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An excellent, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing conflict between them.
Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and countless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives increases smaller by the day. In search of Silence gives framework to our progressively needy sense that noise pollution is, in an exceedingly real way, an environmental catastrophe. Journeying across the country and conference and hearing a host of incredible personas, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, teachers, marketers, and aggrieved individuals, George Prochnik examines why we started to be so loud as a modern culture, and what it is that gets lost when we can't find silent.
