In Pursuit of Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Pursuit of Silence write by George Prochnik. This book was released on 2010-04-06. In Pursuit of Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) 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.
Notes on Silence
Notes on Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notes on Silence write by Cassidy Hall. This book was released on 2018. Notes on Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Book of Silence
A Book of Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Book of Silence write by Sara Maitland. This book was released on 2010-09-01. A Book of Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).
Day of a Stranger
Day of a Stranger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Day of a Stranger write by Thomas Merton. This book was released on 1981. Day of a Stranger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In Pursuit of Silence
In Pursuit of Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Pursuit of Silence write by George Prochnik. This book was released on 2011-04-05. In Pursuit of Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) 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.
