Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/8XRU0n In Pursuit of Silence Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise By: George Prochnik Publisher: Anchor Print ISBN: 9780385528887, 0385528884 eText ISBN: 9780385533263, 0385533268 Format: EPUB Available from $ 10.99 USD SKU 9780385533263 For Sale in US* Only 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.
