on power--its painful absence and its flagrant abuse. You won't be able to hear car alarms in quite the same way again." <br>Ron Powers, author of "Mark Twain: A Life" and co-author of "Flags of Our Fathers"<br> "Every man, woman, and child who has recoiled from the obscenity of intrusive noise should read this book. Keizer, whose disputatious moral eloquence places him in the line of Sinclair and Steinbeck, shows us that noise is far from being but one more irritant of modern life. It is a symptom of deeper threats to a healthy society: amoral power, a degraded political system, a collapse of spiritual consciousness. This is a masterpiece of social reportage and--wondrously, given all its burning indictments--of decency and affirmation." <br>"Booklist"<br> "This engaging book explores the unforeseen (and sometimes unwanted) side effects of our inventive natures.... An enlightening look at an issue most of us ignore." <br>"Financial Times," June 5, 2010<br> "In this witty and informative social history, Garret Keizer employs a study of noise to interpret and illuminate a range of global issues, from racial injustice and climate change to imperialism and torture methods." <br>"Nature," May 2010<br> "Keizer is an energetic researcher and an omnivorous writer.... [He] comes across not as a dour partisan for silence but as som Read more...
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