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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Prochnik |
ISBN: | 9780385528887 0385528884 9780767931212 0767931211 |
OCLC Number: | 1032809727 |
Description: | x, 342 s. ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Listening for the unknown -- Why we hear -- Why we are noisy -- Retail: the soundtrack -- Sounds like noise -- Silent interlude -- Soundkill -- Freeway to noise -- Home front -- This is war! -- The dragon trap -- Silent finale |
Responsibility: | George Prochnik |
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Abstract:
Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet, and what are the benefits of decluttering our sonic world
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